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Announcing the Changemakers’ Toolkit: your go-to, free training resource for campaigners, activists, and changemakers of all kinds
Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) in collaboration with Wikimedia UK, have launched an open access toolkit which empowers people to campaign effectively.
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How Wikipedia can help to disseminate research: an innovative NIHR project
Adam Harangozo, the National Institute of Health Research's Wikipedian in Residence, explains how Wikipedia can be a highly effective dissemination tool, helping to make research findings widely accessible. He encourages…
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Women’s History Month 2024 – exciting events and projects
Over the last eight years, Wikimedia UK has been actively tackling inequality and bias across the Wikimedia projects. One of our primary strategic goals is to enhance the involvement and…
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Celebrating Imbolc with Wiki Loves Folklore
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international Wiki competition celebrating Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) across the world – like Wiki Loves Monuments, or Wiki Loves Earth, but for folk culture: festivals,…
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GLAM-E Lab x Wikimedia UK: follow-on partnership
The University of Exeter’s GLAM-E Lab and Wikimedia UK are pleased to announce the continuation of our partnership into 2024. Following on from the success of the Connected Heritage project…
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The winners of Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Northern Ireland
Wiki Loves Earth is an annual photography competition themed around the natural world. Wikimedia UK first took part in the competition in 2021 when Wales blazed the way. In 2023…
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Khalili Foundation: Year in Review
Dr Martin Poulter has been the Wikimedian in Residence at the Khalili Foundation since 2019. Our partnership with the Khalili Foundation has facilitated an incredible wealth of cultural information and…
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Wikimedia and the war on information
Wikimedia UK’s vision is of a more informed, democratic and equitable society through open knowledge. There are times when achieving that vision seems light years away, but it still inspires…
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Queer Britain’s Wikimedian in Residence
In August 2023, Queer Britain collaborated with Wikimedia UK to host a Wikimedian in Residence project. From August to November, Evie Moore worked on improving content on Wikipedia and related…
