I know it might not feel like we're moving towards Spring, but I thought I would provide an update of some things that happened in the past couple of months so you can see what we've been doing.

On Feb 2 we held a Wikimedia day at Newspeak House featuring a Wikidata hackathon and talk by Katherine Maher:
Wikidata hackathon video
Katherine Maher talk video
The Independent published a positive article about how Wikipedia works
21,000 retweets for our Twitter poll about K-Pop
Medical articles in Welsh blogpost
How should journalists use Wikipedia blogpost
1Lib1Ref blogpost
Celtic Knot blogpost
Wikipedia and journalism case study blogpost
Structured data on Commons blogpost
Invited to speak at Digital Content Summit 2018 in May
Bradford Science and Media Museum published videos of the Fake News talk with a presentation on how Wikipedia verifies information.
Wikimedia at 17 video.
We have advertised for an interim CEO and Programmes Coordinator, as well as the new post of Scotland Manager, and will be announcing these roles soon.
Preparing a significant report about the long term impact of our Wikimedian in Residence programme.
1200 sound files of Welsh place names have been uploaded.
We ran a Wikipedia editing session for the Kurdish community in Dalston
Wikipedia Day celebration as part of the January London Meetup
Wikifying the Welsh Assembly editathon in December

As we move into Spring and Summer, we have a lot of events coming up around International Women's Day as well as an exciting project with Amnesty International which will have events scheduled for May.

One piece of work that someone in the community may be able to help with is that now Commons is accepting 3D files, there are lots of CC licensed 3D files available online that could be uploaded, like these. If anybody would like to help do that, and write a blog about it, please get in touch.

As always, we are offering project grants for expenses if you have interesting ideas for Wikimedia projects, and I would like to be able to apply for press passes for volunteers for events during the summer, so if you have ideas for events where we could apply for press passes for photographers to take images for Wikipedia, I would be happy to apply on behalf of Wikimedia UK if you let me know your ideas for events that we could attend.

Have a great weekend!

John Lubbock

Communications Coordinator

Wikimedia UK

+44 (0) 203 372 0767

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