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• 16.01.2015
• • Academia
  • Research
  • Uncategorized

A recent article by @monicaMedHist identifies the disease in Royal 6 E VI, f 301, as leprosy: http://t.co/PmatI7obgF pic.twitter.com/ysEb3X9VNA — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) … Continue reading “The truth gets its shoes on: the Black Death on Wikipedia”

• 15.01.2015
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Cymru
  • Wales
  • Wikimedian in Residence

Wikimedia UK is proud to announce that the National Library of Wales has appointed a full time Wikipedian in Residence; … Continue reading “National Library of Wales with a birthday gift to Wikipedia”

• 13.01.2015
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Wikimedian in Residence

The Bodleian Libraries and Wikimedia UK have joined forces to support a year-long Wikimedian in Residence in Oxford. The post … Continue reading “Bodleian Library seeks a Wikimedian in Residence”

• 08.01.2015
• • Uncategorized
  • Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia UK received a very encouraging email this morning which highlights the nature of the work of our movement. In … Continue reading “Wellcome Library grateful for Wikimedia UK support”

• • Uncategorized

The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that it is donating 100 “RSC Gold” accounts – the complete portfolio of … Continue reading “Royal Society of Chemistry grants journals access to Wikipedia Editors”

• 24.12.2014
• • Education
  • Licences
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

By John Cummings, Wikimedia volunteer Wikimedia volunteer John Cummings has worked to make available on Wikipedia 2400 images of tropic agriculture research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and 4000 new images of vegan food, all the images were originally posted on Flickr by people … Continue reading “Understanding Sustainable Agriculture Through Wikipedia”

• 12.12.2014
• • Wikipedia

In October, English Heritage made 84 of their publications freely available online through the Archaeological Data Service . The ADS has been running … Continue reading “English Heritage and the Archaeological Data Service: What does it mean to Wikipedia?”

• 05.12.2014
• • Academia
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikipedia

By Nuša Farič, UCL, Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education (CHIME) Half of the editors working on Wikipedia’s 25,000 … Continue reading “Who writes Wikipedia’s health and medical pages and why?”

• 28.11.2014
• • Board

This post was written by Michael Maggs, Chair of Wikimedia UK On behalf of the Wikimedia UK board I am … Continue reading “Final report on Wikimedia UK governance released”

• 26.11.2014
• • Fundraiser
  • Uncategorized

This post was written by D’Arcy Myers, Wikimedia UK interim Chief Executive As the interim CEO for Wikimedia UK I … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK response to Wikimedia Foundation funding allocation”

• 21.11.2014
• • Scotland
  • Wales
  • Wiki Loves Monuments
  • Wikimedia Commons

Have you seen the UK winners of the 2014 Wiki Loves Monuments competition? Wiki Loves Monuments is the global photography contest … Continue reading “The winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in the UK”

• 14.11.2014
• • Diversity
  • Events

This post was written by Roberta Wedge, Gender Gap Project Worker Ada Camp is a weekend-long event bringing together women … Continue reading “AdaCamp Berlin 2014 – a summary account”

• 12.11.2014
• • Education

This post was written by Lorna Campbell and was originally published here . Re-used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License  Last … Continue reading “A review of EduWiki Conference 2014”

• 06.11.2014
• • Policy

The UK’s Intellectual Property Office  last week announced the launch of a new orphan works licensing scheme . This allows individuals and institutions wishing to use a work of intellectual … Continue reading “Response to the new IPO orphan works licensing scheme”

• 05.11.2014
• • Events
  • Other open groups

This post was written by Stuart Prior, Fundraising Assistant I recently spent the weekend at Mozfest , the annual Mozilla conference, held … Continue reading “A weekend at MozFest”