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Rare disease editathon Cambridge 22 June - request for help
by Charles Matthews 26 May '22

26 May '22

I have been asked to lead an editathon in central Cambridge 1300 to 1600 on 22 June. This is a closed corporate event, aimg to produce Wikipedia articles on a list of rare diseases, and will be attended by numerous scientists working on repurposing drugs for rare diseases (not these particular ones). We are also expecting some representatives of patient groups. Given the large number of people who will be editing, in teams, I'd be grateful for some experienced WP editors who could assist. If you can help out, please let me know offlist. Charles

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Community Day 2022 - survey closes Wednesday 25th May
by Natasha Iles 23 May '22

23 May '22

Hi everyone, If you are yet to share your thoughts for the dates and content of the Community Day and Wikimania 2022 activities, here is the link <https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BV2V3FT>. Your input is really appreciated and we'll start sharing the plans as soon as possible. Best wishes Natasha -- Natasha Iles MCIOF (Dip) Head of Development & Communications Wikimedia UK <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a registered charity in England and Wales No.1144513. and Scotland No. SC048644. Company Limited by Guarantee, Registration No. 6741827. Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…> .

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Wikimedia UK Community Day 2022
by Natasha Iles 17 May '22

17 May '22

Dear all, This year the Community Day and Annual General Meeting will be separate events, with the Community Day aligning closer to Wikimania 2022 timings. To help design the community activity we want to hear what event activities you value, whether you are in the mood for in person or virtual and what timings suit your August plans. The survey is very short and can be found here <https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BV2V3FT>. If you can offer some time or creativity to help in planning please do let me know. Many thanks and best wishes Natasha -- Natasha Iles MCIOF (Dip) Head of Development & Communications Wikimedia UK <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a registered charity in England and Wales No.1144513. and Scotland No. SC048644. Company Limited by Guarantee, Registration No. 6741827. Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…> .

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Urgent Appeal
by Farah Jack Mustaklem 09 May '22

09 May '22

Dear fellow Wikimedians of the UK, I am writing to you to bring to your attention the case of my friend and fellow free knowledge activist, the British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently wrongfully imprisoned in Egypt under trumped up charges. Alaa is on his second month of hunger strike and *urgently needs UK consular support.* Alaa is a writer, an award-winning human rights blogger, a software developer, anda proponent of open knowledge. He is being targeted by the Egyptian regime for speaking up for democracy and freedom. He is father to a ten-year-old sona and an Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience <https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde12/2393/2020/en/>. He was sentenced in December 2021 to 5 years in prison for resharing a Facebook post about the deteriorating conditions in Egypt’s prisons. Alaa has been subjected to torture and arbitrarily detained since September 2019. For two and a half years, he has been kept in a cell with no access to books, newspapers or sunlight. He is not allowed a wristwatch to tell the time of day, or exercise time outside his cell. His visits are limited to one family member per month, for twenty minutes, through a glass barrier, without a moment of privacy or physical contact. Alaa is demanding his right to a visit from the British consulate, which is yet to be secured since it was first requested in December 2021. He began an open-ended hunger strike on April 2nd and his family fear for his life. The FCDO is fully aware of Alaa’s case, and his family have been liaising directly with the British embassy in Cairo. However, I am extremely concerned that things are not moving fast enough considering how life-threatening his situation is <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/british-egypt-jail-hun…> and the lack of progress in improving the conditions of his detention. *I urge you to contact your MPs* *asking them to urgently write to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and ask what steps are being taken to address Alaa’s wellbeing, ensure an immediate consular visit, and secure his release. * *His family are also looking for MPs to table questions, submit EDMs and host events in Westminster to raise Alaa's case. Please contact freedomforalaa(a)gmail.com <freedomforalaa(a)gmail.com> if you are able to help.* For more information on Alaa, I recommend the recent Washington Post Editorial Board’s piece: “A voice of the Arab Spring is being wrongfully detained. Let him go free.” <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/dreams-prison-haunt-voic…> The website freealaa.net contains more background on Alaa's situation. Following is an appeal by Alaa's sister: https://www.facebook.com/Monasosh/posts/10159787151649454 Best regards, Farah Mustaklem

