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Wikimedia UK is currently active in the following projects:
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* Wikipedia Loves Art
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* [[Copyright consultation]]


Also see the Wikimedia UK [[Business Plan]].
One of the reasons for the existence of Wikimedia UK is to support projects run by volunteers in the UK (and elsewhere). The current and past projects are given below; we have a page where you can [[Activities/Proposals|submit a proposal for a project]] and [[Activities/Ideas|come up with ideas for projects]].


== Potential future activities ==
== Current activities ==
Wikimedia UK is currently active in the following activities:
* [[Ambassadors]]
* [[Cultural partnerships|Cultural partnerships (GLAM)]]
* Collaboration with [[scholarly societies]]
* [[Microgrants]]


The interim board is focussed on the practicalities of setting up the chapter - incorporation, opening a bank account, gaining official Chapter status, processing membership, arranging Gift Aid and organising the first Annual General Meeting. However, once this has been completed, we intend to turn our attention to substantive actions we can do to support the Wikimedia projects.
== Past activities ==
* 2011 - Attendance of the Wikipedia in Education summit; see [[Wikipedia in Education summit March 2011 report|report]]
* 2011 - [[Editathon, British Library]]
* 2010 - [[GLAM-WIKI 2010]]
* 2010 - [[2010 Fundraising Summit]]
* 2010 - [[Open Knowledge Conference 2010|2010 Open Knowledge Conference]]
* 2010 - [[Activities/Britain Loves Wikipedia|Britain Loves Wikipedia]]
* 2010 - [[Business Plan]]
* 2010 - [[Activities/Schools project|Schools Project]]
* 2009 - [[Copyright consultation]]
* 2009 - [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Oxford Oxford bid for Wikimania 2010] (also see [[Wikimania Bid|the local sandbox]])


This is a preliminary list of ideas that have been suggested; please add yours too and add your comments on the ideas proposed:
[[Category:Initiatives]]
 
# Public relations
# Supporting [[w:Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team|Wikipedia v1.0]]
# Running campaigns in universities and schools encouraging students and academics to edit
# Installing new tool servers in Kennisnet that we would have (some) control over (probably no legal issues with this)
# Giving sessions at teacher training "top-up" days on the responsible use of Wikipedia (et al.) in the classroom
# Working with the community to increase coverage of e.g. historical sites
# Supporting the [[Wikimania 2010/Bids/Oxford|Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid]]
# Employing developers
# Hosting an annual UK Wiki-conference, combined with AGM. [[/AGM|Details]]
# Sourcing and digitising public domain works located in the UK (e.g. documents, books, pictures, ...)
# Encouraging the release of new and currently copyrighted works under free licenses
# Stimulate research into the use of wikipedia as an educational and communication tool. Seek academic partners to further this aim and bid for research funds.
# Donating back to WMF, subject to charitable restrictions
# Hosting/funding a local mirror ("squid server") of the Wikimedia websites, subject to legal issues regarding libel law
# Supporting the German Chapter owned, Amsterdam located toolserver, subject to charitable restrictions and considerations of libel law
# Events along the style of [[:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes The City]]?
# Supporting projects in [[w:Languages of the United Kingdom|minority languages native to the United Kingdom]], accessing public funds that are available to promote these languages
# Using our name to get into areas that would otherwise be hard to get into (museam backrooms bits of industrial archology) or doing much the same for major document collections.
# Using the name to pursuade people doing significant digitalisation projects to release these under a free license
 
[[Category:Wikimedia UK]]

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One of the reasons for the existence of Wikimedia UK is to support projects run by volunteers in the UK (and elsewhere). The current and past projects are given below; we have a page where you can submit a proposal for a project and come up with ideas for projects.

Current activities

Wikimedia UK is currently active in the following activities:

Past activities

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