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

December

• 03 - Science Museum Follow up
• 03 - Tech Com
• 04 - GLAM Com
• 06 - Project CYBERSYN Symposium in conjunction with Cybersalon and Wikiversity
• 12 - Jonathan Cardy speaking to London Region U3A
• 14 - London meetup
• 18 - WLM awards ceremony and community Xmas party 2014
• 21 - Oxford meetup
• 24 - WMUK Office Closed
• 25 - WMUK Office Closed
• 26 - WMUK Office Closed

January 2015

• 07 - London Wikidata Meetup 2 Development House, London
• 11 - London meetup
• 24 - Cambridge meetup
• 26 - Editathon for users of the BFI library.

February 2015

• 28 - Volunteer Strategy Gathering 2 (provisional date)

September 2015

• 02–03 - Wikipedia Science Conference, hosted by the Wellcome Trust, London

Past events in 2014

November

• 01–02 - Training the Trainers/November 2014 event - Edinburgh
• 08 - Cambridge meetup
• 09 - London meetup
• 13 - Wikipedia training at MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London
• 16 - Oxford meetup
• 16 - Translatathon
• 17 - Equality Challenge Unit conference (editathon & discussion) (Roberta Wedge) ([1])
• 19 - STEM to stem: women and food editathon
• 19 - Planning for Science Museum Late
• 22 - WW1 editathon at Senate House Library "WW1 and Dissent" (London)
• 22 - WW1 editathon at Library of Birmingham "WW1 and Dissent" (B'ham)
• 22 - Editathon at Sheffield Hallam University
• 23 - South Coast Meetup 1; tour of Eastleigh railway carriage and wagon works
• 23 - Manchester Girl Geeks event and Manchester meetup
• 26 - Science Museum Late
• 29 - Volunteer Strategy Gathering
• 30 - Leeds meetup

October

• 01 - GLAM Committee meeting
• 01 - Fabian Tompsett giving a talk at the Memorialising Slavery Seminar, Edge Hill University
• 11 - Back Stage Pass to the Cinema Museum, London
• 11–12 - AdaCamp Berlin
• 11 - Wikidata Training, London
• 12 - London meetup
• 14 - Ada Lovelace day 2014 in Oxford
• 14 - Toni Sant presenting at Westminster Forum
• 14 - Ada Lovelace Day editathon at the University of Southampton Solent
• 15 - Wiki Wednesday Wikimedia UK office
• 18 - LGBT editathon, Bishopsgate Library, London
• 18 - Chester meetup
• 19 - Oxford meetup
• 22 - London Wiki Wednesday, Wikimedia UK office)
• 23 - Tech Com
• 25 - Editathon at the Royal Opera House, London
• 28 - Martin Poulter speaking about Wikipedia and education at EDUPUNK 2.0 – The Future Of Digital Education, London
• 29 - Fun outing (and site visit) to Science Museum Late
• 30 - Peter Findlay (Jisc) speaking about sharing content on Wikipedia and Wikimedia at Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities, Birmingham
• 31 - EduWiki Conference 2014 in Edinburgh
• 31 - Digital maps Halloween tag-a-thon, British Library, London. Kick-off for WM/BL map tag campaign

September

• 01–30 - Wiki Loves Monuments
• 1 - DRHA Conference 2014 - Wiki Workshop for Researchers in Humanities & Arts at Greenwich University
• 4 - TaPRA Conference 2014 - Wikipedia Editing Workshop at Royal Holloway, University of London
• 11 - Tech Com
• 12 - Who Are You ? Anna Kavan Edit-a-thon - Wiki Workshop at Wikimedia UK, London
• 12 - Campus Ambassadors Workshop at University College London
• 13 - Zoocon Portsmouth, including a wikiathon.
• 14 - London meetup
• 20 - Cambridge meetup
• 20 - Judges' Lodgings tour and editathon
• 21 - Oxford meetup
• 23 - Editathon at Institute of Classical Studies "Women in Classicism" (London) event page: [2].
• 25-26 - Alt-metrics conference, WMUK represented by Brian Kelly - [3], [4]
• 27 - Manchester meetup
• 28 - Edinburgh meetup

August

• 04–05 - Train the Trainers International
• 06–07 - Wikimania Education Pre-conference
• 06–10 - Wikimania London 2014
• 07 - Boards training workshop
• 07 - Medical Wikipedians at Cancer Research UK
• 09 - Annual General Meeting @ The Barbican
• 12 - ZSL London Zoo Library editathon 12 August 2014
• 14 - Learn to edit workshop at Loncon 3
• 16 - "How Wikipedia Works" session at Loncon 3
• 17 - Oxford meetup
• 23 - Liverpool meetup
• 27–29 - OpenSym 2014
• 31 - Portsmouth meetup

July

• 01 - HJM running training session for Physiology Conference 2014, London
• 01 - Marc Haynes from Coleg Cymraeg presenting a Jisc webinar [5]
• 05 - Media training for volunteers
• 05–06 - Open Data Hack, Wikimania Fringe
• 07 - Wiki Workshop for Geographers at RGS in London
• 07 - Jonathan Cardy speaking to London Skeptics
• 13 - London meetup
• 15–17 - OKFestival 2014
• 15 - Tech Com meeting
• 19–20 - Open Scholarship Hack, Wikimania Fringe
• 20 - Oxford meetup
• 23 - Editathon at Conway Hall, Rationality and Skepticism on the Internet
• 25 - SHE MUST BE WIKI: Feminist Film Wiki-a-thon
• 26 - Manchester meetup
• 26 - Glasgow meetup
• 30 - GLAM Committee meeting

June

• 06 - Working with Wikimedia workshop, Edinburgh
• 07 - Royal Society Neuroscience Editathon
• 07–08 - Free Culture Hack, Wikimania Fringe
• 08 - London meetup
• 08 - Edinburgh meetup
• 12 - Barclays edit-a-thon
• 12–14 - Datafest Scotland 2014, University of Glasgow postponed
• 14 - Leeds meetup
• 15 - Oxford meetup
• 16-17 - Brian Kelly facilitating an Open Knowledge session at Cetis Conference 2014
• 16-18 - Toni Sant delivering keynote at 6th International Integrity & Plagiarism Conference.
• 17 - Tech Com meeting
• 19 - Communications and Public Engagement workshop - Wikipedia, London
• 21 - Liverpool meetup
• 21–22 - Future of Education Workshop, Wikimania Fringe
• 21 - Authoring King's Cross at Central St. Martin's
• 23 - Ally Crockford speaking at the Library Science Talks 2014 at CERN
• 23 - Royal Academy of Engineering workshop
• 23 - Southampton Solent University editathon June 2014
• 28 - Train the Trainers refresher
• 29 - Portsmouth meetup
• 29 - Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2014 planning meeting

May

• 01 - Education Committee meeting
• 06 - Tech Com meeting
• 06 - Women in Physics event at the Institute of Physics 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
• 18 - Wikiwalks London 3
• 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 - DNAdigest Wiki Editathon (Eventbrite Signup)
• 31 - Cardiff meetup / Wicigyfarfod Caerdydd
• 31 - Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons

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 [6]. Andrew Gray presenting at the LILAC 2014 conference [7]
• 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 [8]
• 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
• 27 - Sharing York’s Art Collections in the 21st Century: Lessons from Wikipedia - Friends of York Art Gallery - Pat Hadley speaking

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