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Talking to Creative Commons’ Ryan Merkley about CC Search and Structured Data on Commons
CC Search beta was launched in February. This new tool incorporates ‘list-making features, and simple, one-click attribution to make it easier to credit the source of any image you discover.’…
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Increasing diverse content on Wikimedia projects with UK music festivals and labels
I’ve been doing some outreach to various UK music festivals and labels to encourage them to release content on their artists and to consider giving Wikimedia community members press passes…
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Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
I really like Magnus Manske’s WikiShootMe tool. It visualises Wikidata items, Commons photos and Wikipedia articles on an OpenStreetMap. Wikidata items are shown as red if they have no photo…
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2016: follow up and thank you!
Every year thousands of people from across take part in the world’s largest photography competition. After a hiatus in 2015, the UK took part in this year’s competition. The winners…
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Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2016 Winners Announced!
More than 250 people took part in the UK competition, uploading 6,200 photos of cultural heritage which anyone can reuse. Thank you to everyone who took part. The winners of…
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Wikimedia projects aren’t built in a day – Roman coinage on Commons
This article is based on a paper given at this year’s Museum Computer Group held at the Wellcome Trust on October 19th.
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 kicks off the world’s biggest photography competition
Wiki Loves Monuments returns to the United Kingdom in September. The competition has a heritage focus and we want your help to photograph every monument in the country. The prizes…
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Pride in London – photographer Katy on working with Wikimedia UK
My name is Katy. I'm a music photographer, fledgling photo-journalist and writer that has been published in print, worked as a professional and, on Saturday, donated her time and photographs…
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Celebrate women in science with Wikipedia
This post was written by Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, and was originally published on the library's blog.
