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How to hold workshops that are fully remote accessible

Holding workshops in person is challenging, but holding workshops for people in multiple locations is even more so. Design Researcher Abbey Ripstra and Grace Gellerman, the Manager of Program Management, explain how they approached holding a series of remote-accessible meetings.

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Pre-university students contribute to Wikimedia in Google Code-in 2017

From November 2017 to January 2018, 300 students worked on 760 Wikimedia tasks with the help of 51 Wikimedia community mentors.

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Victory in Italy: Wikimedia wins lawsuit against former Minister of Defense

The Rome Court of Appeals has ruled strongly in Wikimedia’s favor in Previti v. Wikimedia Foundation. It protected accurate, well-sourced articles, and held that when someone has a concern, they should work through community processes, not try to bypass them with legal demands.

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Luc Héripret on the Orange Foundation’s Digital Schools project

Luc Héripret leads the Orange Foundation's work in Africa.

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Have you ever read Wikipedia’s article on Lady Gaga?

Meet Wikipedia user "FrB.TG," also known as Frankie.

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Why the world reads Wikipedia: What we learned about reader motivation from a recent research study

Wikimedia’s mission is to provide educational content and to effectively disseminate it. Doing so requires understanding the needs and motivations of the people who read Wikipedia. In this blog post, we discuss what we learned about Wikipedia reader motivations and needs across 14 languages from a recent research study.

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How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata

Only 2.5 million of 45 million Wikidata items have an image attached. A new algorithm helps people find relevant and high-quality images to add to Wikidata items.

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James Heilman on expanding the reach of Wikipedia’s medical information

A conversation with emergency room physician James Heilman, who is working to get medical information into Internet-in-a-Box—a physical device that provides Wikipedia and other content in areas without internet access.

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Confound it!—Supporting languages with multiple writing systems

Many of the languages of the world use two or more writing systems, like the familiar Arabic, Cyrillic, or Latin scripts. Supporting those languages and those scripts—for reading, editing, and searching—can be a real challenge.

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Ten months later: People of Turkey still denied access to Wikipedia

All language versions of Wikipedia have been blocked in Turkey since late April 2017.

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Wikipedia edit-a-thon Art+Feminism at the Royal Armoury in Stockholm

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