Open Access/2011/April
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Open Access
Issue 2 - April 2011
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Editorial
(To come)
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Features
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- (Gemma Griffiths and Martin Poulter ?) talks about Wikipedia's 10th Birthday and media coverage
Short entries
- Short entries are one paragraph summaries of recent events and interesting topics. Want to write a short entry for the next newsletter? Please send them to editorwikimedia.org.uk before the end of this month.
- Cancer Research UK Workshop, by (Mike Peel?)
- Wikipedia Society, by (Vinesh?)
- Bristol Wiki Academy, by Martin Poulter
Saturday 19th March saw a one-day event at the University of Bristol, jointly branded between Wikimedia UK and the University, and organised by Steve Virgin and myself. Attending were representatives from potential partner organisations and the local Somali and Bengali-speaking communities, as well as some students from the city's two universities. After my overview, Alex Stinson explained the Five Pillars, GLAM sector partnerships and the Ambassador programme. Rod Ward spoke about article quality and WikiProjects (see Rod's blog). William Avery demonstrated image uploading. Steve Woods gave a non-technical intro to MediaWiki (see Steve's blog). Roger Bamkin made a very persuasive case for QR codes, placing examples around the room. I spoke to local radio in the morning to promote the event. Matt Jukes of the Medical Research Council blogged favourably: "I think if more people were aware of just how tough the Wikipedia peer-review system was then there would be a lot less nay-sayers. The focus not only on getting things factually correct and well cited but also on the quality of the copy (and even layout) was really impressive."
- Wikipedia and Academia, by (??)
Guardian article, BBC World Update interview with Rod Ward (starting at 35.03 minutes)
- Chapters meeting, by (Mike Peel?)
Summary from Manuel Schneider, meta:Wikimedia Conference 2011
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