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What MoodBar tells us about new registered editors
One of the three types of mood thatMoodBar users can share.MoodBar is an experimental tool designed to collect feedback from newly registered users about their first experience editing Wikipedia. Its...
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It’s alive! Highlighting the revision history of Wikipedia
The current default timestamp on Wikipedia Wikipedia pages each have their own history with detailed information about every revision, and this public log is one of the core aspects of the project....
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Is this thing on? Giving new Wikipedians feedback post-edit
Figure 1. One of the messages used in the test (confirmation). We recently tested a simple change in the user interface for registered Wikipedia editors. We’re happy to report results from a trial of...
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Wikipedia’s Art & Feminism Edit-A-Thon and the Gender Gap
the Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, at the John M. Flaxman Library at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago on February 1, 2014 Lending a hand at the Wikipedia Art+Feminism...
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Creating Safe Spaces
This morning I read an article entitled Ride like a girl. In it, the author describes how being a cyclist in a city is like being a woman: Welcome to being vulnerable to the people around you. Welcome...
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Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in special classes held in Prague’s Municipal Library“Senior citizens class photo” by Pavla Pelikánová, licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Logo for the “Senior...
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Love on the Wikis
3D Love: This mathematically-defined heart shape is one of the many ways that love is represented on Wikimania sites. By Chiph588, CC0. What do we know about love? What can we learn from Wikipedia and...
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Join a Wikipedia edit-a-thon near you for International Women’s Day
Women contributors collaborate to edit Wikipedia in an Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon in New York City. Events like these help increase gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Photo by Michael Mandiberg,...
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Art+Feminism Events on International Women’s Day
Over 75 Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons were hosted worldwide on International Women’s Day, to increase gender diversity on Wikipedia. To learn more, watch this video from the main event at the Museum of...
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The #100wikidays challenge
You are invited to join the #100wikidays challenge, and create a new Wikipedia article every day for 100 days. This new challenge was started by Wikipedian Vassia Atanassova. Photo by Vassia...
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Editing the Uzbek Wikipedia: Kamarniso Vrandečić
Chemistry student Kamarniso Vrandečić started editing Wikipedia with some simple tasks, such as translating articles from Russian to Uzbek. Since 2007, she has made over 7,000 edits to the Uzbek...
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Over 5,000 new articles created with the Content Translation tool
The Content Translation Tool makes it easier to create new new Wikipedia articles from other languages. It is now available as a beta-feature in 148 Wikipedias. The tool now features an updated...
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Join a Wikipedia edit-a-thon near you for International Women's Day
Women contributors collaborate to edit Wikipedia in an Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon in New York City. Events like these help increase gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Photo by Michael Mandiberg,...
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Art+Feminism Events on International Women's Day
Over 75 Art+Feminism Edit-a-thons were hosted worldwide on International Women’s Day, to increase gender diversity on Wikipedia. To learn more, watch this video from the main event at the Museum of...
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The #100wikidays challenge
You are invited to join the #100wikidays challenge, and create a new Wikipedia article every day for 100 days. This new challenge was started by Wikipedian Vassia Atanassova. Photo by Vassia...
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Editing the Uzbek Wikipedia: Kamarniso Vrandečić
Chemistry student Kamarniso Vrandečić started editing Wikipedia with some simple tasks, such as translating articles from Russian to Uzbek. Since 2007, she has made over 7,000 edits to the Uzbek...
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Over 5,000 new articles created with the Content Translation tool
The Content Translation Tool makes it easier to create new new Wikipedia articles from other languages. It is now available as a beta-feature in 148 Wikipedias. The tool now features an updated...
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Wikipedia and Sustainable Development Goals: Engaging smaller Wikipedias
Logo of Wiki Loves SDGs(Credit: Project Everyone, CC-BY-SA 4.0) On 25 September 2015, the 193 countries of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Development Agenda, which outlines the...
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Wiki Loves Fashion: Insights from the Macedonian Wikipedia
Fashion icon used as campaign’s logo (Credit: Elegant Themes, GPLv2) The second edition of Wiki Loves Fashion — an international campaign aimed at enriching the Wikimedia projects with contents on...
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WikiGap Skopje 2020 and Gender gap editing week
Logo of WikiGap Skopje(Credit: Embassy of Sweden in Skopje, CC-BY-SA 4.0) After the eminent success of the previous two editions of the WikiGap edit-a-thons, the Swedish Embassy in Skopje decided to...
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