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University College London undergraduates will create their own course text using Wikibooks
Professor Carl Gombrich , Programme Director for UCL’s new interdisciplinary course, Arts and Sciences (BASc) , approached Wikimedia UK early this year to talk about his … Continue reading “University College London undergraduates will create their own course text using Wikibooks”
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Mozfest 2018 roundup: how Wikimedia UK has been engaging with other Open organisations
Wikimedia UK has been attending Mozilla’s conference in London for a few years now, as we attempt to build deeper … Continue reading “Mozfest 2018 roundup: how Wikimedia UK has been engaging with other Open organisations”
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Green Men & Gargoyles: The Dumfries Stonecarving Project
Scotland Programme Coordinator Sara Thomas is working with tara s Beall, of the Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust, to support their … Continue reading “Green Men & Gargoyles: The Dumfries Stonecarving Project”
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Wikipedia’s photo competition Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2018 winners
The winners of the UK section of the world’s biggest photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments have just been announced, with … Continue reading “Wikipedia’s photo competition Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2018 winners”
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‘Can my business have a Wikipedia page?’
So you’re a business. You’ve got a company that’s number #3 in the UK at making spoons, or something like … Continue reading “‘Can my business have a Wikipedia page?’”
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From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements
By Charles Matthews, Wikimedian in Residence at ContentMine With the end of October, Wikidata’s birthday comes round once more, and … Continue reading “From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements”
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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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Science Source seeks to improve reliable referencing on Wikipedia’s medical articles
Science Source is a new project by ContentMine which builds on their previous work on WikiFactMine , which wanted to ‘make … Continue reading “Science Source seeks to improve reliable referencing on Wikipedia’s medical articles”
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Recording heritage sites in danger with Wikipedia
I was scrolling Twitter when I came across a video of a fighter in Syria wasting ammunition to destroy an … Continue reading “Recording heritage sites in danger with Wikipedia”
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GB1900 Project Launch: The Historically Open Gazetteer of Great Britain
Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Project Launch of of GB1900; the first ever … Continue reading “GB1900 Project Launch: The Historically Open Gazetteer of Great Britain”
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OER18, FLOSS UK and CELT Conference Reflections
By Lorna M. Campbell, University of Edinburgh Earlier this spring I was honoured to be invited to keynote at three … Continue reading “OER18, FLOSS UK and CELT Conference Reflections”
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Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias
By Delphine Dallison, Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Libraries and Information Council (SLIC) At the beginning of July, I … Continue reading “Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias”
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A multilingual infobox for Wikimedia Commons categories | By Mike Peel
Mike Peel is a UK Wikimedian who is running a session on the development of multilingual infoboxes on Wikimedia Commons … Continue reading “A multilingual infobox for Wikimedia Commons categories | By Mike Peel”
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UK Election Maps shared on Open Licenses are added to Commons
One account I follow on Twitter which produces very useful political maps is @ElectionMapsUK. I saw the account tweeting recently … Continue reading “UK Election Maps shared on Open Licenses are added to Commons”
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Tech dive – Alex Monk on implementing secure certificates across Wikimedia domains
Background This report assumes that you know basically what HTTPS is, among other things. ‘We’ is used liberally in this … Continue reading “Tech dive – Alex Monk on implementing secure certificates across Wikimedia domains”
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