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She shared some thoughts on how teaching students the proper way to use Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms, such as Wikidata, could be beneficial in expanding their knowledge on critical thinking, finding connections and cross-investigation. (lu.se)

A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. (wikipedia.org)
The tool simplifies translating Wikipedia articles into different languages by automating many of the tedious steps inherent in manually translating Wikipedia's articles. (wikimediafoundation.org)
Wikipedia's most edited articles of 2016 range from the obvious to the outlandish. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
That's where Overholt began, as he told me last month: "I was suddenly struck by how interesting and unusual it is that Wikipedia's entire (or mostly so) history is easily available and that you can peel back the layers of each article to its genesis. (thewikipedian.net)
By examining Wikipedia's Talk pages, where editors discuss their thoughts about an article, the team found that the intense disagreement that happens between ideologically polarised editors often led to a more focused debate, with editors on both sides admitting the process had improved the final article. (newscientist.com)

Posted on February 27, 2020 · On Thursday's Houston Matters: Mike Bloomberg's focus on Texas, under-representation of women on Wikipedia, the Sonic The Hedgehog movie and video game culture, and telling the story of the Alamo through the eyes of a tree. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
A 1 million rubles maximum contract price order for Wikipedia articles creation was published ( Архивная копия от 13 ноября 2020 на Wayback Machine ) at the Russian Federal Portal for State Procurement on October 19th, 2020 . (wikinews.org)
A recent paper, " Expanding Reach of Occupational Health Knowledge: Contributing Subject-Matter Expertise to Wikipedia as a Class Assignment " describes the initiative, student contributions, and evaluations of this effort used by instructors from the University of Cincinnati and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health between 2016 and 2020. (cdc.gov)
These articles were viewed over 8 million times by May 2020. (cdc.gov)
Wikipedia c. 2019-2020 dengue fever epidemic. (who.int)
In Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRetrieved April 14, 2020. (who.int)

The Russian language Wikipedia is the tenth largest language edition of Wikipedia, boasting over three hundred and fifty "Featured Articles" and 930 "Good Articles", shown to be the best in the freely-editable encyclopaedia. (wikinews.org)
Wikipedia is a multilingual encyclopaedia that can be edited by almost anyone with an internet connection, meaning that the Russian Wikipedia has 437,862 registered users with 12,929 making at least 1 edit within the last month. (wikinews.org)
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and many companies have no lasting relevance. (wikimedia.org)
The case concerns the imposition of a blanket ban on access to the entire Wikipedia site, a free online encyclopaedia, within Turkey since 29 April 2017. (article19.org)
1. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia , there is a notability criteria. (lu.se)

Wikimedia Commons has media about Russian Wikipedia . (wikinews.org)
If errors are found or if public relations professionals believe content needs to be added or changed, they should refer to the Wikipedia Engagement Flowchart, available on Wikimedia Commons, for guidance on requesting edits. (phys.org)
Another goal was to introduce Wikipedia (especially Bangla Wikipedia) to the audience and show the attendees how to edit the articles and contribute photographs to Wikimedia Commons. (wikimedia.org)

If history is any indication, there's a good chance the president-elect's Wikipedia page will come under even more scrutiny: The Wikimedia Foundation revealed earlier this year that George W Bush's article has the most edits of any article in English in the history of the site, with 45,862 revisions at last count. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
To this point, the Wikipedia entry for " Fake news website " has become increasingly popular in the past month - with nearly 1,000 edits to the site in the first two weeks of December alone. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
Wikipedia is famous for being an open platform that welcomes edits and contributors to edit the articles. (omsa.org)
A total of 987 edits were made and 41 references were added on Konkani Wikipedia. (cis-india.org)
There is a particular user - a prolific editor with close to 50000 edits - who I frequently notice has edited inline links to Wikipedia into posts. (stackoverflow.com)
Additionally, I think that many of the things that this user's edits turn into Wikipedia links either have much more natural link targets or needn't have links at all. (stackoverflow.com)
Join us on Thursdays at 7pm at http://p2pu.org/chat/ As a goal for this week, let's leave a substantial comment, resource, reference/citation, or even an edit on some article that we'd like to pursue major edits on. (p2pu.org)
277,000 edits and 9.15 mil ion article views. (cdc.gov)

