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Image descriptions are a critical part of today's internet. On , they help make images more accessible and discoverable, and fill information gaps for readers.
Learn more about this year's Image Description Week ⬇️
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The #1Lib1Ref May 2022 campaign has started! 📚 🦉 From now to June 5th, help us make Wikipedia more credible, reliable, and diverse one citation at a time!
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English @Wikipedia is featuring tomorrow's Global #Accessibility Awareness Day in its “On this Day” section. Happy start into #GAAD everyone!
As result of a fruitful collaboration with the Wikimedia Accessibility User Group t.me/wikimedia_acce and admins, myself as ideator
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You might know is one of the most visited websites in the world. Did you know that it is the 5th most visited in India and Indian volunteers represent almost a fifth of the global community, with ~65,000 contributors? wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/05/0 #knowwithwiki
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The #WikimediaHackathon2022 is happening this weekend, 20-22 May! Anyone who wants to contribute to Wikimedia’s technical areas can join – with sessions for experts and newcomers. You can also join local meetups. More information, via .
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First time attending #wmhack? Check out our tips on what to do if you're new.
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Did you check the list of local meetups? If none of them is close to you, join us online from anywhere in the world.
mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia #wmhack
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Less than half of the images on Wikipedia have a caption that relates the image to the article, and only 10% have some form of alt text. This week, learn how to make images more accessible and discoverable:
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Can't wait for hacking together again this year in Wikimedia Hackathon 2022! Tag us in your favorite #Hackathon memory! #wmhack mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia
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Calling all history lovers! International Museum Day is coming soon. Want to get involved and simultaneously build up Wikimedia projects?
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📚#1Bib1Ref es una iniciativa que promueve la participación de personas bibliotecarias en
🫂Este año queremos conocernos y generar una comunidad por lo que compartiremos talleres, conferencias y espacios de encuentro.
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“I am not a magician, I'm just learning.”
Recently, volunteer Wikipedia editors expanded the Kyrgyz Wikipedia with knowledge about a hundred women from Kyrgyzstan.
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We have followed the developments of the Digital Services Act since its early stages, advocating for European lawmakers to make a more nuanced approach to internet regulation.
Our and explain what the regulation means for Wikimedia. ⬇️
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Serra de Montejunto, Portugal.
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Doiran Lake, Greece.
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Polissia region, Ukraine.
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Serra do Gandarela National Park, Brazil.
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Emas National Park, Brazil.
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These are the winning pictures of the 2021 "Human Rights and Environment" category of the photo contest, supporting #WikiForHumanRights (our ongoing partnership with ).
Discover the stories behind the images
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Creative Commons condemns the rejection of applications from six Wikimedia chapters as official observers to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of .
Read our statement on the CC blog ⬇️
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Join the annual conference to celebrate and other free knowledge projects made possible by the Wikimedia volunteer community!
Program submissions are open for #Wikimania: The Festival Edition! Submit your session proposal by 10 June. ⬇️
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In response to our advocacy efforts with and 50+ civil society orgs, the US government authorized US internet companies to continue providing essential internet services in Russia—a big step to protect the open internet for the Russian people.
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May 25th is Africa Day! Join us as we celebrate Africa and it's diaspora all year long but especially during the month of May.
#CelebrateAfrica #Wikipedia #AfricanUnionDay #AfricanUnion
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To increase coverage of African topics on Wikimedia projects, we are kicking off the Africa Knowledge Initiative with the .
We are looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to help lead the project. Interested? Learn more. ⬇️
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BREAKING: (un)SMART Copyright Act opposed by
👉🏻 Nearly 3000 independent creators in letter
👉🏻 6300+ supporters in petition
👉🏻 18+ organizations in tweets
on #NoCensorshipFilter day. Read more + quotes from & more:
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“We ask member states to recognize and support the value that the Wikimedia free knowledge movement brings to WIPO.”—, General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation. (3/3)
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Our projects rely on open, flexible copyright policies to ensure knowledge can be accessed and shared freely. The chapters’ presence at WIPO would help ensure the future of global copyright policy reflects the needs of the Wikimedia movement and the broader web ecosystem. (2/3)
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We've been tracking the EU DSA from the start and have always seen it as an opportunity to protect the community-governed, public interest internet, which is what we asked policymakers to do.
How did the final outcomes stack up to our requests?
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This article was certainly a group effort, major thanks to members of the working group, folks on the apps teams, and our Comms department for the rounds of feedback. Product inclusion is a journey, so I hope you'll read where we are in ours and stick around as we continue.
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Our Lead Product Manager, @itsjaztanner, shares the story behind our new framework for equitable product development – one that puts diversity, equity, and inclusion at the center of the technology behind @Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. medium.com/freely-sharing
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Want to learn more about this work? Join 's "Building With, Not For" session at the Women In Product () Conference on Tuesday, 10 May at 6:30 pm UTC. #22WIP
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