Events

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The events in the list below may be of interest to Wikimedia UK volunteers and members. The list includes events run by or related to the charity, as well as unconnected Wikimedia or Open Knowledge events that may be of interest, especially within the UK. You can expect to find Wikimedia UK volunteers at most of these.

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Current and future events

May

• 01 - Education Committee meeting
• 06 - Tech Com meeting
• 06 - Women in Physics event at the Institute of Physics May 2014 postponed - tube strike
• 07 - Wikipedia editathon at Conway Hall - 6pm 7th May 2014 postponed - tube strike
• 09–11 - Zürich Hackathon 2014
• 10 - Queen Street Mill Museum editathon, Burnley
• 11 - London meetup
• 13 - Women in Science Wikipedia edit-a-thon 13 May 2014 - University of Liverpool
• 15 - Brian Kelly presenting about Editing Wikipedia at the CILIP Cymru Wales Library and Information Conference 2014
• 17 - Cambridge meetup
• 18 - Manchester meetup
• 22 - Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the University of Manchester 2014
• 24–25 - Social Machines Hack, Wikimania Fringe
• 25 - Oxford meetup
• 29 - The DNADigest Wikipedia Editathon
• 31 - Cardiff meetup / Wicigyfarfod Caerdydd

June

• 02 - Jonathan Cardy speaking to London Skeptics
• 06 - Working with Wikimedia workshop, Edinburgh
• 07 - Jonathan Cardy running training session in London details TBC
• 07–08 - Free Culture Hack, Wikimania Fringe
• 08 - London meetup
• 12 - Barclays edit-a-thon
• 12–14 - Datafest Scotland 2014, University of Glasgow postponed
• 14 - Leeds meetup
• 16-17 - Brian Kelly facilitating an Open Knowledge session at Cetis Conference 2014
• 21–22 - Future of Education Workshop, Wikimania Fringe
• 23 - Royal Academy of Engineering workshop

• 28 - Train the Trainers refresher

July

• 05–06 - Open Data Hack, Wikimania Fringe
• 13 - London meetup
• 15–17 - OKFestival 2014
• 19–20 - Open Scholarship Hack, Wikimania Fringe

August

• 6–10 - Wikimania London 2014
• 27–29 - OpenSym 2014

September

• 14 - London meetup

October

• 11 - Back Stage Pass to the Cinema Museum, London.
• 11–12 - AdaCamp Berlin
• 12 - London meetup

November

• 09 - London meetup
• 22 - WW1 editathon at Senate House Library "WW1 and Dissent"

Past events in 2014

April

• 01 - Tech Com meeting
• 03 - HJM leading editathon/training session in Plymouth
• 05 - Brainstorm meeting to review the WIR programme
• 10–13 - Wikimedia Conference 2014
• 13 - London meetup
• 19 - Liverpool meetup
• 19 - Battle of Clontarf editathon
• 23 - Brian Kelly presenting at the LILAC 2014 conference, also [1]. Andrew Gray presenting at the LILAC 2014 conference [2]
• 25 - Live Art, Feminism and Archives
• 26 - Wikidata workshop 2014
• 27 - Oxford meetup
• 28–29 - Wikimedia UK sessions at Open Educational Resources conference (OER14), Newcastle University

March

• 01–02 - Boards training workshop - London
• 03 - Using Wikimedia to link research impact and open education - workshop for staff in Coventry University
• 04 - Student Presentations on Editing Wikipedia at the University of Hull in Scarborough
• 04 - Tech Com meeting
• 04 - Wikipedia Women in Science Edit-a-thon at the Royal Society
• 04 - Do you have the facts on Wikipedia? Special Library Association Europe talk - event for information professionals, Edinburgh
• 08 - Women's Art Library at Goldsmiths editing event - London
• 08 - Women Archaeologists editing event at the Petrie Museum - London
• 09 - London meetup
• 11 - Wikipedia in Education workshop and helpdesk, Jisc Digital Festival, Birmingham
• 11 - Staff training session, University of the Highlands & Islands, Inverness College, Inverness
• 12 - Women in Maths Editathon, Cambridge University
• 13 - Scottish Women in Contemporary Art Editathon, Dundee
• 15 - West Midlands Police Museum editathon, Birmingham.
• 15 - Leeds meetup
• 16 - Oxford meetup
• 16 - Edit-a-thon: York Luminaries 1800-1950, at York Museum Trust
• 19 - What I Know Is. A Research Symposium on Online Collaborative Knowledge Building - University of Stirling
• 20 - TaPRA Wikipedia Workshop - Glasgow
• 21 - Scottish Women in Computing editathon - Edinburgh
• 23 - Manchester meetup
• 25 - An editathon on the broad theme of diversity in science in gender, culture and geography at the Royal Society
• 28 - Royal Society of Chemistry training and editathon
• 28 - Talking Wikipedia In Ghana
• 30 - Coventry meetup
• 30 - Edinburgh meetup

February

• 01 - TaPRA Wikipedia Workshop - London
• 01 - Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Middlesex University
• 01 - Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Dundee
• 01–02 - Training the Trainers/February 2014 event - Cardiff
• 04 - Tech Com meeting
• 05 - UEA Wikipedia Workshop for PhD Students - Norwich
• 09 - London meetup
• 14 - Wikipedia and Archaeology or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the free Encyclopedia
• 15 - Cambridge meetup
• 16 - Oxford meetup
• 17–20 - Wikipedia Takes UCL - London
• 20 - Cornwall GLAMs workshop - hosted by the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth. Contact:Fæ
• 23 - Liverpool meetup and museum visit
• 25 - WWI editathon with students at University of Hull in Scarborough
• 25 - Education Committee meeting 25 February 2014
• 26 - Wellcome Library editathon
• 27–28 - Ally Crockford at The EDGE Conference 2014 - Edinburgh
• 27 - Magnus Manske speaking about Wikidata to Cambridge University Wikipedia Society, all are welcome

January

• 07 - Tech Com meeting
• 12 - London meetup
• 14 - Education Committee meeting
• 18 - Speakerthon: uploading voice samples from the Radio 4 archive to Wikipedia
• 18 - Post speakerthon meetup (from 5pm)
• 18 - Women in zoology and natural history editathon at London Zoo
• 19 - Oxford meetup
• 23 - Using Wikimedia to link research impact and open education - workshop for staff in Bath Spa University
• 25 - Anybody but Burns editathon, Edinburgh
• 26 - Swansea Editathon and Wiki training
• 26 - Manchester meetup