Events

Meetings and 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.

If you know of an upcoming event that is not listed, please add it below.

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Past events

2016

October

• 8 - Europeana/British Library wildlife sound editathon
• 8 - Manchester Meetup
• 9 - London Meetup
• 11 - Axel Petterson (WMSV) and Richard Nevell (WMUK) present 'Reaching the world through free licenses and crowdsourced platforms' at DCDC16 in Salford
• 11 - Ada Lovelace Day 2016 - Editathon celebrating Women in STEM with a focus on Women in Maths this year.
• 16 - Kurdish Wikipedia training at the Kurdish Cultural Centre
• 16 - Oxford meetup
• 18 - WMUK CEO Lucy Crompton-Reid talking at the Open Source Conference about the Gender Gap
• 18 - Martin Poulter and Ylva Berglund-Prytz giving "A look under the bonnet of Wikipedia" workshop at Young Scientists Journal Conference
• 19 - MCG's Museums + Tech conference
• 25 - East London meetup
• 26 - Martin Poulter giving webinar on "A New Look at Wikimedia, the World's Largest Open Educational Resource" for the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) (webinar recording) (Storify of Twitter reactions)
• 29 - WMUK CEO Lucy Crompton-Reid talking at Mozfest about the Gender Gap
• 31 - Between the worlds of the living & the dead: A Wikipedia editathon for Samhain (the Gaelic festival for the dead)

November

• 5 - Cambridge meetup, new venue, Wikidata fourth anniversary edition
• 12 - Edinburgh Gothic editathon to mark Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2016 (in partnership with National Library of Scotland & National Galleries of Scotland).
• 13 - London meetup
• 15 - Beyond the Asylum at the Wellcome Library
• 19 - Beyond the Asylum part 2 at the Wellcome Library
• 19 - House of Commons Wikipedia editathon
• 20 - Voting for Change edit-a-thon, Working Class Movement Library, Salford, Manchester
• 20 - Oxford meetup
• 22 - People's History of the NHS at the Wellcome Library
• 23 - Lingwiki - Endangered Languages and Linguistics Editathon at SOAS

December

• 05 - Wikipedia for Librarians, Scottish Government Library, with Sara Thomas
• 08 - Wikipedia for Civil Servants, Scottish Government, with Sara Thomas
• 08 - BBC's 100 Women at BBC Glasgow
• 11 - London meetup

2017

January

• 23 - Women's Classical Committee Wikipedia workshop