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Join us for our 60th Wikipedia monthly workshop
by MCANDREW Ewan 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi folks, Apologies for cross-posting... This Friday 29th April (1-5pm) marks our 60th monthly Wikipedia ‘Women in Red’ meetup! You can read about 5 years’ of the University of Edinburgh’s Wikipedia editing work tackling gender bias online in this new open access book: Wikipedia and Academic Libraries<https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/s4655j732?locale=en#/6/48[Ch13]!/4[bodymatter…> “You and your students can dramatically affect the most popular and important reference work in the world” Editing will be on creating new pages about the women missing from our search results as currently only 19.23% of biographies on English Wikipedia are about women but you’re also more than welcome to edit on any subject e.g. recent new pages inc. Raptor persecution<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_persecution> and the Loch Lomond Wanderer<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Lomond_wanderer>. * Training for any new or less experienced editors will take place from 1pm-2:15pm, and then you can apply these valuable new digital research skills by writing new articles of 50-100 words (or more) which we’ll publish by the end of the afternoon. An excellent CPD opportunity 😊 * Come for the initial training at 1pm and stay as long as you like to experience how fun, satisfying and tangibly impactful it is to contribute to the knowledge freely available online via the 8th most visited site in the UK, and 9th most visited globally (rankings by Alexa). Eventbrite signup here: tinyurl.com/WikiWorkshop29April<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-red-event-adding-inspiring-women-mi…> NB: Yes, anyone can edit but you have to cite what you write and editing Wikipedia inside or outside the curriculum is a free and impactful way of improving the information available online to improve global understanding of topics and make for a more inclusive and representative internet. Quick facts about Wikipedia at 21 years old.<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikime…> Current projects supported by the Wikimedia residency. * Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/edinbu…> – the Edinburgh Award. * Improving LGBT History, Gender History and Black History online – current Student Experience Grant project. * Improving the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland<http://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/> – new internships this Summer. * Adding images of Islamic Art to Wikipedia<https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/editing-wikipedia-stars-robots-a…> – Dr. Glaire Anderson, History of Art UG programme. * Global Health Challenges Pg Online<https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/editing-live-wikipedia-pages-ass…> – improving topic coverage of natural & manmade disasters. * 5 new case studies to be added to our Wikimedia in UK education booklet<https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/>. * 5 Wikimedia related podcast episodes in the Teaching Matters series<https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/tag/wikimedia-series/> Feel free to attend on Friday and feel free to suggest future collaborations. The Wikimedia residency is a free Information Services resource available to all staff and students. Curious? Here’s our website<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikime…> and a 7 min video<7%20min%20video%20on%20how%20to%20write%20an%20article.> on how to write a Wikipedia page which our student intern won an Open Education Global award<https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/student/hannah-rothmann/> for, among other brilliant work on making Wikipedia’s how & why easier to engage with in Higher Education. Best wishes, Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Website for the residency<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikime…> and Map of Accused Witches site<http://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/> Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk> Blog: WiR blog<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/> Tel: 07867 593450 Subscribe to the Scotwiki mailing list<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctpnDjO_PHZeOTrA0yjtVLqE4oDfjLtYh…> My working hours are 10am to 6pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh> Media Hopper channel: Videos and video tutorials<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/510201…> YouTube: Wikimedian in Residence channel<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDRSVKM4ceUSPI-7-BFeoQ?view_as=subscriber> Wikimedia in Education: New booklet of UK Case Studies<https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/> Join Wikimedia in Scotland<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland> events and UoE events<https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?eventssearch=wikipedia&event=search&e…>. The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk<http://www.ed.ac.uk/> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Scottish Suffrage/ttes Editathon Saturday 23rd April
by Sara Thomas 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hi folks, apologies for x-posting... Just wanted to let you know about an editathon taking place this Saturday (23rd April, 13:00-16:00), by long-term Wikimedia UK partners *Protests & Suffragettes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Protests_and_Suffragettes>* and *Women's History Scotland*. Editing will be on suffrage activists from every region of Scotland, and the event will include short talks on Scottish Suffrage history. Eventbrite signup here: *www.tinyurl.com/WikiWorkshop23April* <http://www.tinyurl.com/WikiWorkshop23April> Bitesize training for any new or less experienced editors, and for those of you more experienced, there's an excellent worklist that you can get stuck right into. All the best, Sara -- Dr Sara Thomas Scotland Programme Coordinator, Wikimedia UK https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/ <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland> <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *I work part time, my usual days are Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.* *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513 (England & Wales) SC048644 (Scotland). Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Scotland, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…> . Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). :- *:Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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Wiki Loves Earth 2022 - Volunteers needed
by Natasha Iles 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hi everyone I trust you have all been keeping well and making the most of the Bank Holiday weekend and better weather? With spring well and truly underway, we are turning our thoughts to the annual nature photography competition Wiki Loves Earth. Wales is taking part again this year and we would love to hear from you if you have the time and enthusiasm to be a Lead Volunteer for WikiLovesEarth 2022 in England and/ or Scotland. The annual photography campaign is running from early May to the end of July, details and links to organising guidelines are here <https://wikilovesearth.org/2022/03/> and on Wikimedia Commons here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022>. The activity delivered by Wiki Loves Earth in Wales 2021 can be found here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2021_in_Wales>. If Wiki Loves Earth 2022 sounds like something you'd like to make happen for our community, please let me know. From there we can work out timings and activities to make it happen. Many thanks and looking forward to hearing from you Natasha -- Natasha Iles MCIOF (Dip) Head of Development & Communications Wikimedia UK <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a registered charity in England and Wales No.1144513. and Scotland No. SC048644. Company Limited by Guarantee, Registration No. 6741827. Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…> .

