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| <center><big><big><b><span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2018/06/register-for-our-agm-and-help-to-shape-the-future-of-wikimedia-uk/ Register for our AGM and help to shape the future of Wikimedia UK]</span></b></big></big></center> | | <div style="width:25%; float:left;height:4px; background:#666666;"></div></div> |
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| Our Annual General Meeting is an important opportunity for Wikimedia UK to report to its members on the progress we have made in the past year, and to hear from our members about their views and feedback. You can register for this year’s AGM on [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-agm-2018-tickets-46366475376 Eventbrite here].
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| <center><big><big><b><span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2018/02/celtic-knot-2018/// Celtic Knot 2018!]</span></b></big></big></center> | | ! {{Header blue|[[Website|{{white|Our website}}]]|margin-bottom: 0;}} |
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| </br> | | 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. |
| Celtic Knot provides a stage and a meeting place for contributors to small and minority language Wikipedia’s from all around the world. You can now submit a paper and register for this years conference, which will be held at the National Library of Wales in the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth.
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| | General inquiries: info{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk<br> |
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| [[File:The Derelict West Pier of Brighton.jpg|Derelict Brighton West Pier, 1st Prize winner of Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2017|640px|center]]
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| Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s biggest photographic competition and takes place every September. Participants take photos of historic places, including buildings and archaeological sites.
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| Wiki Loves Monuments encourages photographers around the world to upload photos of heritage monuments to Commons so that they can be used to illustrate Wikipedia. Images from Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK have been seen nearly 14 million times in October.
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| | <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. |
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| | |<h4>[[Events]]</h4> |
| | We organise dozens of events each year, including meetups, editing events, "Backstage Pass" events at museums, workshops and conferences. |
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| | Participate in one of our ongoing outreach projects, working with the cultural and education institutions of the UK. |
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| | |<h4>[[Project grants]]</h4> |
| | Request a project grant to help you with your editing or outreach activities on any Wikimedia project. |
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| | |<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. |
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| <center><big><big><b><span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/07/a-message-from-josie-fraser-new-wikimedia-uk-chair/ A message from Josie Fraser, new Wikimedia UK Chair]</span></b></big></big></center>
| | 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 |
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| [[File:Wikimedia_UK_AGM_2017_35.jpg|Josie Fraser at the 2017 Wikimedia UK AGM|640px|center]] | |
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| I am delighted to have become the new chair of Wikimedia UK at today’s AGM. I was initially elected to serve as a trustee in July 2015, and re-elected to serve a further term last year until 2019. Over the last two years I’ve been privileged to be able serve the organisation through both the formal duties of a Trustee and as a volunteer. In addition to my main Board duties, I’ve been a member of the Governance Committee and the Partnership Advisory Board, and have helped organise education conferences.
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| <center><big><big><b><span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/03/bunhill-fields-wikimedia-gamification-and-richer-media-content/ Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content]</span></b></big></big></center>
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| I really like Magnus Manske’s WikiShootMe tool. It visualises Wikidata items, Commons photos and Wikipedia articles on an OpenStreetMap. Wikidata items are shown as red if they have no photo and green if they do have one. For the past few months, I’ve been spending my lunch hours walking around the area near the Wikimedia UK offices, trying to turn red data points into green ones.
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| | ''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]] |
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| <center><big><big><b><span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/02/how-do-wikipedia-editors-decide-what-are-reliable-sources/ How do Wikipedia editors decide what are reliable sources?]</span></b></big></big></center>
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| Over the past few weeks, Wikimedia UK has received a large number of press inquiries related to the Guardian’s article ‘Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source’. Now that the dust has settled on this story a little, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how the community of editors who create Wikipedia and its sister projects came to adopt a policy to generally avoid using references to Daily Mail articles.
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| Much of the coverage of this editorial decision, both by The Guardian and by other media, referred to Wikipedia at least as often as Wikipedia editors; although The Guardian did add that ‘The move is likely to stop short of prohibiting linking to the Daily Mail’, because as many Wikimedians will be fully aware, one of the Five Pillars of Wikipedia is that ‘Wikipedia has no firm rules’.
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| <center><big><big><b><span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/so-youve-decided-to-become-a-wikipedia-editor/ So You’ve Decided to Become a Wikipedia Editor…]</span></b></big></big></center>
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| The learning curve when you start editing Wikipedia and its sister projects can be steep, so to help you get started, we decided to compile some advice that will help you navigate the complexity of the Wikimedia projects.
