Author: Alan Levine

Sounds of a Living, Growing Wikipedia

Listen to Wikipedia listen.hatnote.com Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note. Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots. You may see announcements for new users as they join […]

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Peer Review? See Page History

Featured Articlehttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gases_nobles History / Ver historialhttps://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gases_nobles&action=history Edit Statistics Heavy Metal Umlaut (Jon Udell)http://jonudell.net/udell/2005-01-22-heavy-metal-umlaut-the-movie.html http://jonudell.net/umlaut.mp4 Featured Image: Quetzal flickr photo by 16:9clue shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

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Wiki Edit-a-Thons (Editatóns)

Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are events aimed at people who are new to Wikipedia to focus on adding missing content and improving existing content. Women in Red (WiR) aims turn “red links” (ones which lack articles) into blue ones in the project scope: women’s biographies and works by women. Black and militant women suffragists Edit-a-Thon World Soil […]

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Wikimedia México

Wikipedia Mexico (mx.wikimedia.org) mx.wikimedia.org “Imagine a Mexico in which all people have the possibility of accessing the sum of all knowledge, that is our commitment.” — https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C2%BFQu%C3%A9_hacemos%3F Participate in Wikimedia Mexico (sign up to participate) Wikimedia Education Program in Mexico Wikimedia Mexico Projects: Collaboration with cultural institutions Wiki Loves Monuments Mexico (2015) How to Run […]

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If The Problem is Reliability…

… Make it Better? Find Gaps A map showing the birthplace of over 6,000 notable women born in Latin America and listed on Wikipedia but with no article in the Spanish language edition (ht @espejolento @NavinoEvans @emcandre) https://t.co/h7E63OlYSd pic.twitter.com/oc4hCBsZq9 — Dario Taraborelli (@ReaderMeter) February 27, 2018 Map dynamically generated from WikiData. Learn more: WikiData Basics […]

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What’s On a Page?

The Tools Page Parts https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wiki-basics/ Examine A Featured Article https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gases_nobles Featured Image: Circus Gouldi labeled diagram Wikimedia Commons image by Walter L. Buller shared into the public domain

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“Did You Know There is an Edit button?”

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem It began with an accidental challenge… from a learning technologist to a professor. And then, a deliberate challenge, from a professor to his students. To take articles from non-existence (or poor quality) and move them to Featured Article status. As of March 2018, there are 5,267 featured articles out of 5,583,142 articles on the […]

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It’s An Ecosystem

Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world. Through various projects, chapters, and the support structure of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia strives to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Wikibooks: Open-Content textbooks79,000+ English / 7000+ español Wikiquote: Quotation Reference31,000+ English / 6,000+ […]

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