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WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer shares her journey and goals
Odia Wikisourcer Pankajmala Sarangi shares her experience and future plans to grow the community. Video by Pankajmala Sarangi (original video) and Subhashish Panigrahi (post production), freely...
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#BlackLifeMatters edit-a-thon bolsters Wikipedia’s coverage of black history
Dozens of black history articles were created or improved at the #AfroCROWD Wikipedia editathon in Harlem. You can watch the video here, on Youtube, or Vimeo. Video by Victor Grigas, freely licensed...
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Wikipedia Connection: an emerging student club at Ohio State
Wikipedia Connection is Ohio State’s student club. Photo by Kevin Payravi, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. When I was a freshman at the Ohio State University, a school with over 60,000 students, I...
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Wikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s...
Bangla Wikipedians conduct multi-month edit-a-thon Photo by Motiur Rahman Oni, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 On 15 January, Wikipedia turned fifteen years old . To celebrate this special day, a...
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Spreading information in the Wikimedia world
The Tower of Babel. Painting by Lucas van Valckenborch via the Louvre, public domain/CC0. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, In any other tongue would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare,...
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The one true international language is translation
The European Parliament, surrounded by translation booths for the interpreters. Photo by Alina Zienowicz, CC BY-SA 3.0. ”Oh, it’s called sheep in the plural, not sheeps, right? Why? Sheeps sounds so...
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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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How we’re building awareness of Wikipedia in India
Photo by Suyash Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0. With hundreds of millions of speakers, Hindi is the fourth-most widely spoken language in the world. The vast majority of these are from India, which has the most...
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Meet some featured Wikimedia volunteers from India
Parvathi Sridharan. Photo by Jasanpictures, CC BY-SA 4.0. Editor’s note: The author of the blog post is a curator of the Featured Wikimedian project. In India, the volunteer Wikimedia community is...
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