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A message from Josie Fraser, new Wikimedia UK Chair
I am delighted to have become the new chair of Wikimedia UK at today’s AGM. I was initially elected to serve as a trustee in July 2015, and re-elected to…
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How Wikipedia found itself at the centre of a major corruption scandal in Pakistan
On the early morning of July 11th, as a controversy developed in Pakistan over the release date of a Microsoft typeface, Calibri, unidentified individuals (both supporters and opponents of the…
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Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools
It has been over a year and a half since Dundee Dental School first established the Wikipedia Editing Project, a student-led effort with the intent of improving dental articles on…
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Increasing diverse content on Wikimedia projects with UK music festivals and labels
I’ve been doing some outreach to various UK music festivals and labels to encourage them to release content on their artists and to consider giving Wikimedia community members press passes…
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Wacky Wiki Races!
Wikipedia has more than five million articles in its English language version. No article is an island: with few exceptions, they have multiple incoming links as well as multiple links…
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Thank you to everyone who volunteers for Wikimedia UK
In 2016 volunteers gave us a massive 20,000 hours of their time, from running events and teaching people how to edit to organising the UK branch of the world's largest…
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Reflections on a Wikipedia assignment – Reproductive Medicine
This was originally posted on Ewan McAndrew's blog where he writes about his role as the University of Edinburgh's Wikimedian in Residence
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#WMUKED17 – Wikimedia UK Education Summit: a roundup
I was delighted to be part of planning and delivering Wikimedia UK’s Education Summit in partnership with Middlesex University in February and wanted to share some notes, insights and presentations…
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Guest post: Teaching competition law differently
This post was written by Dr Pedro Telles, Senior Lecturer in Law at Swansea University and originally published on his website.
