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WikiMaster of the World awarded during an India Quiz Event Tour 2020 in Dindigul Tamil Nadu India

WikiMaster of the World awarded during an India Quiz Event Tour 2020 in Dindigul Tamil Nadu India

The Founder of World of Knowledge, Mr. Erik Bolinder was on an India Promotional Tour during a week at the end of January 2020. He was Invited to promote WikiMaster and the WOK project among four Colleges in the Dindigul area located in the state of Tamil Nadu in the south of India, close to Chennai.  The Tour was a huge success and was initiated by the World's current Nr 1 WikiMaster: Mr. Gopalakrishnan, who during one of the events finally got his long-awaited Award WikiMaster of the World for 2018 and 2019.

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WOK project summorizes 2019

WOK project summorizes 2019

The World of Knowledge Project moved at a steady pace during 2019. We introduced the web version at Http:/wok.uno and the Community added over 75000 multiple choice questions in the WOK database landing north of a half-million MCQs attached to the Wikipedia articles in the WikiMaster app. WikiFlip surpassed 200000 flashcards. The project Founder Erik Bolinder was awarded "GFEL Top 100 Leader in Education Award. Overall it was a great year for WOK. 

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Erik Bolinder awarded Top 100 Leader in Education by the GFEL Organization

Erik Bolinder awarded Top 100 Leader in Education by the GFEL Organization

The Founder of WOK Mr. Erik Bolinder has been awarded the GFEL Top 100 Leader in the World in Education Award. The Prize Ceremony was held at the Le Meridien Hotel in Dubai on Dec 16-18, 2019. 

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Images from Wikimania 2019

Images from Wikimania 2019

Wikimania is a global conference for Wikipedia. Every year a new city hosts this event where all the Wikimedians from the World gather to meet up and discuss the development of the encyclopedia. The Founder of World of Knowledge Project Mr. Erik Bolinder has attended four (4) Wikimania. In 2016 in Italy by the small village of Esimo Laurio by the Como Lake. In 2017 in Montreal and in 2018 in Cape Town. This year the event of Wikimania took place at Stockholm University, the University that Erik Bolinder graduated in 1992. It was a Wikimania in the Home Town of the Bolinder Family living here for seven generations. The great Community of Wikipedia was experiencing Stockholm at its best. Here are some images and videos from the Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm. 

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wok.uno premiere at the Hashemite University with Founder Erik Bolinder

wok.uno premiere at the Hashemite University with Founder Erik Bolinder

On February 14, 2019 in an official visit to the Hashemite University in Zarqaa, WOK founder Erik Bolinder was invited by the Hashemite University to have a lecture of the project of WOK, World of Knowledge to the Students.  He also met with the President of the University, Professor Kamal Eddine Bani Hani for an hour to discuss the many Challenges of Jordan with Education, Energy, and Water in focus. During the stay, the official WikiMaster Community Jordan was founded by a group of Students around Mr. Mossab Banat. 

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First WikiFlip Conference empowering women

First WikiFlip Conference empowering women

The African Women in Technology and business and WOKcraft have hosted the first WikiFlip Conference in Lagos on January 26, 2019. 65 delegates attended on the Event flipping images in WikiFlip, creating questions in WikiMaster and learn more about the WOK projects in making education in Nigeria stronger. 

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Building the Knowledge Network WOK in 2018 continued with successful milestones

Building the Knowledge Network WOK in 2018 continued with successful milestones

The Community of WOK in 2018 can be summarized as the third (!) year of success since launching of the app WikiMaster. We like to thank all our wokers, contributors, fans, donators and event delegates for the joint forces bringing the database of multiple choice questions linked to Wikipedia articles to be larger, stronger and more useful than ever. This social project is moving stronger into 2019! 

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WikiMaster app launches new JAMB Exam Preparation Portal

WikiMaster app launches new JAMB Exam Preparation Portal

For Nigeria and West Africa Students in general, the WikiMaster App has launched a portal to help students prepare for JAMB Examinations. The WikiMaster Nigeria User Group has been focused on making the app more useful for students by adding former exam questions for JAMB in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry and other subjects.

