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hi everyone and welcome to our

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presentation about the ban of wikipedia

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in turkey

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i am kutrik i'm an editor in turkish

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wikipedia and i'm together with bashar

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we both have been active expedience for

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over 15 years now and we are the

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founding two of the founding members of

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wikimedia user group turkey

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uh today we will talk about the banner

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wikipedia in turkey how this how it

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happened how it started why it started

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what was the process of lifting that ban

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and

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how it ended and how we came back

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afterwards

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even though most wikipedias do not have

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such an existential threat we believe

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every key every different wikipedia

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project can learn from our experience

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and what we have been through

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so

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um access to all wikipedia projects

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including turkish wikipedia english

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wikipedia and all other languages was

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banned in april of 2017

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at first it was an administrative

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decision administrative measure taken by

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the government and then it was backed up

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with an uh judicial one

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the ban was technically legal under the

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turkish internet law but the law was

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overreaching

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and

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actually the articles caused the ban of

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in wikipedia in turkey were on english

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wikipedia not on turkish wikipedia

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and it didn't have anything to do with

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the turkish community but the turkish

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community had the

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most negative effects um from the this

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man and the turkish people who couldn't

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access wikipedia

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and actually the problems in the

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articles were very easy to fix

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so the articles were about

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state-sponsored terrorism and uh foreign

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foreign intervention and involvement of

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uh in the syrian civil war and the

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articles were about turkey having links

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to isis and al-qaeda and supporting them

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these were stated as the cause of the

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ban when the ban went live in 2007

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17.

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but

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the turkish government has a tendency to

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ban popular websites instead of finding

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solutions

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um so twitter youtube and a lot of a lot

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of more websites were banned during the

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last 10 years and right now twitter

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youth bases are open but paypal uber and

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booking.com and about 300 000 more

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websites are still banned

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so uh this slide is a joke because it's

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a bit of a dark story so

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about freedom of expression so i had to

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like lighten this up somehow

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yeah um so unlike twitter youtube and

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other for-profit sites who try to make

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business in turkey and earn money in

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turkey and the media foundation did not

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give up to the demands of the turkish

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government at all at first

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so they did not agree with the

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censorship of the content

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and they decided to

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challenge the decision in court for

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freedom of expression

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so the

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foundation the wikimedia foundation

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contacted us immediately like

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a few hours after the ban was um

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established in turkey

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we discussed the situation we discussed

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the turkeys turkish public's reactions

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um we discussed the cultural background

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and what to do next

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so the foundation immediately hired the

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best internet lawyers in turkey and

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started the appeal process and released

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statements

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the legal process took about two and a

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half years so from the start of the ban

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in april of 2017 to the end of the ban

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in january

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2020

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um

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the wikipedia bought the turkish one and

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every other language

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version was banned in turkey so no one

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in turkey could directly reach those

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websites

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and the final appeal was filed to

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european court of human rights and

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on october 31st day in

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2019 they asked for a statement from

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turkey

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and after that on december 2019 they

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decided uh that the ban should be lifted

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but the problem was the european court

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of human rights does not have a direct

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jurisdiction over turkey so they cannot

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order turkey to do something

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but um the turkish government and the

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turkish courts court system decided to

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lift the ban in january 15 of 2020 after

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two and a half years

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so the ban was uh not a good experience

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for us at all under in touch wikipedia

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as you would imagine

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only the most active and most dedicated

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uh wikipedians remained

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uh active on turkish media

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most of almost all of the ipads were

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gone only the experienced people who

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were

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very dedicated to project were able to

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stay

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um

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everyone in turkey found ways to

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circumvent this ban so some people used

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mirror websites like wiki zero

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so you could just type

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a zero in front of wikipedia

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address in url and you could just reach

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the website through a mirror but that

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had lots of advertisement

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some people more technically savvy

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people change their dns addresses and

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set up a vpn or use the browser like tor

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but these solutions are not also perfect

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because and wikipedia doesn't allow all

