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A recent Guardian editorial praised academic involvement in Wikipedia and called for more of it - helping to make the free encyclopedia more reliable and making more people aware of the fruits of academic research. History & Policy was ahead of the game, linking to its policy papers and opinion pieces and securing new audiences as a result - and we wrote to the paper accordingly. You can read the published letter here. Academics can also fill out Wikipedia's survey on barriers to their involvement here (deadline: 15 April).

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