May, 2016

1. Wikimedia Research Newsletter

   Wikimedia Research Newsletter, May 2016

   

   English as Wikipedia’s lingua franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
   With contributions by: Morten Warncke-Wang, Piotr Konieczny, Federico Leva, Steve Jankowski and Tilman Bayer... Read more

2. Community

   Little time left to apply for a WikiConference India 2016 scholarship

   

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

3. Community

   Team effort in developing the Khowar Wikipedia

   

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

4. Legal

   The future of copyright in Europe: protecting public interest and collaboration

   

   As the European Commission considers updating copyright rules, we want to ensure they do not threaten free knowledge projects like Wikipedia.... 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. Board

   Meet the Wikimedia Foundation’s two newest trustees: Christophe Henner and Nataliia Tymkiv

   

   Upon their formal appointments, Henner and Tymkiv will serve on the Foundation’s Board with three-year terms.... Read more

7. Community

   Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

   

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

8. 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

9. Wikipedia

   The “world’s first gif”, a horse, and a ditch: The English Wikipedia’s ten shortest featured articles

   

   Now we’ve looked at the English Wikipedia’s longest featured articles, here are the ten shortest.... Read more

10. 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