Blog

• 19.09.2023
• • Staff

By Rupal Karia, Outreach and Community Coordinator at Wikimedia UK I am really excited to join Wikimedia UK and am … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK welcomes Rupal Karia as Outreach and Community Coordinator”

• 15.09.2023
• • Connected Heritage
  • Cultural partnerships
  • GLAM network
  • Museums
  • Wikimedian in Residence

By Dr Lucy Hinnie, Resident at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Connected Heritage Project Lead Since early 2023 I … Continue reading “Residency at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum”

• 06.09.2023
• • Academia
  • Education
  • Higher Education
  • Scotland
  • Wikipedia

Levi White is an FE Lecturer in Social Sciences at New College Lanarkshire.  After working with Wikimedia UK on the  West Boathouse’s “Play … Continue reading “New College Lanarkshire: Become a Wikimedian Course”

• 29.06.2023
• • Advocacy
  • Diversity
  • Education
  • Knowledge Equity
  • Strategy
  • Technology
  • UK community
  • Wikipedia

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• • Uncategorized

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• 12.05.2023
• • Research
  • UK community

By Daria Cybulska, Director of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK Democracies rely on informed citizens to function effectively. Over … Continue reading “From editing articles to civic power – Wikimedia and Democracy”

• 09.05.2023
• • Connected Heritage
  • Cultural partnerships
  • Diversity
  • GLAM network
  • GLAM-WIKI
  • Knowledge Equity
  • Museums

By Leah Emary, Wikimedian in Residence at The Mixed Museum and Connected Heritage Project Lead Introduction and Overview The Wikimedian … Continue reading “Celebrating The Mixed Museum residency as it comes to an end”

• 04.05.2023
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Diversity
  • GLAM network
  • Museums
  • Technology
  • Wikidata

By Richard Nevell, Programme Manager for Wikimedia UK VocalEyes plays a vital role in making arts and heritage accessible for … Continue reading “VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available”

• 28.04.2023
• • Education
  • Events
  • Other open groups

By Bukola James, Volunteer Wikimedian Attending the World Literacy Summit 2023 at Baliol’s College in Oxford was a dream come … Continue reading “Empowering literacy advocacy: a Wikimedian and certified trainer’s experience at the World Literacy Summit with support from Wikimedia UK”

• 24.03.2023
• • Academia
  • Wikipedia

By Caroline Ball, Trustee of Wikimedia UK Abstract Wikipedia is the world’s largest information source, used daily by millions of … Continue reading “Defying easy categorisation: Wikipedia as primary, secondary and tertiary resource”

• 08.03.2023
• • Diversity
  • Gender gap

By Katie Crampton, Communications Coordinator at Wikimedia UK The goal of Wikipedia is to create a world where everyone has … Continue reading “International Women’s Day and the wiki projects”

• 27.02.2023
• • Connected Heritage
  • Cultural partnerships
  • GLAM network
  • GLAM-WIKI
  • Museums

By Leah Emary, Wikimedian in Residence at the Mixed Museum In March 2023, university students from Queen Mary University London … Continue reading “March is Wiki micro-internship month at The Mixed Museum and Manar al-Athar”

• 21.02.2023
• • Advocacy
  • Events
  • Other open groups

By George Colbourn, Fundraising Coordinator at Wikimedia UK The State Of Open Conference brings together organisations, communities and advocates of … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK at SOOCon23”

• 14.02.2023
• • Connected Heritage
  • Cultural partnerships
  • Diversity
  • GLAM network
  • GLAM-WIKI
  • Knowledge Equity
  • Museums

By Leah Emary, Wikimedian in Residence at the Mixed Museum and Connected Heritage Project Lead at Wikimedia UK As a … Continue reading “The Mixed Museum: an overview of the residency”

• 10.02.2023
• • Training

By Esma Gjertsen, Volunteer Coordinator at Wikimedia UK We organised the most recent iteration of our Train the Trainer (TtT) … Continue reading “Train the Trainer Dec2022 Feedback”