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• 11.10.2016
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Diversity
  • Scotland
  • Staff
  • Uncategorized

Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Scotland are advertising for a Gaelic Wikipedian to help promote the Scottish Gaelic … Continue reading “WMUK and National Library of Scotland are hiring a Gaelic Wikipedian”

• 14.09.2016
• • Uncategorized

Wikimedia UK will soon be applying to the Wikimedia Foundation for an Annual Plan Grant (APG) in 2017 – 18. … Continue reading “Help shape Wikimedia UK’s delivery plans for 2017 – 18”

• 13.09.2016
• • Cymru
  • Technology
  • Wales
  • Wikipedia

Generating Article Placeholders on the Welsh Wikipedia The Welsh Language Wicipedia already punches above its weight with seventy thousand articles. … Continue reading “No article? No problem.”

• 31.08.2016
• • Wiki Loves Monuments
  • Wikimedia Commons

Wiki Loves Monuments returns to the United Kingdom in September. The competition has a heritage focus and we want your help to photograph … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 kicks off the world’s biggest photography competition”

• 23.08.2016
• • Uncategorized

The public internet turned 25 today, which means it’s on its third unpaid internship, still living with its parents and … Continue reading “#Internaut Day – can we learn to stop worrying and love the internet?”

• 12.08.2016
• • Board

This post was written by Lorna Campbell and originally posted on her website . On Saturday I went along to my first Wikipedia … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK AGM”

• 08.08.2016
• • Uncategorized

It’s a normal part of an academic’s duties to be asked to peer-review papers for academic journals, something they do … Continue reading “Access All Areas: how can Wikimedia contribute to increasing Open Access publishing?”

• 04.07.2016
• • Uncategorized
  • Wikimania

By Lucy Crompton-Reid I didn’t expect to be crying through much of the opening speech for Wikimania 2016, given by … Continue reading “#MoreinCommon at Wikimania 2016”

• 02.07.2016
• • Board
  • Uncategorized

By Chris Keating In the summer of 2010 I saw a banner on Wikipedia asking me to come along to … Continue reading “Chris Keating steps down from the board of trustees after five years”

• 28.06.2016
• • Uncategorized
  • Wikimedia Commons

My name is Katy. I’m a music photographer, fledgling photo-journalist and writer that has been published in print, worked as … Continue reading “Pride in London – photographer Katy on working with Wikimedia UK”

• 22.06.2016
• • Strategy
  • Uncategorized

In May, Wikimedia UK ran a community consultation on our draft new strategic framework for 2016 – 19. Thank you … Continue reading “Revised three year strategy following consultation”

• 10.06.2016
• • Microgrants
  • Uncategorized

As the summer rolls around, there are so many important cultural events which the Wikimedia community can engage with and … Continue reading “Supporting our community to create open content: we want your ideas!”

• 08.06.2016
• • Advocacy
  • Uncategorized

You can tell Europe to help protect street photography After last year’s drama in the European Parliament about “freedom of … Continue reading “Speak up for open knowledge and a free internet: Freedom of Panorama Consultation”

• 06.06.2016
• • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

This blog is also available in French, Spanish and Russian on the Wikimedia Foundation blog . ____________________________________________________ Yesterday was  World Environment Day , the United Nations’ … Continue reading “Share your photos of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves on Wikipedia to inspire the world”

• 09.05.2016
• • Uncategorized

Over the past year we’ve gone through a number of changes in the way we work and are organised. We … Continue reading “2016 Strategy Consultation”

• 19.04.2016
• • Uncategorized

By Ally Crockford, former Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland I have lived in the UK for what will be 9 … Continue reading “I’ve lived in the UK for 9 years but the government wants to deport me”