*Wikimedia Community Ireland Newsletter – November 2017*
*Wiki Loves Monuments 2017*
We have been working hard with our panel of judges, sorting through all the
photographs submitted to this year's competition. Come join us in the
Science Gallery on Thursday 9 November
<http://wikimedia.ie/?post_type=event&p=159> at 6:30pm when we celebrate
the top 10 photos, and reveal who got the top spot! You can find the top
ten, listed alphabetically here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2017_winners#Ireland>
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*Wiki Science*
We are very excited to announce that Ireland will be taking part in Wiki
Science <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Science_Ireland_2017>
for the first time this year, with competition running from 1-30 Novemeber.
Wiki Science is a photo competition looking for images under 5 broad
categories relating to science: people in science, microscopy images,
non-photographic media, image sets, and a general category. In Ireland we
will also be awarding a sixth prize for an image of Women in STEM.
We will be having a launch event long with our Wiki Loves Monuments Awards
night in the Science Gallery, 9 November at 6:30pm.
*Editing events in TOG Hackerspace*
We will be continuing our editing events in TOG on Wednesday 29 November
<https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-Community-Ireland-Meetup/events/244521195/>
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>.
*International Digital Preservation Day*
As part of our ongoing partnership with Digital Repository Ireland, we are
holding 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/>.
If you have an interest in digitising collection and their use - save the
date!
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Wikimedia Community Ireland
Chair - Shannon Eichelberger
Project Coordinator - Rebecca O'Neill
Online: Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie>
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On Meetup: Wikimedia Community Ireland Meetup
<https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-Community-Ireland-Meetup/>
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