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MisinfoCon: The internet’s biggest properties converge to fight fake news
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, several digital media leaders showcased their tools to help everyday people fact-check, verify, and take control of their newsfeeds.... Read more
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Wikimedia REST API hits 1.0
Wikimedia’s content and metadata in machine-readable formats, at scale.... Read more
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How we know what we know: The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research
The Wikimedia Foundation and more than 60 other organizations and scholarly publishers announce the I4OC initiative, making scholarly citation data freely available for anyone to access and reuse.... Read more
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The big bear of a mission to chronicle the 1948 Cleveland Indians
Wikipedia editor, Cleveland native, and baseball fan Wizardman is on a mission to rewrite and improve all of the articles related to the Cleveland Indians’ 1948 World Series-winning season.... Read more
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What if people paid for Wikipedia, and only got a few articles? Now you can
Millions of pages are available on Wikipedia and free to browse at any time, but what if people could pay for a download of Wikipedia?... Read more
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Community digest: As Odia Wikisource turns two, a project to digitize rare books kicks off; news in brief
To celebrate the second anniversary of Odia Wikisource, Wikimedians are starting several initiatives to grow the project. In addition, this week’s news in brief includes updates about Wikimania submissions, Wikimedia affiliates, the Wikipedia Education Program and more.... Read more
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Our 2016 annual report: Facts matter
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to release its ninth annual report. This year’s theme: facts matter.... Read more
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Wait, what? The fairies that fooled Arthur Conan Doyle
One hundred years ago, two cousins took a camera down to a stream in northern England and came back with a controversy that lingered almost magically in the air for decades.... Read more
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Alangi Derick: Wikimedia’s first African contributor to Google Summer of Code
Alangi Derick is Wikimedia’s first African participant in Google Summer of Code. He joined the movement to develop his skills in coding, and he was quickly hooked by the movement’s values and its community culture, becoming a staunch advocate for it in his university.... Read more