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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
• Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Traffic report: Super Bowling

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

• Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

• Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

• Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent's fashion to the world

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The Signpost: 2 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

• Traffic report: Brawling

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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This Month in GLAM: February 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue II, February 2016 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Wikidata Tour Down Under Austria report: GLAM activities for libraries and archives in the DACH region Belgium report: Gender Redirect Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Open Belgium 2016 France report: Getting technical...! Germany report: 30 GLAM volunteers in museums and libraries Italy report: Four new Wikipedians in Residence, and Food! Macedonia report: Theatre actors of Macedonia Mexico report: Towards to our first Art and Feminism 2016 Netherlands report: Naturalis' Wikipedia project; Open Culture Data Spain report: Free pictures, classical music & libraries Sweden report: Maps, planes and metadata on artists UK report: Wales Report; Wikidata Tour Down Under; Museums Galleries Scotland report; Oxford USA report: One month, dozens of events: Black History Month, Art+Feminism and more Special story: Lightning talk overview of upcoming video series Open Access report: Gravitational wave detection; viral biomechanics, anglerfish, smart dining table Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes: A Wikipedia Library Newsletter Wikidata report: Wikidata Tour Down Under Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share
• News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
• Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future
• Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."
• Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
• Traffic report: All business like show business
• WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

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The Signpost: 16 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

• In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing

• Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

• Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

• Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

• Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 23 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

• News_and_notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

• In_the_media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

• Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

• Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

• Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

• Wikipedia_Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

• In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

• WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

• Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

• Featured content: A slow, slow week

• Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

• Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education, useing eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April fools went down

• Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

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This Month in GLAM: March 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue III, March 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires Asia report: Wikidata tour visits Jakarta Belgium report: Just For The Record: March France report: Zoology, feminism and contemporary art Germany report: Wiki loves librarians Greece report: Edit-a-thon in Athens Italy report: Biggest donation of photos from an Italian institution Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Riga Macedonia report: Editing competition about the villages in Aegean Macedonia Netherlands report: Open Culture Data Lab Republic of Srpska report: First GLAM project in the Republic of Srpska Serbia report: GLAMers opened their doors to Wikimedia Serbia Spain report: Libraries, free pictures and audios & new partners UK report: GLAM Marches on in the UK Open Access report: BartBotje; Rats as dino models; Auditory illusion; Crab-hunting octopus Wikipedia Library report: Hashtags, Campaigns and New Access donations Wikidata report: A really busy month all round Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2016

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in March 2016.

• The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
• New completion suggester helps you find what you need on Wikimedia sites
• Jimmy Wales tells South by Southwest that community is key to Wikipedia’s future
• In brief

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The Signpost: 14 April 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

• News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

• In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

• Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

• Gallery: A history lesson

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The Signpost: 24 April 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

• Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

• Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

• Featured content: The double-sized edition

• Traffic report: Two for the price of one

• Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

• In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

• Traffic report: Purple

• Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

• Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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This Month in GLAM: April 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IV, April 2016 Headlines Africa report: Wiki Loves Women in Africa Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Writing weeks in and about Brussels Bulgaria report: Meeting lots of museum directors Germany report: Learning in the GLAM field & how to edit the GND Italy report: MUSE Edit-a-thon and Backstage pass and Small Museums in Italy Macedonia report: ArchiWiki edit-a-thon; Wikimedian-in-residence Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Attic Nights Norway report: Photographic portraits Poland report: Faras discoveries, Carpathian ethnography, and a spreadsheet-based uploader Spain report: Free pictures, edit-a-thons and new partners Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Offentligkonst.se; Digkult; ArbetSams museidagar; VISS; Museernas vårmöte; GLAM/ED collaboration UK report: GLAMwiki work in Yorkshire; Mitchell Arts Centre Special story: Halfway point of the Europeana Art History Challenge Open Access report: Hypercycle; Wikipedia Year of Science; Snake envenomings Wikidata report: Wikimedia Commons gets arbitrary access Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 17 May 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF

• Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

• In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

• Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

• Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogss

• Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

• Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the committee

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

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This Month in GLAM: May 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016 Headlines Africa report: Joburg, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana Brazil report: Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo: first steps towards an open access policy France report: Photography, a true hobby! Germany report: "Licence hint generator" at WMDEs event series about legal issues Italy report: A full month of activities Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Latvian Academy of Culture Macedonia report: 1963 Skopje earthquake 300 photos Mexico report: Forestry and the Longest Edit-a-thon in history Netherlands report: Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge Norway report: International Memory of the world register; Speak Norwegian? Access to The National Library's bokhylla.no? Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth; free resources; Pentathlon Wikimedia Sweden report: LSH upload; World Wide Wikipedia; Nationalmuseum Switzerland report: ETH-Bibliothek commences mass uploading campaign for photographs from the Image Archive UK report: Oxford and Scotland USA report: Archivist Award Special story: Ted Speakers Challenge - Win Books! Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report: UNESCO and Wiki Loves Earth partner to run Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves in 120 countries throughout June Open Access report: WikiCite; Fluorescent vertebrates; Insights into a singer's head WMF GLAM report: WMF GLAM report Wikidata report: We feel used (and that makes us happy) OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report: Survey results presented at conferences in Hong Kong and Montreal Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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This Month in GLAM: June 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and contest in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Just For The Record; Wiki Loves Art preparations Brazil report: New steps for the GLAM movement in Brazil France report: « Veni, vidi, wiki ! » Germany report: GLAM on Tour is a format, is a statement, is a tag Italy report: Contemporary art images from BEIC Macedonia report: National library collaboration and Contemporary art on Wikidata Mexico report: 3 continuous days of art; Efforts against the Wikipedia Gender Gap Netherlands report: Image donation by the Museum Catharijneconvent; 1300 Dutch underground newspapers from WW2; Collaboration with public libraries Spain report: Involving libraries in Wikimedia projects Sweden report: World Wide Wikipedia; Royal Library; Monuments database to Wikidata migration; Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 UK report: Wellcome USA report: June is busting out all over Open Access report: Open Science Fellows Program; OA Signalling Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidatamania WMF GLAM report: A Wikimania Reflection, GLAM Phabricator Queues, and a WMF Update Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

• In the media: Women-in-science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best

• Traffic report: Sports and esports

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality; search engine helps schoolkids navigate Chinese Wikipedia; talk page sentiment

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The Signpost: 4 August 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Woman and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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This Month in GLAM: July 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon in a historic building in Buenos Aires Basque Country report: Basque spring-summer blooming Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art halfway Brazil report: Cultural Mapping: knowing better the Brazilian museums scenario France report: Bons baisers de France Macedonia report: 290 photos by Manaki brothers Mexico report: Wikipedia in Mayan; GLAM in Aldea Digital Spain report: Attending the Peace Treaties in Art Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Critiquing social norms with free images Switzerland report: Open Cultural Data Hackathon UK report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers USA report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers Open Access report: Wikimedian in Residence opening; Ancestral reconstruction; A swimming centipede Wikidata report: Pokémon and more WMF GLAM report: Grants; New Content Donation Evaluation Report; WMF Updates Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: August 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VIII, August 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Basque Country report: Donostiapedia goes on Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art in Belgium finished, Wiki Loves Monuments started Brazil report: UG Wikimedia in Brazil: GLAM initiative with the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy will load hundreds of valuable images Estonia report: GLAM summer seminar France report: Belles and Bye Germany report: Cinamas in Cologne Italy report: WikiTrip and edit-a-thon at Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics Macedonia report: 42 audio CD's of 2000-hour recorded dialect speech Mexico report: Documenting Tolerance; Murals in Sonora Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the world Norway report: Monuments, music and books Republic of Srpska report: Wikimedia community of the Republic of Srpska continues GLAM cooperation with City of East Sarajevo Main Library Spain report: Wiki Loves contests and Royal Spanish Academy Sweden report: Craft and collections UK report: Liberal Club Edit-a-thon & Wellcome Training USA report: New York & D.C. events; Philadelphia events Open Access report: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine; WikiCite; Collective respiration in bees Wikidata report: New team members and lots for you to read! WMF GLAM report: IFLA #WLIC2016 & Updates Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Case study of Wikimedia Education Program published; remembrance of departed colleague Ray Saintonge (Eclecticology)

