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Here are the [[Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Highlights|highlights]] from the '''[https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia blog]''' in January 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement. <br><br>
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===[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/15/wikipedia-turns-14-receives-erasmus-prize/ Wikipedia turns 14, receives prestigious Erasmus Prize 2015]===
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<i><small>[[en:Desiderius_Erasmus|Desiderius Erasmus]] was a renowned humanist, scholar and theologian.<br>
[[:File:Hans Holbein d. J. - Erasmus - Louvre.jpg|Erasmus portrait]] by [[w:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger|Hans Holbein]], from Le Musée du Louvre and The Yorck Project. Public Domain.</small></i>
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Wikipedia turned fourteen years old on January 15, 2015. On that same day, the Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community were honored with the prestigious [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/15/wikipedia-turns-14-receives-erasmus-prize/ Erasmus Prize] -- one of Europe’s most distinguished recognitions. We are very grateful to the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for this award.
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===[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/27/civility-wikipedia-gamergate/ Civility, Wikipedia, and the conversation on Gamergate]===
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<i><small>Building an encyclopedia requires working together, even when topics are difficult.<br>
[[:File:US Navy 040623-N-8977L-010 Sailors assigned to Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) position a frame of a wall while helping the non-profit group Habitat for Humanity build homes.jpg|US Navy Photo]] by Johansen Laurel. Public domain.</small></i>
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The debates on Wikipedia about the [[:en:Gamergate controversy|Gamergate controversy]] have been heated. At times, contributors on various sides of the debate have violated Wikipedia’s standards of civility. The Wikimedia Foundation believes inclusion and diversity are essential to achieving the mission of free knowledge, and that [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/27/civility-wikipedia-gamergate/ civil discourse] is key to making that happen.
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===[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/16/high-school-student-cancer-test/ How high school student Jack Andraka used Wikipedia to research a new test for cancer]===
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<i><small>High school student Jack Andraka talks about how Wikipedia enabled his research to find a test for pancreatic cancer.<br>
You can also view this video on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhVBPepAMSk YouTube.com] and [https://vimeo.com/116980711 Vimeo.com] — or watch his full speech from Wikimania 2014 in London [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ8UPKKPIpY&t=1h2m33s here].</small></i>
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After a family member died from pancreatic cancer, high school student Jack Andraka set out to [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/16/high-school-student-cancer-test/ find a cure for the disease], using Wikipedia as a primary reference for this research. His fast, inexpensive test may someday be used to detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer.
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===[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/wellcome-library-donation/ Wellcome Library donates 100,000 medical images to Wikimedia Commons]===
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<i><small>This image of a female blow fly [[w:Chrysomya|(Chrysomya chloropyga)]] is part of the Wellcome Library’s medical image collection, now available on Wikimedia Commons.<br>
Drawing by [[w:Amedeo John Engel Terzi|Amedeo John Engel Terzi]]. From Wellcome Library, licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY-4.0].</small></i>
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[http://wellcomeimages.org/ Wellcome Images] provide free public access to their digital collection online, covering topics from medical and social history to current healthcare and biomedical science. The high resolution photographs and scans [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/wellcome-library-donation/ they just donated] are used to illustrate a wide range of Wikipedia articles such as disease, art history, cartoons, sexuality and biographies. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Wellcome_Images This collection can be browsed here] on Wikimedia Commons.
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===[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/ Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic]===
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<i><small>Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in special classes held in Prague’s Municipal Library.
<br>[[:File:Overview of class of Senior Citizens write Wikipedia in MLP, 2014-11-04.JPG|“Senior citizens class photo”]] by [[c:User:Frettie|Pavla Pelikánová]], licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC-BY-SA-4.0].</small></i>
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A new training program in the Czech Republic [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/ shows senior citizens how to edit Wikipedia]. Here are some of the lessons learned from three separate weekly classes held in Prague last year. After learning how Wikipedia works and how to edit it, participants edited a wide range of articles -- and about half of the registered senior citizens continued to edit after the program ended.
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===[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages]===
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<i><small>Video: How to translate a Wikipedia article in 3 minutes with Content Translation.<br>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHTDeKW3hV0 This video can also be viewed on YouTube] (4:10). [[:File:Content Translation Screencast (English).webm|Screencast]] by [[User:Pginer-WMF|Pau Giner]], licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en CC BY-SA 4.0]</small></i>
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Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Engineering team announced the first version of [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ Content Translation] on Wikipedia. This new tool makes it easy to translate articles from one language to another. It is now available as a beta feature in 8 different languages.
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===[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/07/weekly-edit-a-thons-in-sweden/ Weekly edit-a-thons help create new articles about women and literature in Sweden]===
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<i><small>A happy group of Wikipedians gather for a weekly edit-a-thon in Gothenburg.<br>
[[:File:Skrivstuga Litteraturhuset 2014-06-03.jpg|“Edit-a-thon photo”]] by [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152511707002755&set=a.10151203555742755.501999.703727754&type=1&theater Lennart Guldbrandsson], licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en CC-Zero]</small></i>
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During 2014, Wikimedia Sverige organized a new [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/07/weekly-edit-a-thons-in-sweden/ series of regular edit-a-thons and workshops focused on the Gender gap issue]. Altogether, 35 weekly edit-a-thons were held in Gothenburg, the second largest city of Sweden. About 15 different Wikipedians edited over 100 different articles about women and literature.
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''[[User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)|Fabrice Florin]], Movement Communications Manager, Wikimedia Foundation''<br>
''[[User:ASherman (WMF)|Andrew Sherman]], Digital Communications Intern, Wikimedia Foundation''
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<small>[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/17/wikimedia-january-2015/ Posted on the blog on February 17th]</small>
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