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A response to The Daily Telegraph article
The Daily Telegraph ran an article online today referring to Ashley Van Haeften, Chair of Wikimedia UK. The story tells how Mr Van Haeften has been banned from editing the…
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Working with the Welsh language Wikipedia
You may think that Wikimedia UK focuses solely on the English Wikipedia. However, we seek to support all language Wikipedias, with a focus on those that originate from, or are…
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Wikimedia UK and JISC join forces for World War One editathon
The history of the World War One inevitably attracts a great deal of attention and interest, especially on Wikipedia. That's why Wikimedia UK and JISC teamed up for our first…
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English language Wikipedia hits 4 million articles!
It's taken a huge, ongoing collaborative effort to reach this point and everyone involved in the project can feel a warm glow of satisfaction.
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Volunteer’s efforts win Gibraltar the right to be the first Wikipedia ‘city’
Tyson Lee Holmes was with friends when he read about ‘Monmouthpedia, the World’s First Wikipedia Town.’ His first thought was, wouldn’t it be great if we could do it here,…
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Russian language Wikipedia blacked out for 10 July protest
The Russian language Wikipedia is blacked out today in response to a proposed law "on information". The decision was taken by around 300 members of the Russian language Wikipedia community…
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World first for St Paul’s Church, Birmingham
St Paul's is the first church in the world to utilise innovative QRpedia technology
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Wikimedia UK welcomes Katherine to the team
We are really pleased to introduce our latest member of staff Katherine Bavage to the Wikimedia community as the Fundraising Organiser of Wikimedia UK.
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What did you think of our annual report?
We recently published our annual report for the period 2011-12. It's available as an optimised PDF here and also in print (for a copy drop Stevie Benton a line here).
