Time to celebrate! 🎉
This month, the Assamese, Azerbaijani, Punjabi, and Odia Wikipedias turn 20 years old.
Join us to wish them a happy birthday! �?
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Content partnerships hold a lot of potential for the Wikimedia movement, but organizing and executing on them can be quite challenging.
That's why is pioneering a help desk to provide active support to Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers.
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Many women artists have their work displayed in museums and galleries, yet have incomplete Wikipedia articles or none at all. Join our virtual #BecauseOfHerStory Wikipedia edit-a-thon to ensure 50 sculptors in are better-known.
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Could you fill in the blanks of a redacted article?
That is the challenge (and fun!) of Redactle. explains how the game works.
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¿Sabías que alberga más de 140 artículos dedicados al trabajo hecho por ?
Aquí te contamos cómo se ha documentado el histórico proceso constituyente de Chile en la enciclopedia más grande de Internet 👇
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From 6 - 10 June, Wikimedians from around the world will be leading and joining sessions at —the leading international summit on human rights in the digital age, organized by . Register by 3 June to join the virtual event ⬇️ #RightsCon
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🦾⚠️ Yesterday, advocacy again helped to protect the open internet.
W/allies, we asked the UK gov to protect the free & open internet in Russia during the invasion of Ukraine. The UK gov listened.
🎉UK sanctions on Russia now include exemptions that protect internet access.
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Access to the global open internet is essential to the exchange of free knowledge.
We joined @accessnow, @article19org, @OpenRightsGroup, @pressfreedom & others urging the UK gov to protect the free & open internet in Russia.
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The success of can be attributed in large part to the people who have come together to make thousands upon thousands of consensus-based decisions.
How would that look if applied to medical guidelines? explores that hypothesis ⬇️
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In 1978, artist Gilbert Baker debuted the rainbow flag—now a global symbol of LGBTIQ+ #pride & social movements—at San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade. It took 30 volunteers to hand-dye two flags, which originally had eight colors with unique meanings.
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On 9 June, join and to close the gender gap and increase the representation of women sculptors on . New contributors are welcome — training will be provided.
Register ⬇️ #BecauseOfHerStory
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Meet the group that is writing El Salvador into and celebrating their first anniversary ⬇️
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Join us at ! 1/10 sessions ft. Wikimedians is this panel with ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights ().
How do you protect human rights and address online disinformation during elections?
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From a roadside attraction called Frog Rock to a pioneering puppeteer named Frank Ballard, Library's Michael Rodriguez has written over 150 articles on Connecticut history. Read what inspires him to contribute ⬇️ today.uconn.edu/2022/05/the-wi
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The Kashmiri Wikipedia is being built by five volunteers – and they are inviting other people to join them. This is their story. ⬇️
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"College students are editing and creating new articles on the world’s largest, go-to information source, telling the untold stories of Black leaders and Black lives."— () on efforts to close Wikipedia's knowledge gaps
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Two years, 2.5M+ articles on , and 100 million pageviews later, shares the milestones of their collaboration with to increase the online digital collections of cultural heritage institutions.
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LAST CALL ⚠️
29 May is the last day to apply for the UNLOCK accelerator program, hosted by .
If you have an idea for a project that breaks down social and technical barriers preventing access to free knowledge, take a look!
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NEW: We can accelerate progress on further if academic institutions are willing to help make change.
In 's Career Column, 500WS' & reflect on how to close Wikipedia’s gender gap:
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Only about 5% of the information on English Wikipedia is related to Africa, the world's second most-populated continent. This year's #AfricaWikiChallenge, taking place from 27 May to 30 June, aims to increase that percentage.
Learn how to participate ⬇️
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Are you new to Wikipedia and want to participate in the Africa Wiki Challenge? 👀
Join us every Wednesday from 1st to 22nd June,2022 for a Wikipedia training session and every Friday from 3rd June to 24th June,2022 for our virtual support hours 🤩
Link: bit.ly/39IfJkQ
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Join us to make Wikipedia more credible, reliable, and diverse—one citation at a time. Here is how you can participate in the newest #1Lib1Ref campaign.
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What happens to the images we consume on the internet? What ideas do they represent, and are they accessible?
Join for two discussions this week on the role of images online and how to make them more accessible. Live interpretation available in English & Spanish.
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¿Qué pasa con las imágenes que consumimos en internet? ¿Qué ideas representan? ¿Qué información contienen? ¿Es esta información accesible?
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✊ Access to the global open internet is essential to the exchange of free knowledge.
We joined , , , & others urging the UK gov to protect the free & open internet in Russia.
Read our joint letter:
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Did you know that DPLA has added over 2.5 million files to Wikimedia Commons, which have already received more than 100 million page views? Find out more in this update from DPLA data fellow :
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"The main goal ... is an assertion of one's identity and pride in it."
Meet Amrit Sufi. She has taken on the large task of bringing the Angika language online. This is her story.
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The & are helping provide more verifiable information to Ukrainian scholars all over the world through . Donations will help to acquire, digitize, and preserve books cited in the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia. More ⬇️
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Image descriptions are a critical part of today's internet. On , they help make images more accessible and discoverable, and fill information gaps for readers.
Learn more about this year's Image Description Week ⬇️
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Did you know that less than 5% of the content on English is about Africa?
Help change this by participating in the Africa Wiki Challenge. The official launch is on May 27.
For more on the challenge, prizes & how to get involved 👉 buff.ly/37OULjL
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The #1Lib1Ref May 2022 campaign has started! 📚 🦉 From now to June 5th, help us make Wikipedia more credible, reliable, and diverse one citation at a time!
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English @Wikipedia is featuring tomorrow's Global #Accessibility Awareness Day in its “On this Day” section. Happy start into #GAAD everyone!
As result of a fruitful collaboration with the Wikimedia Accessibility User Group t.me/wikimedia_acce and admins, myself as ideator
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"It is not a pipeline problem, it is a development problem. There's no shortage of people of color interested in and possessing the aptitude for any technical field you can name," says , our VP of Data Science and Engineering, in .
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You might know is one of the most visited websites in the world. Did you know that it is the 5th most visited in India and Indian volunteers represent almost a fifth of the global community, with ~65,000 contributors? wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/05/0 #knowwithwiki
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The #WikimediaHackathon2022 is happening this weekend, 20-22 May! Anyone who wants to contribute to Wikimedia’s technical areas can join – with sessions for experts and newcomers. You can also join local meetups. More information, via .
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First time attending #wmhack? Check out our tips on what to do if you're new.
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Did you check the list of local meetups? If none of them is close to you, join us online from anywhere in the world.
mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia #wmhack
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Este mês, lançamos campanhas de financiamento na Wikipédia na Índia, América Latina e �?frica do Sul – pedindo a leitores dessas regiões que considerem fazer uma doação.
Leia por que fazemos essas campanhas e como as doações para a Wikipédia são usadas. ⬇️
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Este mes, lanzamos campañas de recaudación de fondos en Wikipedia en India, América Latina y Sudáfrica, pidiendo a lectores de estas regiones que consideren hacer una donación.
Por qué conducimos las campañas y cómo se emplean las donaciones a Wikipedia ⬇️
wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/05/1
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This month, we are kicking off fundraising campaigns on Wikipedia in India, Latin America, and South Africa — asking readers in these regions to consider making a donation.
Read why we run these campaigns and how donations to Wikipedia are used. ⬇️
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Less than half of the images on Wikipedia have a caption that relates the image to the article, and only 10% have some form of alt text. This week, learn how to make images more accessible and discoverable:
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