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Pending Changes trial on the English Wikipedia
For the next two months, starting at midnight last night, the English Wikipedia will be testing a new tool, called Pending Changes, that re-enables the editing of articles that have…
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Britain Loves Wikipedia pictures on Commons
In February 2010 we ran Britain Loves Wikipedia - encouraging people to visit 20 museums across the UK to take photographs for Wikipedia, and win prizes in the process. Our…
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Featured Article prizes from the British Museum
Following from the successful Backstage Pass event held at the British Museum on 4 June, attended by around 40 Wikipedians and resulting in the creation of a number of new…
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Backstage pass @ British Museum
Wikimedia UK and the British Museum would like to invite all Wikipedians to a very special event taking place from 11am on Friday 4 June - a "Backstage Pass" to…
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Wikimedia Foundation board member candidates wanted
The Wikimedia chapters, including Wikimedia UK, have issued the following open letter. Wikimedia UK thinks it is extremely important that the chapters make good choices for board members so ask…
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Wikimedia Fundraising Summit, Bristol, May 14
Wikimedia UK host the global Wikimedia Fundraising Summit in Bristol May 14-16 - HP Labs Bristol & The Watershed offer generous support
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Call for Proposals – Wikimedia track at the Open Knowledge Conference 2010
This year Wikimedia UK is partnering with the Open Knowledge Foundation in the organisation of the 2010 Open Knowledge Conference ("OKCon"), an interdisciplinary conference that brings together individuals from across…
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Call for proposals for Wikimedia UK initiatives
The Wikimedia UK board has been putting together a budget for the next year (You can see this, and help with its development, here) and we have some money left…
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Wikimedia Commons reaches 6 million files with the upload of 250,000 Geograph images
Around 250,000 images from the Geograph British Isles Project have recently been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. One of these is a picture of a beautiful landscape setting, featuring sailing on…