They are tailored to the English Wikipedia, unlike the list of articles every Wikipedia should have on Meta-Wiki . (wikipedia.org)
On this wiki the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. (wikimedia.org)
This proposal would build on the experience with "WikiJournal" on Meta (the purpose of which is to encourage Original Research scholarship) and "Wiki Journal" on WikiVersity/Wikia (the purpose of which is to publish articles about Wiki-related scholarship). (wikimedia.org)
1. Create a Wikipedia Account View and Discuss Sign up for this course on the wiki! (p2pu.org)
By using the Wiki Education platform, instructors can continue to focus on the subject matter of the course, while students get support outside of the classroom to address the mechanics of editing Wikipedia. (cdc.gov)

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health partnered with several acoustical societies in organizing an online event to facilitate the improvement of Wikipedia content related to acoustics. (cdc.gov)
and then suggest, write, edit, or translate any Wikipedia articles related to acoustics. (cdc.gov)

A better comparison for the content of the SignWriting page on the English language WikiPedia page would be the pages for Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Linear B, Klingon, Na'vi and other orthographic systems. (linguistlist.org)
In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. (wikipedia.org)
does not violate the content-forking guideline , does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. (wikipedia.org)
There is not a lot of web content that is suitable for an article on Wikipedia. (wikipedia.org)
Vinoo Thomas of McAfee Avert Labs said in a blog post today that, 'As malware authors continue to improve social engineering techniques, public community sites like MySpace, Orkut (and) Wikipedia…will have to adapt and modify their policies with regards to posting and editing content. (scmagazine.com)
Please note that due to our archival policy , we will not alter or update the content of articles that are archived, but will only accept requests to make grammatical and formatting corrections. (wikinews.org)
As of last month, more than half a million articles have been created with the help of the content translation tool since its introduction. (wikimediafoundation.org)
In an attempt to enhance the content quality in the Bangla Wikipedia, the competition was organized which aimed at increasing the number of good articles. (wikimedia.org)
A proposal to establish a peer-reviewed journal to allow/encourage academics to write articles and receive academic recognition for them - increasing the breadth of content offered by Wikimedia, the quality of content in Wikipedia, and Wikimedia's standing in the academic world. (wikimedia.org)
This is a course for all skill levels that strives to write the very top of Wikipedia content--the featured article . (p2pu.org)
Educational programs can count on the platform to train students on how to contribute high-quality content to Wikipedia as part of their class assignments. (cdc.gov)
This campaign aims to help make content in acoustics one of the better-developed areas within Wikipedia, while providing quality information to everyone in the world- where they are actually looking for it. (cdc.gov)
3. Wikipedia consists of Free content that anyone can use, edit and distribute . (lu.se)

They are actively maintained by the dedicated WikiProject Vital Articles . (wikipedia.org)
For more information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey . (wikipedia.org)
This category contains articles that have been marked by the Biography WikiProject as needing an infobox. (alquds.edu)
For information on selecting the infobox to add, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Infoboxes and Category:People and person infobox templates . (alquds.edu)

For more on the history, process and purpose behind the vital article lists, please visit the FAQ page . (wikipedia.org)
On this page the number of featured articles on local Wikipedias together with their rating criteria are displayed. (wikimedia.org)
During this time, there were 3.2 million visits on the Meningitis Wikipedia page. (statista.com)
The first vandalism was some idiot from Macao attempting and failing to post a dick pick, apparently targeting every article that had a link on the Main Page of Wikipedia. (ninapaley.com)
Inaccurate or misleading information should be brought to the attention of Wikipedia editors via an entry's "Talk" page, and regular follow-up and dialogue should take place between public relations professionals and Wikipedia editors. (phys.org)
The article on Vincent Van Gogh was also edited thousands of times in 2016, as editors reportedly sought to clarify misunderstandings about the artist in hopes of achieving "featured" status for the page. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
And even then, the utility is limited - a Google search returns the Theme Hospital Wikipedia page as the first result. (stackoverflow.com)
Overall, larger groups had more civil discussions and articles with an unbalanced editorial bias showed more offensive language in the Talk page, which curtailed further discussion. (newscientist.com)

So, I ask Meta: should the user who is editing in these Wikipedia links desist from doing so, or are they helpful? (stackoverflow.com)

On 11 November 2019, ARTICLE 19, alongside the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Human Rights Watch, Index on Censorship, PEN International and Reporters Without Borders submitted a third-party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) in the case of Wikimedia Foundation Inc. v. Turkey. (article19.org)

Because of this, if your article reads like an advertisement or does not meet the notability guidelines described above, it will probably be deleted very quickly . (wikipedia.org)
Does your article meet the notability requirements? (wikipedia.org)

A total of 550 Bengali speaking registered users from Bangladesh, India, Italy and South Korea participated in this two months long competition and 130 of them were awarded Wikipedia Badge, wristband, USB flash drive and T-shirts by Wikimedia Bangladesh. (wikimedia.org)

