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Open Archaeology and the Digital Cultural Commons
Although I’ve worked in open education technology for almost twenty years now, my original background is actually in archaeology. I studied archaeology at the University of Glasgow in the late…
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Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2016 Winners Announced!
More than 250 people took part in the UK competition, uploading 6,200 photos of cultural heritage which anyone can reuse. Thank you to everyone who took part. The winners of…
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Wikimedia projects aren’t built in a day – Roman coinage on Commons
This article is based on a paper given at this year’s Museum Computer Group held at the Wellcome Trust on October 19th.
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Announcing a new Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford
The University of Oxford now employs a Wikimedian In Residence (WIR). Martin Poulter is working half-time on a one-year project to embed Wikipedia, Wikidata and related sites in the university’s…
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Changing the way stories are told – Ada Lovelace Day outcomes
Wikipedia has a problem with representation. Its mission is to be “the sum of all human knowledge” yet it only covers, by very rough estimates, only 5% of the number…
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WMUK and National Library of Scotland are hiring a Gaelic Wikipedian
Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Scotland are advertising for a Gaelic Wikipedian to help promote the Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Uicipeid.
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Help shape Wikimedia UK’s delivery plans for 2017 – 18
Wikimedia UK will soon be applying to the Wikimedia Foundation for an Annual Plan Grant (APG) in 2017 - 18. Longstanding volunteers, members and other stakeholders will be familiar with…
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No article? No problem.
The Welsh Language Wicipedia already punches above its weight with seventy thousand articles. That’s roughly one article for every eight Welsh speakers. But now a student in Germany has developed…
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 kicks off the world’s biggest photography competition
Wiki Loves Monuments returns to the United Kingdom in September. The competition has a heritage focus and we want your help to photograph every monument in the country. The prizes…
