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<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.wnpr.org/post/women-buried-footnotes-scientific-discovery|title=Women Buried In The Footnotes Of Scientific Discovery|publisher=The Colin McEnroe Show|date=April 9, 2019}}</p> 
<p>{{press citation|url=https://onezero.medium.com/meet-the-woman-pushing-for-more-gender-diversity-on-wikipedia-3aea131484f6|title=Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap: An interview with Wikipedia editor Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight|publisher=OneZero|date=March 27, 2019}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/wikipedia-women-history-notability-gender-gap.html|title=Why Brilliant Women in History Are Denied Their Own Wikipedia Pages|publisher=Slate|date=March 26, 2019}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://wamu.org/story/19/03/22/righting-the-record-on-women-artists-through-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/|title=Righting The Record On Women Artists Through Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon|publisher=WAMU.org|date=March 22, 2019}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/03/hernaturalhistory-wiki-projects.html|title=#HerNaturalHistory: Open Data, BHL, and Wiki Projects|publisher= Biodiversity Heritage Library|date=March 18, 2019}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=http://www.ip-watch.org/2019/01/25/open-access-advocates-see-end-us-copyright-term-extension-act-win-commons/|title=Open Access Advocates See End Of US Copyright Term Extension Act As Win For Commons|publisher=Intellectual Property Watch|date=January 25, 2019}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://medium.com/@digitalsci/wikipedia-day-celebrating-wikipedians-across-the-globe-b20be433410|title=Wikipedia Day — Celebrating Wikipedians across the globe|publisher=Digital Science|date=January 15, 2019}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/11/13/five-ways-academics-can-contribute-to-wikipedia/|title=Five ways academics can contribute to Wikipedia|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation blog|date=November 13, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.wvliving.com/wv-wonder-women/west-virginia-wonder-women-class-2018/|title=West Virginia Wonder Women Class of 2018: Kelly Doyle – The Wikipedia Wizard|publisher=WV Living|date=Fall 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/09/21/advancing-gender-equity-conversations-with-movement-leaders?year=2018|title=Wikimedia Foundation releases gender equity report|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|date=September 21, 2018}}</p> 
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/2-girls-1-podcast-wikipedia-gender-equality/|title=These women are editing thousands of Wikipedia articles in a quest for gender parity|publisher=2 Girls 1 Podcast|date=August 20, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05947-8|title=Why we’re editing women scientists onto Wikipedia|publisher=Nature|date=August 14, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://nypost.com/2018/08/08/physicist-highlighting-female-scientists-one-wikipedia-entry-at-a-time/|title=Physicist highlighting female scientists, one Wikipedia entry at a time|publisher=New York Post|date=August 8, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=http://hangingtogether.org/?p=6775|title=The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source|publisher=Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog|date=August 6, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Some-Colleges-Cautiously/243968?cid=trend_right_a|title=Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia|publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=July 19, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1003637459266048001/video/1|title=If women don’t help write history, they might be written out of it |publisher=Now This|date=June 4, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/dacic-dodelio-najvisa-diplomatska-priznanja-medu-laureatima-modna-kreatorka/j3w5jjz|title=Dačić awardes the highest diplomatic recognitions [in Serbian]|publisher=Blic|date=May 29, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43559778/women-fighting-for-equality-on-wikipedia#|title=Women fighting for equality on Wikipedia|publisher=BBC News|date=March 28, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/03/28/how-one-prolific-wikipedian-is-giving-voice-to-pre-20th-century-womens-stories/|title=How one prolific Wikipedian is giving voice to pre-20th century women’s stories|publisher=Wiki Education Foundation|date=March 28, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/15/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-women-arts|title=Wikipedia's forgotten women: inside the editing marathon to fix imbalance|publisher=The Guardian|date=March 15, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/archival-activism-the-editors-fighting-wikipedia-s-sexism-problem|title=Archival Activism: the Editors fighting Wikipedia’s Sexism Problem|publisher=The Wireless|date=February 13, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.diglib.org/building-collaboration-wikipedia-west-virginia-university-libraries/|title=Building Collaboration between Wikipedia and West Virginia University Libraries|publisher= Digital Library Federation|date=February 5, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/01/26/presenting-the-winners-of-the-u-s-wiki-science-competition/|title=Presenting the winners of the U.S. Wiki Science Competition|publisher=Wiki Education Foundation|date= January 26, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=http://www.maxportal.hr/premium-sadrzaj/kusturica-i-dacic-u-zgradi-un-a-otvaraju-izlozbu-o-jasenovcu-dovezli-7-tona-opreme/|title=Kusturica and Dacic open a UN exhibition on Jasenovac [in Serbian]|publisher=Maxportal|date=January 23, 2018}}</p>
<p>{{press citation|url=https://www.inverse.com/article/39999-wikipedias-women-editors|title=Inside the Fight to Change Wikipedia's Gender Problem|publisher=Inverse|date=January 8, 2018}}</p>
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==Press releases==

; [[Press:Knight Prototype Fund support for the Wiki Art Depiction Explorer project|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
; [[Press:Wikimedia DC Announces New Institutional Partnerships Manager|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.'''  [[Press:Wikimedia DC Announces New Institutional Partnerships Manager|Read more &raquo;]]'''

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