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Lucy Crompton-Reid on Feminism and Museums
Wikimedia UK Chief Executive Lucy Crompton-Reid has been published in a new book on Feminism and Museums by Museums Etc.
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Welsh Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles
Wicipedia Cymraeg, the Welsh Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. Welsh Wikipedians have been working hard over the past year to reach this target, which is a big achievement for a…
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Introducing Wikimedia UK’s new Programme Coordinator
I’m the new Programme Coordinator for the coming year, working alongside our now three other coordinators across the UK. I’ll be concentrating on our Wikimedia In Residence programmes as well…
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Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata
The first Wikidata in the Classroom assignment at the University of Edinburgh took place last semester on the Data Science for Design MSc course. Two groups of students worked on…
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Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia’s usability
Wikimedia Commons is one of the most important sources of Creative Commons licensed media online. But it has a huge problem: it’s a total mess.
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Celtic Knot 2018
The Wikipedia language conference is back, and it’s coming to Wales.
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Wikipedia and journalism: researching a Fake News site with Wikipedia as a starting point
I saw a friend on Facebook share an obvious piece of fake news a few days ago. It came from a site I’d seen before, World News Daily Report.
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#1Lib1Ref in Scotland
Glasgow Women’s Library; the Scottish Poetry Library; the Scottish Storytelling Centre; James Kelman’s classic How Late It Was, How Late; and Helen Cruickshank – all Wikipedia articles that were improved…
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How should journalists use Wikipedia?
Wikipedia receives about 18 billion page views per month from around 1.4 billion unique devices. While many people use Wikipedia for basic research into subjects which they want a simple…
