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| [[File:War room, McDonald Road Library, Edinburgh, Scotland, GB, IMG 3848 edit.jpg|thumb|Wikimedians in the War Room]] | | [[File:De_Zuilen_van_Hercules_Gibraltar_en_Ceuta.jpg|thumb|180px|The Rock of Gibraltar with the mountain Jebel Musa, Morocco visible in the background]] |
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| Participating in Wikimedia's projects is not just about editing Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia articles have images, but not many people understand how they get there. Images on Wikipedia are provided by Wikimedia Commons – the free media archive and one of Wikimedia’s many projects. The aim of the Edinburgh Photography Workshop on 1 August was to involve local photographers, share skills and show them how to participate on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
| | The [http://www.discovergibraltar.com/ discovergibraltar.com] website has invited Gibraltarpedians to use its content as a resource for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GibraltarpediA Gibraltarpedia] project and Wikipedia. This comes as a result of presentations made by Roger Bamkin and John Cummings last month. The recently launched Gibraltarpedia project builds on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA Monmouthpedia] initiative, which created the first “Wikipedia town,” with a view to making Gibraltar the world’s first “Wikipedia city.” This will create a city labelled with QRpedia plaques covering every aspect of Gibraltar and everyone is encouraged to contribute. |
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| The idea for this workshop was conceived last year when I met {{w|User:Brian McNeil|User:Brian McNeil}} for the first time. Photography workshops are popular in the German Wiki community – Nuremberg will have its 11th workshop this year. {{w|User:Gnu1742|User:Gnu1742}} of the Nuremberg workshops and [[User:Daria Cybulska (WMUK)|Daria Cybulska]] of Wikimedia UK helped the two of us create the 1st Edinburgh photography workshop. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/08/germans-shoot-edinburgh-the-edinburgh-photography-workshop-2012-a-joint-uk-german-venture/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> | | The website now carries the Gibraltarpedia banner and has the [http://creativecommons.org.uk/ Creative Commons] license conditions to allow information and images from the site to be used as a basis for Gibraltarpedia articles. The site has been run by history and heritage enthusiast Jim Crone, and it contains almost 400 pages relating to Gibraltar. The website is not run as a business and it does not deal with subjects such as where to stay, where to shop or eat. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/08/gibraltars-biggest-website-is-now-cc-by-sa-for-gibraltarpedia/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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