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Have you ever read Wikipedia’s article on Lady Gaga?

Meet Wikipedia user "FrB.TG," also known as Frankie.

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Why the world reads Wikipedia: What we learned about reader motivation from a recent research study

Wikimedia’s mission is to provide educational content and to effectively disseminate it. Doing so requires understanding the needs and motivations of the people who read Wikipedia. In this blog post, we discuss what we learned about Wikipedia reader motivations and needs across 14 languages from a recent research study.

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How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata

Only 2.5 million of 45 million Wikidata items have an image attached. A new algorithm helps people find relevant and high-quality images to add to Wikidata items.

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James Heilman on expanding the reach of Wikipedia’s medical information

A conversation with emergency room physician James Heilman, who is working to get medical information into Internet-in-a-Box—a physical device that provides Wikipedia and other content in areas without internet access.

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Confound it!—Supporting languages with multiple writing systems

Many of the languages of the world use two or more writing systems, like the familiar Arabic, Cyrillic, or Latin scripts. Supporting those languages and those scripts—for reading, editing, and searching—can be a real challenge.

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Ten months later: People of Turkey still denied access to Wikipedia

All language versions of Wikipedia have been blocked in Turkey since late April 2017.

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On Wikipedia, Black Panther won the Olympic gold

Black Panther was far and away the most-viewed article on Wikipedia last month.

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Oscars predictions made easy with Wikipedia

On how to use Wikipedia's pageview data to inform your Oscars predictions.

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The Erdős paradox: When a mathematical number and Wikipedia collide

An interview with the author of a recent Medium piece on mathematician Paul Erdős, the mathematical degree of separation that his collaborations inspired, and Wikipedia's gender gap.

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Improving MediaWiki’s documentation and localization practices

We constantly talk about the importance of projects like Wikipedia, but have you ever thought about the hidden things that make it all possible?

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