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�? Drum roll, please: The 2022 Wikimedians of the Year are here! Each year, those who have made outstanding contributions to the free knowledge movement are recognized. Meet this year’s winners: w.wiki/5a95 #Wikimania2022

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Jaime Crespo

@jynus

Very proud of the Engineering Team at Wikimedia

@wikimediatech

who were able to scale 3x the normal

traffic, almost 400K req/s on a self hosted, fully open source infrastructure thanks to the many improvements deployed over the years, as well as to the many volunteers

A graph comparing the traffic of Wikimedia Edges last week and yesterday when Queen Elizabeth II died. At around 17:30, a big spike is seen on yesterdays traffic, reaching almost 400 000 HTTP requests per second returning 1XX, 2XX, 3XX or 4XX codes, compared to the baseline of 130 000 last week.

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Immediately after the announcement of Queen Elizabeth II's death, visits to

skyrocketed, reaching 929,000 views per minute. In all, there were 551 million pageviews to Wikipedia on 8 Sept.—the second-highest number of views on a single day this year (27 Feb. is first).

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Wikipedia

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On 8 Sept. 2022 at 18:30 BST, it was officially announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died. The Queen's Wikipedia article, across 180+ languages, was viewed 19.9 million times. As far as we can tell, this is the most views on a topic in a single day ever. (1/2)

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Sep 8

Queen Elizabeth II has died at the age of 96. One of the longest-serving monarchs in history, Elizabeth ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries after the death of her father in 1952.

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Elizabeth II - Wikipedia

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The Fulfulde

, covering a language that stretches across Western Africa, now has over 500 articles. Take a look at how

@Wikimediafulah

reached this milestone. ⬇️

Fulfulde Wikipedia reached over 500 articles after reactivation

In less than 6 months of its reactivation, the Fulfulde Wikipedia has gotten over five hundred articles being published. This huge success was achieved as a result of the campaigns led by Musaddam …

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on 20 Years Of Tech

es una herramienta muy útil para impartir conocimientos en ámbitos académicos y cada vez mas instituciones educativas se unen a la tarea de compartir desde Wikipedia, pero no siempre ha sido fácil. #WikipediaEsParteDeLaEducación

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How has

changed since its creation, over twenty years ago? And how will it look twenty years from now? What do you think?

@jimmy_wales

talked to

@Gizmodo

about what has happened and what is yet to come to the world's largest free encyclopedia.

gizmodo.com

The founder of Wikipedia looks back at how things have changed on the web, and what's stayed the same.

Sep 5

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, some languages are at risk of extinction. To help preserve them, this Wikimedia-funded project is creating an Oral Culture Transcription Toolkit.

How to help save endangered languages in India – a project on oral culture digitization

Open knowledge and Oral Culture Wikimedia hosts several projects which are aimed to facilitate, to quote the Wikimedia website, “a world in which every single human being can freely share in the su…

Sep 3

“How can we recreate a common sense of truth? Wikipedia is a good place to start.”

@theprintindia

highlights

Three reasons why disinformation is so pervasive and what we can do about it

's community-enforced policies on neutrality and verifiability, and how users ensure edits are as correct as possible.

theprint.in

Canberra, Aug 14 (The Conversation) Donald Trump derided any critical news coverage as “fake news” and his unwillingness to concede the 2020 presidential election eventually led to the January 6,...

EXCLUSIVE - Wikipedia founder sees enormous potential in India; brushes aside Elon Musk's criticism

Sep 2

“Reaching every person on the planet is impossible without making significant inroads in a country like India with its growing population and large troves of knowledge and culture.”—

founder

⬇️

Over the last year, Hindi Wikipedia has received nearly a billion pageviews. Last week, Wikimania 2022 took place in a hybrid mode and brought together volunteers who have been contributing to...

Sep 1

The Wikimedia Foundation received a successful result protecting volunteer work about a political figure in Colombia. Next, we plan to ask the Colombian Court to review this case in order to establish a strong legal precedent protecting free knowledge.

Wikimedia wins in Colombia lawsuit: next stop — the Constitutional Court of Colombia!

The Wikimedia Foundation received a successful result protecting volunteer work about a political figure in Colombia. We plan to ask the Colombian Constitutional Court to review this case in order …

Wikimedia NYC

@WikimediaNYC

Sep 1

Wikimedia NYC was honored to host a Brooklyn

@wikipedia

edit-a-thon with the amazing

, featured on

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· Aug 31

ABC’s @jujuchangabc dives into the depths of Wikipedia, and meets the influencer showcasing the most eccentric and off the wall information in the world’s largest online encyclopedia.

