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No internet? No problem! Kiwix celebrates ten years of offline Wikipedia reading
Photo by Zack McCune, CC BY-SA 4.0. When your goal is to make the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone, how do you ensure that people can actually access it? For many Wikipedia readers...
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Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive, building the Bengali Wikipedia
Photo by Victor Grigas, CC BY-SA 3.0. “I love Wikipedia,” Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive says. “It’s the only encyclopedia where I can get information in different languages and add content in my...
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What do you call a homepage? Incorporating indigenous knowledge into Wikipedia
Workshop at Otapi High School, Manawan (Atikamekw First Nation, Canada). Photo by Pierre Coulombe, CC BY-SA 4.0. A First Nation in Canada may soon have a Wikipedia to call their own. The Atikamekw...
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Wiki Loves Archives: Citizen participation helps rescue damaged archival...
Digitization of the Louis-Roger Lafleur Fonds. Photo by Lea-Kim, CC BY-SA 4.0. Many archive centers suffer from budget cuts and must make the difficult choice of selecting certain collections to...
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Three ways we’re changing the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation
Photo by Constanza Verón/Wikimedia Argentina, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Wikipedia Education Program is… This is a sentence that will be completed differently by almost anyone you ask. Over the past year, the...
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See the winners from the 2017 Wiki Science Competition in Ukraine
Taking first place in the “People in science” category were two archaeologists photographing an ancient object to “capture” it before re-filling the site with dirt. Bilozerske settlement, IV-III...
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James Heilman on expanding the reach of Wikipedia’s medical information
Photo by James Heilman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Senior Program Manager Anne Gomez leads the New Readers initiative, where she works on ways to better understand barriers that prevent people around the world from...
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Building a better #1Lib1Ref
Photo by Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0. Every year, librarians around the world take part in #1Lib1Ref, the annual event that asks us to imagine “a world where every librarian adds one reference to...
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Add your photos of spring to the sum of all knowledge
Photo by Marcelochal, CC BY-SA 4.0. Do you have photos of spring sitting on your hard drive or camera? We have a modest proposal for you. Wikimedia Commons is the photo repository of the Wikimedia...
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Mexican Ministry of Culture and Wikimedia Mexico partner to preserve Mexican...
Photo by Zack McCune/Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0. Last month, the Mexican Ministry of Culture and Wikimedia Mexico formally agreed to a long-term partnership that will help collect and preserve...
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