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• 10.02.2010
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Wikimedia Commons

Sailing on Ullswater—the six millionth file on Wikimedia Commons. Credit: James Hearton. Around 250,000 images from the Geograph British Isles Project have recently been uploaded to … Continue reading “Wikimedia Commons reaches 6 million files with the upload of 250,000 Geograph images”

• 28.01.2010
• • Cultural partnerships

Join Wikipedia in photographing and celebrating Britain’s cultural heritage in museums, galleries and archives nationwide 29 January 2010, UK: ‘Britain … Continue reading “Britain Loves Wikipedia”

• 03.01.2010
• • Cultural partnerships
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikipedia

3 January 2010, UK: The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust have released a number of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose onto Wikipedia. … Continue reading “Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia”

• 31.12.2009
• • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikipedia
  • Wikisource

31 December 2009, UK What do Howard Carter , discoverer of the famed tomb of King Tutankhamen, novelist Ford Madox Ford , and sexologist Havelock Ellis all … Continue reading “Wikipedia celebrates Public Domain Day on 1st January”

• 30.11.2009
• • Fundraiser

Wikimedia UK, in conjunction with the Wikimedia Foundation, recently started its first fundraiser. So far we have raised over £9,000 … Continue reading “Support Wikimedia UK – Donate now!”

• 20.11.2009
• • Wikipedia Loves Art

Image via Wikipedia ( PD ) Earlier this year, a Wikipedia Loves Art event – a free content photography contest – was held at the … Continue reading “Wikipedia Loves Art at the V&A – Photos on Commons”

• 10.09.2009
• • Events

Wikimedia UK and the Open Knowledge Foundation are partnering to run the 2010 Open Knowledge Conference, planned to be held … Continue reading “Open Knowledge Conference & WMUK AGM”

• 02.09.2009
• • Wikimedia Commons

A mosaic of 1,200 of the 5 million media files, forming the Wikimedia logo 2 September 2009, The Internet: Wikimedia … Continue reading “Milestone: 5 Years, 5 Million Media Files on Wikimedia Commons”

• 31.08.2009
• • Cultural partnerships

On 19 August 2009, Regionarkivet (a municipal archive institution based in Gothenburg, Sweden) and Wikimedia Sverige announced the release of 28 high-quality and high-resolution images onto … Continue reading “Regionarkivet makes images by Francis Bedford and Roger Fenton available on Wikimedia Commons”

• 30.08.2009
• • Wikipedia

In the past week we have seen considerable interest from British newspapers, radio and television in the forthcoming trial of … Continue reading “British media storm over Wikipedia changes”

• 26.08.2009
• • Wikipedia Loves Art

Earlier this year, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Wikimedia UK took part in “ Wikipedia Loves Art ”, a free content photography contest. V&A Museum – Image via … Continue reading “Wikipedia Loves Art – Prizes”

• 18.08.2009
• • Uncategorized

Image via Wikipedia Welcome to the blog of Wikimedia UK , the chapter of the Wikimedia projects covering the United Kingdom. We’ll be … Continue reading “Welcome to the Wikimedia UK blog!”