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How GLAM Projects Helped Me Write Articles on Unconventional Topics

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Among Wikimedia’s projects, the most active and vibrant one is Wikipedia. For more than five years, I have been writing and translating articles on Wikipedia. In the beginning, I was more focused on translating articles from English into Bangla, but now I mostly write new articles. An illustration of the full form of GLAM, originally created by SSoster (WMB), translated by MdsShakil, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license One of the things I find most fascinating on Wikipedia is list articles. In my opinion, lists are an effective way to quickly access information on any topic. I am a Bangladeshi Wikipedian, and for those who may not know, Bangladesh became independent in 1971 after a bloody war. Before that, the region was a province of Pakistan called East Pakistan, and prior to 1947, it was part of the Bengal Presidency under British India. I noticed that Wikipedia already had list articles about members of the Parliament of Bangladesh.…

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