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invited women from different regions of the country for discussions on gender gap and online violence, exchanging experiences, and creating networks for collective care. Read the recap of #JuntasEnInternet (#TogetherOnTheInternet) ⬇️

First Meeting of Women, Internet and Technologies #JuntasEnInternet (#TogetherOnTheInternet)

Wikimedia Mexico invited women from different regions of the country for a discussion on how we inhabit the internet, about the gender gap and online violence, but above anything else, to exchange …

Aug 31

“We didn’t expect that tragic events in world politics would make the promotion of human rights even more important.”—Natalia Szelachowska, leader of the #HumanRights2002 challenge on

. Let's look back at how it went ⬇️

Czech Wikipedia focused on human rights in June 2022 – check out the results

The pilot year of the Wikipedia Human Rights Month challenge is over. 54 Wikipedians edited a total of 96 articles. We held 4 online and offline editathons. More than 20 non-profits supported us. J…

Sidhant Sibal

@sidhant

Aug 24

Exclusive: I speak to

EXCLUSIVE - Wikipedia founder sees enormous potential in India; brushes aside Elon Musk's criticism

founder

@jimmy_wales

who sees "enormous potential in India"; Brushes aside comments by billionaire

@elonmusk

over objectivity; Says "Core of Wikipedia is the commitment to a neutral point of view".

wionews.com

Over the last year, Hindi Wikipedia has received nearly a billion pageviews. Last week, Wikimania 2022 took place in a hybrid mode and brought together volunteers who have been contributing to...

Aug 30

Last year, Oleg Andros was a Ukrainian photographer who shared his work on Wikimedia Commons. Now, he is a soldier on the front line, defending his country, Ukraine, against Russian forces.

@wikimedia_ua

tells Oleg's story.

Nature protection and battles at the forefront – Oleg Andros’ story

Wikimedia Ukraine is collecting and telling stories of Ukrainian Wikimedia community members affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This article was first published in The Signpost. Se…

WhoseKnowledge?

@WhoseKnowledge

Aug 24

We’re hosting a #VisibleWikiWomen edit-a-thon with our lovely partner

@500womensci

on #InternationalDayforPeopleofAfricanDescent! Join us to make Afro-descendant women and non-binary people in #STEM more visible.👩🏿‍🔬 🔗Want to register? us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist.

Knight First Amendment Institute

NEW:

, and

petitioned the U.S. Supreme today to review a challenge to NSA's “Upstream” surveillance program.

knightcolumbia.org

Wikimedia Foundation, Knight Institute, and ACLU Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to NSA’s...

Aug 29

For the first time in 4+ years, Wikimedia communities across the East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region will gather in-person to meet, share ideas & navigate challenges together. Program submissions for the ESEAP Conference 2022 are open now ⬇️

Wikimedians from across Asia and the Pacific to reconnect in Sydney

Wikimedians across the East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region will gather in Sydney, Australia in November, following the lifting of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Covid Travel Policy. …

Patrick Toomey

@PatrickCToomey

Aug 26

Breaking: Today we asked the Supreme Court to hear

’s challenge to the NSA’s mass surveillance of internet users. Under its "Upstream" program, the NSA monitors emails, chats, and other communications entering and leaving the US on the internet’s central arteries.

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In the past years, the threat posed by the intentional spread of misleading information has become particularly intense worldwide. Here's how you can help up counter it.

Help Wikimedia Counter Disinformation!

WP20 symbol for knowledge transfer. Illustrated by Jasmina El Bouamraoui and Karabo Poppy Moletsane, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons In the past years, the threat posed by disinformation—that is to …

Aug 27

During #WikiForHumanRights 2022, students from New Mexico, US, were trained in how to edit

. Here's how that turned out ⬇️

College students document New Mexico through WikiForHumanRights Campaign for the first time

Students and instructor during one of the sessions/ CC-BY-SA-4.0 Students at the University of New Mexico were for the first time introduced to Wikimedia projects through the WikiForHumanRights 202…

Wikimedia Foundation, ACLU, and Knight Institute Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to NSA’s...

ACLU

@ACLU

Aug 26

BREAKING: On behalf of Wikimedia, we're urging the Supreme Court to hear our case against the NSA for its mass surveillance of Americans' emails and internet communications with people overseas. The NSA has done this for decades without ever once getting a warrant.