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| Check out the Getting Started page for general advice and information about how Wikipedia works before you start editing. There are a lot of written and visual tutorials as well as links to policies and guidelines used on the site. A quick look at the main editorial policies of Wikipedia, known as the Five Pillars, is also worthwhile.
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| <center><big><big><b><span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2016/12/wicipedia-cymraeg-a-few-milestones/ Wicipedia Cymraeg: A few milestones]</span></b></big></big></center>
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| [[File:Atlas Ortelius KB PPN369376781-011av-011br.jpg|Map of Wales, from Atlas Ortelius by Abraham Ortelius. Original edition from 1571|640px|center]]
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| ''Blog by Robin Owain, Wikimedia UK Manager''
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| In December 1996 I uploaded around 150 of my published poems on a website, ”Rebel ar y We” (‘Rebel on the Web’), available to all, free of charge. In 2005, after my son’s illness, I changed the title to ”Rhedeg ar Wydr” (‘Running on a Glass Roof’). A few months later a revue was published by the Welsh Books Council in their magazine ”Llais Llyfrau”, which recognised that this was the first time a Welsh book had been placed on the web, the first Welsh e-book.
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| I urged other writers to publish on the web, rather than through a publisher; the middleman, the censor. The uproar which followed was not nice, especially by one publisher in North wales who saw it as the beginning of the end! “Hundreds of pounds are at stake!” he wrote (”Golwg”, 16 March 2000), and for the next 10 years I was ‘sent to Coventry’ by the media. In an interview on BBC’s Radio Cymru around 2010 a listener phoned in and rudely chastised me by saying, “Don’t speak through your hat! Of course you can’t get a book to move down a phone-line and appear in another place!” And, yes, that was only 6 years ago! How things have changed!
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| Contributing ‘free information for everybody’ was my battle-cry, and the reason I started editing Wikipedia, with my first edit as User Llywelyn2000 on 7 June 2008, when cy-wiki already had a grand total of 16,000 articles. Today it has 81,400.
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| After the birth of en-wiki, it took around two years before her Welsh sibling, cy-wiki, appeared (July 2003). That first article was – and yes we are myopic! – [https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymru ‘Wales’] with ‘List of Welsh people’, ‘Squirrel’, ‘David R. Edwards’ and ‘Owain Gwynedd’ quickly following.
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| * '''2''' - Getting started with Wikipedia workshop - Digital Skills training at the University of Edinburgh library, 11-14pm
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| * '''8''' - [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/133 London meetup]
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| * '''16''' - Wikiproject Women in Red meetup at the University of Edinburgh Library - Room 1.11, 2-7pm.
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| * '''1-30''' - Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
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| * '''5''' - Wiki Loves Monuments talk at the SLIC Digital Champions meeting by SLIC Wikimedian in Residence
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| * '''14'''- Getting started with Wikipedia workshop - Editing using the new Visual Editor interface -Room 1.08, Meeting Suite, first floor, Edinburgh University Main Library 10:30am-12.30pm
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| * '''10-16''' - [http://www.glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk/ Doors Open Days in Glasgow] - great opportunity for Wiki Loves Monuments
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| * '''19''' - Reproductive Biology Hons. students at the University of Edinburgh being the Wikipedia research assignment for its 4th iteration
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| * '''19''' - Intro to Wikipedia for Librarians at the Falkirk Library by SLIC Wikimedian in Residence
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| * '''20''' - [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classics-news-publication/WCCWikiWorkshop2018 Women's Classical Committee editathon] at UCL}}
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| * '''21''' - Translation Studies MSc students at the University of Edinburgh begin the Wikipedia translation assignment for its 5th iteration..
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| * '''26''' - Reproductive Biology Hons. students at the University of Edinburgh being the Wikipedia research assignment - 5th iteration
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| * '''27-28'''- Data Literacy, Open Data and Knowledge-Building Communities at the University of Stirling
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| * '''29-30''' - [https://edinburgh.org/whats-on/edinburgh-doors-open-days/ Doors Open Days in Edinburgh] - great opportunity for Wiki Loves Monuments
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| *'''5'''- Intro to Wikimedia talk at the [http://www.cilips.org.uk/branches-groups/special-interest-groups/locscot/ LocScot Committee] meeting in Dunfermline by SLIC Wikimedian in Residence
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| * '''9'''- Ada Lovelace Day at the University of Edinburgh's College of Science of Engineering - Celebrating Women in STEM.
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| * '''31'''- Wikidata Witchcraft data hack for Halloween and Wikidata's 6th birthday.
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| * '''13''' - Edinburgh Gothic for Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2018 (tbc).
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| * '''14''' - Mental Health Awareness event for Wellbeing Week (tbc).
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