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Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales
Over 7 years ago the National Library of Wales made the decision not to claim any rights to digital reproductions of public domain works. I was then employed as a…
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Reviewing Draft Articles and the Battle Against Misplaced Templates
This article is by Wikipedia administrator User:TheSandDoctor
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Using bots to change the landscape of Wikipedia
This post has been written by User:TheSandDoctor, an admin on English Wikipedia. An original version of this article appeared on Medium.
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WikiCite conference 2018
Imagine a world in which anyone could use an open citation database to support free knowledge, with rich information about every citable source.
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Mozfest 2018 roundup: how Wikimedia UK has been engaging with other Open organisations
Wikimedia UK has been attending Mozilla’s conference in London for a few years now, as we attempt to build deeper connections to other organisations working to promote open knowledge. This…
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From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements
With the end of October, Wikidata’s birthday comes round once more, and on the 29th it will be six years old. With the passing of time Wikimedia’s structured data site…
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Science Source seeks to improve reliable referencing on Wikipedia’s medical articles
Science Source is a new project by ContentMine which builds on their previous work on WikiFactMine, which wanted to ‘make Wikidata the primary resource for identifying objects in bioscience’. This…
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A multilingual infobox for Wikimedia Commons categories | By Mike Peel
Mike Peel is a UK Wikimedian who is running a session on the development of multilingual infoboxes on Wikimedia Commons at Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town. You can see the…
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Tech dive – Alex Monk on implementing secure certificates across Wikimedia domains
This report assumes that you know basically what HTTPS is, among other things. ‘We’ is used liberally in this post, and refers to the Wikimedia technical community in general -…
