To celebrate International Women’s Day, here are some inspiring stories of a few of the women who contribute to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. (…)
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Meet some of the women who contribute to Wikipedia
3 Comments BY Andrew Sherman, Victor Grigas and Fabrice Florin ON March 6th, 2015
Communications, Editor engagement, Events, Gender Gap, Wikipedia
Women and gender diversity on Wikimedia: Help find quality articles
0 Comments BY Fabrice Florin ON March 4th, 2015
Can you help find high-quality articles that celebrate women and gender diversity on Wikipedia and sister sites? (…)
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This month’s focus: Women in Wikimedia
0 Comments BY Fabrice Florin ON March 3rd, 2015
This month, we’re featuring stories about women and gender diversity in the Wikimedia movement, in honor of International Women’s Day and WikiWomen’s History Month. Learn more. (…)
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Help improve this blog: Take our survey
0 Comments BY Fabrice Florin ON February 27th, 2015
What do you think of the Wikimedia Blog? How can it help you? We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions for improvement.
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Wikimedia Highlights, January 2015
0 Comments BY Fabrice Florin and Andrew Sherman ON February 17th, 2015
Last month, Wikipedia turned 14 and won the prestigious Erasmus prize; we reported on how Jack Andraka used Wikipedia to develop a new test for pancreatic cancer as a high school student; and more (…)
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Love on the Wikis
3 Comments BY Fabrice Florin ON February 13th, 2015
How is love covered on Wikipedia and its sister sites?
For Valentine’s Day, we asked Wikimedians to suggest great articles and images about love, in all its forms. Here’s what we found together. Thanks for sharing the love!
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Help find great wiki articles about love
3 Comments BY Fabrice Florin ON February 6th, 2015
What is your favorite Wikipedia article (or image) about love? As millions prepare to celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’d like to know how love is covered on Wikipedia and its sister projects. Share your favorite wiki articles, pictures, or media about love — from platonic to romantic. We’ll post some of your top picks here on Friday Feb. 13. (…)
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Wikimedia Highlights, December 2014
1 Comment BY Fabrice Florin and Tilman Bayer ON January 31st, 2015
Here are some of the top stories published on this blog in December 2014. They cover a selection of activities of the Wikimedia Foundation,as well as important events from the Wikimedia movement — from making Wikipedia twice as fast with HHVM to the winners of the Wiki Loves Earth photo contest. (…)
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A Culture of Kindness
15 Comments BY Fabrice Florin ON December 23rd, 2014
Can we improve Wikipedia by being nicer to each other? In this post, I would like to share some ideas for growing a “culture of kindness” on Wikipedia: “Be nice,” “Help the newbies,” “Be friendly.” […]
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Structured Data project launches in Berlin
1 Comment BY Fabrice Florin, Keegan Peterzell and Gilles Dubuc ON October 27th, 2014
How can we make multimedia data easier to use on Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and sister sites? Today, information about media files on Wikimedia sites is stored in unstructured formats that cause a range of issues: for example, file information is hard to search, some of it is only available in…
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