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This Month in GLAM: December 2024
[edit ]- Albania report: The Patrolling Edit-a-thon in Albania and Kosovo, 2024
- Argentina report: Last activities of 2024
- Brazil report: Catrapilha in action: Uploading the Porto Alegre image feed
- India report: Living GLAM project on Santali culture continues in West Bengal
- Netherlands report: From SlideShare to Zenodo & How Dutch Wikipedia uses the Digital Library for Dutch Literature
- New Zealand report: Wikdata module, Auckland Museum student progress, and the Wikipedian at Large
- Nigeria report: Digitization of Heritage Archives in Nigeria
- North Macedonia report: Conference for GLAM employees in Skopje
- Poland report: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland
- Portugal report: Wikimedia Portugal and Wiki Editoras Lx Collaborate on a Wiki GLAM, Culture, and Heritage Conference for 2025
- Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme
- UK report: 2024 in review
- USA report: December meetings
- Public Domain Day report: Public Domain Day 2025
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group December monthly highlights
- Memory of the World report: Ways forward
- Calendar: January's GLAM events
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The Signpost: 15 January 2025
[edit ]- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
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Brixton meetup Mon 27th Jan
[edit ]Hello @MassiveEartha! Happy new year. Just to let you know there's another Brixton meetup at Brixton Library next Monday 27th Jan at 6pm if you're free. We're currently deciding on a 'theme' so if you have any ideas let us know! Colette Lambeth (talk) 09:18, 20 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Women in Red February 2025
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Online events:
- New: Black women | Alphabet run C & D
- Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music
Announcements from other communities:
- Wiki Loves Ramadan begins on 25 February - a great opportunity to focus on women from Islamic history
Tip of the month:
- Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed ones on Creative Commons search
Suggestion:
- Consider helping to promote women under In the news and On this day on Wikipedia's main page
Other ways to participate:
- Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
- Join the conversations on our talkpage.
- Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2025 Newsletter
[edit ]- User group news
- User group meeting 23 February
- User group meeting in January (minutes).
- The user group submitted an annual report in the new affiliate health criteria format, and as an activity report.
- The 2030 strategy for the user group was adopted.
- Other news
- Swiss server helped optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine (SDG 3)
- Photographers from Türkiye tell the story of award wining photos in Wiki Loves Earth 2024 (SDG 15)
- OpenStreetMap and Wikidata in Disaster Times - CEE Meeting 2024 Istanbul (SDG 11)
- Events
- 1-28 February: Wiki Loves Africa: Climate & Weather ISA campaign (SDG 13)
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
[edit ]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
This Month in Education: January 2025
[edit ]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 1 • January 2025
- Advancing Education Pillar in Kosovo: 2024 Journey
- Auckland Museum Wikipedia Students Making Progress
- Celebrating 10 Years of Wiki Education
- Empowering Multilingual Students: Expanding Wikipedia Through Collaboration of foreign languages faculty's students of the University of Tehran
- Ensuring accurate and authentic information with 1Lib1Ref Campaign in Anambra
- Experiences of Wikipedia in the classroom with a gender perspective in Monterrey
- Fine Arts University Students exploring Wikipedia in Tirana, Albania
- Lviv hosted Ukraine’s first student photo walk for Wikipedia
- Many new trained volunteers and new articles at the end of the year in Macedonia
- Wikimedia and Scientific Events in Brazil
- Wiki Workshop- Call for Contributions
February 19: WikiWednesday Salon
[edit ]| February 19: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce | |
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WikiWednesday is back! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy. Meeting info:
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The Signpost: 7 February 2025
[edit ]- Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
- News and notes: Let's talk!
- Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
- Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
- Traffic report: A wild drive
This Month in GLAM: January 2025
[edit ]- Africa report: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
- Albania report: Wikimedian in Residence at the Qemal Baholli Public Library in Elbasan (October - December 2024)
- Aruba report: Wikipedia on Aruba project has officially begun!
- Brazil report: Wiki Loves Maranhão
- Germany report: Exploring Wikidata & Building Community for Cultural Heritage Professionals
- Indonesia report: Celebrating Public Domain Day 2025 in Indonesia
- Italy report: New Wikimedia Italia Grant for GLAMs
- Netherlands report: 3 Million Dutch Cultural Heritage Images in Commons & 400,000 RCE images now in higher resolution & Usage of DBNL in Dutch Wikipedia articles
- New Zealand report: Student led Edit-a-thon
- Poland report: GLAM-Wiki 2024 in Poland: Achievements, Collaborations, and Impact
- Serbia report: Wikimedia Serbia: Advancing GLAM collaborations and digital heritage
- Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme
- UK report: Cairo Geniza
- USA report: Wikipedia Day
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group January monthly highlights
- Special story: Join the Global GLAM Call – Tuesday, February 11th, 13:30 UTC!
- Memory of the World report: To the front page!
