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“Masterpieces of the World” – A Landmark Partnership between Wikimedia UK and the Khalili Collections
Wikimedia UK is launching a landmark partnership with the UK-based Khalili Collections – one of the greatest and most comprehensive private collections in the world. Over the course of five…
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University of Edinburgh win higher education award for innovative use of Wikimedia in the curriculum
Wikimedia UK is very pleased to announce that our partners at the University of Edinburgh have been awarded the Innovative Use of Technology award for their use of Wikipedia in…
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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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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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A guide to the past: hillforts and Wikimedia
Hillforts are enormous archaeological sites dotted around Britain and Ireland. There are some of the most impressive remains from prehistory. Just five years ago the best guess for how many…
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Reflections on a Wikipedia assignment – Reproductive Medicine
This was originally posted on Ewan McAndrew's blog where he writes about his role as the University of Edinburgh's Wikimedian in Residence
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Wikimedia UK and National Library of Scotland announce new Gaelic post
The Gaelic language is to be promoted through one of the world's most popular websites thanks to a new role based at the National Library of Scotland.
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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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Announcing a new Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford
The University of Oxford now employs a Wikimedian In Residence (WIR). Martin Poulter is working half-time on a one-year project to embed Wikipedia, Wikidata and related sites in the university’s…
