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lucymoore.bsky.social
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Bíonn ár bhfoireann @wikimediaireland.bsky.social gnóthach! Léigh anois faoinár gcuid taithí ag comhdháil CESI @cesi-ie.bsky.social, imeacht Wikipedia (eagaratón) i gColáiste na Tríonóide @trincolllibcam.bsky.social amárach, agus níos mó thíos 👇 wikimedia.ie/2025/03/03/f...

Recently I heard someone describe Wikipedia as: By humans, for humanity. Couldn’t have said it better. So many cool things planned for this year.

Making Trans Histories Public: Wiki Edit-A-Thon is tomorrow!🏳️‍⚧️ Join @nickshepp.bsky.social, @yclepit.bsky.social, and local artists GossipGrrrl and Kit George as we look into and improve the accuracy of wiki content on trans people and activism in Yorkshire.👨‍💻 Find out more here: bit.ly/4bcI6TX

📢 Ever wondered what the past used to smell like? The latest TEtrARCHs Seminar is on Friday, 28th February, 2025, at 13:00 BST. Dr. Marieke van Erp will present on "Smelling the past through big data". 🔍 Find out more here : https://buff.ly/3EPxRJ5 👉 Register here: https://buff.ly/4iatpTw

At Art History Loves Wiki 2025 in Munich, I will demonstrate how Wikidata Queries can help museums and investigators to identify Nazi-looted art and the networks profiting from them @wikiconf Register for online participation! de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #learning #kg #Wikidata #art

One for the niche #Wikidata X #Olfaction crew - one of the suggestions at last years Wikimania was to see how books that feature smell could be modelled ... Adelle Stripes memoir (which is also brilliant) is a good candidate to try this out with www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132719...

It's been pointed out already, but looking at current media coverage, apparently not often enough: trowelandpen.com/2025/01/22/c...

A reminder no one should need: Putin started the war by invading Ukraine unprovoked and his forces have committed war crimes against the Ukrainian people. Russia is the party responsible for this war continuing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

About time. First academic building on #UniversityOfLeicester 's campus named after a woman: Schools of Archaeology and Ancient History and Museum Studies to be called "Dame #KathleenKenyon Building" in honour of the pioneering archaeologist. 🏺 www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/02/1...

Capturing everyday life in Australia... chicken coops! 🐓 Calling for images to capture the more mundane aspects of Australian life. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... Image: by Aliceinthealice, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Eiad Ghanem, head of the Syrian Association for the Management of Museums and Archaeological Sites, has called for the return of looted antiquities, halting all illegal excavations, and establishing an international fund to revive Syrian heritage and artifacts. sana.sy/en/?p=347053

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

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Plenty of submissions so far, but we warmly welcome more! Deadline is 16 February 💡

A reminder of this event, 'Help Shape the Future of Archaeological Knowledge on Wikipedia!' coming up on Tue 11 Feb and organised by @ads-update.bsky.social and @wikimediauk.bsky.social 👇

It's super cool to see people putting proposals in already, thank you so much & keep 'em coming!!!

Newly entered on CHRE: Exciting new hoard found in the Netherlands (Bunnik 2023), dating from the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, mixing Roman denarii and aurei with staters of Cunobelinus! #numismatics ➡️ chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/21255 ➡️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New one-day conference call-out dropping 👇🏻 Bespoke, Open, Creative & Collaborative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD) is running a one day in person conference on 27 March 2025 in Leeds Think 💬 backlog documentation, community voices 💬 call for contributions 👉🏻 lnkd.in/eKsXxJfK

Personal Wikipedia milestone: completed my first Good Article review! Wanted to keep it simple, so went for a fun and straightforward topic: a song by Wiz Khalifa and friends from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_M...

TODAY THURSDAY 23 JAN is the last day to oppose the closure of Abbey House Museum & to charges to Kirkstall Abbey! 👉🏻 Abbey House museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe... 👉🏻 Kirkstall Abbey museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQPP8fb/kirk... Rant on TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZGdAur3ER/

James Watt Brewdog's CEO is worth £262,000,000 he is refusing to raise the wage of his staff in London by the £1 an hour to keep them at the National Living Wage. Brewdog is apparently a 'nice' company, but wage freezes don't seem very nice. Do they?

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

Google doc has quick & easy link

If it’s true that a ceasefire agreement has been reached, it’s more important than ever to donate to Gazan fundraisers. Here are some campaigns that truly need your help that @divyampersaud.com has been working tirelessly to get more donations in - please share and donate! Every little bit helps!

This 1914 picture is labelled "Artist/Photographer: Copyright Reserved", and watermarked to the point of making it unusable. Yes, it's another #CopyFraud thread :( [1/n]