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GLAM-E Lab x Wikimedia UK: follow-on partnership
The University of Exeter’s GLAM-E Lab and Wikimedia UK are pleased to announce the continuation of our partnership into 2024. Following on from the success of the Connected Heritage project…
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UK based Punjabi artist opens up his archive
UK based Punjabi writer and photographer, Amarjit Chandan opened up images from his archive. Aside from images photographed by him, the archive includes images from his father, Gopal Singh Chandan,…
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Copyright for Wikimedia photographers in the UK
Spoiler:Its a terrible broken system which is part of the reason Wikipedia went copyleft in the first place. Please note that this is not legal advice. If you want that,…
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People of the Enlightenment: an opportunity for Wikipedians
A major scholarly database is offering free access to selected Wikipedians, thanks to an arrangement with Oxford University Press.
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Wikimedia and UNESCO team up to share the world’s culture
I have been working with the Sector for External Relations and Public Information unit at The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to make images from their archive…
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Understanding Sustainable Agriculture Through Wikipedia
Wikimedia volunteer John Cummings has worked to make available on Wikipedia 2400 images of tropic agriculture research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and 4000 new images of…
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What happens when you release photos on Wikimedia Commons?
I started making my photographs available on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons licence in 2006. Since then, I have uploaded over 3,500 photos to Commons, and I plan to…
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World Book and Copyright Day: Why copyright laws in Europe need revising
This post was written by Emily Sorensen, Wikimedia UK volunteer, writing in her personal capacity.
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Creative Commons 4.0 BY and BY-SA licenses approved conformant with the Open Definition
This post was initially published by Timothy Vollmer, Manager of Policy and Data at Creative Commons, December 27th, 2013 at the Creative Commons blog (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
