Welcome to our regular updates!

We hope to produce more regular updates to make you aware of the blogs, media mentions and projects we have been working on over the past few weeks and to tell you about things that are coming up soon. Please read some of the media coverage about our work and help us to get the word out by sharing our blogposts or articles about our work.

So let’s get straight to it.

Wikimedia UK at the BBC

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Image by Katy Blackwood CC BY-SA 4.0 - Helen Pankhurst, writer and great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst at the BBC editathon

Our partnership with the BBC 100 Women project broke records

Our 12 hour editathon in partnership with the BBC, held at broadcasting house with the participation of BBC staff in other regional offices, broke records for the number of new biographies of women created in a single day. We are very grateful to the BBC of helping us reach a huge global audience of millions of people to encourage them to edit Wikipedia, especially women who are currently underrepresented. Look at some of the coverage from the roundup of media mentions and WMUK blogs below.

Media Mentions

December 6
Television Post: BBC, Wikipedia to encourage more female editors

BBC to partner with Wikipedia editors in a global 12 hour ‘edit-a-thon’ (INDIA)

BBC, Wikipedia to encourage more female editors (INDIA)

BBC 100 Women: Is the internet sexist? (INDIA)

December 7

BBC News: How to join our edit-a-thon

December 8

BBC News: As it happened - Record breaking Wikipedia edit-a-thon

BBC News: We gave women a better deal on Wikipedia

BBC News: Season ends with record breaking Wikipedia edit

BBC Cymru: Bore Cothi

BBC News: Welsh women put their heroines online

BBC News: The Welsh women the internet forgot

Mashable: The Wikipedia gap is the gender gap you haven’t heard of

December 9

ABC Online (Australia): Wikipedia edit-a-thon tackles internet gender gap

International Business Times: Fake news 'exploits people's gullibility to make money' says Wikimedia UK

The Guardian: Where are all the women, Wikipedia?

December 12

Four top tips for avoiding fake news from a Wikipedia editor

Hundreds of Unrepresented Women Just Got Added to Wikipedia - doesn’t refer to Wikimedia UK directly

These Kick-ass women have just been (rightly) added to Wikipedia in bid to balance site’s gender bias

Wikimedia UK Blog

Wiki Loves Africa competition focuses on Music and Dance

Wicipedia Cymraeg: A few milestones

Wikidelta: glimpsing unique Wikipedia articles in 284 world languages

Wiki Loves Monuments 2016: follow up and thank you!

BBC 100 Women: Is the internet sexist?

The Welsh Gender Equilibrium: Welsh becomes the biggest language Wikipedia to achieve gender balance!

Coming soon…

1Lib1Ref campaign: 15 January - 3 February

Organised by the Wikipedia Library, this campaign is aimed primarily at librarians. Dr Martin Poulter will be leading two workshops at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and there should be other events at libraries and universities in other parts of the UK. You can view the project page for 1Lib1Ref and keep an eye on our events page to find out how you can participate.

Wikipedia Day! 15 January

We are hoping to organise a celebration in London for the Wikimedia community. Check our events page and social media accounts for updates.

Other projects

We are planning events as part of our Kurdish Wikipedia Project, our Middle Eastern Women project at Queen Mary, as well as a number of events for students at Edinburgh University. If you would like to organise Wikipedia training events with us, get in touch and tell us your ideas.

All the best,

John Lubbock, Communications Coordinator

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