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

October

• 01 - Interdisciplnary editathon, University of Leeds
• 02 - UCL Healthcare engineering Diversity Wikithon
• 02 - UCL Diversity in mathematics Wikithon
• 02 - Lecture at UCL on Wikimedia for the Approaches to Knowledge course
• 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
• 09 - Wikipedia for researchers seminar and workshop, University of Exeter
• 11 - Histories of Women in the British Film and Television Industries, 1933-89 editathon, University of Leeds
• 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
• 17 - Women in Physiology editathon with Manchester University Physiology society at the University of Manchester
• 17 - Student training at the University of Kent as part of 'The Carolingians and the Invention of Order'
• 18 - Museums+Tech conference, British Library, London featuring presentations on Wikidata
• 25-26 - WikidataCon 2019, Berlin, Germany with some presentations from the UK
• 29 - Wikidata birthday party at Newspeak House in London
• 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
• 12 - True Crime in American popular culture - Seminar and Wikipedia editathon at the University of Edinburgh
• 14 - TrowelBlazers Women in Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology, 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

• 12 - UK General Election night editathon at Newspeak House in London.
• 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.