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Wikimedia Highlights, Signpost und GLAM 2016

The Signpost: 06 January 2016

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

• News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
• In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
• Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
• Featured content: Featured menagerie
• Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
• WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 13 January 2016

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

• News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
• In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
• Editorial: We need a culture of verification
• Op-ed: Transparency (by James Heilman)
• Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
• Community view: Strategy and controversy
• In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
• Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
• Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
• Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 20 January 2016

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

• News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

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

• From the editors: Help wanted
• In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
• Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
• Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
• Traffic report: Bowled
• News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

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This Month in GLAM: January 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue I, January 2016

Headlines

Africa report: #OpenAfrica15 Argentina report: New Editing Challenges and Design the guidelines for cultural institutions Australia and New Zealand report: WiR at State Library of Queensland Belgium report: Heroines Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Public Domain Day Celebration; Wikidata meeting & workshop; FOSDEM: MediaWiki, Wikidata and more France report: New year, new start Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Technische Sammlungen & Verkehrsmuseum Dresden Italy report: BEIC Library Project goes on, and Wikipedia for Press and Media Freedom in Europe Macedonia report: Wikipedia 15 Netherlands report: Wiki loves artists - We need your help; Two Wikipedia edit-a-thons Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, Wiki Loves Folk & Gobernantes de Chile Sweden report: New year, new projects UK report: Audio-describing London Landmarks, celebrating Wikipedia 15 Special story: Pre-production starts for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons tutorial videos Open Access report: Open Access stats; data citation, dino jaw, dozens of beetles Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: February's GLAM events

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

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

• Special report: New leaked internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

• In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

• News and notes: Another WMF departure

• In the media: Jeb Bush takes a swing at Wikipedia, and connects

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A river of revilement

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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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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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016

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

• Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
• Who edits Wikipedia?
• “Wikipedia is a testament to what we can create together as a global community”: Sara Mörtsell
• In brief

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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