Stephen Hawking leads Wikipedia’s most popular articles of March

A list of the ten most popular articles on the English Wikipedia in March 2018, with some notes on why they were popular.

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What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let’s ask the data.

A new dataset of fifteen million records documents source usage in Wikipedia by identifier and across languages.

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How we’re building awareness of Wikipedia in India

An interview with some of the people involved with Wikipedia in India, wondering what the future holds for the Hindi Wikipedia.

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It’s now easier to craft content for mobile devices: Responsive web design at the Wikipedia scale

A technology for editors to format content for mobile presentation.

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Building a better #1Lib1Ref

The campaign's third year was better than ever—here's how you can get involved.

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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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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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