Dear all
I am sharing this information, it is still being developed/ refined and
welcome your thoughts, feedback and offers to host events!
During Wikimania 2021 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021> we
are looking to facilitate in-person meet ups, based on Wiknics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic>. These would be an
opportunity to:
- Bring our community together at a series of friendly picnic events.
- A relaxed opportunity for community members & families, and those new
to the community to come together and celebrate Wiki at 20/ Wikimania and
get to know each other.
We are in the process of confirming a couple of events, with an open
invitation to you to host and arrange a Wiknic across the 5 days of Wikimania
2021 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021>.
To support and facilitate Wiknics, Wikimedia UK will deliver:
- Hosting guidance
- Promotional material templates
- Event souvenirs
- Grants for refreshments.
To even contemplate in person activity, I have completed the Foundation
Risk Assessment. Of course if any local or national Covid-19 guidance
changes and means in-person events cannot go ahead we will support
people to move their Wiknic online.
As mentioned these plans are still in development. It would be wonderful to
hear your thoughts, suggestions or offers to host an event.
Best wishes
Natasha
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Natasha Iles MCIOF (Dip)
Head of Development & Communications
Wikimedia UK
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
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the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
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Hi all!
The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Network for Open Knowledge (IDEA Network for short!) is based at the University of St Andrews. It aims to make Wikipedia a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible place for all forms of knowledge. From midnight on Thursday 23rd September to midnight on Sunday 26th September, we will be running a 72 hour EU wide Wikipedia Editathon. This is all part of EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night.
In order to be in good shape for the Editathon, we are offering this series of editing training session (you only need to attend one!). It is open to all researchers and anyone with an interest in improving the world's largest encyclopedia! As this is a Europe-wide event, each training session is targeted at a particular country, but feel free to book into a session that works for you and your diary.
During this training session, we will primarily be focusing on areas of Wikipedia with underestimated individuals, namely Women in Red for different disciplines, as well as cross-translating between Wikis, and adding images to the Wiki Loves Monuments competition. However, if there are particular pages that you are passionate about improving then please do go for it!
* 9am-1pm, Tuesday 24 August (registration link<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/158700889633>)
* 9am-1pm, Tuesday 31 August (registration link<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/158707322875>)
* 9am-1pm, Tuesday 7 September (registration link<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/158708037011>)
* 9am-1pm, Tuesday 14 September (registration link<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/158710682925>)
* 10am-2pm, Tuesday 21 September (registration link<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/158711370983>)
Any questions, just drop me an email (ksrh1(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:ksrh1@st-andrews.ac.uk>). Feel free to spread the word!
Explorathon is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions programme - grant agreement No 101036101
All the best
Kirsty
Dr Kirsty Ross (she/her)
Public Engagement Officer
Public Engagement with Research (PER) team
School of Biology
Willie Russell Labs, Potato Avenue,
St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST
Hello everyone,
At the AGM on Saturday we announced the winners of the 2021 UK Wikimedian
of the Year Awards.
*UK Wikimedian of the Year*
*Cobra 3000* won the award for their efforts supporting the Scots
Wikipedia. They have been a key part of the wiki, organising editathons
which not only improved content but fostered a community of editors working
together. Having people within a community who can step up and organise is
invaluable, and those efforts mean that Scots Wikipedia is improving ever
*Honourable Mention* goes to *Ian Watt* who is a tremendously active
volunteer and advocate for open knowledge, working with Commons, Wikidata,
and Wikipedia. Over the last year he has run public-facing workshops and
editathons, and he is hosting and supervising an Edinburgh University
post-grad student running a mass transcription of the Register of Returned
Criminals (1869-1939).
*Up-and-Coming Wikimedia of the Year*
Awarded jointly to *Abd Alsattar Ardati* and *Lucy Moore*. Abd is one of
Wikimedia UK's accredited trainers and has been proactive in helping his
university engage with Wikimedia; his efforts have helped WMUK adapted to
the methodology of online training. Lucy is another excellent advocate for
Wikimedia - she has organised events at her place of work and encourages
people in the museum and archaeology sectors to work with Wikimedia; she is
also an active editor and writes articles addressing Wikipedia's content
imbalances.
*Partnership of the Year*
*London College of Communication* won the award for the Decolonising
Wikipedia Network was set up in 2020 involving students and staff to
improve Wikipedia's coverage of under-represented topics. The Student
Changemakers (who had a prominent role in leading the decolonisation
efforts) were powerful advocates for the project and presented to staff and
fellow students. The successful project will expand over the next academic
year to include the whole of University of Arts, London, of which LCC is a
part.