• In the media: This edition's roundup of media coverage

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét: Four weeks of traffic

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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This Month in GLAM: September 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IX, September 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg Brazil report: A GLAM ostrich makes the day; Wiki Loves Monuments boost in Brazil Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in the Research Library in Olomouc Germany report: Presenting four years of GLAM activities in Germany at WikiCon 2016 Italy report: Wikipedians at Tridentine Diocesan Museum; Alpine Botanical Garden Viote Macedonia report: Statistics and news Mexico report: Towards reducing gender gap in Wikipedia: "Editatona" Female writers Netherlands report: Workshop for Dutch WW2 underground newspapers; Project Netherlands and the world; A report on the Iconclass expert Meeting Norway report: Wiki Loves Monuments editing contest; Wikinobel Serbia report: Content donation by an art photograph Maja Stošić Spain report: Wiki Takes Sweden report: A month full of projects Ukraine report: Writing Week Around Content Donation USA report: Edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, and Wikiconference Open Access report: WikiCite at OASPA; 3D printing biology Wikidata report: Properties are Deft! Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

• Wikicup: Winners announced

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

• Featured content: Cream of the crop

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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This Month in GLAM: October 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue X, October 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshops and online course Basque Country report: Libraries and Wikimedia meet in Donostiapedia Belgium report: BeMuseum; upcoming prize ceremony Wiki Loves Brazil report: GLAM news in October Bulgaria report: Bulgarian Archives State Agency; Archives Challenge Côte d'Ivoire report: Collaborating with Parliament, editing with Women Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Heidelberg University Macedonia report: Wikiexperiments project continues: Chemistry experiments in glorious HD! Mexico report: Women in Cinema, LGBT rights, WikiArte, Donation from the Cervantine Library and WikiConNA Netherlands report: Wikipedian in Residence; Heritage Leiden; Public libraries Norway report: Maps! Poland report: Digitisation, modern museums and ancient Nubia Serbia report: Wikipedian in Residence and Wiki Librarian workshops Spain report: Wiki Takes and libraries Sweden report: Nationalmuseum's Paintings; Maritime edit-a-thon; Connected Open Heritage; Swedish National Archive UK report: Beautiful birds, and back to the Bodleian USA report: WikiConference North America 2016 and edit-a-thons Open Access report: Open Access Week; 7,000 new audiovisual media; 2 Requests for Comment & 1 bot WMF GLAM report: Digitization, Travel, Structured Data on Commons, and WMF updates Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 26 November 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

• Featured content: Featured mix

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This Month in GLAM: November 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue XI, November 2016 Headlines Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg Brazil report: Opening the Mathematics box in a context of widespread innumeracy Côte d'Ivoire report: Outcomes from the Parliament's collaboration and more France report: GLAM in northern France Germany report: WikiLibrary Barcamp and Wikimedia-Salon Mexico report: 2nd edit-a-thon WikiUNAM; 2 other edit-a-thons Netherlands report: Temminck Groll Collection; WW2 underground newspaper project presented in Bonn; Stained glass in the picture Norway report: #faktajakt and Armenia contest Spain report: Edit-a-thons in museums Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Craft; Wikipedia training; Uppsala stadsarkiv; Brunnsmuseet; Debate; LSH Upload Ukraine report: Ukrainian Museums Issued Additional Awards for Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 USA report: Holiday season events with new partners Open Access report: Open access on the 2016 Community Wishlist; Over 1k new video uploads Wikidata report: Birthday Bonanza WMF GLAM report: Digitization, #1lib1ref, and Tech Updates Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016

• Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

• News and notes: English Wikipedia ArbCom election results; strategic planning update

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

• Featured content: The pre-Christmas edition

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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This Month in GLAM: December 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue XII, December 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Contest - New Glam Web - Edit-a-thon Australia and New Zealand report: Noongarpedia Brazil report: Preparing the future GLAM generation; Decreasing the gender gap on the web Côte d'Ivoire report: Heading for #1Lib1Ref 2017 Germany report: Exhibition photography; WikiLibrary Barcamp Italy report: Libraries of 1602 and 2016, science museum new home for wikimedians Netherlands report: Image donation Specilla circularia; Glass negatives by photographer Jan Goedeljee; Pattypan training for GLAMs; 1500 historical images from the Peace Palace Library Spain report: Pinazo Year Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage images UK report: Gender Equality, Visiting Scholars and Image uploads USA report: USA edit-a-thons Open Access report: Russian PhD Comics video; WMF grant to cover APC; Fluorescent fish Wikidata report: Last report for 2016 WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Commons Funded! #1lib1ref and a holiday break Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