Respondents also expressed a certain level of uncertainty regarding how to properly edit Wikipedia entries. (phys.org)
Good article contest, Good article edit-a-thon day and Wikipedia workshops for University students were notables events among them. (wikimedia.org)
Bangladeshi Wikimedians at Wikipedia 15 good article edit-a-thon and adda, Chittagong. (wikimedia.org)
Good article edit-a-thon day was another event of this series of programs. (wikimedia.org)
Can I edit an article on Wikipedia? (omsa.org)
Orders & Medals Society of America › Forums › About the OMSA Forum › Can I edit an article on Wikipedia? (omsa.org)
Almost anyone from anywhere can edit articles they want. (omsa.org)
Wikipedia allows editors to edit after they confirm their account. (omsa.org)
It means that you have the right to use mobbing images and edit the locked articles. (omsa.org)
Wikipedia currently has no way of addressing any of these issues due to the very nature of the "anyone can edit" thesis. (wikimedia.org)
This included creating Wikipedia usernames, selecting articles they wanted to edit, writing their articles in Konkani on a piece of paper and get their references too. (cis-india.org)
I was tickled by the Pastrami article I posted the other day, which had the edit summary "What can one say about pastrami? (thewikipedian.net)
Sample: Starting Sept 22, I'm participating in a free, Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU) course for anyone who wants to learn how to edit Wikipedia! (p2pu.org)

This category is for articles with GND ID identifiers. (wikipedia.org)
This is a maintenance category , used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project . (wikipedia.org)
I have noticed several recent incidents of submissions being approved, as Articles, that fall way short of the criteria for that category. (codeproject.com)
Use the {{ Verify source }} or {{ Verify credibility }} tags to put articles in this category. (wikipedia.org)
Articles are automatically added to this category based on a parameter in the project banner template . (alquds.edu)

On January 15th, 2016, Free encyclopedia - Wikipedia - completed its 15 years journey. (wikimedia.org)
The most edited article by far was for Deaths in 2016 , which was edited 18,230 times. (houstonpublicmedia.org)

Sixty percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to research published today in the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) scholarly publication, Public Relations Journal . (phys.org)
It does not surprise me that so many Wikipedia entries contain factual errors," said DiStaso. (phys.org)
Without clear, consistent rules from Wikipedia regarding how factual corrections can be made this will be a very difficult learning process for public relations professionals. (phys.org)
A high amount of factual errors doesn't work for anyone, especially the public, which relies on Wikipedia for accurate, balanced information. (phys.org)

It's often harder to see how to translate articles about ideas than more concrete things like people, places, and objects. (wikimedia.org)

Wikipedia has become a good starting point for many newly diagnosed patients and as the website is increasingly perceived as a neutral and reliable source, patients feel that using Wikipedia as a supplemental source can be beneficial. (statista.com)
If you are closely associated with the website you want to write about, then you have a conflict of interest and will find it very difficult to write a good, neutral encyclopedia article. (wikipedia.org)
That we should not open the floodgates to letting companies promote themselves using Wikipedia doesn't mean that we shouldn't cover more companies in a fair and neutral manner. (wikimedia.org)
Academics would be encouraged to write encyclopedic articles / review articles on their area of expertise in accordance with our editorial principles (including neutral POV , verifiability and no original research ) and the Wikipedia manual of style . (wikimedia.org)
2. All articles should be written with A neutral point of view . (lu.se)

The Wiki4YearOfSound2020 platform (available in several languages) provides guidance on how to identify topics, improve or translate existing articles. (cdc.gov)
Because of this, NIOSH is leading a campaign cal ed Wiki4YearOfSound2020 % to make information on acoustics freely available, correct, and up-to-date on Wikipedia. (cdc.gov)
Activities involved editing existing Portuguese-language Wikipedia hearing health articles, as well as translating English-language hearing health articles to Portuguese during the Wiki4WorldHearingDay2019 and Wiki4YearOfSound2020 online campaigns. (cdc.gov)

To celebrate this special day, a good article writing competition was organized in Bangla Wikipedia by Wikimedia Bangladesh . (wikimedia.org)
Among these, only a handful of articles have been reviewed as good articles. (wikimedia.org)
In this contest, Bangla Wikipedians have fully translated about 600 good articles from English Wikipedia. (wikimedia.org)
This contest has increased the number of good quality articles in Bangla Wikipedia and, at the same time, engaged a huge number of new users in Wikipedia through this contest. (wikimedia.org)
The aim of the edita-thons was to increase the number of good articles in Bangla Wikipedia. (wikimedia.org)
As a result of these edita-thons, the number of good articles are increased from 14 to 60. (wikimedia.org)
How to increase the amount of good quality articles in Wikipedia? (wikimedia.org)
All who aim for Featured will learn a lot about Wikipedia and good writing skills. (p2pu.org)

