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From Ewan McAndrew on January 7th, 2020
Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia movement which supports Wikipedia and its sister sites. This video showcases the work of Wikimedia UK and… -
From Ewan McAndrew on December 23rd, 2019
Students on the Data Science for Design MSc were tasked at the course's annual Data Fair to create engaging visualisations from real world datasets. One group… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 29th, 2019
Wikidata has a diverse community that can help to close the language gap that currently mirrors the lack of diversity of the web at large. The community of Wikidata… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
Wikidata can play a vital role in surfacing notable women and can assist with closing the gender gap in various language Wikipedias. Using the example of under… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
Ben Yang, the Director of Technology of PanLex, will be discussing the importance of collecting lexical data for underserved languages, PanLex’s role and… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
Wikidata has become so big it's sometimes hard to appreciate what we've accomplished over the past year. Let's take a look together and see what has… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
Abstract:With almost 60 million items, Wikidata is an incredible knowledge base for human and machine systems, and a testament to the power of collaborative work. But is… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
This talk reports on my experience of using the Wikidata Query Service as a platform to teach non-technical audiences about knowledge representation. This training… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
The American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), which launched under the Smithsonian’s strategic goal of “Reaching 1 billion people with a… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Farhad Fatkullin – 2018 Wikimedian of the Year; Jimmy Wales, announcing the 2019 winner; Katherine Maher –… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Lack of name recognition challenges the Wikimedia movement's ability to invite new readers, contributors, and… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
Public Domain Awareness Project: enhancing use of CC’s Public Domain tools to serve the needs of GLAM institutions and reusers … -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Through this presentation we will introduce the efforts to collect information about the cultural heritage… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project, is a structured, linked-data knowledge base. In fact, it is the biggest… -
From Ewan McAndrew on October 28th, 2019
Emanuel Karlsten Journalist, social media expert and digital advisor How the controversial Copyright directive explained why journalism is worth funding.
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