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Human rights in focus on the Czech and Serbian Wikipedia
Syrian refugee students attend to a school in Lebanon. Picture: Adam Patterson/Panos/DFID The diversity of the community as well as inviting new editors from various backgrounds became a prime mover...
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Wiki Loves EuroPride Edit-a-thon
This year the capital of Serbia, Belgrade was the host of the pan-European international LGBTIQA+ event EuroPride. The event was significant because this was the first EuroPride organized beyond EEA...
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From storytelling, sources verification to cooperation and fun. How Polish...
Klara Sielicka-Baryłka: I am Wikipedian & Education Specialist at Wikimedia Poland. Graduated in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. I worked at the Copernicus Science...
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Wikimedia Foundation Offers Digital Literacy Training to Nile University...
Training Session The Library Department of Nile University, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation, organized a one-day digital and media literacy training for the academic community of the...
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Wikimedia Outreach, Awareness and Editathon at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in...
The event held at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Anambra State, Nigeria recorded over 100 participants who were willing to contribute to Wikimedia projects. The statistics are shown on the event dashboard...
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First consecutive multi-school collaborative Wikipedia Editathon in Japan
Saitama Prefectural Omiya High School and Saitama Prefectural Fudoka High School in Japan collaborated to host Wikipedia Town in June and November 2022. This is the first initiative of its kind in...
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Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023 is up and running!
In 2023, Wikimedia Ukraine, along with the Ukrainian institute and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, brings out the third installment of Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month: now a yearly writing...
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The relationship between ‘glocal inquiry learning’ and Wikipedia in Japanese...
In February 2023, the Glocal Inquiry Results Presentation was held at Saitama Omiya High School. Glocal Inquiry is a new form of education in Japan based on the acquisition of 21st century skills....
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On an attempt to use Wikipedia Town in university education
Introduction As shown in “Wikimedia Education”, there are already many examples of attempts to incorporate Wikipedia into educational practices, and the momentum has been accelerating in recent years....
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The first Wikipedia Town in “Jimbocho,” one of Japan’s leading antiquarian...
This report describes a public event organised by the Faculty of Letters of Nishogakusha University in Japan and held in Jimbocho, Tokyo, on 4 February 2023. For more information on what has been an...
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International Roma Day Edit-a-thon 2023
Wikimedia Serbia organized the fourth global edit-a-thon to celebrate World Roma Day. During this event, volunteers worldwide wrote and improved articles on the Roma people and their history and...
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Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: What we achieved this year
March of 2023 was distinguished across all Wikipedias for hosting Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month: an annual campaign that sets a goal of creating better coverage of Ukrainian culture and people...
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Wikipedia Town held in Hokkaido, breaking Japan’s northernmost record.
The Wikipedia Town Shibetsu (ウィキペディアタウン士別) was held on 21 May 2023 in Shibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. Hokkaido is the second largest island in Japan after Honshu. Of these, Shibetsu City is located in the...
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A three-day Editathon on Plastic Pollution in the Environment
Accumulation of plastic waste on a beach in Accra, Ghana. CC-BY-SA-4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Bangladesh organized the third editathon to celebrate World Environment Day. During this event,...
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Launching of a “Wikipedia Town” in the far remote settlement of Ozuchi
In the previous article, we introduced the community archive project “KAGAGA” using MediaWiki. In this post, we wish to present the workshop “Wikipedia Town – Walking, Researching, and Redacting in...
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Param Vir Chakra Edit-a-thon
15 September – 20 September UTC The Odia Wikimedians User Group is organizing Param Vir Chakra Edit-a-thon to create articles about the Indian soldiers who received the Param Vir Chakra award, the...
View ArticleEdit-a-thon: Documenting UNESCO’s Memory of the World
12 October @ 02:00 – 10:00 UTC Edit-a-thon: Documenting UNESCO’s Memory of the World is a Wikipedia basic editing training that collaborates between Wikimedia Indonesia and the UNESCO Jakarta Office...
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World Food Day Editathon 2023
On the occasion of World Food Day, a three-day editathon has been organized for the first time on Bangla Wikipedia (bn.wikipedia.org). It was collaborated and jointly organized by Wikimedia Bangladesh...
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Unlocking Knowledge: Open Access Week in Bangla Wikipedia
In a celebration of International Open Access Week, Wikimedia Bangladesh recently hosted an editathon on Bangla Wikipedia. This event, aligned with the global celebration of International Open Access...
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Japan-themed edit-a-thon was held in Türkiye, hosted by BİLGİ Wikipedia...
Japan-themed edit-a-thon in Istanbul Bilgi University Wikipedia Student Club I (photo: Adem, CC BY-SA 4.0) On November 30, 2023, a Japan-themed edit-a-thon was held within the scope of the Wikimedia...
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