Outreach Wiki

GLAM/Newsletter/February 2014/Contents/UK report

< GLAM | Newsletter | February 2014 | Contents


UK report

Wikimedia UK

Wikimania London 2014

We have ten submissions in the GLAM track for Wikimania and more are expected by the deadline of the 31st March 2014. click here to submit a proposal for a talk

WIRs

Our WIR at the back of a Royal Society editathon in 2013

We currently have Wikipedians in Residence in York, Scotland and at the Royal Society

Editathons

On the 1st of February we held Art and Feminism editathons in both London and Dundee

Fæ lead a WMUK:Cornwall GLAMs workshop at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, which was attended by a number of museums in Cornwall.

Martin Poulter ran a WMUK:Wellcome Library editathon on the 26th February.

Preparations are advancing for Wikimania with a London Libraries page listing specialist libraries in London that Wikimanians can visit.

Image Releases

Lidded box by Jane Hamlyn, image courtesy of York Museums Trust

As a result of the York Museums Trust WIR the W.A. Ismay Studio Ceramic Collection was loaded to Commons. Discussions continue with various partners for the first mass uploads with the new mass upload tool


Retrieved from "https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=GLAM/Newsletter/February_2014/Contents/UK_report&oldid=67286"