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‘Can my business have a Wikipedia page?’
So you’re a business. You’ve got a company that’s number #3 in the UK at making spoons, or something like that, and you want to make sure that when people…
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From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements
With the end of October, Wikidata’s birthday comes round once more, and on the 29th it will be six years old. With the passing of time Wikimedia’s structured data site…
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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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Science Source seeks to improve reliable referencing on Wikipedia’s medical articles
Science Source is a new project by ContentMine which builds on their previous work on WikiFactMine, which wanted to ‘make Wikidata the primary resource for identifying objects in bioscience’. This…
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Recording heritage sites in danger with Wikipedia
I was scrolling Twitter when I came across a video of a fighter in Syria wasting ammunition to destroy an ancient Byzantine building.
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GB1900 Project Launch: The Historically Open Gazetteer of Great Britain
Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Project Launch of of GB1900; the first ever historical gazetteer of the entirety of Great Britain, capturing the…
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OER18, FLOSS UK and CELT Conference Reflections
Earlier this spring I was honoured to be invited to keynote at three open knowledge conferences in the UK and Ireland, which presented a great opportunity to highlight the work…
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Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias
At the beginning of July, I attended the Celtic Knot 2018 conference at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth organised in partnership with Wikimedia UK. As a Wikidata novice,…
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A multilingual infobox for Wikimedia Commons categories | By Mike Peel
Mike Peel is a UK Wikimedian who is running a session on the development of multilingual infoboxes on Wikimedia Commons at Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town. You can see the…
