📷 Winners of Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India:
1️? Mahi Tatavarty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
2️? Nilanjan Sasmal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
3️? Prakrutim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
4️? Sutapa Pal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Wiki Loves Food 2022 in India depicts the culinary diversity of Indian cuisines. Submissions for the photo competition organized by are open until 30 November: w.wiki/5w4Z
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📢 Join us!
Wiki Conference North America is starting this Friday, in partnership with
#WikiConferenceNA is free, online, and has a fascinating program. More in 🧵👇
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An exciting #WikiSoundLogo update: we received over 3,200 sound logo entries from 135 countries. 🎉
Voting on the finalists will begin soon. 🗳️
You can listen to some of the submissions now! 👂
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Every year in Nov, runs the campaign to add Asian content in . In Italian, is focused especially on Asian women and non-binary people bios. But you can write about Asian history, cuisine, bridges, buildings, museums etc w.wiki/5u4m
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We host a variety of content under a license that is free to reuse, remix, and share on other platforms.
Now, a new guide shares tips and best practices for how to attribute this content.
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The International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture in Nigeria is partnering with to promote free access to knowledge in the Yoruba language. Read more about this collaboration in ⬇️
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Having free photos for is crucial for representation on the site. Lack of images on projects results in facelessness of underrepresented groups and the lack of knowability across the web more widely #BecauseOfHerStory
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What inspires our CEO about the Wikimedia movement?
“Anyone can be a part of the effort to increase global access to free knowledge,” she shared in a recent interview with her alma mater, . Read more ⬇️
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This week we're on the road, sharing 's free knowledge values in conversations around the world.
Our Vice President, , is at #usgermanfuturesforum in Muenster 🇩🇪
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The incomparable @rmack: if you want to maximize profits, you pollute the rivers and hire 10 year olds. That's why we created environmental & labor laws.
We haven't done that yet in the tech space, even in democratic countries.
#usgermanfuturesforum #G7Muenster
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As we head into the traditional “giving” season, here are some facts about why giving to is still vital, amid a lot of usual misinformed noise about this vital free platform being well endowed and so not needing your support. twitter.com/Wikipedia/stat? via
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Wikipedia funding comes from...
advertising
subscription fees
selling data
donations from our readers
Learn how YOU make us possible. 
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advertising
subscription fees
selling data
donations from our readers
Learn how YOU make us possible.
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On the 15th of October 2022, we launched a collaboration with the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture to promote free access to knowledge in Yoruba language via and other projects.
Read more about it on Wikimedia Diff.
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Did you know that serves millions of readers and runs at a fraction of the cost of other top websites?
Get the rundown on why we fundraise, how our budget works, and what impact your donations have. ⬇️
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We invite you to explore this research in a new data visualization, and join us in finding ways to better identify and meet the needs and preferences of the people we hope to reach with our free knowledge mission.
Learn more ⬇️ (2/2) #OpenTheKnowledge
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New research on Wikimedia audiences in Brazil, Nigeria, and South Africa will allow us to more deeply understand equity gaps—such as lack of representation around local languages and cultures on and other projects—and ways to close them. (1/2)
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In just two years, led “a whopping 500 per cent increase in the number of Arabic Wikipedia pages about literature.” Learn how they are contributing to a world where every person has access to free knowledge.
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It was an honor and a pleasure for members of Wikimedia Tunisia to participate to this event and to meet
(although not mentioned in the article)was the 1st UG recognized in the Arabic region and the group who founded the
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During @WikiArabiaConf in Dubai, our CEO @MaryanaIskander spoke with @gulftoday about the “deeply important” work of the Wikimedians of UAE User Group (@Wikimedians_uae) and other user groups in promoting free knowledge in the Arab region and beyond.
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During in Dubai, our CEO spoke with about the “deeply important” work of the Wikimedians of UAE User Group () and other user groups in promoting free knowledge in the Arab region and beyond.
