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Competition Winners, Wiki Loves Earth, Wales
This year Wales took part in the international photography competition ‘Wiki Loves Earth’ organised by the Wikimedia movement. Founded 9 years ago as a focus for nature heritage, the competition…
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Spotlight on Wales for International Photography Competition
Upload your photographs during June to be in with a chance of winning country and international prizes.
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Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales
Over 7 years ago the National Library of Wales made the decision not to claim any rights to digital reproductions of public domain works. I was then employed as a…
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Supporting the Turkish Wikimedia community from the UK
As many of you know, Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey since 2017. While it’s still possible to access the site from Turkey via proxy sites and VPNs, it’s much…
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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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Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2019 winners announced
Wiki Loves Monuments UK, part of the world's biggest photographic contest, has announced the winners of this year's competition. The UK competition is organised and voted on by members of…
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What happened on Wikipedia when Notre-Dame burned?
Shortly before 7pm on April 15 in Paris a devastating fire broke out in one of France’s most iconic buildings. The fire was extinguished after more than 12 hours, and…
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A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos
The speed at which Wikidata is acquiring descriptions of paintings, sculptures and other museum holdings is impressive, but there is much further to go. It’s ironic that at the same…
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New Year Wikimedia ideas from Magnus Manske
The new year is just over two weeks old, but the WikiVerse already celebrated a joyous event: Wikipedia's 18th birthday! 50 million seems to be the number of the day…
