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Inaugural ‘Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom’ workshop for Dagbani Language Teachers in Tamale, organized by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
Published: September 7, 2024 17:59
As part of its annual programs, the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group held a training workshop to train Dagbani teachers on how to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool to facilitate teaching and learning as part of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom’ program.…
An Introduction to Wikipedia: A free online course for beginners
Published: September 7, 2024 12:40
There are many ways to learn about Wikipedia when you’re just beginning. Previously I ran edit-a-thons and introduction sessions with Wikimedia Australia, as well as online drop in sessions to help beginners with any questions they had. But they all…
Bangla Wiktionary: A Major Milestone of 100,000 Entries!
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/06/bangla-wiktionary-a-major-milestone-of-100000-entries/
Published: September 6, 2024 21:01
Bangla Wiktionary Logo. Recently, Bangla Wiktionary has achieved a remarkable milestone by surpassing 100,000 entries, marking a significant moment for the Bengali language. After Bangla Wikipedia, this is the second Bangla project to cross this landmark…
Nigeria Oral History Documentation hosts one of the world’s largest repositories of freely licensed Indigenous content.
Published: September 6, 2024 16:30
Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria — August 26, 2024 — The Nigeria Oral History Documentation Project, a pioneering cultural preservation initiative led by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (registered as Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation), is making significant strides…
Engineering student brings bioinspired armor to Wikipedia
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/09/06/engineering-student-brings-bioinspired-armor-to-wikipedia/
Published: September 6, 2024 16:00
Bioinspired armor – it may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but what exactly is it? Thanks to the brand new Wikipedia article created by Liv Vizzini and her classmates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this spring, our curiosity can…
Wikimania 2024: a recap of a great week
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/06/wikimania-2024-a-recap-of-a-great-week/
Published: September 6, 2024 12:00
My first Wikimania was a really great experience. It was a place, where I met many new people, many people which I knew online from Telegram, and online partnerships, as well meeting many of my connections from the CEE Youth meetup in November 2023. It was…
Good enough is perfect – A Wikimedia playbook for collective deliberations
Published: September 6, 2024 10:00
Are you tired of workshops or events that lack tangible results? Wikimedia Deutschland and the Movement Ecology Collective have created a playbook that helps transform collective deliberations into tangible results and next steps. Matthias Wörle, CC by…
My Five Goals for Wikimania 2024
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/06/my-five-goals-for-wikimania-2024/
Published: September 6, 2024 07:00
When I checked my email on 26 January 2018, I was surprised to find a confirmation about my participation in the Youth Winter Wikicamp in Armenia. I usually encountered errors and missing content on Armenian Wikipedia and had no idea it was possible to…
First milestone: 11,000 new Wikidata entries on Swiss performing arts productions
Published: September 5, 2024 15:39
In the first half of 2024, over 11,000 new entries related to Swiss performing arts productions were created in Wikidata. This was made possible by a partnership established in 2023 between the SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive for Stage Arts, and the…
WikiForHumanRights campaign 2024: Creating Awareness of Environmental and Ocean Pollution in Ghana
Published: September 5, 2024 15:17
Like many developing countries, Ghana grapples with environmental and ocean pollution, one of the country’s major problems. Daily activities by individuals contribute to the destruction of the environment and the ocean, polluting them with dire…
Artbank's editathon for gender equity in Australian visual arts
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Artbank%27s_editathon_for_gender_equity_in_Australian_visual_arts
Published: September 5, 2024 12:00
Earlier this week Artbank Sydney’s vibrant gallery space transformed into a dynamic hub of creativity, knowledge-sharing, and digital activism. 5 September 2024, Belinda Spry. The occasion? A highly successful editathon focused on amplifying the voices of…
Safety measures taken for Open-Source Conference Kyoto
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/05/safety-measures-taken-for-open-source-conference-kyoto/
Published: September 5, 2024 07:00
Kyoto Research Park, the venue for OSC Kyoto, CC BY-SA 3.0 Via Wikimedia Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyoto-Research-Park-01.jpg I’d like to report from a different direction regarding our participation in the Open-Source Conference Kyoto…
Young Wikipedian gives an insight into his volunteer work on Wikipedia
Published: September 4, 2024 22:08
One of Wikimedia CH’s goals is to motivate younger authors to contribute to Wikipedia. That’s why we spoke to Noam Schank, a 19-year-old Wikipedian (User:FWS AM) who has graduated from high school in summer 2024. The German-language article Federalism in…
Continuing the Journey: Presentation and dissemination of learnings in the Wikimedia Movement in 2024
Published: September 4, 2024 22:03
In 2024, the Wiki Movement Brazil User Group remains committed to the sharing of organizational learnings. As in the previous year, the organization’s professional team met in person in the middle of the year to, among other objectives, present and…
Wikimedia: A Pathway to Peace and Human Rights
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/04/wikimedia-a-pathway-to-peace-and-human-rights/
Published: September 4, 2024 21:47
Osama (Osps7) and Narumi CC BY-SA 4.0 In an increasingly interconnected world, the need for platforms that promote peace, understanding, and human rights has never been more critical. Wikimedia, with its vast array of projects including Wikipedia,…
Revamping Movement Strategy Grants with Hub Focus!
