Press releases
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Wikimedia UK put out several press releases each the year. These are put out via our blog and by email (if you want to receive them, please contact us). Previous press releases are below.
- Fundraising summit
- 7 May 2010: From Friday 14th to Sunday 16th May 2010, Wikimedia UK will host Wikimedia delegates from across the world as they meet in Bristol.
- Britain Loves Wikipedia
- 29 January 2010: Britain Loves Wikipedia is a month-long competition and series of events to be held in participating museums nationwide from 31 January 2010.
- Mary Rose Trust donation
- 3 January 2010: The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust have released a number of photographs relating to the salvaged sixteenth-century warship Mary Rose onto Wikipedia. This is the first such image donation by a UK-based organisation.
- Public domain day
- 31 December 2009: What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the famed tomb of King Tutankhamen, novelist Ford Madox Ford, and sexologist Havelock Ellis all share in common? They all died in 1939. On New Year's Day 2010 all their works enter the public domain in the UK and become free for any use.
- Wikimedia Commons 5 million files
- 2 September 2009: Wikimedia Commons, one of the largest free media repositories on the Internet, reached the 5 million media files milestone today. Created just five years ago as a common repository of images for the different language versions of Wikipedia, it has grown to include video, animation, sound, and graphics files.
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Contact
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Please use the following email address for press or media enquiries.
- press
 wikimedia.org.uk
For urgent enquiries, please also contact Mike Peel on:
- +44 (0)7988 013 646
For a Wikimedia community perspective, you can also contact the following volunteers:
- James Forrester - jdforrester(at)wikimedia.org
- David Gerard - +44 (0)77 3322 3584
Please note: We do not wish to receive any press releases, newsletters, or documentation about your organisation.
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