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• 28.01.2014
• • Cymru
  • Wales

This post was written by Robin Owain, Wikimedia UK’s Wales Manager. Welsh language text will follow soon. Following an agreement … Continue reading “Coleg Cymraeg to employ Wikipedian in Residence”

• 25.01.2014
• • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikipedia

Stephen Fry wears many hats – wit, television presenter, actor, writer and geek. He now has a new hat to … Continue reading “Stephen Fry records his voice for Wikipedia”

• 24.01.2014
• • Jisc
  • Wikipedia

This post was written by Dr Humphrey Southall, Reader in Geography, University of Portsmouth, written with Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc’s … Continue reading “Telling the stories of rural England with Wikipedia”

• 21.01.2014
• • Uncategorized

Wellcome Images yesterday announced that that they have released over 100,000 images, ranging from ancient manuscripts to etchings by Van Gogh and Goya , under open … Continue reading “Wellcome Images freely releases 100,000 images”

• 20.01.2014
• • Events
  • Scotland

Burns’ night is rapidly approaching and folk around the globe will be celebrating the Ba rd in style and good cheer, but the National Library of Scotland and … Continue reading “Celebrating Scottish poets: Anyone but Burns!”

• 16.01.2014
• • Wikimedian in Residence
  • Wikipedia

This blog post was initially published by Cancer Research UK as a press release on 16 January 2014 Cancer Research UK is to … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK and Cancer Research UK to take cancer information to the next level”

• 14.01.2014
• • Licences

This post was initially published by Timothy Vollmer, ‎Manager of Policy and Data at Creative Commons, December 27th, 2013 at … Continue reading “Creative Commons 4.0 BY and BY-SA licenses approved conformant with the Open Definition”

• 08.01.2014
• • Wikipedia

This post was initially sent to the media as a press release on 7 January 2014 Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, … Continue reading “2013 – what can we learn from what people read on Wikipedia?”

• 07.01.2014
• • Uncategorized

This post was written by Harry Burt, a Wikimedia UK volunteer Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce the creation of  https://planet.wikimedia.org.uk … Continue reading “New blog “planet” for UK Wikimedians”

• 06.01.2014
• • Just for fun

Towards the end of 2013 there was an interesting discussion on a Wikimedia-related email list regarding whether the movement should … Continue reading “Wikimedia UK receives an unusual donation…”

• 19.12.2013
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Uncategorized
  • Wikimedian in Residence

Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce that John Byrne (User:Johnbod) has been appointed Wikimedian in Residence at The Royal Society , the UK’s national academy … Continue reading “Royal Society appoints Wikimedian in Residence”

• 11.12.2013
• • Wikipedia

As we blogged last week, the annual Wikipedia fundraising campaign is in progress. One of the best things about the … Continue reading “Wikipedia supporters share their love of free knowledge”

• 09.12.2013
• • Board

Wikimedia UK today announces that Michael Maggs has been elected as the new Chair of the charity, succeeding Chris Keating. … Continue reading “Michael Maggs takes over as Chair of Wikimedia UK”

• 04.12.2013
• • Fundraiser

Wikipedia users in the UK will have noticed the appearance of fundraising banners across the site. This is because the … Continue reading “Wikimedia Foundation launches tenth-annual online fundraising campaign to support Wikipedia”

• 02.12.2013
• • Events

This post was written by Liz McCarthy , Communications and Social Media Officer for the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford After organising two ‘regular’ … Continue reading “Reaching into the past: Working with Wikipedia and students”