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    Mar 8

    Happy ! Let's celebrate with action. We present the Checklist: ten steps you can take to get involved and help us close the gender gap on —and beyond. MORE 🧵👇🏽 (1/12)

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and South Africa’s . 📷 Andrew Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0

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  3. Mar 17

    Join Wiki Loves Falles 2022 to photograph Falles festival in Valencia, Spain and upload media on Contest from 15 March till 15 April 2022 Join now

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  4. Anyone who wants to contribute to Wikimedia’s technical areas can join – as code creators, maintainers, translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles. For more information about the , make sure you follow !

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  5. The Hackathon will be online, and grants will be available to support local in-person meetups around the world. The deadline to apply is this Sunday, 27 March.

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  6. The will happen between 20 and 22 May! The event is a space for the technical community to come together and work on technical projects, learn from each other, and make new friends.

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  7. Congratulations to the developers behind the coolest Wikimedia tools! The ten winners include pieces of software that help you share docs with live code, detect copyright violations, and more 👇🏽

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  8. Wikipedia articles about women are underlinked, says . "If you start at any given article on , you're much less likely to eventually reach an article about a woman artist than you are about a male artist." Read more 👇🏽

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  9. Mar 16

    This week marks 8 years of total service with the Foundation. My first day at the WMF though was 10 years and 284 days ago. As a volunteer I created my account 16 years ago and first edited about 18 years ago.

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  10. 👩🏽‍💻El martes y hoy compartimos con más de 60 mujeres un Taller de Introducción a rumbo a la 1º DGB. 💪🏾Entre todas decimos ¡Nunca más Wikipedia sin nosotras! Organizamos con

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  11. Free expression & access to reliable information are essential during times of crisis. , , , and 30+ others are calling on to ensure people in Russia and Belarus are not cut off from the global internet.

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  12. Mar 17

    Thank you for supporting Wikipedia every time you appear on the screen ❤️

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  13. Women, transgender, and non-binary people make up over half of the population, but four out of five biographies on portray men. is working to close the gender gap by supporting edit-a-thons in multiple languages. See how to join.

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  14. Mar 15

    Write about your local folk culture and women in folk during the Feminism and Folklore writing competition on . Contest runs this March. Check your local community participation using the project page 👉

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  15. Today, the app is featured as App of the Day in the US as part of a series for ! Discover favorite tips and features about the app, and meet Toni Sevener, one of our software engineers who brings the app to life.

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  16. We, together with , , & a number of other organisations are calling on the and other govt's to carefully consider the impact of restricting the Russian public's access to the :

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  17. Mar 16

    Its that time again! I am looking forward to speaking at the Conference tomorrow via . Help close the knowledge gap about on /, more below!

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  18. Mar 14

    Don’t cut off internet access in Russia or Belarus 🗣️ Further restricting the internet will only accelerate violence and repression. Our letter with + more to :

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  19. Only 18% of content in all Wikimedia projects, including biographies on , are about women. This , help close this gender gap. Take a look at the events that are planned for this month, and sign up!

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  20. You can watch the full, multilingual panel here 👇🏽

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  21. Every time finishes a new article about a notable woman who was previously not on , it's a collective success. "We are communicating with these women from the past, who opened the doors for us, and we say 'Here you are, what you have always deserved, sis'."

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