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Open letter for free access to Wikipedia on mobile in South Africa
This post was originally published on the blog of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikipedia: Learning by sharing knowledge
This post was written by Martin Poulter. You can read the original here.
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Royal Opera House to host an editathon
As Wembley is to football and CERN is to particle physics, so the Royal Opera House in London is to ballet. Home to both The Royal Opera and The Royal…
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“One is most amused” – Queen Victoria’s Journals editathon
This post was written by Liz McCarthy, Communications and Social Media Officer for the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
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WMUK Conference – Mediawiki for OER and Learning Analytics
The below was originally published by Simon Knight. You can read the original here.
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Italian Wikipedia surpasses one million articles
This is a guest post from Maurizio Codogno, Wikimedia Italia, and was initially posted on the Wikimedia Foundation blog where you can also see the post in Italian and Spanish
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New editor training in “the finest stone town in England”
That's how poet Sir John Betjeman once famously described the picturesque town of Stamford, Lincolnshire. Wikimedians recently had the chance to put that claim to the test.
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Wikipedia’s Visual Editor comes one step nearer
James Forrester of the Wikimedia Foundation made the below announcement about the first stage implementation of a visual editor for the English language Wikipedia. We're happy to share this announcement…
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In response to today’s news articles in The Times and The Daily Telegraph about PR editing of Wikipedia
This morning The Times ran a story about how staff at the public relations firm RLM Finsbury edited the Wikipedia article on Alisher Usmanov, including removing negative material. The Daily…
