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Wikipedia Vs Fake News
This article based on the text of Wikimedia UK's submission to the government's inquiry into fake news, which was launched in January.
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Why bots are important for Wikipedia
The Guardian recently picked up on a piece of research about the behaviour of bots on Wikipedia in the first 10 years of its history. The research noted that as…
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How do Wikipedia editors decide what are reliable sources?
Over the past few weeks, Wikimedia UK has received a large number of press inquiries related to the Guardian’s article ‘Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source’. Now that the…
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#1lib1ref at the University of Edinburgh
I’ve been interested in Wikimedia projects since taking part in the University of Edinburgh’s Women and Medicine editathon in February 2015, when I wrote an article on the Scottish doctor…
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The first week’s highlights from #1lib1ref
We are just over a week into the second annual #1lib1ref campaign, where we “imagine a world where every librarian adds one more reference to Wikipedia.”
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So you’ve decided to become a Wikipedia editor…
The learning curve when you start editing Wikipedia and its sister projects can be steep. To help you get started, we've compiled some advice that will help you navigate the…
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#100womenwiki – A global Wikipedia editathon in partnership with the BBC
On 8th December 2016, Wikimedia communities around the world held a multi-lingual, multi-location editathon in partnership with the BBC to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve coverage…
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Wikidelta: glimpsing unique Wikipedia articles in 284 world languages
If you are curious about the languages and cultures of the world, follow Wikidelta on Twitter. It's an unofficial and experimental account which is an attempt to discover what could be unique in each of the languages of Wikipedia.
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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…
