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Martin Poulter at the Bodleian Libraries Oxford and Andy Mabbett, newly appointed Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Coventry's Disruptive Media Learning Lab have both written about their work for [[outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/June_2019/Contents/UK_report|This Month in GLAM]]. | |||
==Working with the music industry== | ==Working with the music industry== | ||
Communications Coordinator John has been working with the Association of Independent Music and helping to send Wikimedians to festivals to take photos of artists. | Communications Coordinator John has been working with the Association of Independent Music and helping to send Wikimedians to festivals to take photos of artists. | ||
Revision as of 10:26, 25 July 2019
Welcome to the Summer Newsletter!
Welcome to the Summer newsletter!
Celtic Knot 2019
Wikimedia UK holds AGM in Bristol
Media
Scotland
Scotland Manager Sara Thomas has helped release some images by Art UK of Scotland under Open Licenses, spoke at the Heritage Dot and CILIP conferences. You can hear the recording of Sara's Heritage Dot presentation here. She ran a number of editathons in June and July, on subjects like Scottish Lawyers, film in Aberdeen, Women in Science
A forthcoming booklet on the use of Wikimedia projects in education at the University of Edinburgh is due for release soon.
Work with Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities - Sara was successful in applying to have an intern placed with us in Scotland.
Wales
Robin Owain helped to release a Welsh database on liverwort mosses as part of the Llen Natur project, which will help create 300 new articles about plants in Welsh. Robin also started a WikiProject in participation with Arabic-language Wikimedians to add articles about the Middle East to Welsh Wikipedia, and has so far created 43 articles in Welsh. He also met the government's Welsh language Commissioner to discuss releasing content in Welsh on Open Licenses.
Robin wrote about Education in Wales for our blog and presented at the Celtic Knot languages conference.
Arron Morris Wici Mon project continued to train school children in Anglesey to edit Wikipedia.
Jason Evans
Jason has published a report covering his work for last month: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Jason.nlw/National_Wikimedian/Month_22
SG1
- Working on detailed Wikidata for Peniarth Manuscript Collection (540 items), which now has UNESCO memory of the world status. Nearly ready.
- Working with Wikidata for Welsh publishers in preparation for Welsh Literature project - and successfully created NLW catalogue ID Wikidata property.
SG2
- WiciPobl project impact report has been published: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Wicipobl_Impact_Report.pdf
SG3
- Submitted grant application to the Welsh Government outlining a plan for an education pilot project in Wales, aimed at improving resources for school children on Welsh Wikipedia.
Oxford and Coventry
Martin Poulter at the Bodleian Libraries Oxford and Andy Mabbett, newly appointed Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Coventry's Disruptive Media Learning Lab have both written about their work for This Month in GLAM.
Working with the music industry
Communications Coordinator John has been working with the Association of Independent Music and helping to send Wikimedians to festivals to take photos of artists.
This year we sent a couple of photographers to Glastonbury Festival, and you can see the Commons category for the images here.