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| [[File:UK OTRS workshop 2012 8.jpg|thumb|right|Andrew Gray (centre) at an [[OTRS workshop]].]] | | [[File:QRpedia_plaque_for_Shire_Hall,_Monmouth.jpg|thumb|right|A QRpedia code on the Shire Hall, Monmouth.]] |
| Wikimedia UK is very happy to announce the UK’s latest Wikipedian in Residence. Andrew Gray will be based at the British Library’s main site in St Pancras, London from today.
| | You've probably heard the saying, “In theory, Wikipedia shouldn’t work, but in practice it does.” Three of the things that contribute to make Wikipedia work are topic-specific [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject WikiProjects] (“let’s write about a town), [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters Wikimedia chapters] (“let’s organize throughout the United Kingdom”), and unique ideas (“let’s use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code QR codes] to share content”). This week these three things successfully came together to create [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA Monmouthpedia], “The World’s First Wikipedia Town” in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth Monmouth, Wales]. |
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| Andrew will be working to establish ties between the Wikimedia community and institutional staff, and to provide training and support to specialists interested in contributing to Wikimedia projects.
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| It is the latest part of the Wikimedia movement’s collaboration with the {{w|British Library}}, which has previously hosted editing sessions, tours and the [[GLAMcamp London|2011 GLAMcamp]]. The British Library will also host the forthcoming 2012 [[GLAM-WIKI 2012|GLAM-WIKI conference]] in mid-September.
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