GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. Wikimedia – the organisation behind Wikipedia, its image library Commons and many more … Continue reading "Launching our new GLAM Outreach Taskforce"
arrow_forwardFor the last two weeks Wikimedia UK has been running a competition in partnership with the Derby Museum. So far, … Continue reading "Join the Wright Challenge!"
arrow_forwardWikimedia and British Library join forces to improve content relevant to the Library on Wikipedia The British Library, home to … Continue reading "British Library hosts 2-day Wikimedia Editathon"
arrow_forwardIn February 2010 we ran Britain Loves Wikipedia – encouraging people to visit 20 museums across the UK to take photographs for Wikipedia, … Continue reading "Britain Loves Wikipedia pictures on Commons"
arrow_forwardBack stage at the British Museum. More photos from the day. Following from the successful Backstage Pass event held at the British Museum on 4 June, attended … Continue reading "Featured Article prizes from the British Museum"
arrow_forwardImage via Wikipedia Wikimedia UK and the British Museum would like to invite all Wikipedians to a very special event taking … Continue reading "Backstage pass @ British Museum"
arrow_forwardSailing on Ullswater—the six millionth file on Wikimedia Commons. Credit: James Hearton. Around 250,000 images from the Geograph British Isles Project have recently been uploaded to … Continue reading "Wikimedia Commons reaches 6 million files with the upload of 250,000 Geograph images"
arrow_forwardJoin Wikipedia in photographing and celebrating Britain’s cultural heritage in museums, galleries and archives nationwide 29 January 2010, UK: ‘Britain … Continue reading "Britain Loves Wikipedia"
arrow_forward3 January 2010, UK: The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust have released a number of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose onto Wikipedia. … Continue reading "Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia"
arrow_forwardOn 19 August 2009, Regionarkivet (a municipal archive institution based in Gothenburg, Sweden) and Wikimedia Sverige announced the release of 28 high-quality and high-resolution images onto … Continue reading "Regionarkivet makes images by Francis Bedford and Roger Fenton available on Wikimedia Commons"
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