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Visit the link below to read our full statement. (5/5)

wikimediafoundation.org

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance of Americans…

“When people's privacy is at risk, free knowledge is at risk”—

@jdbuatti

, Senior Legal Manager, Wikimedia Foundation. Research documents a drop in traffic to Wikipedia articles on privacy-sensitive topics after public revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance in 2013. (4/5)

We asked the Court to allow the case to proceed after a lower court ended the case in 2021. In our petition, we argue that enough publicly-disclosed information exists to allow the case to proceed in the courts. (3/5)

The practice is also known as Upstream mass surveillance. The Wikimedia Foundation is represented by

@ACLU

@knightcolumbia

, and

@CooleyLLP

in the litigation. (2/5)

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation petitioned the US Supreme Court to review a challenge to the

@NSAGov

's mass surveillance of international web communications, internet messages, and private emails. (1/5)

wikimediafoundation.org

Wikimedia Foundation, ACLU, and Knight Institute Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to NSA’s...

“You are experiencing Wikipedia everywhere, even if you don’t know it,” said

@fuzheado

to an audience at Chautauqua Institution. The 2022 Wikimedia Laureate explained how technology allows for free access to knowledge.

@ThePost_Journal

reports. ⬇️

post-journal.com

Lecture Notes Role Of Wikipedia In Making Info Accessible

CHAUTAUQUA — Andrew Lih is one of the main reasons Wikipedia fills the knowledge gap and records history in real time. And Wikipedia is used by many people as well as corporations. Lih talked to an...

500 Women Scientists

@500womensci

Aug 16

Have you signed up yet? Join our upcoming #VisibleWikiWomen

edit-a-thon with

@WhoseKnowledge

to make women and non-binary folks of African descent in #STEMM visible online. RSVP: 500womenscientists.org/wiki

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Omorodion Okuonghae

@omorodionok

Aug 22

We are moving ahead with our plans to help improve the #Climate and #Environmental Literacy of #Nigerians . Our next stop will be at Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.

Wikimedia Foundation and 3 others

Help make

more visual 📷 The third edition of Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (

@WPWPCampaign

) invites communities all over the world to add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking visual information. Submit your collaborations before 31 August ⬇️

meta.wikimedia.org

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022 - Meta

Adam Waxman

@awaxman

Aug 17

"Oh, this is a movement."

@InnovateRaleigh

fellow

@skyoutbriout

profiles some of the North Carolinians who help make

In age of misinformation, small group of NC residents keeps Wikipedia (mostly) correct

work. #wikipedia #misinformation

newsobserver.com

Volunteer group dedicates hours researching, writing, debating and scrutinizing facts, while trying to bring new editors into the fold.

Wikimania and Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Argentina

@wikimedia_ar

Aug 16

#Wikimania2022 en Argentina ya tiene su categoría en

@WikiCommons

🔗commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category: 📸

@Ezarate29

@BugWarp

/ CC BY-SA 4.0 / PD

Internet Archive

@internetarchive

Aug 19

We believe the same—the best way to fight disinformation is to provide access to factual info. That’s why we’re linking

@wikipedia

references to the digitized books in our library 🔗📚: blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/wea Then, let's make sure students know how to use these resources👇

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Yael

@rebeccayael

· Aug 18

At @wikipedia, we believe factual, cited content can help foster media literacy and fight disinformation. Come join Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom and help teachers guide their students to read Wikipedia more critically through our training program: w.wiki/3hAk

Aug 21

How can university students develop their subject knowledge, research, and writing skills using

Student-led knowledge exchange using Wikipedia

? Explore a case study from

@HKUniversity

, via

@timeshighered

⬇️

timeshighereducation.com

Challenging students to draft or enhance Wikipedia entries is an effective way to develop their subject knowledge, research and writing skills, as Adrian Man-Ho Lam explains

Education/Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom/ToT - Meta

, we believe factual, cited content can help foster media literacy and fight disinformation. Come join Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom and help teachers guide their students to read Wikipedia more critically through our training program:

meta.wikimedia.org

Aug 20

In 2019, we started the process to update

’s desktop interface, with the goal of making it easier for everyone to use. With the updates coming soon, learn how equity has been incorporated through the whole process.

Prioritizing equity within Wikipedia’s new desktop

The internet was an interesting place in 2010. Many of the largest internet websites today were just getting started. Smartphone usage was beginning to grow significantly. Also, Wikipedia had a bra…