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Recent press coverage
National Museum of Women in the Arts hosts annual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
NBC 4 in DC, July 21, 2024
Hacks/Hackers, Partners Advance to Phase II of National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator
NewsQ News Quality Initiative, October 3, 2022
Hacks/Hackers, Partners Awarded Funding to Participate in the 2021 National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator
NewsQ News Quality Initiative, September 22, 2021
American Archive 'editathons' enhance Wikipedia with pubmedia content
Current, September 25, 2020
The Internet’s Public Square Is Mostly White and Male. These Groups Are Changing That
Next City, September 2, 2020
Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Helps Close Gaps in Women’s History
Ms. Magazine, August 24, 2020
Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it
Washington Post, August 7, 2020
Smithsonian brings images of diverse figures from the history of US women’s suffrage to Wikimedia
Wikimedia Foundation, July 24, 2019
Wikipedia's “Constitutional Crisis” Pits Community Against Foundation
Slate, July 2, 2019
Making space for female scientists' voices online, in the media and in person
DW News, June 19, 2019
Women Buried In The Footnotes Of Scientific Discovery
The Colin McEnroe Show, April 9, 2019
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
Press releases and statements
- Wikimedia DC Statement on Terms of Use Enforcement
- JUNE 30, 2019: Wikimedia District of Columbia is deeply concerned by recent events that have occurred on the English Wikipedia, including community controversy regarding a ban imposed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Protecting editors from harassment is crucial to the continued success of the Wikimedia movement. Read more »
- 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. Read more »