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Does Wikipedia have enough administrators?
There are currently 1144 admins on the English language Wikipedia, of whom 501 are active as editors, though not all of those do a lot of admin-specific tasks. When you…
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Wikimedia UK’s 2019 Annual General Meeting – election results and more
Thank you to all members who attended our AGM on Saturday or voted by proxy. We had an excellent response from eligible voting members, receiving 91 votes in total -…
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Wikimedia UK announces Wikimedian and Partnership of the Year
At Wikimedia UK's 2019 Annual General Meeting on Saturday we awarded our prizes for Wikimedian and Partnership of the Year. These awards recognise people and projects which have made a…
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Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna
Earlier this month I took some time out from my Edinburgh work to travel to Vienna to take part in the Wikipedia for Peace editathon organized by Wikimedia Austria to…
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How Wikimedia UK is working with the music industry to improve Wikipedia
Why should the music industry engage with Wikipedia? Firstly, they already do, but often they don’t do it very well, and get content deleted which they add to artists’ pages…
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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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Libraries, Librarians & Wikimedia: a round up of our favourite things for the CILIPS Annual Conference 2019
This is a blog in two parts - the first is some session recommendations for the CILIPS conference, and the second is a list of cool stuff about library engagement…
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Conway Hall collections helping to improve Wikipedia
Last weekend Conway Hall in central London hosted a Wikipedia editathon to improve pages on Wikipedia about 19th century pamphleteers and the subjects they wrotr about. Hundreds of Victorian-era pamphlets…
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Education in Wales and Wikipedia
Wales has always had more than its fair share of ministers of religion, farmers... and educators!