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WikiMaster Communities are forming around the World

WikiMaster Communities are forming around the World

WikiMaster Communities are forming around the World to encourage quiz and local content based questions to national exams and to gather to enjoy the WikiMaster app. 

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WikiMaster is open in Turkey

WikiMaster is open in Turkey

In May 2017 the political party ruling in Turkey banned Wikipedia in Turkey. Since then it has been banned. Search on Google will not result in any results. 
In Google Play / Play Store for Android devices and in AppStore, Turkish users can download the WikiMaster app. This is currently to our knowledge the only way to get access to Wikipedia in Turkey. 

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WikiMaster joined Wikimania 2018 Conference in Cape Town

WikiMaster joined Wikimania 2018 Conference in Cape Town

Wikimania is the annual conference celebrating all the free knowledge projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. WikiMaster and WikiFlip were represented in Cape Town on July 18-22 by WOK Founder Erik Bolinder. 

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WikiMaster Quiz-a-thon in Lagos on July 6-7

WikiMaster Quiz-a-thon in Lagos on July 6-7

The WikiMaster Community is growing. In Nigeria, the WikiMaster User Group met up for a quiz-a-thon on July 6-7, 2018. It was a great success. Over 65 students from different Universities showed up in Lagos. During July 7-31 these students produced over 6500 multiple choice questions related to Nigeria, West Africa and Africa in General. A great way to get the local content in focus. 

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Offline learning with WikiMaster

Offline learning with WikiMaster

The WOK project continues to move forward in our ambition to create the Knowledge Network. Many functions, design improvements, and content are added without big announcements or press releases. The ability to learn from Wikipedia offline is such a function.

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Google login is now the fastest way to login to the apps in WOK

Google login is now the fastest way to login to the apps in WOK

The login process has been simplified in the WOK ecosystem of apps during spring of 2018. Now you can either login with email, Facebook or the latest added function Google. 

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News Quiz every week in WikiMaster on current events

News Quiz every week in WikiMaster on current events

In WikiMaster we have now a weekly quiz on the current events with around 40 questions each week.  

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BBC West Africa follow up on WikiMaster Contest with news spot

BBC West Africa follow up on WikiMaster Contest with news spot

The World news agency BBC has a new division in West Africa with a special target for young people in Nigeria, Ghana and other countries in the area called BBC Pidgin. As earlier articles in the Journal has reported, the WOK Founder Erik Bolinder was interviewed while he held the WOK Conference in Lagos. Now BBC has completed the report in a 2-minute spot. 

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The scoring system of WOKbits in WOK gets a shaking update

The scoring system of WOKbits in WOK gets a shaking update

In March 2018 the WOKbits Scoring system has changed. Along with our success, we have learned from the vast amount of data and user behavior to make the app WikiMaster more fair and fun to use. The biggest change is the decreasing WOKbits (Wb) earned when you repeat the same question in a Wiki

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500000 downloads for WikiMaster a milestone in the WOK timeline

500000 downloads for WikiMaster a milestone in the WOK timeline

The Wikipedia app WikiMaster passed 500000 downloads in Play Store on Google for Android devices on March 2. This marks a milestone in the World of Knowledge history. 

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Wikimedia Commons authors in more focus in the WOK apps

Wikimedia Commons authors in more focus in the WOK apps

The images used in WOKcraft apps are from the fantastic Wikimedia Commons library. The images are both beautiful and descriptive. The images should not reveal the answers but give a hint of the question. During February 2018 WOK team enhanced the magnification of the images in all apps so the juridical minimi level was raised to give the authors even more credit but also enhanced the apps function, feel and enjoyment. 