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False copyright claims in Historic England's "Aerial Photograph EXplorer"
by Andy Mabbett 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

There has been much in the press and social media in recent days about a new "Aerial Photograph EXplorer" made by Historic England [1]. It is indeed a treasure trove of aerial photography, including the Aerofilms archive, much RAF imagery, and more recent equivalents. Some of the material on the site, particularly RAF imagery made before 30 June 1957, is out of copyright [2] and could be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. However, trying to save those images from their individual pages (by right clicking, in Windows) results in an interstitial stating "This image is copyrighted" [3]. [1] https://historicengland.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.htm [2] "Crown copyright photographs created prior to 30 June 1957 have a copyright term of 50 years from creation." - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Uni… [3] Example: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-phot… -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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WMUK spring newsletter
by Katie Crampton 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hi all That time of year again - if you've got any news/activities from the last three months or anything upcoming that needs highlighting, please send them my way so we can promote it in the spring newsletter. Let me know if you have any questions. Best Katie -- Katie Crampton (she/her) Communications Coordinator <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a registered charity in England and Wales No.1144513. and Scotland No. SC048644. Company Limited by Guarantee, Registration No. 6741827. Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…> .

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A Culture of Copyright: A scoping study
by Andy Mabbett 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Last week, a report by Andrea Wallace, 'A Culture of Copyright: A scoping study on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the UK', was published, examining UK GLAMs' claims of copyright on reproductions of 2D works of art whose copyright has expired. It's really well researched and written, and makes points which align well with the Wikimedia movement's views on such Public Domain works. The report (openly licensed and so naturally free to read) is here: https://zenodo.org/record/6242611 and there's a good blog post about it here: https://simon-tanner.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-revolution-starts-here-open-a… -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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