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Las Wikimedistas buscan combatir la brecha de género que existe en Wikipedia y han realizado una gran cantidad de proyectos y campañas para seguir aumentando el número de mujeres que escriben en .
Aquí te contamos algunas de ellas. 👇🏻
wikimedia.mx/mujeres-wikime
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A world where everyone, everywhere can safely create and share knowledge without fear of consequence or barriers to access requires the protection and support of public policies, laws, and regulations. helps us achieve that goal.
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The Wikimedia movement is made by people who devote their time to make free knowledge possible.
We invite you to hear the stories and experiences of some of these contributors in Africa. Watch ⬇️
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Today it's ten years since Wikidata had launched, October 29, 2012.
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Free, collaborative, multilingual... Sound familiar? ? is a knowledge base with over 100,000,000 data items that anyone can edit. It acts as storage for the structured data of projects, including Wikipedia. This month, it turns 10 ⬇️ wikidata.org
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Engergized by the many conversations had at around getting more Arabic-language content into projects like and making them more representative of our world! #opentheknowledge #Dubai
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The 2022 jury team has announced the results of the campaign this year. We are proud of the result this year and we thank the for the support, and all the contributors including the local organizers.
See the result here:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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Read their words and get inspired.
Part 1: blog.wikimedia.de/2022/09/30/10-
Part 2: blog.wikimedia.de/2022/10/06/10-
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Wikidata turns 10 today! 🎉
Like all Wikimedia projects, is made by people willing to contribute to the sum of all knowledge.
collected stories from those who have helped to build Wikidata in the last 10 years. (1/2)
#WikidataBirthday
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Die Vorfreude auf den 10. Geburtstag von #Wikidata am 29. Oktober steigt! In unserer Blogserie von Luca Martinelli geht's heute um den Einfluss von Wikidata bei der Förderung der Wikimedia-Mission! blog.wikimedia.de/2022/10/18/wik
#wikidata10 #wikidatabirthday
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The goal: 60 new articles.
The result: 557. 🤩
Read more about an initiative by that engaged 27 young Wikimedia contributors in writing articles about education, health, religion, sports, and entertainment, via .
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3 Days left to close wiki loves monuments 2022 In #Rwanda.
Dear Photographers don’t miss out on this opportunity.
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Why should you download the mobile app and “never look back”, according to senior reporter ?
First, it is fun. Also, it provides easier access to “one of the true wonders of the internet.” Read more reasons ⬇️
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Join librarians and Wikimedia contributors and as they share how academia and libraries can work together using and its sister projects in education institutions. Live on 28 October, at 15:00 UTC ⬇️ #GlobalMILWeek
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The Global Advocacy team has grown in this past year to proactively respond to rising government regulation of online spaces.
We’re excited to introduce what we do, how we do it, and who our team members are.
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Changing lives in the classroom and on : meet Polish historian and teacher Maria Weronika Kmoch, who has guided over 100 students on creating biographies for women on Polish Wikipedia. #GlobalMILWeek
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Hai, Kawan GLAM!
Kompetisi Wikistories untuk GLAM telah berakhir. Berikut adalah nama-nama pemenang beserta poin yang diraih. Selamat kepada para pemenang!
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A homepage for first time contributors. A feed of suggestions that assist in editing. A platform that allows beginners to ask for help.
We are adding new features to to encourage newcomers to make edits. details them on .
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It is the #GlobalMILWeek, throughout the week we will share stories and highlight the role of the movement in connection with media and information literacy.
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Today, on the start of #GlobalMILWeek, learn about our Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program. Over two years, the program has helped educators and students around the world to develop vital media and information literacy skills for the 21st century. w.wiki/5qvh
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🎂 Il y a 18 ans jour pour jour était organisée, à la , l'assemblée générale constitutive de Wikimédia France, la 3e organisation du mouvement Wikimedia, après la création de et (Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., CC-BY-SA-4.0).
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