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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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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...
View ArticleWikimedia 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....
View ArticleDiscussing 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....
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleInternational 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...
View ArticleImproving 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...
View ArticleWikimedia 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....
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleNews 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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