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Wikimedia Highlights, August 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015. Contents Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation The Hunt for Tirpitz My life as an autistic...
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How much time do editors spend editing? and more survey results
Wikipedia editors were invited to have their say in the 2012 survey. Photo by Romain Bréget, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. How much time do Wikipedians spend contributing each week? What...
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“Be bold, be patient and be kind”: Rich Farmbrough
Rich has made more than a million total edits to Wikipedia. Photo by Stephen B Streater, freely licensed under CC-BY 3.0. “ The English Wikipedia should be considered a storehouse of resources. Given...
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News on Wikipedia: Australian leadership switch, crane collapse at Mecca, and...
Here are some of the global news stories covered on Wikipedia this week: Following a sudden leadership spill, Malcolm Turnbull becomes Prime Minister of Australia. A crane collapses onto the Masjid...
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Writing an open-access encyclopedia in a closed-access world
We’re committed to the open access movement. Photo designed at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, and JakobVoss, public domain. On Friday, Elsevier, one of the world’s largest academic...
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Drone photography of Versailles: Lionel Allorge
“When you see the gardens from above… it truly reveals all the intricacy, all the details of that work.” Video by Victor Grigas and Reetta Kemppi, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. With a plethora...
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The first smile and photobomb ever photographed
The omnipresent smile in today’s photographs has its roots here. Photo from the National Library of Wales, public domain. The photograph is simply labeled “Willy.” It features a young man with...
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Should I pay for a Wikipedia article?
There are specific rules for when you can edit English Wikipedia for money. Image by Erik Zachte, freely licensed under CC-by-3.0. At the end of August, volunteer editors on English Wikipedia blocked...
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News on Wikipedia: Japan shocks the rugby world, an earthquake strikes Chile,...
Here are some of the global news stories covered on Wikipedia this week: Syriza wins a snap legislative election following prime minister Alexis Tsipras’s resignation last month. Despite opposition,...
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Wikimedia project milestones: Swedish Wikipedia hits 2 million articles
The featured image when the Swedish Wikipedia hit two million articles—a springbok. Image by Yathin S Krishnappa, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. This blog post is the first in a series...
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