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Britain Loves Wikipedia
29 January 2010, UK: 'Britain Loves Wikipedia' is a month-long competition and series of events to be held in participating museums nationwide from 31 January 2010. People from all ages,…
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Mary Rose Trust releases photographs onto Wikipedia
3 January 2010, UK: The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust have released a number of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose onto Wikipedia. This is the first such…
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Wikipedia celebrates Public Domain Day on 1st January
What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the famed tomb of King Tutankhamen, novelist Ford Madox Ford, and sexologist Havelock Ellis all share in common? They all died in 1939. On…
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Support Wikimedia UK – Donate now!
Wikimedia UK, in conjunction with the Wikimedia Foundation, recently started its first fundraiser. So far we have raised over £9,000 and hope to raise several times that much before the…
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Wikipedia Loves Art at the V&A – Photos on Commons
Earlier this year, a Wikipedia Loves Art event - a free content photography contest - was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Over 30 people attended the event at…
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Milestone: 5 Years, 5 Million Media Files on Wikimedia Commons
A mosaic of 1,200 of the 5 million media files, forming the Wikimedia logo
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Regionarkivet makes images by Francis Bedford and Roger Fenton available on Wikimedia Commons
On 19 August 2009, Regionarkivet (a municipal archive institution based in Gothenburg, Sweden) and Wikimedia Sverige announced the release of 28 high-quality and high-resolution images onto Wikimedia Commons.
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British media storm over Wikipedia changes
In the past week we have seen considerable interest from British newspapers, radio and television in the forthcoming trial of Flagged Protection on the English Wikipedia.
