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It's Women's History Month and we've got a brand new set of Mini Wiki tasks for you to sink your teeth into! From adding categories to de-orphaning articles, March's mini tasks will help close the Wiki gender gap 👏 buff.ly/43dZ9mw #WomensHistoryMonth #MiniWiki #IWD

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Happy St David's Day! 🌼 Are you wearing a leek or daffodil? This seasonal saint’s day is perfect for the Wiki Loves Folklore competition, which celebrates diverse folk cultures around the world. Add your photos! buff.ly/415e0Nl #StDavid

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! 🌼 Ydych chi’n gwisgo cenhinen neu genhinen Pedr? Mae Dydd Gŵyl Dewi yn berffaith ar gyfer cystadleuaeth "Wiki Loves Folklore", cystadleuaeth sy'n dathlu diwylliannau gwerin o gwmpas y byd. Ychwanegwch eich lluniau!! buff.ly/415e0Nl #StDavid

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Croeso i Gemma Coleman, Cydgysylltydd Rhaglen Cymru (ac Ieithoedd)! We're delighted to have Gemma on our team! Gemma will be helping people access & share their knowledge in any of the multitude of languages spoken in Wales and the UK. https://buff.ly/4kvzJY3 #Wales #Cymru

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🎵Have you heard these Scottish folk songs? https://buff.ly/3ESI8UJ 🎤How about the Welsh Cerdd Dant? https://buff.ly/4gOG5hX The Wiki Loves Folklore competition runs until the end of March, join us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://buff.ly/3X5Fh1a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://buff.ly/415e0Nl Image: Gŵyl Cerdd Dant Hen Golwyn, 1958

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We’re teaming up with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ( it’s now Insta-official too 🥲) to bring fresh perspectives, & uncover untold stories related to South Asian collections housed in UK-based #GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums). More here ⬇️ www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowled...

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⚽ Come along to the HMFC museum on Fri 7th March 12-5pm to help make footballing history! Fiona Skillen will be giving a short talk on the history of women’s football, then we'll dive into editing with help from Dr Sara Thomas. https://buff.ly/3QqHAIt #edinburgh #womensfootball #wikipedia

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🌍🎉 Happy International Mother Language Day! Let’s celebrate the beauty of our diverse languages and cultures by joining our Mini Wiki challenge for February – more info on our blog https://buff.ly/4jCdMWr #MotherLanguageDay #CelebrateDiversity

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Join us next week at the LGBTQ+ editathon in Brixton Library! Learn how to make a quick easy edit, contribute LGBTQ+ history from books and materials, learn about articles, images and other media and help us to rebalance information. https://buff.ly/4hQ4VyJ #LGBTQIA #queerhistory #Brixton #library

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Last chance to book! FREE Webinar: Data Transparency and AI, Wednesday, 19 Feb, 16:00 – exploring the gap between data transparency & AI development. Discover how we can bridge the gap and advance responsible AI practices! Register now:https://bit.ly/3Cuy3Ne #DataTransparency #AI #ResponsibleAI

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Great to listen to our Chief Exec, Lucy Crompton-Reid, on our hybrid working model here at Wikimedia UK. Lucy shares examples of putting wellbeing at our policies and discusses how working with the open knowledge community has inspired how we operate. Thanks Maren 🫶 #hybridworking #staff #office

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What if TikTok and Wikipedia had a baby? Great article from @shiraovide.bsky.social on the latest homegrown experiment using our favourite encyclopaedia 🫶 with mentions of @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social & @molly.wiki in there too! tinyurl.com/4r3enp9h #Wikipedia #Wikitok #TikTok #algorithm

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Have you heard of the Mabinogion manuscripts? The ancient Welsh stories cover folklore and mythology in the oral tradition. The Wiki Loves Folklore competition is running throughout Feb-Mar, celebrating diverse cultures from around the world 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://buff.ly/4aI4rbU #Wales #folklore #mythology

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🌟Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!🔬 Why not join us next month at AK Bell Library to honour the incredible women of Perth's history, breaking barriers and inspiring the next generation. https://buff.ly/40QMyEt @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM

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Join us at Brixton Library on the 24th Feb to contribute LGBTQ+ history to Wikipedia from books and materials, learn about articles, images and other media and help us to rebalance information and build representation! https://buff.ly/3WQSyud #queerhistory #LGBTQIA #Brixton #library

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Wikimedia UK has been supporting the heritage sector to share their knowledge for many years, so the news of redundancies at English Heritage is a blow. Everyone loses from this loss of knowledge and expertise; not just visitors but also Wikipedia, which relies on high quality, independent sources.

