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3000 new articles added to the Welsh Wicipedia
The Welsh language Wicipedia is the most viewed website in the Welsh language, and articles about health related issues are among the most frequently viewed. And yet only around 2%…
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Press release: National Library of Wales appoints first ever permanent Wikimedian at a UK cultural institution
From 1 August, the National Library of Wales will employ the UK’s first permanent Wikimedian. As National Wikimedian, Jason Evans will make Wikipedia and its sister projects a core aspect…
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Guest post: Teaching competition law differently
This post was written by Dr Pedro Telles, Senior Lecturer in Law at Swansea University and originally published on his website.
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The Welsh Gender Equilibrium: Welsh becomes the biggest language Wikipedia to achieve gender balance!
In the last few years many editathons have been held in Wales encouraging people to write articles on women. Many new Women editors have been trained at the History Department…
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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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Awaken the Dragon breathes fire into the sails of Wikipedia in Wales
WikiProject Wales has been running a competition aimed at targeting core articles for Wales and getting them up to Good Article status. At the same time it is aiming to…
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The BBC and A Game of Saints
In December 1996 I published on the web around 150 of my poems under the title 'Rebel ar y We' ('Rebel on the Web'); subsequently changed in 2005 to 'Rhedeg…
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A year as Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales
This post was written by Jason Evans, Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales and first published on their website.
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First Welsh university edit-a-thon creates new articles on medieval women
This post was written by Robin Owain, WMUK's Wales Manager, and originally published on the Wikimedia Foundation's blog
