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Nominate your Wikimedian of 2018
It has come to that time of year when we’re taking in nominations for Wikimedian of the Year, 2018!
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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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Aaron Morris at WiciMon! Promoting the Welsh language with WikiWales
Hi, I’m Aaron Morris and I was appointed WiciMôn Project Officer nearly two years ago. I’m based at the offices of Menter Iaith Môn, the project organisers, at Llangefni, Anglesey,…
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Wikipedia in the History Classroom
Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the world, and as the digital revolution continues to unfold, its dominance seems unlikely to be challenged in the near future. The rate at…
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Introducing Wikimedia UK’s new Programme Coordinator
I’m the new Programme Coordinator for the coming year, working alongside our now three other coordinators across the UK. I’ll be concentrating on our Wikimedia In Residence programmes as well…
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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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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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WikiFeed project to create custom newsfeeds from Wikimedia data
Fako Berkers and Edward Saperia have been working together on a project called "WikiFeed". It's a framework that allows you to create custom algorithmic newsfeeds using data from Wikipedia and…
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 winners announced!
Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s biggest photographic competition and takes place every September. Participants take photos of historic places, including buildings and archaeological sites.
