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Celtic Knot 2018
The Wikipedia language conference is back, and it’s coming to Wales.
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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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A guide to the past: hillforts and Wikimedia
Hillforts are enormous archaeological sites dotted around Britain and Ireland. There are some of the most impressive remains from prehistory. Just five years ago the best guess for how many…
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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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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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Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools
It has been over a year and a half since Dundee Dental School first established the Wikipedia Editing Project, a student-led effort with the intent of improving dental articles on…
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Wacky Wiki Races!
Wikipedia has more than five million articles in its English language version. No article is an island: with few exceptions, they have multiple incoming links as well as multiple links…
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Reflections on a Wikipedia assignment – Reproductive Medicine
This was originally posted on Ewan McAndrew's blog where he writes about his role as the University of Edinburgh's Wikimedian in Residence
