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The events in the list below may be of interest to Wikimedia UK volunteers and members.  The list includes events run by or related to the charity, as well as unconnected Wikimedia or open knowledge events that may be of interest, especially within the UK.  You can expect to find Wikimedia UK volunteers at most of these.
The events in the list below may be of interest to Wikimedia UK volunteers and members.  The list includes events run by or related to the charity, as well as unconnected Wikimedia or open knowledge events that may be of interest, especially within the UK.  You can expect to find Wikimedia UK volunteers at most of these.  


If you know of an upcoming event that is not listed, please add it below.
If you know of an upcoming event that is not listed, please add it below.
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== 2025 ==
=== January ===
* {{event inline|2025|01|25|Edinburgh Wiki meetup, 11:30 - 14:00 [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Edinburgh/19 more info and sign up here.]}}
* {{event inline|2025|01|27|Brixton Library Wiki Meet-up 6-8pm [[m:Meetup/Brixton/6|more info and sign up here]]}}
* {{event inline|2025|01|31|University of Edinburgh Women in Red - meetup 87 - 1-5pm - hybrid. }}[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215350308489 Book your place here.]
* {{event inline|2025|01|31|[https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/events/classics-beyond-canon-wikipedia-edit-thon Classics Beyond the Canon Wikipedia edit-a-thon]}}


==2019==
=== February ===
* {{event inline|2025|02|11|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/help-shape-the-future-of-archaeological-knowledge-on-wikipedia-tickets-1106393525819 Help Shape the Future of Archaeological Knowledge on Wikipedia!]}}
* {{event inline|2025|02|24|[[m:Meetup/Brixton/7|LGBTQ+ Edit-a-thon at Brixton Library 6-8pm]]}}
* {{event inline|2025|02|28|University of Edinburgh Women in Red - meetup 88 - 1-5pm - hybrid. }}[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215380197889 Book your place here.]


===October===
===March===
* {{event inline|2025|03|07|[https://www.heartsfc.co.uk/blogs/news/wikithon-for-international-womens-day Wikithon for International Women's Day.]  Focus on Scottish Women's Football, Heart of Midlothian Museum, Edinburgh. (In-person event)}}
* {{event inline|2025|03|07|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-for-iwd-tickets-1261534667149 International Women's Day Women in Red Editathon, University of Edinburgh.]}}
* {{event inline|2025|03|08|[https://www.culturepk.org.uk/event/women-on-wikipedia-writing-women-back-into-perths-history/ Women on Wikipedia: Writing Women back into Perth's history], 1-4pm, AK Bell Library, Perth.}}
* {{event inline|2025|03|22|[https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/share-your-expertise-wikipedia-edit-thon Share Your Expertise: A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.] 11am-1pm, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge}}
* {{event inline|2025|03|24|end=30|[https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mairch_2025_Writin_Drive Scots Wiki Mairch Writin Drive], zoom sessions Monday 24 & Thursday 27.}}
* {{event inline|2025|03|28|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215387579969 University of Edinburgh Women in Red - meetup 89. Book your place here.] 1-5pm - hybrid.}}
* {{event inline|2025|03|29|[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Edinburgh/20 Scotwiki meetup, Edinburgh.] 11:30-2pm, The Shrub, Bread Street.}}


*{{event inline|2019|10|01|[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Leeds/Leeds_interdisciplinary_editathon Interdisciplnary editathon], University of Leeds}}
===April===
*{{event inline|2019|10|02|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-wikithon-with-dr-jess-wade-and-dr-alice-white-tickets-69717550069 UCL Healthcare engineering Diversity Wikithon]}}
* {{event inline|2025|04|25|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215392996169 University of Edinburgh Women in Red - meetup 90. Book your place here.] 1-5pm - hybrid.}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|02|[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2019/oct/diversity-mathematics-wikithon UCL Diversity in mathematics Wikithon]}}
* {{event inline|2025|04|28|Aberdeen Meetup - [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Aberdeen/1 More info and sign up here.] 18:30 - 20:30, The Soap Factory.}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|02|Lecture at UCL on Wikimedia for the Approaches to Knowledge course}}
* {{event inline|2019|10|08| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-engineering-wikipedia-editathon-ada-lovelace-day-2019-tickets-24295779330 Women in Engineering Wikipedia editathon] Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Science and Engineering as part of a day of celebration for Ada Lovelace day 2019.}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|09|[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-wikieditathon-2019-manchester-and-london-2019-zebra-hub-hq-the-tickets-48601581639 Manchester Pankhurst Centre gender gap editathon]}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|09|[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Exeter/Wikipedia_for_Researchers Wikipedia for researchers seminar and workshop], University of Exeter}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|11|[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Leeds/Histories_of_Women_in_the_British_Film_and_Television_Industries,_1933-89 Histories of Women in the British Film and Television Industries, 1933-89 editathon], University of Leeds}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|15-16|[https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2019 FORCE 2019 (Future Of Research Communication and e-Scholarship)], Edinburgh, featuring a presentation on Wikimedia and scholarly communication}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|15| [[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/NLS/Events/Culture_to_Commons|Culture to Commons - an event for cultural content holders to learn about uploading images to Commons, & Wikidata.]] - National Library of Scotland}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|17| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-physiology-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-74134758057 Women in Physiology editathon] with Manchester University Physiology society at the University of Manchester}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|17|[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Kent/The_Carolingians_and_the_Invention_of_Order_-_HI7001 Student training at the University of Kent] as part of 'The Carolingians and the Invention of Order'}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|18|[https://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2019-proposals/ Museums+Tech conference, British Library, London] featuring presentations on Wikidata}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|25-26| [[:wikidata:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019|WikidataCon 2019, Berlin, Germany]] with some presentations from the UK}}
*{{event inline|2019|10|29| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-birthday-party-in-london-tickets-76951807929 Wikidata birthday party] at Newspeak House in London}}
* {{event inline|2019|10|30| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-a-project-to-add-biographies-of-women-to-wikipedia-tickets-42282707717 Women in Red Wikipedia editathon] Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to create more biographies of notable women to address the systemic bias on Wikipedia where only 18.04% of biographies are currently about women.}}


