
No Man’s Sky and the drive to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of video games
Community From the archives Interview News on Wikipedia Wikipedia
Casual readers may not notice that the English Wikipedia's video game articles, like No Man's Sky, usually adhere to a set of stringent guidelines.

Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public apology
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Niccolò Caranti hopes that this "will help clarify that 'free license' is not the same thing as 'public domain'; it does not mean 'you can do whatever you want without conditions.' "

Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year
Communications Community Foundation From the archives Gender gap
Being awarded for the sixth time, this is the first time two Wikipedians have received the honor together.

Freely licensed magic at Eurovision
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Thanks to Albin Olsson, free photographic mastery was on display at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.

Wikimedia Highlights, February 2016
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Here are highlights from across the Wikimedia movement, as reported on this blog in February 2016: Recording romanticism and filling Wikimedia Commons with 19th century music; What’s TPP? The problematic partnership; #BlackLifeMatters edit-a-thon bolsters Wikipedia’s coverage of black history.

It "revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world": Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia
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It's been so revolutionary that it has even become the de facto replacement for the Brockhaus—the German equivalent of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Wikipedia’s coverage of essential vaccines is expanding
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The Medical Translation Task Force has boosted its productivity by 17% and increased the amount of health care content by using the content translation tool. Rather than handing out a Microsoft Word document full of Wikimedia markup for translation, translators are being coached on how to use the content translation tool. As a new process, this….

The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
Communications Community From the archives Gender gap Interview Profiles
By day, Emily Temple-Wood is a biology student. By night, she writes Wikipedia articles on women scientists—one for every harassing email she receives.

What are the most-edited articles through Wikipedia’s history?
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The data will surprise you: Spears near Hitler, creationism alongside feminism, wrestling versus Jesus, and more.

Top 20 most-edited pages on Wikipedia in 2015
Community From the archives Wikipedia Year in Review
Death, pop culture, current events ... and one person writing about the Juneau Icefield.