• News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

• In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

• Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

• Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

• Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

• Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

• Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

• Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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This Month in GLAM: January 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue I, January 2017 Headlines Brazil report: GLAM news in January Côte d'Ivoire report: Editing during #1Lib1Ref, presenting at WikiIndaba 2017 Estonia report: Paintings and graphic art depicting Tartu from Tartu Art Museum's collection, photographers' biographic data Germany report: January: less action - more planning Italy report: WMI @ Uffizi Macedonia report: Winners of DARM Challenge 2 and Karpoš Municipality meeting Netherlands report: WiR in Gelderland; Royal Library supporting #1Lib1Ref; De nieuwe rijschool; Impact assessment image donation Norway report: Immigration of images and #faktajakt Spain report: Open Heritage: our first wikivisit Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; GLAM and Open data; #1lib1ref UK report: Libraries, Museums, Hospitals and Antiquities Ukraine report: Libraries Help Break Record for Ukrainian Wikipedia Birthday USA report: Wikipedia Day 2017 Open Access report: Over 700 new videos uploaded Wikidata report: Commons structured data takes a big step forwards WMF GLAM report: Ramping up structured Commons, #1lib1ref success, and other updates Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed

• Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education

• Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app

• In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia

• Gallery: A Met montage

• Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers

• Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer

• Featured content: The dominance of articles continues

• Traffic report: Love, football, and politics

• Blog: WikiIndaba 2017: A continent gathers to chart a path forward

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This Month in GLAM: February 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue II, February 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Images donation Australia and New Zealand report: #1lib1ref - what's next? Belgium report: Local heritage monuments Brazil report: Creating new articles on cultural heritage Bulgaria report: 2017 European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting and Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group; New scanners for digitizing in BASA Côte d'Ivoire report: Providing sources for the BlackPower Edit-a-thon and more... France report: #1lib1ref and slate museum Germany report: Exhibition photography; WikiLibrary Barcamp Greece report: Memories+History & #1lib1ref workshop Italy report: WLM awards, #1Lib1Ref and seminars Macedonia report: Edit-a-thon and memorandum for collaboration with the Memorial House Of Mother Theresa Mexico report: 100 years of the Constitution of Mexico and Mexican flags: Edit-a-thon in the Center for the Study of Mexican History Netherlands report: Rare drawings of Brazilian animals; Wikimedian-in-Residence Erfgoed Gelderland Norway report: Linking Fotodugnad to Commons Serbia report: Content donation from an artist Davorin Dinić Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Swedish GLAM-WikiEdu project nominated for Pedagogy Award of the year; Connected Open Heritage UK report: Enlightenment comes to Wikidata USA report: Black Lunch Table + Black History Month Special story: European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting Open Access report: Over 1000 new multimedia files, e.g. on predation, prediction and spying Wikidata report: Putting Wikidata on the Map (and on Quora, and on Facebook) WMF GLAM report: European Coordinators Meeting and Planning Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue III, March 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Images donation Australia and New Zealand report: Serving up Citations Basque Country report: Children Literature project's second edition Belgium report: Open Belgium; Just For The Record; Staff from libraries educated Bulgaria report: First museum photo-thon in Bulgaria Côte d'Ivoire report: Editing during International Francophone Contribution Month France report: Workshop in Berlin; WikiTrain in Rennes; Edit-a-thon at the National Archaeological Museum Germany report: Change Your mind Italy report: Art+Feminism in Italy... and maps Macedonia report: Macedonian voivode and Rivers in Macedonia Netherlands report: Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform; photohunt Egmond aan Zee; Iconographia Zoologica Spain report: Wikipedia course at La Yutera Library Sweden report: Art+Feminism 2017; Connected Open Heritage; Digikult; Art on Wikipedia; Writing about Gothenburg's history; Updating image description with new research results UK report: Wicipop project in Wales; Wikimedia UK's impact report USA report: Art + Feminism Open Access report: Over 600 new multimedia files, e.g. on embryos, robots and bouncing water droplets Wikidata report: More maps, more features, more properties, more data! WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia Conference Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue IV, April 2017 Headlines Argentina report: End of contest, new heritaged donated and digitizing workshop Basque Country report: Students working on literature with new Wikipedian in Residence Belgium report: Brussels writing weeks; Dutch Language Union workshop; Civic Lab Brussels start; Edit-a-thon Leuven Brazil report: Wikimedia Conference, gender and International collaboration Germany report: You may only harvest after putting a grain Ghana report: GLAM Ghana duly launched Italy report: Open Data for Cultural Heritage Macedonia report: 12 Peaks hiking challenge Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the World: Photo hunt Chinsurah; Photohunt public library Tilburg; Wikipedian in Residence for UNESCO's Memory of the World programme in the Netherlands; Picture books from Koninklijke Bibliotheek Spain report: Management and dissemination of cultural heritage Sweden report: GLAM-EduWiki collaboration awarded Pedagogy Award of the year at Swedish museums; Connected Open Heritage UK report: Bio-Medical History Residences USA report: New connections at the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Federation and new datatypes WMF GLAM report: DPLAFest and Beyond Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: May 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue V, May 2017 Headlines Argentina report: #1lib1ref in Buenos Aires, Participation in WikiCite and the editing challenge of the month Australia and New Zealand report: State Library of Western Australia Belgium report: Wikipedia session for museums; education for library staff Brazil report: Articulating new volunteers Côte d'Ivoire report: Preparing a Wikimedia 2030 workshop with GLAM partners France report: Rennes Archives; Archives Nationales Germany report: Central Public Library of Düsseldorf Ireland report: Terry Pratchett workshop Italy report: Sacred art and videogames Macedonia report: From idea to award; ArchiWiki edit-a-thon Netherlands report: The Mind of the Universe; Photos of Syria; Wikipedian in Residence project Memory of the World Spain report: Releasement of images from National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Sounds of Changes UK report: Spreading Enlightenment USA report: Artworks Challenge, Women/Media Edit-a-thon, D.C. Protests caught on .jpg, and lots in Wikipedia + Libraries Wikidata report: WikiCite, new tools, and more WMF GLAM report: Documentation, Categorization and Reviewing what we know! Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: June 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Campaign #1lib1ref in Buenos Aires, new material donated and guidelines for cultural institutions Basque Country report: Idazlezainak: librarians as writers' curators Belgium report: GLAM seminar Sharing is Caring Bulgaria report: Bulgarian GLAM activists were awarded with the "Friends of the Archives" Award Côte d'Ivoire report: Strategy discussion with GLAM partners Czech Republic report: WikiCity Litovel Estonia report: Summer school about photographic collections France report: Conference for Archives of Gironde Germany report: "Wiki Loves Music" project features musical instruments from two museums, and more Italy report: Edit-a-thons & libraries Macedonia report: New collaboration of GLAM Macedonia user group with the City Library in Skopje Netherlands report: Workshop children's books, Sharing is Caring Brussels, short WiR period at Utrecht University Library & Preparations medieval image donation Russia report: WikiProjects of students of Petrozavodsk State University Spain report: Wikipedia and the Museum of Málaga Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Wiki Loves Earth; Water data on Wikidata UK report: Summer of data Ukraine report: Sharing images in print and digital USA report: June is bustin' out all over Wikidata report: Requesting your input; news from MySociety WMF GLAM report: Welcome; Documentation Update; Other updates Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: July 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VII, July 2017 Headlines France report: WikiTrain in Rennes Italy report: Edit-a-thon in Pieve Tesino UK report: Politician pin ups USA report: Dog days of summer Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania 2017 Wikidata report: Zotero for Wikidata; Changes to Constraint Handling WMF GLAM report: Edit-a-thons, Structured Commons and Wikimedia Blog Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: August 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue VIII, August 2017 Headlines Argentina report: New material on Wikimedia Commons Brazil report: Edit-a-thons to spread mathematics and neuroscience; Women of Culture and other activities Côte d'Ivoire report: Presenting about West African context at Wikimania 2017 Estonia report: First Art Exhibition in the Estonian Wikipedia is now opened France report: Images from Jean-Auguste Brutails Germany report: Collaboration with volunteers and how to "wikify" GLAM-institutions Italy report: Edit-a-thons & goals Macedonia report: WikiWine project; Two days of edit-a-thons Serbia report: Public Domain Photos Donation Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Tekniska museet template migration; Stockholm Pride week USA report: WikiMania & Wikiconference North America, Beer, Hip Hop Wikidata report: Meeting Europeana; Conference News WMF GLAM report: GLAM-Wiki team, Wikimania, and updates Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: September 2017

