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Green Men & Gargoyles: The Dumfries Stonecarving Project
Scotland Programme Coordinator Sara Thomas is working with tara s Beall, of the Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust, to support their new Stonecarving project. The project is funded by the Heritage…
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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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Recording heritage sites in danger with Wikipedia
I was scrolling Twitter when I came across a video of a fighter in Syria wasting ammunition to destroy an ancient Byzantine building.
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A multilingual infobox for Wikimedia Commons categories | By Mike Peel
Mike Peel is a UK Wikimedian who is running a session on the development of multilingual infoboxes on Wikimedia Commons at Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town. You can see the…
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UK Election Maps shared on Open Licenses are added to Commons
One account I follow on Twitter which produces very useful political maps is @ElectionMapsUK. I saw the account tweeting recently that after they had finished all their maps showing the…
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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…
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Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia’s usability
Wikimedia Commons is one of the most important sources of Creative Commons licensed media online. But it has a huge problem: it’s a total mess.
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How should journalists use Wikipedia?
Wikipedia receives about 18 billion page views per month from around 1.4 billion unique devices. While many people use Wikipedia for basic research into subjects which they want a simple…
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US Second World War propaganda films migrated to Commons
Victor Grigas, a video producer and storyteller who has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation for a number of years, posted on the Wikimedia Video Production House Facebook group yesterday that…
