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| | Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce the appointment of Saad Choudri to its Board of Trustees. This appointment is effective from 19 September 2012. |
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| 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.
| | Saad brings a wealth of skills and experience to the Board. He is a practising solicitor in the video games industry and has offered legal advice pro bono in the past. He is a member of the Law Society, and stood as a candidate in this year’s Trustee election, where [[Annual_Conference_2012_AGM_Minutes#Election_of_Board_members|over half of the membership voted for him]]. You can [[WikiConference_UK_2012/Elections/Statements#Saad_Choudri|see his candidate statement]] and [[WikiConference_UK_2012/Elections/Questions#Saad_Choudri|his answers to candidate questions]] from that election. |
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| The keynote speakers were Annie Lin from the Wikimedia Foundation; Leigh Thelmadatter from ITESM Mexico; and Amber Thomas, a programme manager for the [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ JISC], a publicly-funded body for information technology in education and research.
| | We welcome Saad to the Board and very much look forward to working with him. |
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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>
| | ''Chris Keating, Chair, Wikimedia UK'' <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/09/wikimedia-uk-appoints-saad-choudri-to-its-board/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span> |
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