- Wikidata report: Wikidata at WikiLibCon 2025
- Calendar: February's GLAM events
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.
Quilting bee
[edit ]Thanks for your great additions to the article. I'm surprised that the article was only a redirect for so long. SL93 (talk) 19:18, 17 February 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
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Women in Red March 2025
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Online events:
- New: Alphabet run E & F | Artists+Activists | Women of the Arab World
- Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music
Announcements from other communities:
Tip of the month:
- You can access the Wikipedia Library if you have made 500+ edits, and 6+ months editing,
and 10+ edits in the last 30 days, and No active blocks
Moving the needle:[1]
- 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women)
- 23 Dec 2024: 20.009% (2,041,741 bios, 408,531 women)
Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,669 articles during this period!
Other ways to participate:
- Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
- Join the conversations on our talkpage.
- Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
- Follow us on social media:
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References
The Signpost: 27 February 2025
[edit ]- Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
- Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
- In the media: The end of the world
- Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
- Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
- Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
- Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
- Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2025 Newsletter
[edit ]- User group news
- User group meeting in February (minutes).
- Other news
- Time to get ready to organize Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15)
- ‘Women of the Future’ – International Women’s Day 2025 (SDG 5)
- The Experts Behind the Edits: Expanding public understanding of healthcare (SDG 3)
- Wikimedia Enterprise and Ecosia Partner to Drive Sustainable Search Innovation (SDG 13)
- A subproject to WikiProject Climate Change about Climate Change Policies has just started on Wikidata (SDG 13)
- Events
- 1 March: Open Data Day 2025 in Côte d'Ivoire (SDG 8)
- 7 March Govdirectory Collab Hour - Open Data Day 2025 (SDG 16)
- 8 March–1 April: Shine Her Light Writing Contest 2025 (SDG 5)
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Guild of Copy Editors 2024 Annual Report
[edit ]Highlights:
- Introduction
- Membership news and election results
- Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
- Closing words
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
[edit ]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ*ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.
Wed March 12: Wiki Gala NYC
[edit ]| March 12: Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our Wiki Gala at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. All are welcome! This is a sequel to the March 2024 Wiki Gala at Prime Produce, the March 2023 Grand Central Salon and the March 2022 Wiki-Tent Brunch. The event will feature thematic video art installations and our traditional Wiki-fashion show, for which you are encouraged to dress in your finest Wikimedia clothing and accessories (bags, buttons, even books), or clothing connected to the topics you edit on wiki projects. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy. Meeting info:
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This Month in GLAM: February 2025
[edit ]- Albania report: Celebrating the English Wikipedia’s Birthday in Albania!
- Belgium report: Belgium Public Domain Day and Dance Heritage
- Brazil report: Wiki and COP30 in the Amazon rainforest
- Germany report: GLAM digital and seminar on Jewish life
- Italy report: GLAM call and Progetto cultura
- Netherlands report: [GLAM metrics] Usage of Delpher in Dutch Wikipedia articles
- New Zealand report: Wikipedia podcast episode, Trilepidea newsletter article, and the Wikipedian at Large
- North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD GLAM program for 2025
- Poland report: What's up in GLAM in Poland
- Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme
- UK report: Islamic and Jewish history
- Ukraine report: GLAM news from Ukraine – events for libraries, #1Lib1Ref, launch of a larger GLAM product
- USA report: February meetings
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group February monthly highlights
- AvoinGLAM report: Connecting Media Art Archives
- Memory of the World report: 5.1 million image views
- Wikidata report: Wikidata event: Data Reuse Days 2025
- Wikisource report: Wikisource Conference 2025
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Wikimedia + Libraries International Convention 2025
- Calendar: March's GLAM events
To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.
Disambiguation link notification for March 11
[edit ]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Rose Vernier, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Country Life.
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This Month in Education: February 2025
[edit ]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 2 • February 2025
- Activities series at the Shefit Hekali school in Peqin, Albania
- Wikimedia Brazil has formed a partnership with a public policy research institute
- Preserving Heritage: Tuluvas Aati Month Educational Wikimedia Programs
- Reflecting on our Past: Farewell to the Auckland Museum Summer Students
- Successful Conclusion of the Second Phase of "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" in Yemen
- Wiki Workshop in Mitrovica
- Wikimedia MKD' Education: Lots of new trained users, lots of new articles
- Wikimedia Serbia receives accreditation from the National Library of Serbia for the Wiki Senior seminar
Books & Bytes – Issue 67
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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025
- East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
- Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon
- Tech tip: Suggest page
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The Signpost: 22 March 2025
[edit ]- From the editor: Hanami
- News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia
- In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual
- Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
- Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...
- Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!
- Essay: Unusual biographical images
- Obituary: Rest in peace
Thu March 27: Editing the Open Data Garden @ Prime Produce
[edit ]| March 27: Editing the Open Data Garden @ Prime Produce | |
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