Mexican Ministry of Culture and Wikimedia Mexico partner to preserve Mexican culture and heritage
"We are excited to continue to expand Wikipedia's free knowledge alongside one of the leading keepers of culture in my country," says Iván Martínez, President of Wikimedia Mexico.
Community digest: On Wikipedia, bridges across cultures are connecting Latin America with North Africa and the Middle East; news in brief
Bridges across Cultures is a recent and new writing competition on Wikipedia that gathered Wikipedians from Latin America with the Middle East and North Africa regions. In addition, this week's news in brief includes updates about the Foundation's community engagement insights, Wikimania, Wikimedia conference, and more.
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.
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Chief Creative Officer and Vice President of Communications
Heather Walls, the current leader of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Communications department, and Kui Kinyanjui, an executive with over 18 years of experience in journalism and global communications, will be assuming permanent senior leadership roles as Chief Creative Officer and Vice President of Communications respectively.
Join the Wikimedia Foundation as an Open Web Fellow
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to host an Open Web Fellow, a nine-month position to develop data-driven responses to questions around public policy for free knowledge.
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.
Advocating for a better legal framework for free knowledge: Brussels
Independent Wikimedia chapters in Europe have a pair of policy advisers working to promote the Wikimedia movement's ideals in the European Union's public policy.
The Initiative for Open Citations celebrates its first birthday
In celebration, and to mark the progress made, we've designated this month as Open Citations Month.
Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!
To celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month, Wikimedians around the world make a concerted effort each March to add and edit articles about women in Wikipedia. You can also have an impact (and fun!) by adding information about women to Wikidata, Wikimedia's multilingual knowledge base. And there are quite a few interesting and fun, volunteer-developed tools to help you with that.
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