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[[Wikipedia Takes UCL]] will be a five-day series of events to be held at the University College London where students and staff will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia through the creation or expansion of articles on UCL-related subjects, such as notable alumni, projects and events. A number of workshops will be hosted to teach participants on skills related to editing, and the sharing and usage of images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. As part of Wikipedia Takes UCL, a competition will offer prizes for the best articles and photographs resulting from the week long events.
[[:wikidata:|Wikidata]] is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralises access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in every language supported by the MediaWiki software. It is a free, collaboratively edited knowledge base project operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.


Wikipedia Takes UCL is scheduled to take place on the week of 17-21 February. For more details please visit the event page where an agenda for the week is available.
Wikimedia UK is hosting a one day workshop on Saturday 26th April 2014 at [[Office|Development House]] in London for interested Wikimedians to learn about new developments in Wikidata, find out more about the "tools ecosystem", for new editors to find out what Wikidata is, and for everyone to try their hand at contributing to Wikidata.
 
The event will be led by [[:wikidata:User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] and [[:wikidata:User:Filceolaire|Joe Filceolaire]]. Magnus was the original author of the PHP script that evolved into MediaWiki, and is behind many popular scripts and tools used across Wikimedia projects, including [[:toollabs:reasonator|Reasonator]]. Joe has been an active Wikidata contributor since the project launch, with over 13,000 edits to date.
 
Don't forget to book your place [https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=48 here].
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Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralises access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in every language supported by the MediaWiki software. It is a free, collaboratively edited knowledge base project operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikimedia UK is hosting a one day workshop on Saturday 26th April 2014 at Development House in London for interested Wikimedians to learn about new developments in Wikidata, find out more about the "tools ecosystem", for new editors to find out what Wikidata is, and for everyone to try their hand at contributing to Wikidata.

The event will be led by Magnus Manske and Joe Filceolaire. Magnus was the original author of the PHP script that evolved into MediaWiki, and is behind many popular scripts and tools used across Wikimedia projects, including Reasonator. Joe has been an active Wikidata contributor since the project launch, with over 13,000 edits to date.

Don't forget to book your place here.

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