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How to run a Wikipedia editathon – for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference
For some time, Wikipedia has been shown to be a resource to engage with, rather than avoid. Wikipedia is heavily used for medical information by students and health professionals -…
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Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web
Co-authored by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Edinburgh and Jemima John, 4th year undergraduate student at the University's School of Law and Digital Skills intern
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Wikipedia and journalism: researching a Fake News site with Wikipedia as a starting point
I saw a friend on Facebook share an obvious piece of fake news a few days ago. It came from a site I’d seen before, World News Daily Report.
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How should journalists use Wikipedia?
Wikipedia receives about 18 billion page views per month from around 1.4 billion unique devices. While many people use Wikipedia for basic research into subjects which they want a simple…
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So you’ve decided to become a Wikipedia editor…
The learning curve when you start editing Wikipedia and its sister projects can be steep. To help you get started, we've compiled some advice that will help you navigate the…
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Women’s History Month retrospective – Rosalind Franklin’s birthday
This month we are taking a look back at some of the Wikipedia gender gap projects we have worked on over the past couple of years. Today, we go back…
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Women and Wikipedia Editathon, Swansea
This post was written by Prof. Deborah Youngs and Dr Sparky Booker of Swansea University
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Edit-on dudes: #ClassicsWomen are into Wikipedia
This post was written by Claire Millington, a Classics PhD student at Kings College London. It was first published on her blog here
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Upcoming Training for Trainers session in Edinburgh
Wikimedia UK is committed to supporting our volunteers. To encourage them to teach others how to edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, we are running a weekend training workshop. This…
