Blog

• 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”

• 21.12.2017
• • Research
  • Scotland
  • Wikidata
  • Wikimedian in Residence
  • Wikipedia

What is the Atlas of Hillforts? Hillforts are enormous archaeological sites dotted around Britain and Ireland. There are some of … Continue reading “A guide to the past: hillforts and Wikimedia”

• 09.12.2017
• • Open Coalition
  • Other open groups
  • Technology
  • Wikimedia Commons

CC Search beta was launched in February. This new tool incorporates ‘list-making features, and simple, one-click attribution to make it easier to credit … Continue reading “Talking to Creative Commons’ Ryan Merkley about CC Search and Structured Data on Commons”

• 27.11.2017
• • Research
  • Technology
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

Alec Muffett, a director of the Open Rights Group and an ex-Facebook, now Deliveroo software engineer, has created a Wikipedia … Continue reading “Wikipedia over Tor? Alec Muffett experiments with an Onion Wikipedia site”

• 07.11.2017
• • Gender gap

WikiProject Women in Red is holding a biographical article creation contest throughout the month of November. They aim to create 2000 new biographical articles … Continue reading “Help reduce the #GenderGap and win prizes in the Women in Red World Contest”

• 06.11.2017
• • Uncategorized

Fako Berkers and Edward Saperia have been working together on a project called “WikiFeed”. It’s a framework that allows you … Continue reading “WikiFeed project to create custom newsfeeds from Wikimedia data”

• 01.11.2017
• • Uncategorized
  • Wiki Loves Monuments

Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s biggest photographic competition and takes place every September. Participants take photos of historic places, … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 winners announced!”