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Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
I really like Magnus Manske’s WikiShootMe tool. It visualises Wikidata items, Commons photos and Wikipedia articles on an OpenStreetMap. Wikidata items are shown as red if they have no photo…
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Wikipedia Vs Fake News
This article based on the text of Wikimedia UK's submission to the government's inquiry into fake news, which was launched in January.
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Why bots are important for Wikipedia
The Guardian recently picked up on a piece of research about the behaviour of bots on Wikipedia in the first 10 years of its history. The research noted that as…
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How do Wikipedia editors decide what are reliable sources?
Over the past few weeks, Wikimedia UK has received a large number of press inquiries related to the Guardian’s article ‘Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source’. Now that the…
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#1lib1ref at the University of Edinburgh
I’ve been interested in Wikimedia projects since taking part in the University of Edinburgh’s Women and Medicine editathon in February 2015, when I wrote an article on the Scottish doctor…
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Wikimedia UK and National Library of Scotland announce new Gaelic post
The Gaelic language is to be promoted through one of the world's most popular websites thanks to a new role based at the National Library of Scotland.
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Wikimedia UK Education Summit #WMUKED17
Blog post by Josie Fraser, educational technologist and trustee of Wikimedia UK
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The first week’s highlights from #1lib1ref
We are just over a week into the second annual #1lib1ref campaign, where we “imagine a world where every librarian adds one more reference to Wikipedia.”
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Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
This article is by: Dr Martin Poulter, Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford - This post was originally published on the Oxford University Museums blog.
