Friends' Newsletter/2019/Issue 03

Welcome to the Autumn newsletter!

Time to put the jumpers on and find a cosy spot to read about all the hard work the team have been doing since the end of Summer!

Wiki Loves Monuments 2019

Here's some placeholder text for the announcements about WLM 2019.

Wikimedia UK partners with the Khalili Collections

Wikimedia UK has begun a partnership with the world's biggest private collection of Islamic art.

Gender Gap video published

Wikimedia UK has been producing a video about the work of our community over the past few years to reduce the gender gap on Wikipedia...

Scotland

Update from our staff about their work in Scotland.

University of Edinburgh residency

University of Edinburgh Wikimedian in Residence Ewan McAndrew continues to be recognised for his work at the university, with The Scotsman reporting on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft data project, whose intern Emma has produced a fantastic map allowing people to explore the data.

Wales

Jason:

• Attended Wikimania Hackathon and worked on improving Welsh labels in Wikidata.
• Agreed funding for Simon Cobb to develop Welsh Literature data as part of WikiLlen prosiect.
• Presentation of Wikidata for bibliographic data at Wikimania 2019.
• Presentation on the use of Wikidata at NLW for ‘Wikidata in Libraries’ meeting in Stockholm.
• Jason released an Annual Report for his residency.

Residencies at Universities

Andy Mabbett at the Coventry University Disruptive Media Learning Lab...

Martin Poulter at the Bodleian Libraries....

Other Stuff

Any other project news