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 8 | September 2017

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Featured Topic	"Wikipedia – Here and Now": 40 students in the Summer School "I Can – Here and Now" in Bulgaria heard more about Wikipedia
From the Community	Klexikon: the German 'childrens' Wikipedia' in Montréal Wikipedia is now a part of Textbook in Informatics

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This Month in GLAM: September 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue IX, September 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon in the Parque de la Memoria and new materials in Commons Czech Republic report: 2017 Edit-a-thon in the Research Library in Olomouc France report: Heritage Wiki Days Germany report: Prepare Your data Ireland report: New Irish partnership Italy report: WikiDonne and Wikidata Macedonia report: Three months WiR at the City Library in Skopje accomplished successfully Netherlands report: UNESCO WiR in Middelburg and Amsterdam Spain report: Culture and Citizenship Switzerland report: Third Edition of the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon Tunisia report: Wikipedian in Residence UK report: Wikidata in Parliament USA report: September Song Wikidata report: Number crunching WMF GLAM report: Running Edit-a-thons, Studying GLAM Uploads to Commons, Project Grants and more! Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: October 2017

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 9 | October 2017

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Featured Topic	Your community should discuss to implement the new P&E Dashboard functionalities
From the Community	Wikidata implemented in Wikimedia Serbia Education Programe Hundred teachers trained in the Republic of Macedonia Basque Education Program makes a strong start
From the Education Team	WikiConvention Francophone 2017 CEE Meeting 2017

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This Month in GLAM: October 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue X, October 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Adding Australian women in research to Wikipedia Brazil report: Integrating Wikimedia projects into the Brazilian National Archives GLAM Bulgaria report: Botevgrad became the first wikitown in Bulgaria France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Opérations Libres Germany report: GLAMorous activities in October Italy report: Experts training on GLAM projects Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries Spain report: Women Writers Day Sweden report: Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Connected Open Heritage; Internetmuseum; More Working life museums UK report: Scotland's Libraries & Hidden Gems Ukraine report: Wikitraining for Librarians; Library Donation USA report: trick or treat Wikidata report: WikidataCon & Birthday WMF GLAM report: News about Structured Commons! Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: November 2017

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This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 10 | November 2017

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

From the Community	Hashemite University continues its strong support of Education program activities Wikicontest for high school students Exploring Wikiversity to create a MOOC Wikidata in the Classroom at the University of Edinburgh How we defined what secondary education students need Wikipedia Education Program in Bangkok,Thailand Shaken but not deterred Wikipedia workshop against human trafficking in Serbia The WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique kicks in 4 francophones African countries
From the Education Team	A Proposal for Education Team endorsement criteria
In the News	Student perceptions of writing with Wikipedia in Australian higher education

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This Month in GLAM: November 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XI, November 2017 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: GLAM Peak digital collections workshops Brazil report: Can you hear this GLAM?; Glam activities at I IWSC and 3D reconstruction project Côte d'Ivoire report: Training 10 librarians, partnering with APSID-CI Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon in Regional museum in Slaný 2017 Estonia report: Digital Humanities Conference held as Part of Estonian Presidency of Council of the EU France report: Edit-a-thons in Saint-Brieuc and Montpellier Germany report: A new archive building is born and more GLAM on Tour Stations Ireland report: Digital Preservation Community Workshop Macedonia report: Edit-a-thon related to WWII; Wiki Loves Food 2017 Netherlands report: Photographs of Africa & KB-Wiki partnership Serbia report: Two Wikipedians in residence and one edit-a-thon Spain report: Working with libraries Sweden report: Nordiska museet; Internetmuseum; Statens maritima museer; Nationalmuseum; Swedish Performing Arts Agency workshop Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: Libraries gave us power Ukraine report: Volunteers cooperate with GLAMers USA report: remember November Special story: Out of This World! Wikidata report: Onwards and Upwards WMF GLAM report: Conferences, case studies, Structured Commons, #1lib1ref Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: December 2017

