*Wikimedia Community Ireland Newsletter – December 2017*
*Happy Christmas from all of us at Wikimedia Community Ireland, and hoping for an exciting and busy 2018!*
*Wiki Science*
Ireland's first year of the photography/image competition took place during November 2017, and we had 80 entries over our 6 categories.
The six winning images for each categories are:
- People in science - Raining Red Blood Cells https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raining_Red_Blood_Cells.jpg by Karen Slattery - Microscopy images - Warhol's Neuron https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warhol%27s_Neuron.png by Enricobagnoli - Non-photographic media - Germanium Telluride nanowires https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germanium_Telluride_nanowires.jpg by Fionán - Image sets - Lightening 1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightening1.png by Dwmalone - General category - The fire within her https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_fire_within_her.jpg by Scohen2017 - Women in STEM - Everyday I'm culturing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Everyday_I%27m_Culturing.jpg by Zcsharp
We exhibited these images a SCI:COM conference in Ballsbridge, 7 December 2017.
*Editing events in TOG Hackerspace*
We will be continuing our editing events in TOG Hackerspace on Wednesday 31 January https://www.meetup.com/Tog-Dublin-Hackerspace/events/lgkvbpyxcbpc/ from 7-9pm. To get a reminder about this and other upcoming event sign up on the TOG Meetup page https://www.meetup.com/Tog-Dublin-Hackerspace/, or follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIreland or Twitter https://twitter.com/WikimediaIE.
*Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research*
This conference will be taking place in Maynooth, 18 June 2018. The call for papers is currently open, and will close on 28 February 2018. All of the details can be found here https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/dean-teaching-learning/academia-and-wikipedia-conference .
*International Digital Preservation Day*
As part of our ongoing partnership with Digital Repository Ireland, we held an event with the Library at Trinity College Dublin to mark International Digital Preservation Day on 30 November http://www.tcd.ie/library/news/international-digital-preservation-day-30-november-idpd17/. It was a fascinating day of editing, with a pop up museum of computers organised by the Library. The international hashtag was #idpd17.