On Thursday 1st September, two Martins from Wikimedia UK ( MartinPoulter and Martinvl ) visited the Institute of Physics building in London to train IoP members in contributing to Wikipedia . This … Continue reading "Wikimedia UK at the Institute of Physics"
arrow_forwardTen is turning out to be the number of the year for Wikimedia. First, the Wikimedia Foundation celebrated the tenth anniversary of … Continue reading "Ten million free media files and counting"
arrow_forwardPicture of the Year 2009 – Sikh pilgrim at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in India Each year the Wikimedia … Continue reading "Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2009"
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_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_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_forward31 December 2009, UK What do Howard Carter , discoverer of the famed tomb of King Tutankhamen, novelist Ford Madox Ford , and sexologist Havelock Ellis all … Continue reading "Wikipedia celebrates Public Domain Day on 1st January"
arrow_forwardA mosaic of 1,200 of the 5 million media files, forming the Wikimedia logo 2 September 2009, The Internet: Wikimedia … Continue reading "Milestone: 5 Years, 5 Million Media Files on Wikimedia Commons"
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