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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.


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	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.
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-My residency at the British Library is coming to an end today, and so it seemed a good chance to look back at what we’ve done over the past twelve months. It’s been a very productive and very interesting year.
+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 residency was [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/05/wikimedia-uk-and-british-library-unveil-latest-wikipedian-in-residence/ funded by the AHRC], who aimed to help find ways for researchers and academics to engage with new communities through Wikipedia, and disseminate the material they were producing as widely as possible. To help with this, we organised a series of introductory workshops; these were mostly held at the British Library, with several more at the University of London (two at Birkbeck and three at Senate House) and others scattered from Southampton to Edinburgh. Through the year, these came to fifty sessions for over four hundred people, including almost a hundred Library staff both in London and at Boston Spa, and another fifty Library readers in London! Attendees got a basic introduction to Wikipedia – how it works, how to edit it, and how to engage with its community – as well as the opportunity to experiment with using the site.
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-At the Library, one of the most visible outcomes has been the “[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picturing_Canada#Picturing_Canada Picturing Canada]” project, digitising around 4,000 photographs from the Canadian Copyright Collection, with funding from Wikimedia UK and the Eccles Centre for American Studies. We’ve released around 2,000 images so far, as JPEGs and as high-resolution TIFFs, with the full collection likely to be available by early June (we’ve just found enough left in the budget to do an extra batch of postcards). Other content releases have included [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_from_the_British_Library digitised books], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Jinnah_with_Gandhi_in_1944_%28Photo_429-17%29.jpg historic photographs], [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Ireland_Revenue_Dog_Licence_1865-1928_2_shillings_steel_die_for_letterpress.JPG collection objects], and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_in_a_submarine_-_British_Library_Royal_MS_15_E_vi_f20v_%28detail%29.jpg ancient manuscripts] (pictured).
+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
-We also hosted the [[GLAM-WIKI 2013|GLAM-Wiki conference]] in April, which was a great success, with over 150 attendees and speakers from around the world. Several of the presentations are [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66MRMNlLyR5-g_SZll_leqpaHDCulraD now online].
-While I’m leaving the Library, some of these projects I’ve been working on will be continuing – we still have another 2,000 of the Canadian photographs to be released, for example! We’re also hoping to host some more workshops here in the future (possibly as part of the upcoming [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2013/04/wikimedia.aspx JISC program]). I’ll still be contactable, and I’m happy to help with any future projects you might have in mind; please do [[wikipedia:Special:EmailUser/Andrew_Gray|get in touch]] if there’s something I can help you with.
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