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Scots Wiki – moving forward
As Wikimedia UK, we work to support language communities living in, or connected to the UK. This translates to a range of projects, including Scots Wikipedia.
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Education booklet – Imperial College London
Extract from the Education booklet case study, written by Wikimedia UK and University of Edinburgh.
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Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data
Between 1560 and 1689, there were some 1,100 parishes in Scotland, each one served by a minister who, ideally, preached sermons once or twice a week, offered communion at least…
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Online training for online trainers – a response to COVID-19
At the beginning of the lockdown period in the UK, the Programmes Team, along with our network of Wikimedians in Residence, got to work on exploring how we could continue…
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Reflections on Roberta’s internship as it comes to an end
In 2019 Wikimedia UK, Archaeology Scotland and The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland recruited a graduate intern through the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Internship programme. These funded…
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Women in Red Edinburgh internship – celebrating notable women of Edinburgh
This post was written for the Women in Red blog by their intern, Laura Rose Wood. We launched the internship with Women in Red in January.
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My first week as the new Wikimedia Training Intern
Hannah Rothmann is an intern at Edinburgh University, training with our Wikimedian in Residence who is based there, Ewan McAndrew. Hannah wrote this post for the University’s blog.
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Just one week left to sign up for our 2020 AGM!
We’re gearing up for this year’s Annual General Meeting with just over a week to go until the event! On Saturday 18th July we will be meeting virtually, and though…
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Wikidata and Aberdeen – a virtual hackathon
Introduction by Sara Thomas, Wikimedia UK’s Scotland Programme Coordinator.




