Community

1. Affiliates

   Developing leadership: Learning Days at the 2016 Wikimedia Conference

   

   For the third straight year, the Wikimedia Conference was preceded by pre-conference Learning Days for affiliates that want to improve their skills in community engagement, program design, and evaluation.... Read more

2. Community

   Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

   

   Poetry: “it is the stuff of the soul; it speaks to the body, the mind, and the spirit alike.” Sonja Bohm worked for years to get all of Florence Earle Coates’ poetry online, and now proofreads poetry on the English Wikisource, the free library. We asked why.... Read more

3. Community

   Little time left to apply for a WikiConference India 2016 scholarship

   

   Applications are due on 31 May.... Read more

4. Community

   Team effort in developing the Khowar Wikipedia

   

   There’s 50 confirmed editors and over 6,700 total pages.... Read more

5. Community

   Why I write about battleships

   

   Nate Ott has written hundreds of Wikipedia articles about German warships, including every major ship from the 1860s to World War II. We asked why.... Read more

6. Community

   Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

   

   Thanks to Albin Olsson, free photographic mastery was on display at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.... Read more

7. Community

   Wikimedia Highlights, April 2016

   

   Here are highlights from across the Wikimedia movement, as reported on this blog in April 2016: Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia; First-ever Wikimedia Hackathon at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; A strike against freedom of panorama: Swedish court rules against Wikimedia Sverige.... Read more

8. Affiliates

   At Berlin conference, affiliates, staff, and board work side by side

   

   At the Wikimedia Conference, Foundation staff joined nearly 100 recognized and active movement affiliates from around the world to discuss building communications within the movement and growing to reach new audiences.... Read more

9. Community

   Wikipedia’s 15th birthday inspires Bangla translators; Odia-language Women’s History Month edit-a-thons

   

   Bangla-language Wikipedians translated about 600 articles for their language’s Wikipedia; Odia-language Wikimedians hosted their second annual Women’s History Month edit-a-thon.... Read more

10. Community

    TTIP and Free Knowledge: how the trade treaty (probably) threatens collaboration on Wikipedia

    

    Over the past couple of years, the European Union and the United States have been negotiating a new trade treaty behind closed doors. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would arguably “liberalize one-third of global trade”—but we can’t be sure, because negotiations are kept secret.... Read more