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'''We are working with scientists, scholars, learned societies and funders to help experts improve Wikipedia and its sister projects, bringing that expertise to the widest possible public.''' This work complements WMUK's [[Cultural partnerships|partnerships with galleries, libraries, archives and museums]] as well as its [[Education projects|support for higher education]].
 
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We are developing guidance for researchers and public engagement professionals on how Wikimedia can magnify the impact of their work.
* [[Wikimedia as a public engagement tool for scientists]]
* [[Wikimedia as a public engagement tool for the arts and humanities]]
 
A separate page answers [[Frequently Asked Questions for expert contributors|questions we have been asked by potential expert contributors]].
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* [http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941 A guide for expert contributors to Wikipedia published in ''PLoS Computational Biology''] by a group of Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists (and Wikimedia UK volunteers)
* [http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/47019 Feature article for the ''Physics World'' magazine and site] (free registration required) by Martin Poulter and Mike Peel
 
 
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The Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust, and the Arts & Humanities Research Council are among the bodies that have [[Cultural_partnerships#Wikimedians_in_Residence|employed Wikipedians in the UK]]. Proposals are welcomed from scholarly and cultural institutions.
 
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From July 2013 to April 2014, Jisc and Wikimedia UK are [[Expert outreach/Jisc Ambassador|jointly supporting a project]] to encourage a range of audiences (librarians, teachers, researchers and students) within learning and research to engage with Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia projects. This includes [[Expert outreach/Jisc Ambassador/Research impact and open education|a programme of workshops in institutions]] on "Wikimedia: linking research impact and open education". Follow the links for more details.
 
 
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Our [[:Category:Expert Outreach|Expert outreach events]] cover a wide range of academic subjects and partner organisations, including universities, scholarly societies and charities.
 
Please [[Contact us|contact Wikimedia UK]] if you would like to run a joint event or if you want a speaker or a guest article.
 
 
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Wikimedia UK is seeking volunteers to give introductory talks, promote Wikimedia at conferences or deliver training. We can support travel and subsistence, and we can provide handouts and freebies to distribute. Drop a message to daria.cybulska[[Image:At_sign.svg|15px|@]]wikimedia.org.uk stating your username on Wikimedia projects, where you can travel to and any relevant background.
 
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"If you're serious about ensuring public engagement in your research then you need to make damn sure your work can be incorporated into Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the most important engagement channel for your research."
<div style="font-size:smaller;margin-top:0.2em" class="attribution">—{{w|Cameron Neylon}} (Public Library of Science) [[:File:Wikimedia_UK_2012-13_annual_review_web_version.pdf|"Wikimedia UK Annual Review 2012-13"]]</div>
 
 
"Wikipedia is an illustration of the way that academic work needs to change to benefit from a more educated public, a more networked world, in an age of information abundance. 21st-century scholars should be working with it, not against it."<div style="font-size:smaller;margin-top:0.2em" class="attribution">—[http://fragmentsofamber.wordpress.com/ Amber Thomas] (Jisc) ''Ariadne'', November 2012 [http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/thomas "21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia"]</div>
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"Wikipedia's user-friendly global reach offers an unprecedented opportunity for public engagement with science. Scientists who receive public or charitable funding should therefore seize the opportunity to make sure that Wikipedia articles are understandable, scientifically accurate, well sourced and up-to-date."
<div style="font-size:smaller;margin-top:0.2em" class="attribution">—Alex Bateman and Darren Logan (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), ''Nature'', 9 December 2010 [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468/n7325/full/468765c.html "Time to underpin Wikipedia wisdom"]</div>
 
 
"The key challenge for the scholarly community [...] is to work actively with Wikipedia to strengthen its role in 'pre-research.' We need to build stronger links from its entries to more advanced resources that have been created and maintained by the academy."
<div style="font-size:smaller;margin-top:0.2em" class="attribution">—Casper Grathwohl, Oxford University Press, ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', 7 January 2011 [http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/ "Wikipedia Comes of Age"]</div>
 
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"Perhaps other academic societies and professional bodies can contribute to upgrading and extending Wikipedia entries. [...] [T]he advent of several geoscientific Wikipedians would greatly enhance Wikipedia's geological coverage, to the benefit of all."
<div style="font-size:smaller;margin-top:0.2em" class="attribution">—Brian Whalley (University of Sheffield) ''Ariadne'', July 2012 [http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue69/whalley "Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments"]</div>
 
 
"Wikipedia is one of the great and lasting achievements of this century and typifies the Digital Enlightenment. It epitomises so much – cooperation, democracy, meritocracy, innovation, challenge to authority. It represents the dream of the [[:w:Encyclop%C3%A9die|Encyclopédie]] of [[:w:Denis Diderot|Denis Diderot]] and [[:w:Jean_le_Rond_d%27Alembert|Jean le Rond d’Alembert]]. [...] When the cultural history of this century is written, Wikipedia will have the same place as the Encyclopédie."
<div style="font-size:smaller;margin-top:0.2em" class="attribution">—Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge) [http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/03/wikipedia-and-the-digital-enlightenment/ Blog post], March 2014</div>
 
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"Dear Wikipedia, I want to thank you and to compliment you on your service. I often use it, especially also for technical information in physics and astronomy. Just now I was impressed by the density of information in {{w|Quantum_chromodynamics|your article on QCD}}, the theory of the strong interaction, in particular, its history."
<div style="font-size:smaller;margin-top:0.2em" class="attribution">—{{w|Jack Steinberger}}, 1988 Physics Nobel Laureate, 9 September 2010</div>
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