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News/2019-04

“ Other projects also feel that they have strong identities of their own, such as Wikinews, which is not affiliated with Wikipedia. Broad consensus is that rebranding other Wikimedia projects as "Wikipedia projects" is both inaccurate, and creates more confusion than it solves. ”
Source: Wikisource

News/2019-04

“ Shakespeare enthusiast Xover was recently nominated to be an admin for English Wikisource. They have been on contributing to the project since 2015. [1] On 17 August 2016, they had been granted the autopatroller user right.
As of the time of writing, Xover has had 4,228 edits to Wikisource with an impressive 85.7% of that being to the Page namespace. [2] Recently, though, they have been increasing their involvement in Wikisource. Only three months into the current year, Xover has almost doubled their previous year's contributions.
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Source: Wikisource

News/2019-04

“ Using Wikipedia as the central movement brand rather than Wikimedia. Providing clearer connections to the sister projects from Wikipedia to drive increased awareness, usage and contributions to all movement projects. Retaining Wikimedia project names, with the exception of Wikimedia Commons which is recommended to be shortened to Wikicommons to be consistent with other projects. Exploring new naming conventions for the Foundation and affiliate groups to use Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia. ”
Source: Wikisource

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