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Videos and podcasts Celebrating 20 years
2021-01-31
Multimedia in many styles!
Op-Ed An unforgettable year we might wish to forget
2020-12-28
The year that was 2020.
Recent research Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
2020-11-29
And other new research publications
GLAM plus West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large
2020-11-29
Succeeding one step at a time.
Blog 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
2015-06-24
After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.
In the media Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
2015-05-06
artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.
Blog The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program
2015-03-25
A university gives a top Wikipedia editor free and full access to the university library's entire online content—and the Wikipedia editor, who is unpaid and not on campus, then creates and improves Wikipedia articles in a subject area of interest to the institution.
Blog Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
2015-03-04
Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, Wikipedians worked together to honor black history and to address Wikipedia's multicultural gaps in the encyclopedia, hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons throughout the United States, from February 1 to 28, 2015.
Op-ed It's GLAM up North!
2014-12-10
Highlights from the York Museums Trust's online collections.
Maps tagathon Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
2014-10-29
Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload
News and notes 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia; watch 'Cracking Wikipedia'
2014-05-14
'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia: Editors of Australian-related topics on the English Wikipedia may have noticed an odd addition if they viewed the article's talk pages. For example, on Talk:Darwin, Northern Territory, they might be drawn in by the question mark, nested within what is often a sea of WikiProject templates: "Need help improving this article? Ask a librarian at the National Library of Australia, or the Northern Territory Library." Just what is this?
Interview Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
2014-04-30
Ed Roley, Associate Director of Integrated Media at the Peabody Essex Museum, talks about GLAM engagement with Wikipedia.
Op-ed Five things a Wikipedian in Residence can do
2014-04-23
Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!
News and notes Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
2014-03-05
This week, the Signpost caught up with the Wikipedia Library (TWL), which aims to connect reference resources with Wikipedia editors who can use them to improve articles. Funded through the Wikimedia Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants program, TWL has a new "visiting scholars" initiative and a microgrants program in the works.
News and notes Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp
2013-04-29
The Funds Dissemination Committee released its recommendations to the WMF board last Sunday. The news that the Hong Kong chapter's application for US$212K had failed was followed by a strongly worded resignation announcement by Deryck Chan on the public Wikimedia-l mailing-list.
News and notes Funding for the Wikipedia Library and six other projects; April Fool's Day ructions
2013-04-01
Grants given for Wikipedia Library, six others; April Fool's Day ructions: The first round of individual engagement grants (IEGs) have been awarded, disbursing about $55.6k (€42.7k) to seven applicants.
Interview Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
2013-03-18
Ask librarians what they think about Wikipedia and you might get some interesting answers. Some will throw up their hands about the laziness of the Google generation and their overdependence on Wikipedia. Some see it as the "competition". And some will tell you it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
WikiProject report WikiProject Smithsonian Institution
2010-10-11
News and notes Backstage at the British Museum
2010-05-17
Museums conference Wikimedians meet with museum leaders
2010-04-26
Tropenmuseum Tropenmuseum donates 35,000 images
2009-11-30
Copyright threat UK public gallery threatens Wikimedian
2009-07-13
In the news Wikipedia in the News
2007-12-03
In the news Wikipedia in the news
2007-04-09
Librarians project Invasion of librarians spawns new WikiProject
2005-05-23

















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