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...

Art UK work

Something about our work with Art UK? Stuart or Sara to advise on this.

Art UK editathon, sculpture, 30 September

Scotland

Sara Thomas held a Wikipedia editathon with the British Geological Survey at the 46th IAH Congress 2019 to transfer information from the Africa Groundwater Atlas to Wikipedia "making hydrogeology information for Africa more visible and accessible to a wider audience". Another event in August with Code the City was on the subject of the 'Silver Screen in the Silver City'.

Sara has continued to work with the Dumfries Stonecarving Project, setting up social editing groups, and moving draft pages to mainspace.  They’re also still looking to talk to HLF regarding their request to talk to projects with digital outputs.

A 'Commons to Culture' event is set for 15th October - will support NLS and NMS to develop workflows for uploading images to commons, and info to wikidata

David Livingstone Trust Editathon - 16th October as part of Black History Month

Highlands DataLab inaugural meetup - Inverness - 19th September

Education booklet?Facebook live (sprung on us!) for Dumfries events got a silly amount of views & interactions…. a bit of a surprise: 29th July has had 1000 views, 30 July (where we made more of an effort to have edit-a-long info available, and got one participant remotely) got 512 views so far.

https://www.facebook.com/StonecarvingDumfries/videos/2603095853036343/ and

https://www.facebook.com/StonecarvingDumfries/videos/466265083921629

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.
• 7531 Wikidata edits to improve data for artworks from WIR-NLW.
• WiciLlen project approved with a grant from the Welsh Government - starts in September.
• Work continues with Histropedia on a timeline for Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
• Submitted a grant application to the Welsh Government outlining a plan for an Education Pilot Project in Wales, aimed at improving resources for school children on Welsh Wikipedia.
• Another batch of images from digitised Peniarth Manuscripts uploaded to Commons.

Welsh Language Commissioner Aled Roberts has started to change the licence to CCBYSA on many of the YouTube videos. (which videos? @Robin to advise)

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

Threatened Heritage in Libya

A professor at KCL wants to use Wikimedia Commons as an image repository for photos of threatened heritage sites in Libya. Data import is ongoing and is at the Mix n' Match stage.

Banner Repeater

Something about BR?