How can Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge help educators with limited access to digital resources?

The “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” program aims to empower educators to navigate Wikipedia, integrate it into lesson plans, and foster media literacy among their students.

The Star Tribune Opinion department wants to build on the great roster of people who already submit commentaries, and to encourage more diverse voices, including women, POC, younger people and people from around the state to write op-eds. Our inbox is open. You can also reach out…

🧵 Let’s take a look inside McKinsey’s global publishing operations and the leadership approach of @Raju Narisetti, who oversees the firm’s 100-person team producing insights for business leaders worldwide. THREAD 👇

Remembering The Wall Street Journal's Cathy Panagoulias: Lauren Tara LaCapra, Ben Casselman, Nikki Waller, @ethanWSJ, Raju Narisetti, Bourree Lam, Candace Jackson, jim carlton, Raymund Flandez and Conor Dougherty share what she meant to them. talkingbiznews.com/media-news/rem…

Cathy Panagoulias, 70, was why I moved from reporting to editing The Wall Street Journal. This is a devastating loss for me and so many of my peers at the Journal and well beyond.
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Go do it early, Humans of NYC

A Restoration of Hope: Maniza Naqvi on Saving Karachi’s Oldest Bookstore lithub.com/a-restoration-… via Literary Hub

Are you ready for a Wiki race?

If you are unfamiliar, Wikiracing is a competition where you attempt to get from one specific Wikipedia article to another in as few clicks as possible while following some rules. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

Great board get in Wikimedia Foundation CEO,
Maryana Iskander, Mellon Foundation Trustees.
Congratulations
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Congratulations, Ambassador Shefali Razdan.
Ambassador Shefali Razdan Duggal

Congratulations, Poornima Kunani,MD
Around 4% of adolescents meet AAP criteria for bariatric surgery healio.com/news/pediatric…?

Get your cameras ready! It is time for this year’s @WikiLovesFolkore — an international photography contest celebrating the world’s folk traditions and cultures.

Submit pictures by 31 March.

Learn more ➡️ w.wiki/9DVJ

Congratulations, Мstyslav Chernov.
Citation needed, but is this also the first Academy Award #Oscars for a #Wikimedian ?
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@wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia volunteers from all around the globe share what they have learned with the free knowledge movement and how being a contributor has shaped their belief in a world where everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Read their words ➡️ w.wiki/9JKZ

Childhood obesity is a pressing global public health issue. To learn more, Poornima Kunani,MD & authors assessed the epidemiology of adolescents meeting criteria for metabolic and bariatric surgery within a large health maintenance organization: bit.ly/3TcZUH1 #Pediatrics

Last week, the Kurdish version of Wiktionary reached 1 million entries! 📣

With 25 million speakers, the Kurdish language is native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

Congratulations, @Wikiferheng team! ⭐

It's #PublicationDay in the U.S. for my debut novel #TheIlluminated , out today by Bloomsbury U.S.!
It's been 2.5 years since it first released in India and I'm incredibly grateful for this long tail. DGA

“The internet rewards insatiable curiosity, and Annie Rauwerda is an endless font of inquisitiveness.”

Paste Magazine talks to Annie? Rauwerda?, the brains behind @DepthsofWiki, about how to start contributing to the free encyclopedia.

pastemagazine.com/comedy/depths-…

Congratulations to Sree Sreenivasan (Threads: @sreenet) on being elected President of SAJA South Asian Journalists Association 30 years board, a full 20 years after stepping down as inaugural President and a dozen years after leaving the Board, and just in time for SAJA’s 30th anniversary year.
Onward…
saja.org/page-935554

Congratulations
From 50,000 articles in first three years to 550,000 at year 10 and now 1.3 million.
Never more essential.