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27 Aug 2020

Hello everyone,

Here is a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation about some recent
notable goings ons within the Wikipedia community.

Regards,

Douglas.

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From: Adora Svitak &lt;asvitak(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 01:34
Subject: [MoveCom] Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020
To: Media Report &lt;media-report(a)wikimedia.org&gt;

Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020In today's media report,
the alarming discovery that many articles in Scots Wikipedia were created
by an American teenager without a solid command of the language; fifty
volunteers have signed up to enrich Arabic content on Wikipedia Sept. 20-27
through a Saudi Center for Digital Content program; a teenager created a
Wikipedia page about a 56-year-old camp for children with communication or
social learning challenges; and much more.

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   August 25
   Scots Wikipedia
   Gizmodo - Alleged Teen Brony Has Filled the Scots Wiki With Thousands of
   Fake Translations

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-…

   - "Earlier today, Reddit user Ultach wrote a fairly lengthy post about
      an alarming discovery. In it, they described that Scots Wikipedia has a
      notorious reputation for being inaccurate with regard to vocabulary and
      grammar. Ultach claims that Scots Wikipedia was poorly spelled
English with
      a few Scots words thrown in here and there. Out of curiosity,
they checked
      the Wikipedia’s edit history… and lo, apparently one person had
created and
      edited roughly a third of Scots Wikipedia’s 60,000 or so articles."

      - *Related Stories:*
   Kaldata - Почти цялата версия на шотландската Wikipedia е написана от
   американски тинейджър

https://www.kaldata.com/it-%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8/%D0%BF%D0%B…

   Enriching Arabic content on Wikipedia
   Al Khaleej Today - 50 volunteers register to enrich Wikipedia’s Arabic
   content

https://alkhaleejtoday.co/saudi-arabia/5035102/50-volunteers-register-to-en…

   - "Fifty men and women have registered as volunteers to enriching the
      Arabic content in Wikipedia, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Monday. The
      registration comes within the volunteering work platform of the
Ministry of
      Human Resources and Social Development, in cooperation with
“WikiDowen.” It
      is one of the projects of the Saudi Center for Digital Content
of the King
      Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah). The volunteerism
      opportunity aims to enrich the Arabic content in Wikipedia by
creating new
      articles in the encyclopedia, or developing and translating existing
      articles, in the historical and cultural fields, monuments,
archaeology and
      development. These volunteers will from Sept. 20 – 27."

   Disability representation on Wikipedia
   Beaverton Valley Times - Amazing Kids: Beaverton teen is all about
   representation

https://pamplinmedia.com/bvt/15-news/477889-386265-amazing-kids-beaverton-t…

   - "Camp Meadowood is a nonprofit camp in Eastern Oregon for kids ages 6
      through 14 with communication or social learning challenges.
After Jenell's
      experience there, she decided it wasn't enough to merely attend — she
      wanted to be part of the aiding process as well. She started by
creating a
      Wikipedia page, explaining the history and functionality of the
56-year-old
      camp."

   Allegations of bias
   Stefczyk - Wikipedia tubą propagandową radykalnej lewicy? Redaktor
   próbował zmienić imię “Margot” na Michał – edycję cofnięto i zagrożono mu
   banem

https://www.stefczyk.info/2020/08/25/lewicowa-wikipedia-redaktor-probowal-z…

   - "Is Wikipedia a leftist propaganda mouthpiece? More and more people
      are asking similar questions about the popular online encyclopedia, and
      many Internet users have considerable reservations about its objectivity.
      Readers of this website more and more often look in its articles to refer
      to leftist sources, theories or points of view, rather than to objective
      facts. Proof of this can be a discussion between Wikipedia editors about
      one of the articles devoted to the "Stop Nonsense" collective, as well as
      the actions of the administrators of this site in this regard."

   Sports
   Daily Record - Ex-Leeds man Eoghan Stokes asks Airdrie fans to judge him
   on the pitch, not his Wikipedia page

   https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/ex-leeds-man-eoghan-stokes-…

   - "“But they are looking at stats on a Wikipedia page, they are not
      looking at me playing football. They are not seeing a player who
is playing
      on the left or centre midfield, they think I’m playing up front and
      wondering why I’m not scoring 30 goals a season. “I think Stuart
knows what
      I’m all about, where I’m going to play and what my best position
is, so I’m
      happy with that."

   Wikipedia and SEO
   Flipweb - Pasting your website link on Wikipedia does nothing for your
   SEO

https://flipweb.org/pasting-your-website-link-on-wikipedia-does-nothing-for…

   - "Everyone wants to rank his or her page on Google. To do so, there are
      many types of options which are available for the owner of the website.
      People try various types of options to rank their page on Google. One of
      the recent cases were to use Wikipedia so that you can include
backlinks of
      your website in it. Wikipedia is a wide source of information and is very
      popular among students. Although, Wikipedia is a very reliable source of
      information this cannot be used for SEO purposes. If you edit
the Wikipedia
      page and add your website link in it then it will be of no use."

      - *Related Stories:*
   Online Marketing - Google bestätigt: Links von Wikipedia liefern keinen
   SEO-Mehrwert

   https://onlinemarketing.de/news/google-links-von-wikipedia-kein-seo-mehrwert

Adora Svitak (she/hers)

Communications Specialist

Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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