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• 11.06.2018
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Events
  • GLAM network
  • GLAM-WIKI
  • Libraries
  • Uncategorized

It has come to that time of year when we’re taking in nominations for Wikimedian of the Year, 2018! Nominating your Wikimedian of the Year is a great opportunity … Continue reading “Nominate your Wikimedian of 2018”

• 08.06.2018
• • Academia
  • Advocacy
  • Education
  • Higher Education
  • Training
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

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”

• 05.06.2018
• • Academia
  • Advocacy
  • Cultural partnerships
  • Cymru
  • Diversity
  • Education
  • Uncategorized
  • Wales
  • Wikipedia

Hi, I’m Aaron Morris and I was appointed WiciMôn Project Officer nearly two years ago. I’m based at the offices … Continue reading “Aaron Morris at WiciMon! Promoting the Welsh language with WikiWales”

• 29.05.2018
• • Academia
  • Cultural partnerships
  • Education
  • Higher Education
  • Research
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

By Charles West, Lecturer of History and Wikipedia Advocate at the University of Sheffield Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the … Continue reading “Wikipedia in the History Classroom”

• 16.04.2018
• • Advocacy
  • Cultural partnerships

By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator If I was a music industry promoter, I would make sure the artists I worked … Continue reading “How should the music industry engage with Wikipedia?”

• 29.03.2018
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Gender gap
  • GLAM network
  • Staff

Wikimedia UK Chief Executive Lucy Crompton-Reid has been published in a new book on Feminism and Museums by Museums Etc. Lucy’s chapter is on Wikimedia … Continue reading “Lucy Crompton-Reid on Feminism and Museums”

• 27.03.2018
• • Cymru
  • Wales

Wicipedia Cymraeg , the Welsh Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. Welsh Wikipedians have been working hard over the past year to reach … Continue reading “Welsh Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles”

• 15.03.2018
• • Staff
  • Uncategorized

By Hannah Evans, Programme Coordinator Hello out there Wikimedia Community… I’m the new Programme Coordinator for the coming year, working … Continue reading “Introducing Wikimedia UK’s new Programme Coordinator”

• 09.03.2018
• • Scotland
  • Wikidata

By Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh The first Wikidata in the Classroom assignment at the … Continue reading “Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata”

• 28.02.2018
• • Research
  • Technology
  • Wikimedia Commons

By John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator Wikimedia Commons is one of the most important sources of Creative Commons licensed media online. … Continue reading “Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia’s usability”

• 20.02.2018
• • Cymru
  • Diversity
  • Scotland
  • Wales
  • Wikipedia

The Wikipedia language conference is back, and it’s coming to Wales. By Jason Evans, National Wikimedian for Wales Celtic Knot provides a … Continue reading “Celtic Knot 2018”

• 15.02.2018
• • Research
  • Training
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

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”

• • GLAM network
  • Libraries
  • Scotland

Glasgow Women’s Library; the Scottish Poetry Library; the Scottish Storytelling Centre; James Kelman’s classic How Late It Was, How Late; … Continue reading “#1Lib1Ref in Scotland”

• 13.02.2018
• • Education
  • Training
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • 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?”

• 08.02.2018
• • Cymru
  • Diversity
  • GLAM network
  • Science
  • Wales

Volunteers at the National Library of Wales have been translating important health articles from English into Welsh – image by Jason … Continue reading “3000 new articles added to the Welsh Wicipedia”

• 31.01.2018
• • Wikimedia Commons

Victor Grigas, a video producer and storyteller who has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation for a number of years, posted on … Continue reading “US Second World War propaganda films migrated to Commons”