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From Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/GLAM collaboration with university

In brief

• 60 hour editathon: A straight 60 hours of editing with over 80 people has just concluded in Mexico City's Museo Soumaya. Wikimedia Mexico's Ivan Martinez told us that "we think this event is a testament to our still-living chapter after a Wikimania. One third of the participants were Wikimania volunteers so we are very happy about retention." You can look back on related tweets (which used #50Años50Horas).
• Wikipedia Library signups in English, Finnish, Farsi: New signups for the Wikipedia Library, a Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) program that connects editors with the reliable sources they need to create content, have been announced.
• Wikimania scholarships open: You may now apply for a full or partial scholarship to Wikimania 2016, the annual conference of the Wikimedia movement that will be held next June in Esino Lario, Italy. Partial scholarships are being brought back after a two-year hiatus.
• Foundation news
  • Discovery team: Are you interested in what the WMF's Discovery department does, including improving search or adding OpenStreetMaps to Wikimedia sites? Join their IRC office hour on December 17 at 19:00 UTC.
  • Gadgets 2.0: Wikimedia's gadget function will be overhauled to make it "more powerful and user-friendly." For more, see the November Community Tech update on the Wikimedia-l mailing list.
  • Ombudsman Commission: The Ombudsman Commission, the body charged with investigating potential violations of the Privacy Policy on any Wikimedia project, is looking for new members. Applicants are required to meet several qualifications; if interested, email pearleywikimedia.org.
  • Help define a new IdeaLab campaign: After the successful Inspire campaign earlier this year, the WMF's Community Resources team has invited community members to generate ideas for future campaigns, which "generate novel proposals for improving and addressing community needs on the Wikimedia projects to which you contribute."
• State of the Commons: The 2015 State of the [Creative] Commons, the non-profit whose free licenses underpin the Wikimedia projects, has been published.
• Beirut and Paris: How did Wikipedians respond to the reports of terror attacks in Beirut and Paris last month? The WMF's Joe Sutherland writes that "Wikipedians are changing how breaking news is gathered and reported by curating news from around the world to produce a constantly updated, crowdsourced view."

Ed Erhart, Editorial Associate, Wikimedia Foundation

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