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Announcement – QRpedia donated to Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce that Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden are transferring ownership of QRpedia to Wikimedia UK.
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Gibraltarpedia: WMUK press release
Gibraltarpedia is a project by the Government of Gibraltar to improve coverage of Gibraltar-related topics on Wikipedia. It is co-ordinated by two Wikipedians, Roger Bamkin and John Cummings, who are…
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Gibraltar’s biggest website is now CC-BY-SA for Gibraltarpedia
The discovergibraltar.com website has invited Gibraltarpedians to use its content as a resource for the Gibraltarpedia project and Wikipedia. This comes as a result of presentations made by Roger Bamkin…
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Volunteer’s efforts win Gibraltar the right to be the first Wikipedia ‘city’
Tyson Lee Holmes was with friends when he read about ‘Monmouthpedia, the World’s First Wikipedia Town.’ His first thought was, wouldn’t it be great if we could do it here,…
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World first for St Paul’s Church, Birmingham
St Paul's is the first church in the world to utilise innovative QRpedia technology
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Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station
The below press release was issued to railway-related media over 28 and 29 May for immediate release. It's likely to be published over the course of the next month or…
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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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Did you know there is a QRpedia code on the oldest computer in Bletchley Park, the Magna Carta and on the Domesday Book?
Launched in April last year, QRpedia was developed out of the partnership with Derby Museum and Art Gallery by Wikimedia UK member Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden, a mobile web…
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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,…
