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| The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Eisteddfod_of_Wales National Eisteddfod] is Wales’ primary cultural event of the year with a history stretching back over 800 years. It includes all the major cultural institutions in Wales and this year had 135,000 visitors. The event creates Crowned and Chaired bards who are like National Laureates. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Owain Robin Owain], our Ambassador in Wales, won the chair in 1991.
| | [http://mozilla.org.uk/ Mozilla UK] have been supportive to Wikimedia UK since they opened their Mozilla Spaces venue in June 2012, allowing us to use their space in central London a few times for free, and continuing to do so whenever possible. This is particularly useful when the meeting spaces in our London office are fully booked (which is often!). For our part, we realised some of the Wikipedia articles relating to Mozilla, Firefox and so on are not quite of the high standard that everyone would like. Therefore, we felt it would be a neighbourly thing to do to organise a Mozilla-related editathon. This we did, and the event took place on Saturday 18 August at the Mozilla Space in London. |
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| The Eisteddfod has a Welsh language only rule, and in fairness – so does [http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafan Wicipedia Cymraeg]! WMUK, through Wicipedia Cymraeg (the Welsh Language Wikipedia), had a presence there all week in a tent set aside for a hackathon (#Haciaith). The hackathon has been running for about three years at various locations and is the only one that focuses on the Welsh language. During the Eisteddfod, Robin met with the First Minister of Wales, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carwyn_Jones Carwyn Jones], raising items that the team have been discussing with the Education Minister. He confirmed that they were considering those requests. Linda Tomas from Cymal (Libraries and Museums of Wales) was there to assist. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/08/wikimedia-uk-wicipedia-cymraeg-and-the-national-eisteddfod/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
| | A group of experienced Mozillians joined forces with four Wikipedians to explore the convoluted and complicated world of Mozilla-related content on Wikipedia, correcting factual errors and updating articles. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/08/teaming-up-with-mozilla-for-an-editathon/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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