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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…
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WikiCite conference 2018
Imagine a world in which anyone could use an open citation database to support free knowledge, with rich information about every citable source.
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University College London undergraduates will create their own course text using Wikibooks
Professor Carl Gombrich, Programme Director for UCL's new interdisciplinary course, Arts and Sciences (BASc), approached Wikimedia UK early this year to talk about his interest in using a Wikimedia element…
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Wikipedia’s photo competition Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2018 winners
The winners of the UK section of the world's biggest photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments have just been announced, with the judges awarding fIrst prize to this stunning image of…
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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 -…
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GB1900 Project Launch: The Historically Open Gazetteer of Great Britain
Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Project Launch of of GB1900; the first ever historical gazetteer of the entirety of Great Britain, capturing the…
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Tech dive – Alex Monk on implementing secure certificates across Wikimedia domains
This report assumes that you know basically what HTTPS is, among other things. ‘We’ is used liberally in this post, and refers to the Wikimedia technical community in general -…
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A look back at the 2018 hackathon in Barcelona
Wikimedia UK staff couldn’t be in Barcelona at the end of May for the annual Wikimedia hackathon - we had our own events to organise with Amnesty International in London…
