*Wikimedia Community Ireland Newsletter - August 2017Wiki Loves Pride at GAZE Festival* Join us at our very first Wiki Loves Pride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Pride/2017 event, which is taking place on the 7 August, 11am to 1pm, at the Light House Theatre, Smithfield, Dublin. Find all the details and sign up on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1033989806769894.
If you attended the recent Pride Parades around the country with your camera, do consider uploading them to Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dublin_Pride_2017 for the world to enjoy!
*Wiki Loves Monuments* Once again we are very excited to be launching Wiki Loves Monuments at Archeofest in Merrion Square http://www.heritageweek.ie/whats-on/event/archaeofest-2017-1 on 26 August. We will be displaying previous winners of our photographic competition, so do come along and have a chat with us!
*Wikidata and Irish monuments* Irish monuments are moving up in the world! Pawel has finished his work on the adding and improving of Irish monument data on Wikidata. You can see one of the glorious maps he produced here https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3Fimage%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flayer%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ27%20.%20%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2186%20%3Fwlmid%20.%0A%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3Fwlmid%2C%20%27IE-%27%29%29%20.%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20.%20%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20BIND%28IF%28isBlank%28%3Fimage%29%2C%20%22No%20Image%22%2C%20%22Image%22%29%20AS%20%3Flayer%29%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3Fimage .
*Wikimedia.ie* We have recently created a new website http://wikimedia.ie/ for the group, using a Wordpress Theme that is specifically developed for Wikimedia User Groups. We would love to hear your feedback on it, or any suggestions you might have of extra content you'd like to see there.
*Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)* The first event that we are running in partnership with the DRI has been announced. This first event will focus on Creative Commons Licences. You can find further details here http://dri.ie/dri-and-wikimedia-ireland-exploring-cc-licences.