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    Did you know there are more than 5,200 Wikipedia articles about ? These articles — created and maintained by volunteers — exist in 175 languages and have been viewed over 503 million times.

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  2. 5 hours ago

    TOMORROW — Help update articles about environmental justice! Join us on 18 September for a virtual edit-a-thon to improve pages about women environmentalists, communities disproportionately affected by climate issues, and more. Details:

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    Sep 16

    We caught up with 's Brand Director about his unique approach to icon creation— all of his icons start as rubber stamps that encapsulate ideas from different world cultures. Read more:

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    Sep 16

    on understanding our open licence: Making the outputs from your project publicly open to engagement, use and reuse means more people can connect with UK than ever before.

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  5. Sep 16

    Want to help make the internet a better place for free knowledge? The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring! Browse several open remote positions here →

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    Sep 15

    We have signed this coalition letter because the EARN IT Act would threaten encryption, freedom of expression, and privacy for all digital communications. 👇

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    JUST RELEASED: Today, led a coalition of 26 U.S. & international civil society orgs in urging the United States Senate to reject the fundamentally flawed EARN IT Act (S. 3398). More:
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    Sep 14

    Join us this Saturday, September 19 at 1:30 PM EDT for a socially-distant, first-of-its-kind, online community celebration of Caribbean cultures, colours, creeds & ideas — hosted by . Click the image to learn more.

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  8. Sep 13

    The crowdsourced global information about on is proving to be a crucial resource for scientists, says Dr. Michal Rosen-Zvi of . Learn more ⬇️ 

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    Sep 10

    Do you work with streaming data systems and/or event-driven architectures? Do you work with proprietary schema systems & binary formats and wish there was an open source alternative? First of 's 3-part series introducing Event Platform

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  10. Sep 11

    The first "Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos" campaign recently ended, resulting in over 90,000 contributions from nearly 600 people around the world. Read about how the campaign got started and what the organizers think drove its success:

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    Sep 11

    Nineteen years ago, four planes were hijacked in the air above the U.S. Two were purposely steered into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, which collapsed soon after. Today, a memorial, honoring the victims, and a museum stand upon those grounds. (1/2)

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  12. Sep 10

    "World knowledge should be available in your language," says Wikipedia volunteer U B Pavanaja, and we couldn't agree more. 🙌 Read more in .

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    Sep 9

    Extremely excited to announce a new speaker series, Diving Deeper into Wikipedia, hosted by Digital Scholarship Centre: . Thanks to & for all your support in bringing this to life!

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  14. Sep 9

    Groups like , , and  have been working to make Wikipedia's articles more representative of the diverse world we live in...and it's working.

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    Sep 9

    🖼️ Are you working for galleries, libraries, archives & museums (GLAMs)? 📜 Are you interested in digitizing & opening your collections under an open license to promote universal access to documentary heritage? 💻Join our webinars! ℹ️ Details/To register:

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    Sep 8

    We're partnering with to host our first ever ! If you're a content creator, apply now for the chance to learn from amazing mentors, publish your work on and reimagine a better world.

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  17. Sep 7

    Applications are now open for grants and scholarships supporting WikiCite projects! If you're contributing to open citations and linked bibliographic data programs, research or resources, we want to help fund it. Apply now through 1 October. Details ↓

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    Sep 7

    Do you want to learn how to write, edit & publish articles on ? Then this Call for Application is for you as we kick-off the project by for African Womxn. The training will be held ONLINE in OCT; register here:

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  19. Sep 6

    “Wikipedia is a window to the world, and every place’s public face.” Wikipedian at Large is heading to the West Coast of to train new editors and improve the region’s presence on .

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    Sep 3

    Fantastic opportunity to work with 's global community: …

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