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Jyne us in sortin oot an impruivin the Scots Wiki, 6pm today! Thare ur 2495 articles on the wiki thit are still tagged as needin thair Scots sortit. We'v got a really guid opportunity here tae dae a big dent in that nummer! bit.ly/4aMIusg #Scots #wiki #scottish

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Wikipedia's Did You Know section today features the article on 'An African Song or Chant from Barbados', which was nominated for inscription on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. https://buff.ly/40wJWKs #Africa #music #UNESCO #MemoryoftheWorld

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✨ Wiki Loves Folklore is a-go! 🧚 From seasonal celebrations to fairy tales, WLF is a global media contest celebrating diverse folk cultures around the world. UK locations: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 https://buff.ly/4jF68L2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://buff.ly/4aBLpDK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://buff.ly/4aI4rbU #culture #heritage

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We're launching Mini Wiki this month! It’s for when you don’t have much time on your hands, but still want to keep contributing to open knowledge. Every month we will be showcasing different mini wiki tasks you can get involved in for you to dip into. https://buff.ly/4jCdMWr

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The Glasgow Buildings Preservation Trust have made a video on how to do a Wiki Walk, with a great explanation about what works for Wikimedia Commons 🚶📸🏘️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaLL... #architecture #photography #scotland #openlicense #wikimediacommons

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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 👇

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Check out Sara Thomas' section in the first Wiki Learn News of 2025! Wiki Learn offers courses that support Wikimedians in developing key skills and knowledge. Sara's been using it in our Train the Trainer programme. https://buff.ly/42zwSGP #Wiki #OER #education #online

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What are you up to on International Women's Day in March? The Perth Women on Wikipedia project invites you to research, create, and improve Wikipedia biographies of notable women using the library’s resources. https://buff.ly/40QMyEt @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social #Wikipedia #Perth #Kincross

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So happy to share that we'll be running a Wikipedia workshop in AK Bell library on 8 March - International Women's Day. Free but booking essential as places are limited. No editing experience needed but tablet / laptop will be handy #IWD2025 #PerthScotland www.perthshireboxoffice.com/whats-on/wom...

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For #HolocaustMemorialDay, here is a thread of women and non-binary classicists (broadly conceived) whose lives were shaped by the Holocaust and Fascist persecution #WCCWiki Kate or Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (1910 – 1998) was an eminent Egyptologist. Born in Germany, she escaped the Nazi regime ...

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Jason Evans has been championing the wiki projects at @librarywales.bsky.social for ten years now! In this blog he reflects on Wikimedia UK's collaboration with the library, and how it's built a sustainable future for Welsh culture online through open access. https://buff.ly/40EkKBY #welsh #GLAM

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🎉📚 Happy International Day of Education! 🌍✨ @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has released 7 more case studies in the updated version of the Wikimedia in Education booklet, collating best practice examples of innovative use of Wikipedia as learning technology. https://buff.ly/42sIsmV #EducationForAll

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🏺 Make archaeology more discoverable! Join our #Wikipedia edit-a-thon and learn to add DOIs & connect research to Wiki articles. Expert guidance provided, no experience needed. Feb 11, 12-3pm GMT | Drop in during lunch! Register: https://buff.ly/3PGUWjw @wikimediauk.bsky.social #Archaeology

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Celebrating the launch of the @universityofleeds.bsky.social residency with a Wikimedian in Residence meet up! Great to hear from all the various Wikimedians on what they're up to at their institutions. #Leeds #Wikimedians #openknowledge #wikipedia #InternationalEducationDay