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/04/revamping-movement-strategy-grants-with-hub-focus/
Published: September 4, 2024 10:25
Movement Charter conversation first event in Rwanda, RebeccaRwanda, CC-BY-SA 4.0 Since 2022, the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants (MSIG) have been a key resource for communities across the Wikimedia movement, enabling the community members to carry…
A Joint Statement on the Use of Surveillance Spyware in the EU and Beyond
Published: September 4, 2024 06:12
We took stance against the use of spyware in the EU and beyond. This pervasive technology poses significant threat to European fundamental values, such as democracy and rule of law, and risks severely infringing fundamental rights to privacy and data…
Interview: Vira Motorko, 2024 Functionary of the Year, about Wikipedia in her life and her contribution
Published: September 3, 2024 17:41
At Wikimania 2024, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced the winners of the annual international Wikimedians of the Year award. Among them is Vira Motorko, a Ukrainian Wikimedian and administrator of the Ukrainian Wikipedia, who was recognized as…
Incorporating a project diary into my Wikipedia assignment
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/09/03/incorporating-a-project-diary-into-my-wikipedia-assignment/
Published: September 3, 2024 16:00
Gretchen Sneegas is an assistant teaching professor of geography at the University of Washington. I first taught with Wikipedia in Winter 2024 as part of my Geographies of Energy and Sustainability class. Perhaps this was a teensy bit ambitious, given…
Updates from the July 2024 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/03/updates-from-the-july-2024-wikimedia-endowment-board-meeting/
Published: September 3, 2024 14:41
The Wikimedia Endowment held its bi-annual Board meeting in San Francisco, California (United States) on 18 July 2024 where they passed the FY2024-25 annual plan and budget. The Board, which is made up of Endowment donors and Wikimedia community members,…
Wikimedia Indonesia and UNESCO Jakarta Team Up Against Harmful Content Online
Published: September 3, 2024 13:42
Ezagren, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 In this digital age, harmful content online, including mis/disinformation and hate speech, poses a significant threat to democracies across the world. Indonesia is no exception, facing the spread of harmful…
Tech/News/2024/36
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/09/03/tech-news-2024-36/
Published: September 3, 2024 01:07
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now…
Moving performance testing tools out of AWS
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Published: September 2, 2024 01:50
Some time ago I did the final work to move out the web performance tooling out of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's been a long journey. Let me tell you how it all started. But first, what is the performance tooling? It's tools that automate the web…
Tech News issue #36, 2024 (September 2, 2024)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/technews/20240902000000/en
Published: September 2, 2024 00:00
Tech Forum Tech News Tech Ambassadors Product and Technology MediaWiki The Tech News weekly summaries help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians. Subscribe, contribute and give feedback. Translate…
weeklyOSM 736
https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/17472
Published: September 1, 2024 10:06
22/08/2024-28/08/2024 OSM in 2008 and 2024 [1] | © Martin van Exel | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors About us Pieter Vander Vennet has created a graph which analysed weeklyOSM’s outbound links, comparing the number of Twitter and Mastodon links.…
Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2024/9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_newsletter/2024/9
Published: September 1, 2024 06:14
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024). Administrator changes Pppery Interface administrator changes Pppery Oversighter changes Wugapodes CheckUser changes · Courcelles GeneralNotability …
The Pull Request
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2024/08/31/the-pull-request/
Published: September 1, 2024 01:15
A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When GitHub launched, it had no code review. Three years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko became the first person to make a real code comment,…
Wiki Loves 2024 to commence in 53 countries
https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/wiki-loves-2024-to-commence-in-53-countries/
Published: August 31, 2024 08:09
Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 will be the 15th edition of the photograph competition, with many returning and 2 new countries (Cyprus and Libya) joining the annual competition. The international competition runs between 1 September until 31 October 2024, and…
Discovering the Power of Youth in Wikimedia: A Personal Reflection
Published: August 31, 2024 07:00
NikosLikomitros Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Attending Wikimania 2024, the annual conference that brings together contributors from across the globe to celebrate and discuss Wikimedia projects, was an eye-opening experience for me. While I had always…