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Awarded delegates at the WikiMaster Content in  Lagos

Awarded delegates at the WikiMaster Content in Lagos

The first WOK Conference ever held took place in Lagos at Goethe-Institut on Jan 29-31. The delegates from Nigeria and Edo State studied and learned about the app WikiMaster and after the Event two of the delegates was awarded with scholarships for their contributions with a partial funding for coming to Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town and for a 3-month internal scholarship at WOK Production team in Cairo.

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Pics from WikiMaster Nigeria Contest Event 2018 with Wikipedia in Lagos

Pics from WikiMaster Nigeria Contest Event 2018 with Wikipedia in Lagos

WOK has held its first Conference in Lagos, Nigeria in association with Wikipedia User Group Nigeria on Jan 29-31, 2018. Here you find some pics and summary of this successful event.

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WikiMaster Contest in Lagos on January 29-31 2018

WikiMaster Contest in Lagos on January 29-31 2018

World of Knowledge (WOK) will host its first conference in Lagos on January 29-31 in cooperation with Wikipedia Nigeria User Group.
The Event is to promote the Wikipedia use for schools in Nigeria and West Africa in promoting the vast useful content of Wikipedia for academic use in collab with a combination of quizzes on top of Wikipedia articles. The Event will also host and be a kickoff for a WikiMaster competition in the app WikiMaster, the core of the Knowledge Network WOK. 

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The Great Year of 2017 for WOK in numbers

The Great Year of 2017 for WOK in numbers

The World of Knowledge project at large had a really successful year. With all our common jointly forces of involvement, passion, energy, love and commitment WOK, with the WikiMaster app as the core, made some MAJOR landmarks during 2017. Thanks to everyone in the World participating for making the year such amazing for this social project!

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WikiData suggestion to implement Wikipedia and WOK

WikiData suggestion to implement Wikipedia and WOK

WikiData turned 5 years in October and is turning Wikipedia content into a better searchable database and are simplifying language translations. WOK project is a Wikipedia based project that also aims to enhance the usefulness of Wikipedia. This article discusses on how to handle MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) in the environment of Wikipedia with API and synchronization with the World of Knowledge (WOK) project.

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Newswatch video review of WikiMaster

Newswatch video review of WikiMaster

The television show Newswatch specializing in mobile app reviews has made a 100-second video presentation of the WikiMaster app that was broadcasted in the USA and across North America on Oct 23, 2017.

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WOK presented WikiMaster at WikiArabia Conference in Cairo

WOK presented WikiMaster at WikiArabia Conference in Cairo

The team creating the Knowledge Network WOK presented  the app WikiMaster at the Opening Day of the 3rd Arabia Wikipedia Conference WikiArabia 2017 in Cairo on Oct 23-25. 

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Expanding the Knowledge Network WOK into the Nr 1 School platform

Expanding the Knowledge Network WOK into the Nr 1 School platform

The ambition of the World of Knowledge project (WOK) is large. To become the gamechanger in the education industry online WOK aim at making the WikiMaster app the epicenter of the development in the smartphones across the World. WikiMaster new module is under development in a semihidden fashion. A soft launch with great implications. 

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Muskaan play quiz in WikiMaster educational app for more knowledge

Muskaan play quiz in WikiMaster educational app for more knowledge

Meet Muskaan Mahakul, a 14 year old girl from Bhopal with ambition, curiosity and crave for knowledge. A symbol for the power of learning. Hear about her encounter with her new favorite app WikiMaster.

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Disruptive Education Panel Debate in Madrid

Disruptive Education Panel Debate in Madrid

The Founder of WOKcraft Erik Bolinder was in Madrid on May 24 for a panel discussion regarding Disruptive Eucation at the Digital Business World Congress 2017. 

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WikiMaster quiz app: Now open globally in AppStore and Google Play.

WikiMaster quiz app: Now open globally in AppStore and Google Play.

Now we have open the WikiMaster app to be available in every part of the World. Both in Google Play. And in AppStore. So its World of Knowledge for real. Get WIkiMaster to your device now!

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