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Wikimedia Highlights, June 2013/en-gb
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Created page with "$50,559,430" New page <languages/> __NOEDITSECTION__ [[Wikimedia Highlights|Highlights]] from the '''[[Wikimedia Foundation Report, June 2013|Wikimedia Foundation Report]]''' and the '''[[mw:Wikimedia engineering report/...
34 International Experts Weigh in On Mass Surveillance on Snowden Anniversary
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By Katitza Rodriguez Today, a group of over 400 organizations and experts, along with 350,000 individuals, continue to rally in support of the 13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance (the Necessary...
Wikipedia Celebrates Its First 15 Years: History, Facts & Details
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Marking a milestone in the world of web-based services, WIKIPEDIA this year celebrated its 15th anniversary. Fifteen years ago, on 15th January, 2001 Wikipedia came into existence, and now it made its charisma as the internet’s “Free Encyclopedia”. ...
Concerns over NSA prompt Wikimedia to speed up using HTTPS by default
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In the wake of revelations about the National Security Agency's ability to broadly capture, index, and search the contents of unencrypted Web traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation is speeding up efforts to use secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) by...

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Launching a Privacy Policy Built the Wiki Way – Diff

We are happy to announce that on April 25, 2014, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees approved a new privacy policy. The new privacy policy explains how we collect, use and manage the…
Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM – Wikimedia Blog

Wikidata unlocks fifteen years of data collection and curation by volunteers to create a language-independent, linked, open, and structured database that is usable and friendly for both people and com...