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open proxies open vpns so it wasn't very

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effective all the time

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and here is the

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direct result of the ban

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so in turkish wikipedia and arabic

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wikipedia had similar page views

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before the ban and during the bam period

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the page views after wikipedia

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decreased by 80 percent so in other

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words

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80 percent of our readers couldn't reach

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us and couldn't reach free information

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uh after the ban was lifted the numbers

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came back a bit but we are still um

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catching up with the arabic wikipedia we

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still have the similar we are still

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behind of them

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um the new article count decreased a bit

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we lost about 12 000 articles uh that

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could have been written

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which is about two and a half percent of

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our total article account right now

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but after the ban was lifted we gained a

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lot of new users and

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uh we gained a lot of new articles

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during the ban about 80 percent of our

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editors most active editors who has more

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than one or more edits um

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stopped editing wikipedia

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and the number of new users decreased by

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almost 90 percent as it was very

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difficult to create an account and

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it was very difficult to reach wikipedia

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through avpm by creating an account

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so to recap we lost most of our users

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during the ban we lost a lot of articles

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and we lost a lot of readers due to the

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one positive thing is the vandalism was

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not a big problem during that period and

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bundles generally use ipaddress in

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turkish

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and but after the ban we came back with

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new bloods with new users and

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new people to on board

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and we grew our outreach efforts

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exponentially

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um so that we can rebuild wikipedia

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after having such a blow

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from the rest of the presentation my

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dear colleague bashar will tell you

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about the story how we came back and

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rebuilt our community

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yeah

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thank you very much fred

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yes during the block the internet users

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in turkey have really missed wikipedia a

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lot

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uh you might be remembering the miss

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turkey campaign

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if you go to the next livestream

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maybe you are remembering this campaign

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that we made a foundation launched for

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the first anniversary of the ban uh

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during the campaign many wikimedians in

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the world expressed their support for

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free knowledge in turkey the campaign

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had taken the form of wikipedia

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we miss wikipedia and was well received

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in turkey we saw how much internet users

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in turkey have missed wikipedia with the

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floods of new user registrations uh

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right after the lifting of the block as

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frat shared

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our small group focus on how we keep

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this new interest for wikipedia leave

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and in the next slide i would like to go

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over our groups and first done that

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since the lifting of the block the main

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problem ahead of us has been rebuilding

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the trust in wikipedia and open

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knowledge here are some examples of uh

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news about wikipedia and mainstream

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media organs before the lifting of the

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block and right after it

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even after the ban was lifted in january

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15 of january 20 22 which was the 20th

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anniversary of wikipedia the counter

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wikipedia propaganda pro government

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sources continued for some time

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we had to change this feeling of

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mistrust and misunderstandings about

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wikipedia in other words we had to

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reintroduce wikipedia to turkey

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our strategy

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can be summarized as next slide

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as being more visible

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and open

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for being able to

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trust about wikipedia and although the

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site is very largely known

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and read by the public the number of

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contributions have always been very low

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and the community was never active

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we the activators didn't know each other

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and anonymity was highly valued in

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turkish wikipedia community

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i think that is difficult to change a

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good light

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and we decided to change that and we

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decided that it's time to show people

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those simple facts next slide

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that wikipedians are not rare unicorns

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and wikipedia is good by ordinary good

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people

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still most editors remain

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preferred remaining anonymous but a

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small group of comedians started out

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meetups and outreach activities in

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partnership with other organizations

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what we do

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in the next slide i summarize them we

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started wrinkle their online meetings

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called wiki tuesday editors used

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telegram channel actively or group font

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and non-profit organization we started

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to meet and collaborate with other free

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knowledge organizations we directly

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organizations now i want to go over them

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as i said being more visible and open

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was our new strategy and we thought that

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first we had to learn being visible and

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their questions are welcomed secretly

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telegram channel again anyone can join

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non-profit organization so instead of

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of volunteers we became a registered

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activities and contact partners the

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with minister of eternal affairs and it

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university of korea knowledge

