News: Advocacy
Filter by category: Advocacy
Advocacy news
-
How Wikimedia UK is working with the music industry to improve Wikipedia
Why should the music industry engage with Wikipedia? Firstly, they already do, but often they don’t do it very well, and get content deleted which they add to artists’ pages…
-
‘Can my business have a Wikipedia page?’
So you’re a business. You’ve got a company that’s number #3 in the UK at making spoons, or something like that, and you want to make sure that when people…
-
How to run a Wikipedia editathon – for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference
For some time, Wikipedia has been shown to be a resource to engage with, rather than avoid. Wikipedia is heavily used for medical information by students and health professionals -…
-
OER18, FLOSS UK and CELT Conference Reflections
Earlier this spring I was honoured to be invited to keynote at three open knowledge conferences in the UK and Ireland, which presented a great opportunity to highlight the work…
-
Wikipedia in Higher Education… How students are shaping the open web
Co-authored by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Edinburgh and Jemima John, 4th year undergraduate student at the University's School of Law and Digital Skills intern
-
Aaron Morris at WiciMon! Promoting the Welsh language with WikiWales
Hi, I’m Aaron Morris and I was appointed WiciMôn Project Officer nearly two years ago. I’m based at the offices of Menter Iaith Môn, the project organisers, at Llangefni, Anglesey,…
-
How should the music industry engage with Wikipedia?
If I was a music industry promoter, I would make sure the artists I worked with had accurate Wikipedia pages, because those pages will come at the top of the…
-
Wikipedia Vs Fake News
This article based on the text of Wikimedia UK's submission to the government's inquiry into fake news, which was launched in January.
-
Speak up for open knowledge and a free internet: Freedom of Panorama Consultation
Think about the state of digital photography 15 years ago, on 22 May 2001 say. It’s about a week after Mark Zuckerberg’s 17th birthday, a few years before Flickr, Instagram…