===November===
===May===
* {{event inline|2025|05|18|[https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hackneyhistoryfestival/1589841 Hackney History Festival - Edit-a-thon]. 1.15pm - 4.15pm, Hackney Archives, London}}
* {{event inline|2025|05|09|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1317426962509 Trans + History Week editathon. Book your place here.]. 12.30-4.30pm - Cardiff Central Library / Llyfrgell Canolog Caerdydd, Cardiff / Caerdydd}}
* {{event inline|2025|05|26|end=01|[https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mey-Juin_2025_Writin_Drive Scots Wiki Writin Drive, Mey-Juin 2025].  Zoom sessions Tuesday 27 & Thursday 29.}}
* {{event inline|2025|05|30|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215400970019 University of Edinburgh Women in Red - meetup 91. Book your place here.] 1-5pm - hybrid.}}


*{{event inline|2019|11|10|[https://conwayhall.org.uk/event/victorian-blogging-wikipedia-editathon/ Victorian Blogging Wikipedia Editathon] at Conway Hall, London}}
===June===
*{{event inline|2019|11|12| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-a-murderer-true-crime-in-american-popular-culture-tickets-80273870307 True Crime in American popular culture - Seminar and Wikipedia editathon at the University of Edinburgh]}}
* {{event inline|2025|06|27|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215405212709 University of Edinburgh Women in Red - meetup 92. Book your place here.] 1-5pm - hybrid.}}
*{{event inline|2019|11|14|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trowelblazers-wikimedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-73551806433 TrowelBlazers Women in Archaeology] at UCL Institute of Archaeology, London}}
* {{event inline|2019|11|20| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linked-open-data-with-wikidata-wikipedias-exciting-sister-project-is-7-tickets-51251845650 Introduction to Wikidata] Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to introduce Histropedia (the timeline of everything) and other use cases of Wikidata and followed by a how-to guide to introduce Wikidata, how to edit Wikipedia's sister project manually, in bulk, and visualising the results using the SPARQL Query Service.}}
* {{event inline|2019|11|27| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-a-project-to-add-biographies-of-women-to-wikipedia-tickets-42282707717 Women in Red Wikipedia editathon] Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to create more biographies of notable women to address the systemic bias on Wikipedia where only 18.04% of biographies are currently about women.}}


===December===
===July===
* {{event inline|2025|07|25|[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-a-gender-equal-world-help-write-women-onto-wikipedia-tickets-1215410127409 University of Edinburgh Women in Red - meetup 94. Book your place here.] 1-5pm - hybrid.}}


* {{event inline|2019|12|12| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-election-night-wikipedia-editathon-tickets-80663154667 UK General Election night editathon] at Newspeak House in London.}}
== 2024 ==
* {{event inline|2019|12|17| [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-a-project-to-add-biographies-of-women-to-wikipedia-tickets-42282707717 Women in Red Wikipedia editathon] Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to create more biographies of notable women to address the systemic bias on Wikipedia where only 18.04% of biographies are currently about women.}}
 
=== November 2024 ===
 
* {{event inline|2024|11|23|Wikimedia UK Community Celebration 2024}}
* {{event inline|2024|11|25|Scots Wiki Winter Writin Drive Zoom session.  [https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Winter_2024_Writin_Drive More info and sign up link on-Wiki here.] }}
* {{event inline|2024|11|28|Scots Wiki Winter Writin Drive Zoom session.  [https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Winter_2024_Writin_Drive More info and sign up link on-Wiki here.] }}
* {{event inline|2024|11|30|World Aids Day Editathon (online) [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT%2B/World_AIDS_Day_2024_editathon Sign up and more info here.]}}

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