Hello Wikimedia UK community and Happy New Year.
Firstly, we would like to encourage people to attend the London Meetup
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/126> this weekend on Sunday
14th at Penderel's Oak pub in Holborn, which (almost) coincides with
Wikipedia Day (the 17th anniversary of Wikipedia's 'birth' on 15th
January). Wikimedia UK would like to celebrate this with our community and
will be putting some money behind the bar for drinks.
We would like to support the community as much as possible over the coming
year, so please do let us know if there are Wikimedia activities you are
working on that might benefit from the charity's involvement - or apply for
a small project grant here <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_grants>.
If anybody would like to write about their projects for the Wikimedia UK
blog, please get in touch with me and I can help edit and publish your
ideas.
Applications for Wikimania - taking place in Cape Town in July are open here
<https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply> until 22nd January; and the
Wikimedia Hackathon, to be held in May in Barcelona, is accepting
applications for scholarships
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/Register_and_Attend>
until
30th January. There is also Wiki Indaba
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018> coming up for
the African and diaspora community in Tunisia in March which is still open
for submissions.
The 1Lib1Ref
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref> initiative
to encourage librarians to contribute to Wikipedia begins on January 15 and
runs until February 3. If you you know of anybody who would like to run a
library editathon, we can help support their efforts so do get in touch.
Please also watch and share our #1Lib1Ref video
<https://youtu.be/AWosehU71ZY> explaining what the initiative is about.
Lastly the annual Art + Feminism <http://www.artandfeminism.org/> event is
taking place at the start of March, and we hope to support events taking
place here in the UK. If you would be interested in organising an event for
this, please also let us know.
See you on Sunday!
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
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