There has been a rise of article contributions to the Konkani Wikipedia in a span of 4 days following a 4 day programme organized by the CIS-A2K team for M.A. students from the Konkani Department, Goa University at the Central State Library, Goa from August 21 to 24, 2013. (cis-india.org)

It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages , or groups articles by status rather than subject. (wikipedia.org)
Wikipedia, the user-driven online encyclopedia, was a victim of its open-source nature when malware writers posted a link to a malicious website in a German-language article describing a popular computer worm. (scmagazine.com)
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has revealed its most edited articles of the year . (houstonpublicmedia.org)
It is used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project and is not part of the encyclopedia. (wikipedia.org)
Start with reading an overview, for example a textbook, a subject specific encyclopedia or a review article. (lu.se)

Russian Wikipedia is also one of the few languages to adopt the Flagged Revisions system. (wikinews.org)

You will probably find it very difficult to write an article which will not look like advertising to other editors. (wikipedia.org)
Wikipedia editors quickly corrected the misleading information in the article, but the German spammers used earlier, uncorrected versions of the article in their spams. (scmagazine.com)
Only 35 percent of respondents were able to engage with Wikipedia, either by using its "Talk" pages to converse with editors or through direct editing of a client's entry. (phys.org)
Twenty-nine percent said their interactions with Wikipedia editors were "never productive. (phys.org)
Among all the participants of the competition, 86% were new in Wikipedia and contributed for the first time, 14% were frequent editors and 12% were female editors. (wikimedia.org)
To see how ideological opponents can find common ground, Misha Teplitskiy at Harvard University and his colleagues looked at the editors of Wikipedia articles on politics, science and social issues. (newscientist.com)
They scored the editors' political leanings as -1 for the most liberal and +1 for the most conservative, based on whether they were predominantly editing articles on liberal or conservative subjects. (newscientist.com)
The most active editors were clustered around the ideological extremes and the more editors an article attracted, the more likely it was to attract them from both sides of the political spectrum. (newscientist.com)
For example, the 11,813 editors who pored over Margaret Thatcher's Wikipedia entry had an average score of 0.068. (newscientist.com)

In contrast, more established indicators based on Wikipedia and Google Trends search strings were less timely. (cdc.gov)
Internet search query data from Google or Wikipedia have been applied to anticipate influenza epidemics but are hampered by several limitations, including specificity and granularity ( 2 - 4 ). (cdc.gov)

It is reported that a Wikipedia representative was called for an explanation, saying, ``This kind of misinformation cannot be overlooked. (gigazine.net)
In this case, the Ministry of IT called a person in charge of Wikipedia for an explanation. (gigazine.net)

The vital article lists are meant to guide the prioritization of improvements to vital articles and to monitor their quality. (wikipedia.org)
Let's run a discussion course with just ONE assignment: write a Featured Article (highest possible quality)! (p2pu.org)
The idea is to aim for "Featured Article" quality just to find out what it may take--and if we fall short, we still have learned and done quite a bit! (p2pu.org)

SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU Sent: Saturday, June 4, 2011 5:07 PM Subject: Re: Wikipedia article Shoot, I cant find it now. (linguistlist.org)
I generally avoid Wikipedia as a technical source because I find it is usually overly waffly, focused more on history than on technical documentation, and too likely to have technical errors for me to trust it. (stackoverflow.com)

What is surprising, however, is that 25 percent of survey respondents indicated they are not familiar with the Wikipedia articles for their company or clients. (phys.org)

This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation , one of its projects, or people related to it. (wikinews.org)

These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse " (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience. (wikipedia.org)
Students were also given few pages of Wikipedia literature to read beforehand . (cis-india.org)
It contains pages that are not articles , or it groups articles by status rather than subject. (wikipedia.org)

If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. (wikipedia.org)
Assuming that wasn't your intention, I'd suggest resubmitting the article without that link. (codeproject.com)
Sa Wikipedia na ito, ang mga link ng wika ay nasa itaas ng pahina sa may bandang pamagat ng artikulo. (wikipedia.org)
Is editing technology names to link to corresponding Wikipedia articles useful? (stackoverflow.com)
Similarly, it's unclear to me what value somebody reading a question about using Apache on Ubuntu 12.04 could possibly get from a link to the section about Ubuntu 12.04 on Wikipedia. (stackoverflow.com)
If a product / company / whatever has their own website, I'd consider a wikipedia link to be unhelpful. (stackoverflow.com)
Link to the LUCRIS entry of the article (open access). (lu.se)

