UK Wikimedian of the Year 2014/Nomination

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To submit a nomination, please specify who you're nominating along with a brief description on why you think they should win the award. Please no comparisons ("Bill is so much nicer than Mary" would be better phrased "Bill is very nice"). The deadline for nomination is Sunday 29 June.

Nominations

UK Wikimedian of the Year

Jane Doe

Because she's great! ~~~~

User:Fæ

I would like to nominate User:Fæ for the UK Wikimedian of the Year. Fæ has done a lot of awesome work on Commons for some time, and has done this tirelessly for the benefit of Wikimedia Commons and for the furtherment of free content. One such project is Commons:Commons:Batch uploading/Airliners, which has seen Fæ upload tens of thousands of aviation photos to Commons, helping to make aviation subjects one of the most well-covered on Commons. In light of WMUK paying for a membership of one site, Fæ will continue this great work throughout 2014, and we will see possibly another 100,000 freely-licenced images being uploaded. Well done Fæ, thanks for your tireless contributions and good luck with my nomination. Russavia (talk) 16:38, 13 June 2014 (BST)

GLAM of the Year

The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

I'd like to nominate this institution, and especially Liz McCarthy (Wikipedia user Liz McCarthy), for being outstandingly forward-looking in working with Wikimedia UK. Consider in just the past year:

  • Along with the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Bodleian hosted a Women in Science editathon which was successful both in getting women to edit, getting endorsement from senior figures and getting biographies of female scientists written. Liz was instrumental to this not just with her own editing and by creating the project page, but by providing a stack of relevant books from the Bodleian collection.
  • Liz also set up the Rediscovering Rycote event which brought together historical material, Wikipedia and new contributors.
  • Liz and the Bodleian Libraries run an online learning programme for Oxford academics which recently included a section about Wikipedia educational assignments.
  • Along with Kate Lindsay of University of Oxford IT Services, Liz wrote articles for Guardian Higher Education Network and for Oxford Today (distributed to all Oxford alumni) presenting writing for Wikipedia as a positive thing for experts to do, particularly to address the gender imbalance. Naturally, I'd like a joint award for Kate and Liz, but this is an award for a GLAM.

Conflict of Interest note: clearly, I was involved in some of the activities I've mentioned above, but this has only made me aware of the enthusiasm Liz, Kate and colleagues have for improving Wikipedia and the success they've had in fostering a change in academics' attitudes to Wikipedia. MartinPoulter (talk) 16:28, 13 June 2014 (BST)

Awesome GLAM

I like visiting them! ~~~~

Educational Institution of the Year

Special University

I studied there! ~~~~

Special award/Honourable mention etc

User:Example

For his tireless work as the example user on all Wikimedia projects. ~~~~

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