*Honourable Mention* goes to the *Scotland, Slavery and Black History
project at the University of Edinburgh*. History students were invited to
improve public knowledge of Scotland’s Black history, and to help make
Scotland’s deep connections to Atlantic slavery better understood. They
have provided videos on their reflections on this work to local Edinburgh
secondary schools who are also interested in Dundas and improving black
history on Wikipedia.
Kind regards,
Richard
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Richard Nevell
Programme Coordinator and Connected Heritage Project Lead
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the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by
Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
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Dear all
Many thanks to those of you who attended Wikimedia UK's online AGM
yesterday. For those who weren't there, I wanted to let you know that the
following three candidates received the most votes in the trustee election
and will therefore be appointed (or in Rod's case, reappointed) to the
board:
Caroline Ball
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2021_Annual_General_Meeting/Candidate_Stateme…>
Julian Akodoye Manieson
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2021_Annual_General_Meeting/Candidate_Stateme…>
Rod Ward
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2021_Annual_General_Meeting/Candidate_Stateme…>
With huge thanks to all six candidates who put themselves forward for the
board of trustees this year.
At the meeting, Nick Poole also announced that following his departure from
the board (at the end of the meeting, which marked six years since he was
elected as a trustee), Lorna Campbell would be stepping in as Interim Chair
until October. Nick also welcomed our new co-opted trustee and Chair
Elect, Monisha
Shah <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Board#Monisha_Shah> (who introduced
herself to the meeting).
The four resolutions proposed by the board were unanimously supported.
I will be in touch separately about the Wikimedian of the Year awards and
Honorary Memberships, however I wanted to update you as soon as possible
about the outcome of the trustee election and our Chair Elect.
Best wishes
Lucy
Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for
the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by
Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
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Hi all
An email was just sent out to all eventbrite sign-ups for tomorrow's AGM
with the Zoom link, and instructions on what to expect for live online
voting. If you did not receive an email and think you should have, please
let me know asap.
You must be signed up to the eventbrite to receive these emails. Please
register here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uks-2021-agm-tickets-157215827773>
if you plan to attend and have not done so already.
Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
Best wishes
Katie
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Katie Crampton (she/her)
Communications & Governance Coordinator
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Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open
knowledge movement.
Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by
Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
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Hi all,
I've just tried to edit the WMUK wiki to add a few internal links to the
2020 AGM minutes but saw that I was blocked due to a block imported by the
global block importer. I had logged in.
On further investigation I realised that there's a WM global softblock on
my IP range, but the WMUK wiki imported it as a hardblock. Can this be
adjusted?
--Deryck
Hi all
Yesterday we sent out voting packs for the 2021 AGM to all members,
including a link to proxy forms. If you haven't received an email and think
you should have, please let me know.
Best wishes
Katie
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Katie Crampton (she/her)
Communications & Governance Coordinator
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for
the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by
Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
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Dear all
The Wikimedia UK staff team and trustees are looking forward to welcoming
you to our Community Day and Annual General Meeting this Saturday 10th July.
The event starts at 11am and will finish at 3.30pm with the announcement of
our newly elected trustees. If you haven’t yet signed up to attend, please
register on our eventbrite page
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uks-2021-agm-tickets-157215827773>
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We are particularly looking forward to hearing the designer and
entrepreneur George Oates in conversation with our outgoing Chair of
Trustees, Nick Poole. George has a long career at the intersection of
culture, technology and open, and created Flickr Commons in 2008 to share
hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives. Nick Poole
has built an international profile as a cultural sector leader and advocate
for open knowledge, and is currently Chief Executive of CILIP, the UK’s
library and information association, as well as the Chair of Trustees at
Wikimedia UK. Nick and George will be exploring the themes of open
knowledge, community building, culture and scale, drawing on their past and
current experiences and responding to questions from the online audience to
ensure a lively and thought-provoking discussion.
The day will also include the following lightning talks:
Lorna Campbell on the representation of HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia
Jason Evans on the National Library of Wales Places of Wales project
Dr Martin Poulter and Waqas Ahmed on their visual arts bias research
Dr Kirsty Ross on the IDEA Network at the University of St Andrews
Nominations for 2021’s *Wikimedian and UK Partnership of the Year*, which
will be presented on the day, close on Wednesday 7th July. If there is an
individual or organisation that you think deserves recognition, please
nominate them here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekDMMRJjTIG0axC2oQZ7pMFi-5snTty5y…>
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With best wishes
Lucy
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Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for
the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by
Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
<https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…>
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