Growing our volunteer community in Scotland
In 2019 we hired Dr Sara Thomas as our Scotland Programme Coordinator. As Sara’s expanded our reach across Scotland, the … Continue reading "Growing our volunteer community in Scotland"
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Yorkshire Editathon championing women in STEM
By Katie Crampton, Wikimedia UK Communications & Governance Assistant We kicked off February in collaboration with University of York with … Continue reading "Yorkshire Editathon championing women in STEM"
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How to run a Wikipedia editathon – for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference
By Ruth Jenkins, Academic Support Librarian at the University of Edinburgh. For some time, Wikipedia has been shown to be … Continue reading "How to run a Wikipedia editathon – for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference"
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Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web
Co-authored by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Edinburgh and Jemima John, 4th year undergraduate student at the … Continue reading "Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web"
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Wikipedia and journalism: researching a Fake News site with Wikipedia as a starting point
By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator I saw a friend on Facebook share an obvious piece of fake news a few … Continue reading "Wikipedia and journalism: researching a Fake News site with Wikipedia as a starting point"
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How should journalists use Wikipedia?
Wikipedia receives about 18 billion page views per month from around 1.4 billion unique devices. While many people use Wikipedia … Continue reading "How should journalists use Wikipedia?"
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So you’ve decided to become a Wikipedia editor…
By John Lubbock The learning curve when you start editing Wikipedia and its sister projects can be steep. To help … Continue reading "So you’ve decided to become a Wikipedia editor…"
arrow_forwardWomen’s History Month retrospective – Rosalind Franklin’s birthday
This month we are taking a look back at some of the Wikipedia gender gap projects we have worked on … Continue reading "Women’s History Month retrospective – Rosalind Franklin’s birthday"
arrow_forwardWomen and Wikipedia Editathon, Swansea
This post was written by Prof. Deborah Youngs and Dr Sparky Booker of Swansea University On Wednesday 28th January, 2015, … Continue reading "Women and Wikipedia Editathon, Swansea"
arrow_forwardEdit-on dudes: #ClassicsWomen are into Wikipedia
This post was written by Claire Millington, a Classics PhD student at Kings College London. It was first published on her blog here This week, after a lot … Continue reading "Edit-on dudes: #ClassicsWomen are into Wikipedia"
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