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| [[File:Mozilla_UK_editathon_on_18_August_2012.JPG|thumb|200px|Wikipedians and Mozillians happily editing]] | | [[File:British_Library_Gate_Shadow.jpg|thumb|200px|The entrance to the British Library]] |
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| [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. | | Over the past two years, Wikimedia UK has been working with the [http://www.bl.uk/ British Library]. These have involved a series of editing events and tours through 2011-12, and partnerships between curators and volunteers to write about some of the Library’s most significant material. In May 2012, with the support of the [http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx Arts and Humanities Research Council], the British Library recruited [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/05/wikimedia-uk-and-british-library-unveil-latest-wikipedian-in-residence/ Andrew Gray as the Wikipedian in Residence]. Below is a blog post from Andrew outlining his experiences so far... |
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| 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>
| | The main focus so far has been on getting a training programme off the ground. Since the first workshop in mid-June, I’ve had workshops for 55 staff at the British Library, and for nine more at the National Archives. Another 40 people have been to university-hosted workshops at Birkbeck in London and the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. These people are from more than ten institutions and represent a wide range of backgrounds: academics, librarians, researchers, support staff and postgraduate students. |
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| | At the British Library, again, we’ve had a diverse turnout. As well as curators, we’ve had reference staff, cataloguers, conservators, technicians, accountants, archivists… The emphasis in these workshops is essentially on “Wikipedia as information literacy”, on getting the basic skills to contribute to them or engage with them – understanding the dynamics of editing and communication, how to add footnotes, how to use talkpages. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/three-months-as-a-wikipedian-in-residence-at-the-british-library/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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