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Help Shape the Future of Archaeological Knowledge on Wikipedia! Join @ads-update.bsky.social and @wikimediauk.bsky.social on Tue 11 Feb, 12:00-15:00 for this exciting online edit-a-thon

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Join us and the Archaeology Data Service to create connections between Wikipedia articles & archaeological research. Whether you're a seasoned Wikipedian or new to editing, you'll learn how digital fingerprints make archaeological knowledge discoverable. https://buff.ly/3WpUtGe #archeology #data

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Open Science: Climate Change & the Global Commons Tue 25th March 📅 1pm 🕐 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... With Monica Granados, Director of #OpenScience, @creativecommons.bsky.social & Tatjana Baleta @wikimediauk.bsky.social Visiting Fellow for Climate, Global Systems Institute, @exeter.ac.uk

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Cambridge Uni students, staff and alumni are invited to join us to create Wikipedia pages for notable people within the classical world or the classical tradition, but who have been overlooked so far due to their gender, race, or any other marginalised identity. https://buff.ly/40ywV4k #classics

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🥳 Happy birthday Wikipedia! 🤝 For 24 years people have volunteered to make knowledge freely available to everyone online. 📖 Our Chief Exec, Lucy Crompton-Reid, reflects on the people-power behind the world's largest encyclopaedia in the latest edition of the RSA journal.

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Wikipedia has a new article, 'Effects of climate change on health in the United Kingdom', collaboratively created by over 20 researchers from UK universities and health institutes. Facilitated by @adamharangozo.bsky.social and @tatjana-baleta.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3C7KSN4 #climatechange

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Proud to have co-facilitated the workshop for this with @tatjana-baleta.bsky.social The resulting article is the work of a great group of experts, enthusiastic about sharing important climate change and health info on Wikipedia.

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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Art+Feminism are part of how we reached 20% of English Wikipedia biographies being on notable women. It’s a great milestone and we’re excited to see their 2025 theme for an equitable internet 👇

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Our one-off donation form was down over Christmas, but is now back up and running. Thank you to everyone who contacted us wanting to support Wikimedia UK, your generosity is so vital to open knowledge ❤️ https://buff.ly/40qV38Z #charity #donation

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"In an age where knowledge is everything, Wikimedia’s behind-the-scenes communities are keeping the lights on and ensuring the truth is told." CEO Lucy Crompton-Reid shares a deep dive into the people-power behind the world's largest encyclopaedia. https://buff.ly/3W3ysMT

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The concept of cyberfeminism has been a critical framework for understanding and challenging the power structures embedded in technology through a feminist perspective. In December Wikimedians gathered in Berlin to update articles associated with the movement.

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Ten years ago today @stephenfry.bsky.social kindly agreed to my request to record his voice for his Wikipedia article. Then Tweeted about it. It made the news later that month. It was over three weeks before there was a day without a new press story about it. #WikiVIP 1/n

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Happy New Year everyone! What are your resolutions? Would you like to edit Wikipedia and its sister projects? Well we've got the tools for you! Hop on over to our blog to see how you can get involved: https://buff.ly/4iOWjK4 #2025 #NYE #volunteer

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In late September, Wikimedians from as far away as Malaysia gathered in Waterford in Ireland to share stories of success, challenges, and to learn from others, all with a focus on minoritised languages. Have a look at the Celtic Knot conference 👉 https://buff.ly/41JKBKz #languages #ireland

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Season's Greetings from everyone at Wikimedia UK! We just sent our end of year newsletter and we're once again impressed by the incredible portfolio of work from our volunteers ❤️ https://buff.ly/4gOjYZv Collage created using Wikimedia Commons images, CC BY-SA 4.0

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We're rounding things up for #WCCWiki in 2024, so here are our good news and activities in December! We bring you another✨5✨ new #Wikipedia pages. Here's all you need to know about them ...

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20% of English Wikipedia's biographies are about women! This is a huge milestone, but there's so much more work to be done on notable women who are more than qualified for their own Wikipedia biography. Thank you to all of the editors who are taking part in this work 🫶 #gendergap #wikipedia

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