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Wikimania 2023 Session Highlight: Navigating the Wikipedia Library 

Ever wanted to find journals, books, or news articles to use while editing Wikipedia and been blocked by a paywall? It’s a common occurrence given that, according to one 2018 study, only 28% of scholarly literature is Open Access (Piwowar et al., 2018). For Wikipedians looking for reliable sources to use, these paywalls can be incredibly problematic. However, as I learned at a Wikimania 2023 session, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has a solution! The Wikipedia Library.

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Wikimania 2023: Musings of a First-Time Attendee

February 3, 2023. The day I created my Wikipedia account for a grad school assignment. All I had to do was find a Wikipedia article and write a paper suggesting future edits and analyzing the article’s edit history. If you asked me in February whether I thought a single assignment about Wikipedia editing would have such an impact on my life, I would have said absolutely not.

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A look back at the WikiConvention Francophone 2023 in Abidjan

The seventh edition of the WikiConvention Francophone was held on September 22 and 23 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Over 130 participants from 22 countries shared their views and ideas around 5 themes: Education, Training and Research; Culture, Heritage, and Legacy; Climate Change and Sustainability; Knowledge Equity; and Wikimedia Strategy 2030.

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