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Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill...

A map indicating how much you can learn about the world through Wikipedia if English is the only language you speak. There is little to no content available in the many dark areas in the world,...

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TTIP and Free Knowledge: how the trade treaty (probably) threatens...

Sealed reading room in the European Parliament for documents relating to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. The room was initially accessible to only a few Members...

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Wikimedia Hackathon finds in Jerusalem a fertile ground for experimentation

WATCH: video of the 2016 Wikimedia Hackathon in Jerusalem. You can also view this on YouTube and Vimeo. You can watch a version with open captions (without burned-in English subtitles) on Commons....

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Discussing current events and legal theory at Yale

Photo by Nick Allen, CC-BY-SA-3.0 Many fields of law have been developing for hundreds of years, and generally change at a rather slow pace. Not so for the law of and affecting the Internet, however....

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Happy Arbor Day 2016

Windbeeches on the Schauinsland in Germany. Photo by Richardfabi, public domain Happy Arbor Day 2016! Today is a time to commune with nature and take care of or plant a tree. This year, Arbor Day...

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International Workers’ Day: Nine people who made lives better for workers

Photo from the Jewish Women’s Archive, public domain/CC0. Clara Lemlich Shavelson was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York’s garment industry in...

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Improving constructed languages: Dietrich Michael Weidmann

Photo by Dietrich Michael Weidmann, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Dietrich Michael Weidmann is a bureaucrat on the Esperanto Wikipedia and a former General Secretary of the World Esperanto Youth...

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Wikimedia Research Newsletter, April 2016

Vol: 6 • Issue: 04 • April 2016 [contribute] [archives] The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors? With contributions by: Guillaume Paumier, Brian C....

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A Death Star filled with all the May the Fourth facts you’ll ever need

Photo by Cjp24, CC-BY-SA-4.0 May 4th is known to nerds around the world as Star Wars Day, a fan-created holiday paying homage to George Lucas’ cult sci-fi franchise (“May the Fourth be with you”). The...

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News on Wikipedia: Leicester City win historic Premier League title

Photo by Ungry Young Man, CC BY 2.0 On Monday, one of the strangest and most romantic stories in sport came to its fairytale conclusion. Leicester City, an association football team whose top-division...

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