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Community Consultation on Wikimedia UK Governance
This post was written by Keith Smith from Compass Partnership
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Announcing the appointment of two technology contractors
Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce that we have appointed two contractors to take over the running of our technical resources: Emmanuel Engelhart (User:Kelson) and Tom Morton (User:ErrantX).
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In response to today’s news articles in The Times and The Daily Telegraph about PR editing of Wikipedia
This morning The Times ran a story about how staff at the public relations firm RLM Finsbury edited the Wikipedia article on Alisher Usmanov, including removing negative material. The Daily…
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Happy birthday to us! WMUK turns 4 today
It's four years to the day since Wikimedia UK was incorporated. In that time, we've achieved many great things. We've become a registered charity. We've made significant contributions to the…
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We’re looking for Wikipedians in Residence!
The Wikimedia UK GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) working group is now ready to find UK institutions willing to work with us by creating Wikipedian in Residence posts.
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The story of Ada Lovelace, the Royal Society and Wikimedia UK
The imagination of the Wikimedia UK community was first ignited by the idea of the Ada Lovelace Day in May 2012. When we found out about it, we immediately decided…
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Hasina says goodbye to Wikimedia UK
So, the time has come for me to say goodbye to Wikimedia UK. Being WMUK’s second ever intern has been an amazing journey from taking over where Isabelle (first ever…
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Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Foundation appoint independent reviewer
Today Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation are announcing the appointment of Compass Partnership to produce the review and report on the governance of Wikimedia UK. The governance review was…
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Bringing evidence-based medicine to the world
This post was written by Wikimedia UK Associate Dr Martin Poulter
