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Recent press coverage
Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap: An interview with Wikipedia editor Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
OneZero, March 27, 2019
Why Brilliant Women in History Are Denied Their Own Wikipedia Pages
Slate, March 26, 2019
Righting The Record On Women Artists Through Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
WAMU.org, March 22, 2019
#HerNaturalHistory: Open Data, BHL, and Wiki Projects
Biodiversity Heritage Library, March 18, 2019
Open Access Advocates See End Of US Copyright Term Extension Act As Win For Commons
Intellectual Property Watch, January 25, 2019
Wikipedia Day — Celebrating Wikipedians across the globe
Digital Science, January 15, 2019
Five ways academics can contribute to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation blog, November 13, 2018
West Virginia Wonder Women Class of 2018: Kelly Doyle – The Wikipedia Wizard
WV Living, Fall 2018
Wikimedia Foundation releases gender equity report
Wikimedia Foundation, September 21, 2018
These women are editing thousands of Wikipedia articles in a quest for gender parity
2 Girls 1 Podcast, August 20, 2018
Why we’re editing women scientists onto Wikipedia
Nature, August 14, 2018
Physicist highlighting female scientists, one Wikipedia entry at a time
New York Post, August 8, 2018
The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source
Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog, August 6, 2018
Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 19, 2018
If women don’t help write history, they might be written out of it
Now This, June 4, 2018
Dačić awardes the highest diplomatic recognitions [in Serbian]
Blic, May 29, 2018
Women fighting for equality on Wikipedia
BBC News, March 28, 2018
How one prolific Wikipedian is giving voice to pre-20th century women’s stories
Wiki Education Foundation, March 28, 2018
Wikipedia's forgotten women: inside the editing marathon to fix imbalance
The Guardian, March 15, 2018
Archival Activism: the Editors fighting Wikipedia’s Sexism Problem
The Wireless, February 13, 2018
Building Collaboration between Wikipedia and West Virginia University Libraries
Digital Library Federation, February 5, 2018
Presenting the winners of the U.S. Wiki Science Competition
Wiki Education Foundation, January 26, 2018
Kusturica and Dacic open a UN exhibition on Jasenovac [in Serbian]
Maxportal, January 23, 2018
Inside the Fight to Change Wikipedia's Gender Problem
Inverse, January 8, 2018
Press releases
- Knight Prototype Fund support for the Wiki Art Depiction Explorer project
- JULY 19, 2018: Wikimedia District of Columbia is proud to be the recipient of $50,000 in support from the Knight Prototype Fund, an initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Wikimedia DC will collaborate with the Smithsonian Institution on a project called the "Wiki Art Depiction Explorer", an effort to create an interface for museum visitors and other art enthusiasts to crowdsource metadata about visual depictions in museum artworks
- Wikimedia DC Announces New Institutional Partnerships Manager
- MAY 3, 2017: Wikimedia District of Columbia (WMDC) is pleased to announce the hiring of our first employee. Ariel Cetrone has joined WMDC as our Institutional Partnerships Manager, where she will plan and facilitate events with our many institutional partners, including cultural, academic, and professional organizations. Read more »