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| [[File:WTC Mattley 005.JPG|thumb|First prize winner: "Man's Struggle" by Team Mattley]]
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| On Saturday 1 September, local Wikimedians organised the first "Wikipedia Takes..." event in the UK, in the city of Coventry (which, contrary to popular belief, is home to many historic or otherwise interesting buildings and structures). In the latest event in Wikimedia UK's {{w|WP:GLAM/HAGAM|ongoing partnership with Herbert Art Gallery and Museum}}, 51 photographers, almost exclusively non-editors, descended upon the city for the one-day photo scavenger hunt. Over the course of the five and a half hours, over 2,000 photographs were taken and uploaded, making an invaluable contribution to open culture and the historical record about the key areas of Coventry.
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| Many articles to do with the history of Coventry and the surrounding area are now illustrated by lots of high-quality photographs. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/wikipedia-takes-coventry-the-winners/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
| | The first week of September saw the [http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2012 first EduWiki Conference] at the University of Leicester, England, bringing together educators and Wikimedians for two days to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program and other ways we can support each other. |
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| | The topics included assessing student work on Wikipedia, using Wikipedia’s corpus of 4 million English articles for language learning, creating customised reference books using the Wikipedia book tool, and Wikiversity. Video and slides are being added [http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2012#Programme to the conference programme]. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/eduwiki-2012-a-review/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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