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• 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”

• 24.05.2019
• • GLAM network
  • Libraries
  • Uncategorized

Last weekend Conway Hall in central London hosted a Wikipedia editathon to improve pages on Wikipedia about 19th century pamphleteers … Continue reading “Conway Hall collections helping to improve Wikipedia”

• 15.05.2019
• • Cymru
  • Education
  • Wales

By Robin Owain, Wikimedia UK Wales Manager Wales has always had more than its fair share of ministers of religion, … Continue reading “Education in Wales and Wikipedia”

• 03.05.2019
• • Uncategorized

Following a recent news report in a tabloid paper, which criticised websites including Wikipedia for not taking seriously enough the … Continue reading “Self-harm and the internet”

• 25.04.2019
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Scotland

By Jeff Sanders, Project Manager for Dig It! based at The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . AN ANCIENT SOCIETY (WITH FRESH IDEAS) 1780: a time before the … Continue reading “New Wikimedian in Residence at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland”

• 18.04.2019
• • Board

We are very pleased to announce the recent appointment of three new trustees to Wikimedia UK’s board . Sangeet Bhullar, Jane Carlin and … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK welcomes three new trustees”

• 17.04.2019
• • Wikipedia

Wikimedia UK has started running events to encourage long-time Wikipedia editors and those interested in becoming technically proficient at more … Continue reading “AutoWikiBrowser – find out how to automate mass edits on Wikipedia”

• • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikipedia

By Richard Nevell , Wikimedia UK Project Coordinator Shortly before 7pm on April 15 in Paris a devastating fire broke out in … Continue reading “What happened on Wikipedia when Notre-Dame burned?”

• 10.04.2019
• • Academia
  • Education
  • Events
  • GLAM-WIKI
  • Higher Education

By Jason Evans, National Wikimedian for Wales. In April 2019 the Basque Wikimedians User Group hosted the first Wikimedia + … Continue reading “The first Wikimedia + Education conference”

• 19.03.2019
• • Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Commons

By Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford The speed at which Wikidata is acquiring descriptions of … Continue reading “A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos”

• 09.03.2019
• • Academia
  • Science
  • Uncategorized

This article was jointly authored by Thomas Shafee and Jack Nunn from the WikiJournals board , and edited by John Lubbock of Wikimedia UK. … Continue reading “What are WikiJournals?”

• 07.03.2019
• • Technology

This article is by Wikipedia administrator User:TheSandDoctor Early this past December, I was reviewing article submissions on Wikipedia and noticed that … Continue reading “Reviewing Draft Articles and the Battle Against Misplaced Templates”

• 21.01.2019
• • Academia
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator of Wikimedia UK It was about 2007 when Wikipedia hit the mainstream. Millions of students … Continue reading “How Wikipedia infiltrated academia”

• 17.01.2019
• • Research
  • Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Commons

By Magnus Manske , MediaWiki developer and longtime Wikimedian The new year is just over two weeks old, but the WikiVerse already … Continue reading “New Year Wikimedia ideas from Magnus Manske”