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organizations like related commons to 30

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association and fake checking

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organizations like theodore but we're

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also there and we started to getting

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know each other visited each other's

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great things and even organized joint

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uh we believe having such collaboration

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and network is important to fight back

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against censorship analog in the future

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partnerships after the different of the

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blog we found out that all um people and

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all kinds of organizations are more

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eager to collaborate with wikipedians

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activities at 18 university departments

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in five different cities and we reached

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directly reached over one thousand

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students as university students since

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right and in order to reintroduce

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occupation to people other than

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university students we made partnerships

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some first simply ask us to make a

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presentation or give a talk for their

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members or volunteers to introduce

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like librarian associations public

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trainings to volunteers of city councils

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to improve wiki content about their fees

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and after each event we receive an

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invitation to talk at another place we

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do accept every invitation that it's for

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three person or a hundred percent what

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matters for us is not the number of

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people participating but

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enthusiasm

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uh and if an organization feels ready to

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start editing we organize that

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commedicated form with them the concept

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of datatone was welcomed very positively

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by organizations uh because it was a

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the pandemic it gave the opportunity to

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or volunteers and produce a meaningful

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work about their field those at the

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the terms we make with experienced

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not producing as many articles as

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possible but uh participants created one

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article or two articles uh for those uh

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uh work and after the man educate 2022

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another member uh volunteered to

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organize regular ethertones for writing

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in the next slide we see their pictures

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and those at the tones really took

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attention of the media and in the next

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slide we made uh leaky contests more

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visible to the public uh we used the

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side notes to spanners and sometimes

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sent out press buttons to announce

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contests and they are very proud that we

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made the first wikileaks contest in

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turkey we organized we class earth and

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more than 3 000 photos were uploaded we

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saw there's a big welcome back wikipedia

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response

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from internet users of turkey

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and in the next slide we see some

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media coverage

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we started to be seen on the media

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especially on the first anniversary of

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the lifting of the block we had made

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some interviews we openly answered

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questions about the block about the

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lifting of the block but we more focus

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on our outreach activities and our

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efforts to create better content for

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turkish-speaking people

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and lastly i want to wrap up like saying

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this you know wikipedians are ordinary

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good people and the paintings in turkey

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have been through difficult times we are

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so thankful to everyone in the wikimedia

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foundation and in the moment for their

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efforts for lifting of the block and for

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their support during the block

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now we are much more active and stronger

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than before the blog

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normalizing the public perception about

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wikipedia and wikipedians

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was our main problem after the listing

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of the blog

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we see openness as the key for that all

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our efforts after the lifting of the

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block is based on this understanding

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we all know that contributing to wiki

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projects uh being a part of our movement

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is as easy as clicking the edit button

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but not every internet user could

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recognize this and wikipedians remain as

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mysterious and even suspicious people

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for many

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our group is now working for changing

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their perception and for this purpose

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some of us are more visible and

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accessible although most wikipedians

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remain anonymous i am one of those more

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visible active turkish wikipedians at

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university courses webinars seminars at

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the tones we keep telling how they could

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be a good contributor as well

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people are afraid of things they don't

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understand and also governments are

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afraid of things they don't understand

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we have to make better understood uh by

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everyone so we believe we would trust uh

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by openly communicating with anyone

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interested and wikipedia will be richer

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and less vulnerable to any censorship

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efforts in this way

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i'm glad that i could finish my verse

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and thank you very much for listening i

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i would like to see

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questions if i have time

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you can reach us

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all the time offline as well for your

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questions

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i'm checking that attachment

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for the questions

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okay um we have our username spashakank

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on the atropat and um on the

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talk notes so you can check the um

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wikimedia mining site about our

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presentation found our usernames and can

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you can always reach us for any

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questions on how the blog was um lifted

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and what was the process during that

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um thank you everyone for joining our

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call and and joining them listening to

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our presentation

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and up for any questions you can reach

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the beginning becoming yourself or us

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and thank you for joining us

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you