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"...support the widest possible public access to, use of and contribution to open content of an encyclopaedic or educational nature..."

- Wikimedia UK's charitable objects

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When you hear 'Wikimedia' what do you think of? Perhaps you think of Wikipedia - the world's largest online encyclopaedia read by half a billion people around the globe every month. Yet the Wikimedia project is bigger than this.

In the 21st century there will be more mobile phones in use than people in the world. Access to knowledge continues to be a barrier to progress for people around the globe, particularly when they are prevented from accessing education because of poverty or politics. Neutrally written, community driven and curated online knowledge, published in three times the languages than the World Health Organisation publishes in, can be a powerful tool. To reach people, engage them, and to be grown by voices from across the world who haven't been heard before. Wikimedia UK has a commitment to growing Wikipedia and its sister projects in this way, to ensure this happens.

Wikimedia UK is a UK registered charity that aims to deliver the Wikimedia mission throughout the UK. We work to support the development of online educational content through the community of editors whose collaboration and consensus are building a repository of knoweldge and releasing the results of that effort under creative commons licence.

Throughout the UK we are working with world-class galleries, archives, libraries and museums to unlock hidden public archives and document community histories. We are working with educational institutions to bring the benefits of free-knowledge culture and collaborative approaches to a new generation of students. We are using technology to connect, correct and expand the millions of articles and huge amount of media we've already collected. Yet, above all that is the remarkable community of dedicated volunteers who are working together to discover, share and improve content that anyone can read and use for free. You can be a part of it.

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(Bottom right image): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Wicimedia_Eiseddfod_2012.jpg

(Caption): User:Lewellyn2000 is Robin Owain, Wikimedia UK's Wales Manager - pictured here with a participant at the at the National Eisteddfod of Wales at the Wicipedia Cymru workshop

The Wikimedia Movement

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, 2004

The Wikimedia movement consists of the people and groups of people sharing common goals and activities with regard to creating and supporting free knowledge educative content. Owner of the trademark 'Wikimedia' is the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) - is a non-profit organization registered in the USA, which hosts the Wikimedia websites known as the "Wikimedia projects". There are many other movement entities which make up the movement, from thematic organisations, user groups, and finally geographic 'chapters' - Wikimedia UK is the chapter for Wikipedians in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wikimedia stakeholders are also part of the Wikimedia movement, which means the people who read Wikimedia content, donors, schools, GLAM, similar-minded institutions, and companies co-operating with movement organizations.

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Wikiprojects

The longest established Wikimedia content project is Wikipedia, but there are others. These include Wikimedia Commons, a repository for image, video and audio files, Wikiquote and Wikisource, repositories of original text material, Wikinews for collaboratively written news coverage, or Wikidata which acts as a central repository of data linking all the projects in multiple languages. The number of projects will continue to grow where volunteers think another area of knowledge and education can be served through the approach of collaboration and freely licensing what they create together.

Free content

Free content is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content that meets the definition of a free cultural work. A free cultural work is one which has no significant legal restriction on people's freedom to use the content and benefit from using it, to study the content and apply what is learned, to make and distribute copies of the content, and even to change and improve the content and distribute these derivative works if the original is released under the appropriate licence.

Free content encompasses all works in the public domain and also those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the freedoms mentioned above. You will see content on the Wikimedia sites released under a creative commons licence - the goal of such licensing is producing reference material free to all people – a collection of human knowledge, which cannot be limited or controlled by restrictive use of copyright law and which, under most reasonable conditions, can be used and shared by everyone without any hindrance.

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Be a part of the world's largest open knowledge project

How does Wikimedia UK fit into this?

Wikimedia UK operates throughout the UK in a number of different ways. The charity has an office presence in London, and has supported partnership work with cultural institutions in Newcastle, Edinburgh and Bristol as well as having members of staff based in North Wales and Yorkshire. It hosts a full calendar of events in cooperation with leading volunteers who have identified or offered to support events that range from focusing on editing, 'backstage pass' tours of galleries and museums, to talks, photo tours and workshops.

In Wales the Living Paths project...

What are the different ways people can get involved?

The exciting thing is that these are events are often run aimed at a local audience, and led by volunteers. Staff can provide support in terms of training materials or setting up the event, but bringing together new editors and working to change and improve content is in the hands of those who chose to do something exciting that will have an impact. Broadly there are four types of roles that go into Wikimedia UK:

• Editor

• Event coordinator

• Organise

• Trainer

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Membership

You can also demonstrate your support for the chapter by becoming a member. Members' have the opportunity to elect the Trustees of the charity, attend members' specific events and receive a monthly newsletter with updates about the Chapter and the movement - they are responsible for holding the Trustees to account and ensuring the chapter is governed prudently and fulfilling the public benefit requirement of Wikimedia UK's charitable objects.

Membership fees are determined by the membership and are £5 for an annual membership term which entitles you to full voting rights in the charity and the opportunity to apply for micro grants to support editing work if you wish.

Get involved

If you would like to express interest in volunteering or applying for membership you can fill out the form opposite and post it at no cost - you will receive an email with instructions for how to join online or volunteering opportunities that match your interest in your area.

So, take two minutes to fill this out and pop it in the post - and join a vibrant community of people taking part in delivering the Wikimedia vision in the United Kingdom.

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Check box - I am interested in hearing more about volunteering with Wikimedia UK Check Box - I am interested in becoming a member of Wikimedia UK

Fields for completion (Please use capitals):

Name

Address

Address

Postcode

Email

Username (If you already edit Wikipedia or Wicipedia - you do not have to include this)

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I would particularly like to know more about (tick as many as you wish):

• Attending a meetup or event
• Learning to edit
• Learning how to donate images
• Making local Galleries, Arts, Museums and Libraries material available
• Working with educational institutions

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C/o Office Manager

FREEPOST WIKIPEDIA

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• Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia
• Wicipedia - the free welsh language encyclopaedia
• Wiktionary - a wiki-based open content dictionary
• Wikiquotes - a free online compendium of sourced quotations
• Wikinews - the free news source you can write
• Wikisources - the free library that anyone can improve.
• Wikibooks - the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.
• Wikiversity - a community effort to learn and facilitate others' learning
• Wikivoyage - the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit.
• Wikispecies - The free species directory that anyone can edit
• Wikimedia Commons - a database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
• Wikidata -the free knowledge base that anyone can edit

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