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Catalan Wikipedia ranked third in quality

The Catalan Wikipedia has now more than 175.000 articles.

The Catalan Wikipedia (Viquipèdia) is growing steadily both in number of articles and quality. If just a few months ago surpassed the 175.000 articles, now it has obtained the third place in a ranking that evaluates the excellence of the Wikipedias [...]

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Teachers strike again

Last Thursday there was the third strike of teachers and education professionals in less than eleven months. The reasons behind it were the same that motivated the former strikes: disagreement with the draft of the new education law (LEC) that the Catalan Ministry of Education is planning to pass and, specially, total opposition [...]

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Anti-bologna protesters clash with the Catalan police

What we saw yesterday on all media was shocking. The Catalan police baton-charged against hundreds of anti-Bologna protesters in the center of Barcelona, using an astounding amount of violence and aggressivity that has shocked the country (see video in youtube). The day began with the eviction of dozens of students who were occupying a public [...]

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