She said users are limited to 'MediaWiki mark-up (language) and a limited selection of file types for direct insertion into Wikipedia. (scmagazine.com)
The Russian Language Wikipedia surpassed 500,000 articles at 10:02 UTC on February 25, 2010, after " Ys ", an article about a Joanna Newsom album, was created by Nurse fiction , a newcomer to the Wikipedia. (wikinews.org)
From our beginning, Wikipedia has aspired to create a world where knowledge is free, accessible and useful to everyone, in every language, in every country, and across any device. (wikimediafoundation.org)
The Slovak Wikipedia has recently become one of the few languages to hit 100,000 articles, the 23rd language to do so. (pagef30.com)
The buyer - Tatarstan Investment Development Agency , using funds from the budget of the Republic - intends to have equally well developed materials describing investment infrastructure of the Republic published in three language sections - Russian Wikipedia , Tatar Wikipedia and English Wikipedia . (wikinews.org)
1. The Contractor prepares and provides to the Client the article texts in Russian language for approval - within 15 days from awarding the Contract, 2. (wikinews.org)
The Wikipedia efforts that took place in Brazil were carried out by 10 volunteer undergraduate students in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil. (cdc.gov)

When I try to publish my article I get the following error: Too many tags. (codeproject.com)

We took the first sentence from a semi-randomly chosen article, with the aim to handcraft the representation of said sentence in Abstract Wikipedia. (wikimedia.org)
Note that we do not expect that English Wikipedia will be the source for all articles for Abstract Wikipedia, but it is certainly a convenient source of inspiration for the team, given that all of us speak English. (wikimedia.org)
In Abstract Wikipedia the goal is not to translate as faithfully as possible the wording of any existing Wikipedia articles, but to capture as much as possible of the meaning of the articles. (wikimedia.org)

Although the volunteers who make Wikipedia possible have made great strides towards achieving this vision, we're still a long way from getting there. (wikimediafoundation.org)
CAS thanks the Wikipedia volunteers, especially Professor Martin Walker at SUNY Potsdam, who collaborated with CAS to provide the links to Wikipedia records (when available). (bvs.br)

Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. , a non-profit organization. (wikipedia.org)
It further stated that Microsoft released fixes for the new version, but because their download servers were overwhelmed by requests, Microsoft and Wikipedia made an agreement that the fixes (would be) mirrored on Wikipedia servers,' Tim Bartel, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia, told SCMagazine.com today. (scmagazine.com)

The following stages of the project covers article development in 8 more of 11 target languages of the agency in line with the dedicated articles for creation and improvement list . (wikinews.org)
As someone with a keen interest in history, that's very appealing to me, and I was curious to know what the articles were like in those early stages. (thewikipedian.net)

The Contractor uploads the articles into the Russian Wikipedia - within 15 calendar days post text approval by the Client, 6. (wikinews.org)

If the article passes the review successfully, it moves on to a voting phase where it must receive a minimum of 75% support (at least 5 votes, including 2 votes from reviewers). (wikimedia.org)
The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates . (wikipedia.org)
Their article would be submitted to a public peer-review process (i.e. with the reviews being public, though reviewers may choose to remain anonymous), as per the best-practices of academically-rigorous journals. (wikimedia.org)
Reviewers would be both relevant academics and also experienced Wikimedians, e.g. a Wikipedian who had been a major contributor to a featured article on a similar topic. (wikimedia.org)

For example, English-speaking users can access more than five million articles. (wikimediafoundation.org)

When linking to information about technologies, on the other hand, it seems to me that Wikipedia is a fairly unhelpful source. (stackoverflow.com)
The article included Baron Cohen's career information almost as a footnote, at the end of the article - possibly using Wikipedia as the source of his "Goldman Sachs" career and other family information. (techdebug.com)
As of April 2008, the Independent and the Guardian are now used where still used (but have since been removed and discussed ) as the source of the information - external references that exist outside Wikipedia - albeit written after the initial entry to Wikipedia. (techdebug.com)
However, research shows % that more people go to Wikipedia for health-related information than any other source. (cdc.gov)

Some are completely unsurprising - like the articles about Brexit, the Panama Papers, the Orlando nightclub shooting, and other recent and controversial news topics. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
In an era when fake news has become dangerously prevalent, the job of a Wikipedia editor might be more important than ever. (houstonpublicmedia.org)

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