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To submit a nomination, please specify who you're nominating along with a brief description on why you think they should win the award. Please no comparisons (''"Bill is so much nicer than Mary"'' would be better phrased ''"Bill is very nice"''). The deadline for nominations is Tuesday 12 July.
To submit a nomination, please specify who you're nominating along with a brief description on why you think they should win the award. Please no comparisons (''"Bill is so much nicer than Mary"'' would be better phrased ''"Bill is very nice"''). The deadline for nominations is 12 July.


=Nominations=
=Nominations=
==UK Wikimedian of the Year==
==UK Wikimedian of the Year==
===Brian Kelly ([[User:Lisbk]])===
Brian has been using his professional connections with the librarian, researcher, and web communities to promote Wikipedia in various ways over the past year, actively promoting the kind of cultural change that Wikimedia UK's [[Cultural partnerships|GLAM]], [[Portal:Education|Education]], and [[Expert outreach]] activities try to bring about. Some examples (not by any means a complete list):
* He attended the first Altmetrics conference [http://ukwebfocus.com/2014/09/25/wikimedia-and-metrics/ to present a poster titled "Wikimedia and Metrics"] showing how Wikipedia can be used as a source of data about how well-popularised a piece of research is. I worked with him on some of the text of the poster, but this was his work and his initiative. In getting the bulk of the research community
* He has [http://ukwebfocus.com/2014/08/19/wikipedia-librarians-and-cilip/ run multiple talks and workshops about Wikipedia for librarians], including a workshop at the LILAC conference with Nancy Graham and Andrew Gray.
* As part of a continuing interest in "Wikipedia as the front matter for all research" (a theme inspired by Cameron Neylon at Wikimania), he has [http://ukwebfocus.com/2014/08/28/links-from-wikipedia-to-russell-group-university-repositories/ researched the links from Wikipedia to the repositories of the UK's top research universities], and urged universities to consider Wikipedia links as a way to promote these repositories, but to act ''ethically'', respecting Wikipedia's policies and ethos.
* He entered an essay "[http://ukwebfocus.com/2014/12/03/librarians-and-wikipedia-an-ideal-match/ Librarians and Wikipedia: an Ideal Match?]" to a blog competition run by [[:w:CILIP|CILIP]]. This makes a persuasive case that librarians should actively engage with Wikipedia, and that they are the ideal people to do so, sharing the ideal skills and values. He wrote [http://ukwebfocus.com/2014/07/10/wikipedia-and-information-literacy-article-in-cilip-update/ a guest article on the topic for a CILIP newsletter], which he has subsequently released on the open web.
[[User:MartinPoulter|MartinPoulter]] ([[User talk:MartinPoulter|talk]]) 18:22, 30 June 2015 (BST)
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==Educational Institution of the Year==
==Educational Institution of the Year==
===University of Edinburgh===
This nomination is in respect of the record-breaking [[Women,_Science_and_Scottish_History_editathon_series|''four-day'' editathon organised in February]] by  Melissa Highton and led by Ally Crockford. The theme was "Women, Science and Scottish History" and the week's events made great progress on the gender gap in a short time, both in terms of content and the demographics of users. Going by the [https://storify.com/AProckford/university-of-edinburgh-ilw-editathon tweets from participants], this event was great fun while also very welcoming and encouraging for staff who had not edited Wikipedia before.
[http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/melissa/tag/wikipedia/ Melissa has used her post as Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services] to advocate for academics and related staff to take Wikipedia seriously, continuing work she was doing in her previous job at the University of Oxford.<br />
[[User:MartinPoulter|MartinPoulter]] ([[User talk:MartinPoulter|talk]]) 18:34, 30 June 2015 (BST)
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Latest revision as of 15:53, 26 May 2016

To submit a nomination, please specify who you're nominating along with a brief description on why you think they should win the award. Please no comparisons ("Bill is so much nicer than Mary" would be better phrased "Bill is very nice"). The deadline for nominations is 12 July.

Nominations

UK Wikimedian of the Year

Jane Doe

Because she's great! ~~~~

GLAM of the Year

Awesome GLAM

I like visiting them! ~~~~

Educational Institution of the Year

Special University

I studied there! ~~~~

Honourable Mention

User:Example

For his tireless work as the example user on all Wikimedia projects. ~~~~

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