Main Page: Difference between revisions

From Wikimedia UK
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Updated blog post)
(Updated donation link in the table on the right)
 
(943 intermediate revisions by 29 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Main Page
{{language bar}}
|advert=no
<div style="width:25%; float:left;height:4px; background:#990000;"></div>
|blog post=
<div style="width:25%; float:left;height:4px; background:#006699;"></div>
;GLAM-WIKI keynote preview – Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
<div style="width:25%; float:left;height:4px; background:#339966;"></div>
<div style="width:25%; float:left;height:4px; background:#666666;"></div></div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<h1 style="border-bottom:0; line-height:1.0; padding-left:0.5em; padding-top:0.7em; padding-bottom:-1em; font-size:220%"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;">'''Wikimedia UK'''</span></h1>
<div style="line-height:0.05; padding-top:0em; padding-bottom:1.3em; padding-left:1.1em;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:160%;">Open knowledge for all</span></div>
{{#ifeq: {{{advert|}}} | yes | {{:Main Page/Advert}} | }}
{| id="mp-upper" style="margin:0; background:none;"
| class="MainPageBG" style="width:66%; vertical-align:top; color:#000;" |
{| id="mp-left" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top;"


[[File:Smithsonian_Building_NR.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A view of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC]]
</div>
|-
! {{Header blue|[[Website|{{white|Our website}}]]|margin-bottom: 0;}}
|-
| style="color:#000; padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;" | <div id="mp-tfa">
If you'd like to see what Wikimedia UK is working on, our website is the best place for our community of volunteers, donors and members to stay up to date.
{| class="table" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;" cellpadding="15"
|+
! scope="col" | <div class="about-buttons" id="about-buttons-donate" style="background-color: #990000;"><span class="plainlinks">[https://wikimedia.org.uk/ Website]</span></div>
|}
|-
! {{Header blue|[[About us|{{white|About Wikimedia UK}}]]|margin-bottom: 0;}}
|-
| style="color:#000; padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;" | <div id="mp-tfa">
{{About us}}
|-
! {{Header blue|[[Contact us|{{white|Contact us}}]]|margin-bottom: 0;}}
|-
| style="color:#000; padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;" | <div id="mp-otd">
General inquiries: info{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk<br>
Media: press{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk


''Michael Edson is the Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the CIO. He is also one of the keynote speakers at our GLAM-WIKI conference which takes place this weekend. Here are some of his thoughts on the event.''
You can follow us on Twitter (<span class="plainlinks">[http://twitter.com/wikimediauk @wikimediauk]</span>) or Like us on Facebook (<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK WikimediaUK]</span>).


In the eyes of tradition-bound institutions, Wikipedia has gone from an amusing pop culture sideshow, to a competitor, to a major ally and collaborator in just a few short years. This is thanks to the strength and clarity of Jimmy Wales’ original vision, careful stewardship by Wikipedia’s small staff, but mostly, the credit belongs to the integrity and commitment of thousands upon thousands of “Wikipedians” - individual Wikipedia editors and volunteer organisers. Wikipedians who work on GLAM-related Wikipedia articles are real heroes to me.  Through their careful and persistent work they demonstrate the core values of every gallery, library, archive, and museum on the planet: cultural heritage and scientific knowledge belong to all of us, and everyone should be able to partake and benefit.
You can also sign up to the <span class="plainlinks">[https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l email discussion list]</span> for the Wikimedia community in the UK.


The Wikipedia community is encouraging and fun, but most people don’t realise how stressful it is to create or edit a Wikipedia article! Wikipedians are pretty brave: people rely on Wikipedia and they trust editors to get things right - and everything an editor does is out in the open, transparent, for all to see. When Wikipedians talk about working with GLAMs, the thing that impresses me the most is their constant, relentless focus on the quality of the articles. Wikipedia isn’t perfect, but it’s striving in that direction. I don’t know of a single museum, archive, or library project that is as dedicated to transparency and quality improvement as the GLAM-Wiki community is. For GLAM-wiki editors, it’s personal.
:'''''[[contact us|More contact details]]'''''
|}
| style="border:1px solid transparent;" |
| class="MainPageBG" style="width:33%; vertical-align:top;"|
{| id="mp-right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top;"


Wikipedians are a terrific and intimidating audience. They tend to be well informed, independent thinkers who are hungry for big ideas and practical insights. You can’t get away with much hyperbole with this audience and you’d better have your facts in order. The conference organisers seemed genuinely surprised when I quickly and enthusiastically accepted their invitation. Perhaps they see themselves as small band of enthusiasts in the shadow of our huge cultural institutions, but I see it the other way around. In just a few years and with a fraction of our budgets, Wikipedia staff and individual volunteer editors have done something no organization has ever done: created a truly essential global resource for learning and self-improvement. And it just keeps getting better and better. How do they do it? Conference attendees don’t have much to learn from me, and I have everything to learn from them.
|-
! {{Header blue|Get Involved|margin-bottom: 0;}}
|-
| style="color:#000; padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;" | <div id="mp-otd">
{|
|[[File:Group font awesome.svg|40px|link=https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=4|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]]
|
<h4><span class="plainlinks">[https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=4 Join Wikimedia UK]</span></h4>
Members play a key role in shaping the future of the Chapter. Membership is open to all and costs just £5 a year.
|-
|[[File:Comments alt font awesome.svg|40px|link=Events|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]]
|<h4>[[Events]]</h4>
We organise dozens of events each year, including meetups, editing events, "Backstage Pass" events at museums, workshops and conferences.
|-
|[[File:User font awesome.svg|40px|link=Volunteer|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]]
|<h4>[[Volunteer]]</h4>
Participate in one of our ongoing outreach projects, working with the cultural and education institutions of the UK.
|-
|[[File:Book font awesome.svg|40px|link=Project grants|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]]
|<h4>[[Project grants]]</h4>
Request a project grant to help you with your editing or outreach activities on any Wikimedia project.
|-
|[[File:Credit card font awesome.svg|40px|link=https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk|Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0]]
|<h4><span class="plainlinks">[https://wikimedia.access.charity/donate/donate Donate]</span></h4>
Donate to Wikimedia UK to keep Wikipedia running free from advertising and support our work getting more people and institutions working with Wikipedia and its sister projects.
|-
|}


