Hello!
Thank you to everyone who has put forward a proposal for the second season
of the virtual Sandbox Sessions
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/2026/04/community-sandbox-sessions/>.
We are *extending the deadline for proposals till Monday 25th May* (end of
the day) so there is still a little bit more time to send in your proposals
if you would like to do so.
Further details are below. Please reach out to me if you have any
questions or would like to have a chat.
Best wishes,
Rupal
On Wed, 6 May 2026 at 17:16, Rupal Karia <rupal.karia(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> After a fantastic first season we are *excited to announce a second
> season of the virtual Sandbox Sessions
> <https://wikimedia.org.uk/2026/04/community-sandbox-sessions/> and invite
> community members to propose sessions *they are interested in leading.
>
>
> *Community Sandbox Sessions offer a space for community members to share
> their learning, meet other Wikimedians and try new things*. They are
> volunteer-led events, supported by Wikimedia UK.
>
>
> Click here <https://wikimedia.org.uk/2026/04/community-sandbox-sessions/> for
> more info on the sessions and to see how Wikimedia UK can support you with
> your event.
>
>
> If you’re interested in running a session, please submit a proposal here
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHqhJ6maE7vN4kiFksKUv-b16QpCMMCFn…>
> .
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHqhJ6maE7vN4kiFksKUv-b16QpCMMCFn…>
>
>
> *Deadline*
>
>
> The initial deadline for submitting proposals is *20t**h May 2026. *If
> you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me
> rupal.karia(a)wikimedia.org.uk
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
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Dear all
For the second year in the row, Wikimedia UK has managed to secure a number
of free passes for SXSW London
<https://www.sxswlondon.com/?gclsrc=aw.ds&&utm_term=sxsw%20festival&utm_camp…>
(with
a list price of £1080 each).
*Please could you let me know asap if you would like a pass? *Ideally you
would be able to visit several days of the Festival, not just one event.
I am aiming to confirm passes by the end of this week. If they are
oversubscribed I will allocate a ticket to anyone who missed out last year
(you know who you are!) before drawing names out of a hat.
Cheers
Lucy
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Hello everyone,
As you may have heard earlier this year, Wikimedia UK has been setting up a
fixed-term Wikimedian in Residence project with The Stationery Office which
publishes *The Gazette*, an official public record.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/
The aims are to make greater use of *The Gazette* as a source and to train
TSO people working on *The Gazette* to update Wikipedia (identify content
which can be improved, appropriate use of citations, how to edit, etc).
We are issuing a call for proposals for the work. The attached brief
provides additional information, including how proposals are evaluated and
where to send proposals. WMUK is sharing this with its networks, and if you
know someone who may be interested in this project, please send them the
details to make sure they've heard about it.
The deadline for proposals is Friday 22 May at 5pm.
Best wishes,
Richard Nevell
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Hi folks,
Pulled this from the Tech mailing list, thought it might interest some
folks here - so one for those who regularly engage with the Community
Wishlist, and indeed, for those who haven't but would like to:
*Weekly highlight*
- Community Tech has published new guidance
<https://eu-west-1.protection.sophos.com/?d=wikimedia.org&u=aHR0cHM6Ly9tZXRh…>
explaining
how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The
documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by
clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote
counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on
the community when determining which wishes move forward.
All the best,
Sara
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Hi all,
I recognise that this is really not the right place to do this but I hope you’ll forgive me (especially as I’m essentially the ultimate lurker!). I suspect that someone here may be interested!
I’m looking for suggestions as to what I might do with a collection of around 100 books, accumulated during my Internet business career - the books are from the period from around 1985 - 2005.
The collection covers business futurism, internet culture, digital economics, interface design, hacker culture, open source, e-commerce theory and critical responses to the information age. It includes foundational texts such as the complete three-volume Manuel Castells Information Age trilogy, Howard Rheingold's Virtual Reality (1991), Michael Benedikt's edited Cyberspace: First Steps (MIT Press, 1991), The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999 first edition), Mondo 2000 User's Guide to the New Edge (Thames & Hudson, 1993), and Readme! Filtered by Nettime (Autonomedia, 1999), alongside mainstream titles by Negroponte, Kevin Kelly, Don Tapscott, Richard Florida and others. The <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sfs9wJa0Val_ZIstliLp57hVAH7MgYdred1…> catalogue<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sfs9wJa0Val_ZIstliLp57hVAH7MgYdred1…> is here<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sfs9wJa0Val_ZIstliLp57hVAH7MgYdred1…> (Google sheet).
I have offered them as a donation to various university libraries but no luck so far - some interest in the books themselves but usually no room to accommodate them or resource to accession them!
Can you think of an institution, archive or even an individual researcher who might be interested in these books - as a collection? (I’d rather not have to dispose of them individually).
Or perhaps there’s something else I could do with them!
Thanks!
s
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Hello everyone,
Recently I’ve been talking to Dr Kate Dorney of the University of
Manchester. As part of her ongoing research, Dr Dorney has compiled a
dataset of Black theatre performances in Manchester. Are there any
volunteers who would be interested in importing the data to Wikidata?
The data is currently in an Excel spreadsheet and is well structured. It
will likely involve creating some Wikidata items as well as updating some
which already exist. In a preliminary stage I mapped the fields to Wikidata
and didn’t spot obvious gaps. I think that OpenRefine
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:WikimediaFoundation+WMF_GLAM001+2024/a…>
would be a good tool to use for this work.
If you would like to be involved with this project, please let me know and
I can share the data I have and the field mapping, and I’ll put you in
touch with Dr Dorney.
Kind regards,
Richard
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Programme Manager
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