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A look back at the 2018 hackathon in Barcelona
Wikimedia UK staff couldn’t be in Barcelona at the end of May for the annual Wikimedia hackathon - we had our own events to organise with Amnesty International in London…
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Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia’s usability
Wikimedia Commons is one of the most important sources of Creative Commons licensed media online. But it has a huge problem: it’s a total mess.
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Talking to Creative Commons’ Ryan Merkley about CC Search and Structured Data on Commons
CC Search beta was launched in February. This new tool incorporates ‘list-making features, and simple, one-click attribution to make it easier to credit the source of any image you discover.’…
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Wikipedia over Tor? Alec Muffett experiments with an Onion Wikipedia site
Alec Muffett, a director of the Open Rights Group and an ex-Facebook, now Deliveroo software engineer, has created a Wikipedia Onion site which can only be accessed through the Tor…
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Wiki Project Med Foundation launches Wikipedia hosting mini WiFi computer to distribute medical information
In 2017, the world passed the 50% mark in the number of people in the world who have access to the internet. It’s easy to take for granted the fact…
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Wikipedia Vs Fake News
This article based on the text of Wikimedia UK's submission to the government's inquiry into fake news, which was launched in January.
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No article? No problem.
The Welsh Language Wicipedia already punches above its weight with seventy thousand articles. That’s roughly one article for every eight Welsh speakers. But now a student in Germany has developed…
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OER16: Open Culture
In April 2016 the University of Edinburgh will host the international Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16, which is coming to Scotland for the first time in its seven-year history. OER16…
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Wikimedia and UNESCO team up to share the world’s culture
I have been working with the Sector for External Relations and Public Information unit at The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to make images from their archive…
