Blog

• 30.12.2019
• • Uncategorized

By John Lubbock, Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator I’ve worked at Wikimedia UK since 2016, managing their social media, press, content … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK publishes ‘Closing the Gender Gap’ video”

• 16.12.2019
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Cymru
  • Libraries
  • Technology
  • Wales
  • Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikimedian in Residence

By Jason Evans, National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales Over 7 years ago the National Library of Wales … Continue reading “Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales”

• 11.12.2019
• • Advocacy
  • Diversity
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikimedia Commons

By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator As many of you know, Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey since 2017. While it’s … Continue reading “Supporting the Turkish Wikimedia community from the UK”

• 07.11.2019
• • Licences
  • Wikimedia Commons

By UK Wikimedian and copyright enthusiast Geni Spoiler:Its a terrible broken system which is part of the reason Wikipedia went copyleft in … Continue reading “Copyright for Wikimedia photographers in the UK”

• 04.11.2019
• • Wiki Loves Monuments
  • Wikimedia Commons

Wiki Loves Monuments UK, part of the world’s biggest photographic contest, has announced the winners of this year’s competition. The … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2019 winners announced”

• 24.10.2019
• • Higher Education
  • Scotland
  • Wikidata
  • Wikimedian in Residence

So, the University of Edinburgh have been awfully busy when it comes to all things Witchcraft recently.   Wikimedian in Residence … Continue reading “Samhuinn at the University of Edinburgh”

• 22.10.2019
• • Diversity
  • Other open groups
  • Uncategorized

By John Lubbock, Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator I met recently with Faisal Saeed al-Mutar, an Iraqi refugee in the US, … Continue reading “Arabic Wikipedia is growing fast – here’s why”

• 11.09.2019
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Diversity
  • GLAM network
  • GLAM-WIKI
  • Knowledge Equity
  • Museums
  • Wikimedian in Residence
  • Wikipedia

Wikimedia UK is launching a landmark partnership with the UK-based Khalili Collections – one of the greatest and most comprehensive … Continue reading ““Masterpieces of the World” – A Landmark Partnership between Wikimedia UK and the Khalili Collections”

• 25.07.2019
• • Policy
  • Uncategorized

By John Lubbock, Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator There are currently 1144 admins on the English language Wikipedia, of whom 501 are active as editors , though not … Continue reading “Does Wikipedia have enough administrators?”

• 17.07.2019
• • Board
  • Events
  • Strategy
  • Uncategorized

Wikimedia UK AGM 2019 – image by Jwslubbock CC BY-SA 4.0 2019 board elections and resolutions Thank you to all members … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK’s 2019 Annual General Meeting – election results and more”

• • Advocacy
  • Cultural partnerships

At Wikimedia UK’s 2019 Annual General Meeting on Saturday we awarded our prizes for Wikimedian and Partnership of the Year. … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK announces Wikimedian and Partnership of the Year”

• 05.07.2019
• • Board
  • Diversity
  • Inter-chapter

  Earlier this month I took some time out from my Edinburgh work to travel to Vienna to take part … Continue reading “Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna”

• 24.06.2019
• • Advocacy
  • Cultural partnerships

By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator at Wikimedia UK Why should the music industry engage with Wikipedia? Firstly, they already do, … Continue reading “How Wikimedia UK is working with the music industry to improve Wikipedia”

• 10.06.2019
• • Academia
  • Education
  • Higher Education
  • Wikimedian in Residence

Wikimedia UK is very pleased to announce that our partners at the University of Edinburgh have been awarded the Innovative … Continue reading “University of Edinburgh win higher education award for innovative use of Wikimedia in the curriculum”

• 03.06.2019
• • Libraries

This is a blog in two parts – the first is some session recommendations for the CILIPS conference, and the … Continue reading “Libraries, Librarians & Wikimedia: a round up of our favourite things for the CILIPS Annual Conference 2019”