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Winners announced in Europeana’s First World War portfolio contest

"Each of their portfolios," Europeana's Liam Wyatt says, "demonstrated the potential of open-access heritage to help understand European history through diverse, innovative, and qualitative projects."

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Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation

A new project will model community collaboration in the creation of linked open data, focusing on content related to Indigenous communities of North America.

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Wikimedians of Nigeria Wiki Indaba 2017

Raising awareness for Wikipedia in Nigeria

With an estimated 190 million residents, Nigeria is the largest country in Africa. A remarkable 60% of Nigerians are school-aged, creating one of the largest student bodies in the world. With internet access in Nigeria quickly growing, local Wikimedians are working together to raise awareness for the platform and how Nigeria’s many students can both use….

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Pranayraj Vangari has written a new Wikipedia article every day for the last thousand days

Today, Pranayraj Vangari concluded a 365-day challenge where he created a new article on the Telugu Wikipedia every day for the past year—including when he got married.

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How we encouraged people to freely license their solar eclipse photos for the future

The recent total solar eclipse captured the imagination of millions. We hoped to get people to share that wonder and joy through freely licensed imagery on Wikimedia Commons—and as it turns out, we only had to ask.

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Everything you need to know about photographing the solar eclipse and putting the results on Wikimedia Commons

How should people document the eclipse to remember it for years to come? How might we think about creating a public photographic record of the eclipse so that people in future years can experience the eclipse? That's where Wikimedia Commons and long-time editor Juliancolton come in.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 375,000 windows on art history, and that's just the beginning

Richard Knipel, the Wikimedian in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looks back at the efforts made and future plans to further support collaboration between the museum and the Wikimedia movement.

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The metamorphosis of Wiki Loves Butterfly

The so-called "Butterfly Wikimedian" created Wiki Loves Butterfly, a two-year effort to improve Wikimedia's coverage of butterflies in West Bengal.

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Why does Venezuelan photographer Wilfredo Rodríguez donate his work to the world?

"I think the message is more important than the author," says Venezuelan photographer Wilfredo Rodríguez, who uses his photographs to show both the beauty and challenges of living in his country.

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“Filling in the gaps”: Plants and people meet on Wikipedia

A Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the New York Botanical Garden focused on writing women botanists into history.

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