At GLAM-Wiki 2013 I’ll be talking about scope, scale, and speed. Scope is about redefining what galleries, libraries, archives, and museums need to accomplish in society; scale is about questioning our preconceptions about how much impact we can have; and speed is about responding to society’s urgent need for results. This moment in human history is full of risk and uncertainty and we need our memory institutions - all of our civic institutions  to be as effective as they possibly can be. The example of Wikipedia and the thriving GLAM-Wiki community reveal a lot about how GLAMs can change to work bigger and faster for the benefit of everyone.
We are always interested to hear from new [[volunteer|volunteers]]. If you have an idea you'd like to help make happen, or time and skills you would like to offer Wikimedia UK, please get in touch on volunteering{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk
<span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/04/glam-wiki-keynote-preview-michael-edson-smithsonian-institution-washington-dc/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>


|events=<!--Aim to have between 8 and 10 events listed to avoid this section taking up too much or to little space-->


'''April'''
|}
* {{event inline|2013|04|10|Workshop at [http://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/annual-conference-2013 British Psychological Society Conference 2013], Harrogate}}
|}
* {{event inline|2013|04|12|end=14|[[GLAM-WIKI 2013]] - three-day conference in London}}
<hr  />
* {{event inline|2013|04|13|[[EGM 2013]]}}
__NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
* {{event inline|2013|04|14|[[m:Meetup/London/68|London meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2013|04|17|[[IRC office hours]]}}
* {{event inline|2013|04|18|[[IT Development/Progress meetings/18 April 2013|Technology Committee]] - 1900 - 2100 UTC+1 (BST) on Mumble (joining details [[IT_Development/Progress_meetings| here]])}}
* {{event inline|2013|04|18|end=21|[[:meta:Wikimedia Conference 2013|Wikimedia Chapters Meeting, Milan]]}}
* {{event inline|2013|04|26|[[:w:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/Wikidata|Wikidata workshop, British Library]]}}
* {{event inline|2013|04|27|[[Oldham Wikipedia training]]}}
* {{event inline|2013|04|28|[[m:Meetup/Brighton/1|First ever Brighton meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2013|04|30|[[Spatial Ecology & Epidemiology Group Wikipedia training|University of Oxford Zoology Department Wikipedia training day]]}}


}}
''Want to suggest changes to the content and presentation of this page? Comment on [[Talk:Main_Page|the talk page]], or experiment at the [[/Sandbox|Sandbox]]
 
{{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}} | Main Page | [[Category:Wikimedia UK]] | __NOINDEX__ }}

Latest revision as of 16:21, 30 October 2024

Cymraeg | English

Wikimedia UK

Open knowledge for all

Our website

If you'd like to see what Wikimedia UK is working on, our website is the best place for our community of volunteers, donors and members to stay up to date.

About Wikimedia UK

The Wikimedia projects are special: they are written and curated by thousands of volunteers. They are also supported by voluntary donations, through Wikimedia UK, the Wikimedia Foundation and other international chapters.

Wikimedia UK is a charity registered in England and Wales that supports and promotes Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects such as Wikimedia Commons. Our mission is to help people and organisations create and preserve open knowledge, and to help provide easy access for all. We do this by supporting volunteer editors and contributors ('Wikimedians'), by working in partnership with cultural and educational institutions, by hosting training sessions and editing events, and by acting to advocate the benefits of open knowledge generally.

There are several ways to get involved in the charity's work. You can become a member for just £5 per year. You can volunteer to work with us in a variety of ways, both online and offline. You can also make a donation (and if you're a UK taxpayer, we can claim Gift Aid). Subscribe to our Friends' Newsletter to stay in touch. Click the buttons below to learn more.

Volunteer

Contact us

General inquiries: infoatwikimedia.org.uk
Media: pressatwikimedia.org.uk

You can follow us on Twitter (@wikimediauk) or Like us on Facebook (WikimediaUK).

You can also sign up to the email discussion list for the Wikimedia community in the UK.

More contact details

Get Involved

Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Join Wikimedia UK

Members play a key role in shaping the future of the Chapter. Membership is open to all and costs just £5 a year.

Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Events

We organise dozens of events each year, including meetups, editing events, "Backstage Pass" events at museums, workshops and conferences.

Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Volunteer

Participate in one of our ongoing outreach projects, working with the cultural and education institutions of the UK.

Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Project grants

Request a project grant to help you with your editing or outreach activities on any Wikimedia project.

Icon from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Donate to Wikimedia UK to keep Wikipedia running free from advertising and support our work getting more people and institutions working with Wikipedia and its sister projects.

We are always interested to hear from new volunteers. If you have an idea you'd like to help make happen, or time and skills you would like to offer Wikimedia UK, please get in touch on volunteeringatwikimedia.org.uk



Want to suggest changes to the content and presentation of this page? Comment on the talk page, or experiment at the Sandbox

Retrieved from "https://dev.wikimedia.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=179438"