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Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK: a review of the exhibition
On Friday 3rd May, the Wiki Loves Monuments photo exhibition was packed up, marking the end of their time in the country, and is now en route to Sweden.
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Winner of the 2012 Picture of the Year contest
This is a guest post by User:Mono and was originally published on the Wikimedia Foundation blog here
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Voting opens for 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year competition
The below message was originally shared via email by the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year Committee. We're happy to share it here.
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Wikimedia Commons reaches 15 million files!
You may have heard that Wikimedia Commons, the media file repository which makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content, recently reached the landmark of 15 million files donated.…
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Wikipedia Takes Coventry – the winners!
This blog post was written by Wikimedia UK volunteer and event organiser, User:Rock drum
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Germans shoot Edinburgh – The Edinburgh Photography Workshop 2012, a joint UK-German venture.
Participating in Wikimedia's projects is not just about editing Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia articles have images, but not many people understand how they get there. Images on Wikipedia are provided by…
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Pic for victory! We team up with The National Archives to bring war art to public domain
We've recently been working with our friends from The National Archives to bring a collection of 2,000 or so war art images into the public domain. This is the result…
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Wikimedia UK at the Institute of Physics
On Thursday 1st September, two Martins from Wikimedia UK (MartinPoulter and Martinvl) visited the Institute of Physics building in London to train IoP members in contributing to Wikipedia. This was…
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Ten million free media files and counting
Ten is turning out to be the number of the year for Wikimedia. First, the Wikimedia Foundation celebrated the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia in January, and now Wikimedia Commons –…
