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Open call by UK civil society to exempt public interest projects from the Online Safety Bill
Learn about the upcoming bill and add your name to our open letter
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Defying easy categorisation: Wikipedia as primary, secondary and tertiary resource
Wikipedia is the world’s largest information source, used daily by millions of individuals around the world – yet such is its uniqueness and dominance that rarely is the question asked:…
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Poems championing free knowledge inspired by University of Leeds students
To celebrate Wikipedia’s 22nd birthday on Sunday 15 January, the University of Leeds is sharing poems inspired by conversations between two poets, postgraduates in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, and…
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Women’s suffrage and the Hunger Strike Medal
Dr Sara Thomas, Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK
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Connected Heritage partnerships
We’re pleased to announce the first of our partnerships resulting from our Connected Heritage training. While the webinars are free for anyone working in the cultural heritage sector to attend,…
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January Scots writing drive
Over the last 18 months we’ve been working with the Scots Wiki community and Marco Cafolla, running editathons to improve the quality of the Scots wiki. The community has done…
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Train the Trainer 2022 – call for participants
Would you like to receive training on how to deliver Wikipedia editing events? Wikimedia UK are now inviting expressions of interest in our next round of Train the Trainer, due…
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UK based Punjabi artist opens up his archive
UK based Punjabi writer and photographer, Amarjit Chandan opened up images from his archive. Aside from images photographed by him, the archive includes images from his father, Gopal Singh Chandan,…
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Ada Lovelace day 24 hour global editathon
On the 12th October, an international 24 hour editing marathon will start in Aotearoa New Zealand to improve the coverage of women in Wikipedia. The relay of volunteer editing starts…
