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For the first time in over ten years,
@Wikipedia
is getting a new look! The updated desktop, built in collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers worldwide, will make the site more welcoming and easier to use for everyone. Learn more ⬇️🧵 (1/5)
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Wikipedia Gets a Fresh New Look: First Desktop Update in a Decade Puts Usability at the Forefront
The interface update, built in collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers worldwide, will make the site more welcoming, easier to use for everyone The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates…
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Subhashish Panigrahi (
@subhapa
) is a filmmaker with a passion for open access to cultural heritage. Learn about their two recent documentaries on the Odia language — created using openly-licensed media, as well as free and open-source software. ⬇️
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Two Open Culture Films About Odia Language, Made With Volunteer Labor
As an Open Culture practitioner, I have often tried to create and use media licensed under Creative Commons (CC) Licenses. It is tricky in filmmaking since film production requires a massive media …
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Since 2005,
@BLACKLUNCHTABLE
has archived the lives and work of Black artists, including on
@Wikipedia
. Now, in partnership with
@PaceGallery
, Wikimedia Fellow Kristen Owens will bring stories of Black artists to the gallery's forefront. More in
@artnews
.
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Pace and Black Lunch Table Are Opening the Gallery’s Library to the Public for the First Time
This February, Pace will present an exhibition opening the gallery’s private library to the public for the first time.
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“There are more and more voices in favor of [the] use [of Wikipedia], as well as an increasing number of educational projects that integrate it into the classroom.” Two researchers share their perspectives on science and
@Wikipedia
in
@LeidenMadtrics
. ⬇️
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Five key facts to consider when studying science on Wikipedia
The presence of science on Wikipedia is a recurrent research topic in the scientometric community. However, its full potential for the study of science-society relations has not yet been fully...
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The “Big Fat Brussels Meeting” might sound like a movie title, but it is actually an intensive work session on advocacy around public policy in the European Union. Here are takeaways from the most recent gathering. ⬇️
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Setting a joint EU agenda for Public Policy: Big Fat Brussels Meeting a Big Fat Success
Post-its which map out all of the public policy work that affiliates are pursuing in the EU in 2022 and 2023. Image by FPutz (WMF), CC-BY 4.0, available on Wikimedia Commons. Only an event titled “…
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We are glad to introduce you to the new look of wikipedia, the online encyclopedia...💥❤️🥰
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For the first time in over ten years, @Wikipedia is getting a new look! The updated desktop, built in collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers worldwide, will make the site more welcoming and easier to use for everyone. Learn more ⬇️🧵 (1/5) wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/01/1
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“Stewards” are a small group of highly trusted volunteers on Wikipedia. They are elected annually, given access to the interface of all public Wikimedia projects, and trusted with all sorts of work. Meet the longest-serving steward, Martin Rulsch.
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Meet Martin Rulsch, the longest-serving Wikimedia steward
Martin Rulsch, the longest serving Wikimedia steward. Image by Sandro Halank (WMDE) (CC-BY-SA 4.0) Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and the 5th most visited website on the internet. It’s a volunteer-dr…
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“An updated design strives to make [knowledge] even more user-friendly and easy to access by people all around the world.”
@TechSpot
highlights the first updates to
@Wikipedia
's desktop interface in over ten years. ⬇️
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New Wikipedia design improves access to the world's knowledge
Wikipedia is getting a design refresh, the first major update to the site's desktop interface in over ten years. Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which hosts Wikipedia...
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Congratulations to everyone involved in the Design team at
@Wikimedia
Foundation & to the dedicated
@Wikipedia
volunteers worldwide who collaborated on this fresh new look. The exciting update was made possible by the strong focus on design research and UX in the entire process.
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It is a big day for Wikipedia: We are getting a new look! 🎉 For the first time in 10+ years, and during our 22nd birthday month, a series of updates to English Wikipedia’s desktop will make the site more welcoming and easier to use for everyone! Explore the changes🧵⬇️ (1/9)
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The "Vector 2022" skin has come to the English-language Wikipedia.
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For the first time in over ten years, @Wikipedia is getting a new look! The updated desktop, built in collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers worldwide, will make the site more welcoming and easier to use for everyone. Learn more ⬇️🧵 (1/5) wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/01/1
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Raju Narisetti
@raju
Notice anything new on English
@Wikipedia
today? For the first time in 10+ years, the site's desktop is new. A series of features (developed by
@wikimedia
in collaboration with Wikipedia volunteers around the world) will make the site easier to use.
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Explore Wikipedia’s New Look
Wikipedia is the world’s free, collaborative encyclopedia—the largest collection of open knowledge in history. It contains over 58 million articles, written in more than 300 languages by volunteers…
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Volker E.
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For the first time in over 10 years, Wikipedia is getting a new look and feel! Improvements like the better search, language switching, sticky header & collapsible menus to
@Wikipedia
’s interface will make the site easier to use and more welcoming. Proud to been part of that team
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@Wikimedia
The updated
@Wikipedia
desktop does not remove any previous functionality. Instead, it introduces new features to improve the existing website experience. These include a new table of contents, search experience, language-switching tools, and more! (2/5)
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Explore Wikipedia’s New Look
Wikipedia is the world’s free, collaborative encyclopedia—the largest collection of open knowledge in history. It contains over 58 million articles, written in more than 300 languages by volunteers…
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The Design Systems Team at the Wikimedia Foundation is creating a central system built with modern tools to support design and front-end development across Wikimedia projects. Learn more about their work and how to get involved. ⬇️
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Creating the Wikimedia Design System
Why are we creating a design system? Wikipedia has been around for two decades, and the Wikimedia ecosystem has grown over the years into multiple wikis and other platforms with numerous features. …
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@Wikimedia
Happy 22nd birthday,
@Wikipedia
! 🎊 And thank you to our incredible global community of volunteers who make it possible. ❤️ #WikipediaDay
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English Wikipedia was launched on 15 January 2001, exactly 22 years ago. 🎈 #WikipediaDay Since then, more than 6.5 million articles have been created. 🎂📷 JElder (WMF), Valerie Schandl (WMDE), CC BY-SA 4.0.
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“The work developed by the
@Wikimedia
Foundation and by the thousands of people who have joined that community represents a clear demonstration effect of the world of the future” –
@PressenzaIPA
celebrated
@Wikipedia
22nd birthday.
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Wikipedia: An impressive demonstration effect of Good Knowledge
Around this time in January 2001, the idea of enabling the collaborative edition of the encyclopedia that would end up being created under the name of
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