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2013-12-06

Wikigifs.org : a random walk through animated gifs on Commons

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So many wonderful animations , waiting to unfold. Now if only there were a wiki-editing tool within MediaWiki that made it possible to crea...
2013-06-06

Wikipedia in the '80s

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What is there not to love about this amazing alternate-history Wikipedia ?
2012-05-12

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Here is a blog post about two of my favorite academics fooling around with, and getting a gleeful kick out of, Wikipedia's delightful m...
2012-02-12

Wikimedia to the world : "we are the media, and so are you"

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Kat and Jimmy get a  lovely op-ed in the Washington Post, about the online response to SOPA and PIPA, the role played by individual action ...
2012-02-01

Yochai Benkler on love, SOPA, wikiauthority and moral force

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That is why Wikipedia played such a critical role: unlike all the other major sites that shut down. Wikipedia is not a company; Wikiped...
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2012-01-26

Wikimedia ranked #1 NGO by The Global Journal

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The Global Journal , a new journal published by Jean-Christophe Nothias and based in Geneva and Manhattan , covers international affairs and...
2012-01-20

One Wikipedian's nostalgia on writing for a traditional encyclopedia

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Wikipedian Alex Golub, at the anthropology group blog Savage Minds , describes his thoughts as he is asked to write an article for a traditi...
2012-01-19

English Wikipedians go on strike to protest national laws, motivate change

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English Wikipedia was the most prominent site to join a day-long Internet blackout to protest two bills that are being considered by the U.S...
2011-10-06

Italian Wikipedians go on strike to protest national law, motivate change

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Italian Wikipedians, Over the past 2 years, the Italian legislature has been steadily moving towards passing a law nicknamed "the blo...
2011-07-20

Portraits of WikiLovelies

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Few things make me happier than making portraits of Wikimedians. Wikipedia is what got me into photography. And Wikipedia meetups are what ...
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2011-07-05

Wikimedia India hits the international blog scene

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Ayesha Saldanha of global news service  Global Voices talked to Tinu Cherian  recently about the future of Wikipedia and India.  It's ...
2011-07-04

Exploring Tourette's through Wikicompulsion

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As noted in today's Signpost ,  Michaelas10 , a former Wikipedia admin with mild Tourette 's, shared a private and remarkable aspe...
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2011-06-23

From Medvedev, with love

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Wikimedia Russia recently ran a campaign on the need to change Russian copyright law to include a " freedom of panorama " clause ...
2011-06-20

A CD of books from Malayalam Wikisource: hot off the press

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Congratulations to the  Malayalam Wikisourcerors , who last week released the  2011 Malayalam Wikisource CD with a selection of books from ...
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2011-06-17

Please donate to to the Harris-McLaughlan fund

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Why you should donate, like, one dollar to Wikimedia: To elevate people around the world.  Because Brandon Harris is looking at you.  And b...
2011-06-16

Wikistream : node.js, live recentchanges, Ed and Ward

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Ed Summers, Library of Congress hacker extraordinaire, DPLA contributor , and r2d2 fan , recently took the IRC-channel stream of recentchan...
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2011-06-09

Domas the Giant: Posse love

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Words fail.  Love endures.