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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Past events

2019

August

• 06 - Wikipedia editing workshop for volunteers of the Thames Discovery Programme
• 17 - Code The City Editathon, Aberdeen. Led by Dr Sara Thomas, Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK. Booking link for event here.
• 31 - Wikidata London meetup #4 - Learn how to query Wikidata with SPARQL

September

• 03 - Glasgow School of Art Wikimeetup
• 06 - Introduction to Wikipedia - University of Dundee course leaders
• 08 - m:Meetup/London/146
• 11 - The Wicked Findings of the Witchfinder General: Using linked open data to put accused witches on the map Workshop at the University of Edinburgh presenting the findings of the summer data internship focussing on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft.
• 18 - Workshop on Wikimedia platforms at Berlin Summer School on Open Research, Oxford University
• 19 - Highlands data meet up, Inverness. Including talk from Dr Sara Thomas
• 21 - Electrifying Women: a WES Wikithon – LSE London
• 21 - Bolton Pride editathon in partnership with Bolton Libraries and Museums
• 23 - Africal Groundwater Atlas editathon, with the British Geological Society (Edinburgh Centre) at the International Congress of Hydrogeologists, led by Sara Thomas (WMUK). More details here.
• 30 - Art UK Women Sculptors Editathon, University of Glasgow Library, 13:30 - 17:00, with Art UK & user:Sara Thomas (WMUK).

October

• 02 - UCL Healthcare engineering Diversity Wikithon
• 02 - UCL Diversity in mathematics Wikithon
• 08 - Women in Engineering Wikipedia editathon Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Science and Engineering as part of a day of celebration for Ada Lovelace day 2019.
• 09 - Manchester Pankhurst Centre gender gap editathon
• 15-16 - FORCE 2019 (Future Of Research Communication and e-Scholarship), Edinburgh, featuring a presentation on Wikimedia and scholarly communication
• 15 - Culture to Commons - an event for cultural content holders to learn about uploading images to Commons, & Wikidata. - National Library of Scotland
• 18 - Museums+Tech conference, British Library, London featuring presentations on Wikidata
• 25-26 - WikidataCon 2019, Berlin, Germany with some presentations from the UK
• 30 - Women in Red Wikipedia editathon Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to create more biographies of notable women to address the systemic bias on Wikipedia where only 18.04% of biographies are currently about women.

November

• 10 - Victorian Blogging Wikipedia Editathon at Conway Hall, London
• 20 - Introduction to Wikidata Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to introduce Histropedia (the timeline of everything) and other use cases of Wikidata and followed by a how-to guide to introduce Wikidata, how to edit Wikipedia's sister project manually, in bulk, and visualising the results using the SPARQL Query Service.
• 27 - Women in Red Wikipedia editathon Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to create more biographies of notable women to address the systemic bias on Wikipedia where only 18.04% of biographies are currently about women.

December

• 17 - Women in Red Wikipedia editathon Workshop at the University of Edinburgh's Main Library to create more biographies of notable women to address the systemic bias on Wikipedia where only 18.04% of biographies are currently about women.