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Updated: the story of Wikipedia and libraries is being rewritten around the world this week with #1Lib1Ref

The libraries community has a huge number of opportunities to help solve gaps on Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge

The Wikimedia community celebrates Wikipedia and its sister projects with nearly 150 events on six continents as the Wikimedia Foundation announces an endowment to sustain Wikipedia for the future.

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Wikipedia statistics show that 2015 was the year of the movie

2015 was the year of the movie on Wikipedia, with eight film-related articles in the top 25—and one climbing all the way up to No. 3 in the last two months of the year.

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Wikimedia Research Newsletter, December 2015

Teaching Wikipedia; Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?

With contributions by: Piotr Konieczny, Tilman Bayer and Max Klein

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Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia

Sports fans vandalize Wikipedia articles, and sports bloggers write about it—often. But what really happens behind those headlines? A vandal, an editor, and the surprisingly short lifetime of a highly publicized incident.

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Wikimedia Foundation to explore new ways to search and discover reliable, relevant, free information with $250,000 from Knight Foundation

Funds will support work to help people find the most relevant information on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.

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Kelly Battles and Arnnon Geshuri join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

New Trustees bring deep financial, operational, and organizational development expertise to Wikimedia’s free knowledge mission.

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“Wikipedia is a testament to what we can create together as a global community”: Sara Mörtsell

Sara Mörtsell, Education Manager for Wikimedia Sverige, is working to help educators and learners in Sweden understand how free and open education can work for them.

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Top 20 most-edited pages on Wikipedia in 2015

The Sydney Opera House lit in French tricolor after the November 2015 Paris attacks. In only a month and a half, this article received one of the highest edit totals of any article on the English Wikipedia in 2015. Photo by Ludopedia, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Each day,…

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Our most popular posts of 2015: black hats, artificial intelligence, John Oliver, and a photobomb

Our story on John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes was one of the blog’s most popular posts of the year. Photo by TechCruch, freely licensed under CC BY 2.0. On December 15, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Victor Grigas, in collaboration with several Wikimedia community members, released #Edit2015, a look back at the wonder,…

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