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The 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta
Everyone knows something about the Magna Carta. Wikipedia's article about the medieval charter has existed since January 2002, when User:F. Lee Horn began a text on what he described as…
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Speaking at the Managing Online Reputation conference
This post was written by Stevie Benton, head of external relations at Wikimedia UK
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Booking open for Wikipedia Science Conference
This post was written by Dr Martin Poulter, Wikipedia Science Conference lead and Wikimedia UK volunteer
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Wiki Club: using Wikipedia as platform to shout about Scotland’s Heritage
This article was first published in Archaeology Scotland’s membership magazine and is reproduced with kind permission. Written by Doug Rocks-Macqueen, Cara Jones, Jeff Sanders and Leigh Stork.
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Altmetrics and Wikipedia
'Impact' is a perennial concern for organisations, including Wikimedia chapters. Showing that what you're up to makes a difference: contributing to free knowledge.
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Wikimedia and UNESCO team up to share the world’s culture
I have been working with the Sector for External Relations and Public Information unit at The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to make images from their archive…
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Understanding Sustainable Agriculture Through Wikipedia
Wikimedia volunteer John Cummings has worked to make available on Wikipedia 2400 images of tropic agriculture research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and 4000 new images of…
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English Heritage and the Archaeological Data Service: What does it mean to Wikipedia?
In October, English Heritage made 84 of their publications freely available online through the Archaeological Data Service. The ADS has been running since 1996 and it brings together a huge…
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Who writes Wikipedia’s health and medical pages and why?
Half of the editors working on Wikipedia’s 25,000 pages of medical content are qualified medics or other healthcare professionals, providing reassurance about the reliability of the website, according to our…