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 11 | December 2017

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

From the Community	Wikimedia Serbia has established cooperation with three new faculties within the Education Program Updates to Programs & Events Dashboard Wiki Camp Berovo 2017 WM User Group Greece organises Wikipedia e-School for Educators Corfupedia records local history and inspires similar projects Wikipedia learning lab at TUMO Stepanakert Wikimedia CH experiments a Wikipedia's treasure hunt during "Media in Piazza"
From the Education Team	Creating digitally minded educators at BETT 2017
In the News	Things My Professor Never Told Me About Wikipedia "Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research" Conference in Ireland Science is shaped by Wikipedia

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This Month in GLAM: December 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XII, December 2017 Headlines France report: Rituels grecs; Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 Germany report: a good working key to GLAM collections Indonesia report: Collaboration with library in Yogyakarta Italy report: Activities in December Macedonia report: Winners of DARM Challenge 3 Netherlands report: Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense; Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license; Wikipedia manual; Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland Serbia report: Two Serbian museums welcomed their first Wikipedians in Residence Spain report: Wikipedia Club Sweden report: Inputs to the National Library Strategy; Statens maritima museer; Tekniska museet; Riksantikvarieämbetet Tunisia report: Upload Book Ukraine report: Promoting and Community events in Libraries USA report: Fire & Ice & Goats Wikidata report: Happy Q34812! WMF GLAM report: Share Case Studies and Feedback with WMF, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons Research, and Blog Highlights Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: January 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Featured Topic	Bertsomate: using Basque oral poetry to illustrate math concepts
From the Community	Wikimedia Serbia celebrated 10 years from the first article written within the Education Program WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique update The first Swedish Master's in Digital Humanities partners with Wikimedia Sverige How we use PetScan to improve partnership with lecturers and professors
From the Education Team	The Education Survey Report is out! Education Extension scheduled shutdown

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This Month in GLAM: January 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue I, January 2018 Headlines Australia report: We came, we saw, we conquered! Basque Country report: Books, librarians, encounters and borrowed data Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref, Côte d'Ivoire participates for the 2nd time France report: Fonds André Cros; #1lib1ref; Library of Dinan; LATMOS Germany report: sustainability beyond metrics Indonesia report: Digitizing the letters from Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum Yogyakarta continues Italy report: Seventeen: let's talk and celebrate! Macedonia report: Importance of digitization in 21 century Netherlands report: Local heritage made available through Wikimedia & 3rd Wikicafé Tilburg Norway report: Image collection from Armenia and Sami bibliography Serbia report: #1lib1ref first time in Serbia: 786 references added! Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Photos, 3D and training with the National Heritage Board Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: Oxford Wikidata project Ukraine report: Libraries at the Forefront of Running All-Out Action for Ukrainian Wikipedia USA report: Wikipedia Day Wikidata report: Our constraint reports won't constrain you! WMF GLAM report: Call for case studies, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons and more Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: February 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 2 | February 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

From the Community

WikiProject Engineering Workshop at IIUC,Chittagong What did we learn from Wikibridges MOOC? Wikimedia Serbia launched Wiki scholar project Wiki Club in Ohrid, Macedonia Karvachar’s WikiClub: When getting knowledge is cool More than 30 new courses launched in the University of the Basque Country Review meeting on Christ Wikipedia Education Program The Multidisciplinary Choices of High School Students: The Arabic Education Program; Wikimedia Israel

From the Education Team

The Education Extension is being deprecated (second call) The 2017 survey report live presentation is available for viewing

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This Month in GLAM: February 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue II, February 2018 Headlines Belgium report: Photo contest Wiki Loves Public Space Brazil report: Starting new GLAM partnerships Bulgaria report: The first Bulgarian wikitown presented at an International Tourist Fair in Sofia Côte d'Ivoire report: Editing with more librarians as we expanded #1Lib1Ref campaign Finland report: Finland's First Wikimedian in Residence to Kansallisarkisto Germany report: GLAM in galleries Italy report: Boosting collaborations Macedonia report: Startup of the WikiIndustry project Norway report: Intern program for library students Sweden report: WiR at The National Museums of World Culture UK report: Scotland's Public Libraries move toward first edit-a-thons USA report: February made me shiver Special story: Pattypan 18.02: The uploading tool now includes STL support Wikidata report: Cool Tools WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata Workshop materials, and Spring Travel Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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