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Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data
Between 1560 and 1689, there were some 1,100 parishes in Scotland, each one served by a minister who, ideally, preached sermons once or twice a week, offered communion at least…
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Women in Red Edinburgh internship – celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
This post was written for the Women in Red blog by their intern, Laura Rose Wood. We launched the internship with Women in Red in January.
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My first week as the new Wikimedia Training Intern
Hannah Rothmann is an intern at Edinburgh University, training with our Wikimedian in Residence who is based there, Ewan McAndrew. Hannah wrote this post for the University’s blog.
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My first steps in the Wikimedia world – interning with Wikimedia UK & Archeology Scotland
In 2019 Wikimedia UK, Archaeology Scotland and The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland recruited a graduate intern through the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Internship programme. These funded…
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Fashion and digital citizenship at Bath Spa University
Bath Spa University in the UK had its first ever Wikipedia assignment, as part of a Digital Citizenship module for undergraduates studying Business Management Fashion. The results are mostly in…
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University of Edinburgh win higher education award for innovative use of Wikimedia in the curriculum
Wikimedia UK is very pleased to announce that our partners at the University of Edinburgh have been awarded the Innovative Use of Technology award for their use of Wikipedia in…
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The first Wikimedia + Education conference
In April 2019 the Basque Wikimedians User Group hosted the first Wikimedia + Education conference in Donostia. Using Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects in education is nothing new. There is…
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What are WikiJournals?
This article was jointly authored by Thomas Shafee and Jack Nunn from the WikiJournals board, and edited by John Lubbock of Wikimedia UK.
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How Wikipedia infiltrated academia
It was about 2007 when Wikipedia hit the mainstream. Millions of students were using one website to get an introduction to their new course subjects, and many, of course, were…
