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Six unorthodox ways to use Wikipedia
We all know how to use Wikipedia, right? Just do a search in your favourite search engine, and the relevant article is usually among the top results. Alternatively, bookmark the…
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Join the Wright Challenge!
For the last two weeks Wikimedia UK has been running a competition in partnership with the Derby Museum. So far, over 150 new or improved Wikipedia articles have been created,…
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Join the Wikipedia Contribution Team in their Recruitment Drive
The Wikipedia Contribution Team was founded in 2010 to help with the Wikimedia Fundraiser and to help encourage people to edit and build community spirit. Since 2010, their numbers have…
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Wikipedia turns ten this week!
This week Wikipedia is celebrating its tenth birthday. To mark this momentous occasion, people all over the world are gathering at events to celebrate Wikipedia, the fifth most popular website…
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Pending Changes trial on the English Wikipedia
For the next two months, starting at midnight last night, the English Wikipedia will be testing a new tool, called Pending Changes, that re-enables the editing of articles that have…
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Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia
3 January 2010, UK: The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust have released a number of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose onto Wikipedia. This is the first such…
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Wikipedia celebrates Public Domain Day on 1st January
What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the famed tomb of King Tutankhamen, novelist Ford Madox Ford, and sexologist Havelock Ellis all share in common? They all died in 1939. On…
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British media storm over Wikipedia changes
In the past week we have seen considerable interest from British newspapers, radio and television in the forthcoming trial of Flagged Protection on the English Wikipedia.
