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Three months as a Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library
Over the past two years, Wikimedia UK has been working with the British Library. These have involved a series of editing events and tours through 2011-12, and partnerships between curators…
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Pic for victory! We team up with The National Archives to bring war art to public domain
We've recently been working with our friends from The National Archives to bring a collection of 2,000 or so war art images into the public domain. This is the result…
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Welcome to the world’s first Wikipedia town
You've probably heard the saying, “In theory, Wikipedia shouldn’t work, but in practice it does.” Three of the things that contribute to make Wikipedia work are topic-specific WikiProjects (“let’s write…
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Wikimedia UK and British Library unveil latest Wikipedian in Residence
Wikimedia UK is very happy to announce the UK's latest Wikipedian in Residence. Andrew Gray will be based at the British Library's main site in St Pancras, London from today.
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British Library is looking for a Wikimedian In Residence (6 months)
The British Library is recruiting an experienced Wikipedia editor with a good understanding of Wikimedia and GLAM projects. The post has funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and…
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GLAMcamp London
On Friday 24th June we had our first UK GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) networking day.
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British Library English and Drama editathon
Wikimedia UK together with the British Library’s English & Drama department is inviting people to attend a Wikipedia editathon on Saturday 4 June. The aim of the day is to…
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Launching our new GLAM Outreach Taskforce
GLAM - Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. Wikimedia - the organisation behind Wikipedia, its image library Commons and many more information projects.
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Join the Wright Challenge!
For the last two weeks Wikimedia UK has been running a competition in partnership with the Derby Museum. So far, over 150 new or improved Wikipedia articles have been created,…
