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Join us online tomorrow to help improve Wikipedia’s coverage of AIDS cultural history!We're editing Wikipedia with the Wikimedia LGBT+ group and Dr Emily Garside, in English and Spanish on...

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A call to action has been made to the UK’s cultural heritage sector to build a unified digital collection, or risk losing the opportunity to be a global leader in collections-based research.It is...

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How is Wikimedia UK supporting the open knowledge movement in the UK and why is it so vital that we have access to free, reliable information?Support Wikimedia UK this #GivingTuesday and give the gift...

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Thank you to everyone contributing to our #GivingTuesday campaign. By supporting new editors to join, you’re helping make a lasting impact on our shared understanding of the world online.Donate:...

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Happy #GivingTuesday! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. There’s still time to support the humans who are adding to the largest encyclopaedia in the world, making the Internet better for all...

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Your generosity is instrumental in driving our mission to empower people to create, share and access knowledge.🤝 Join with those who have donated already: https://bit.ly/3zQZRtNImage: public domain...

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🌍🎉 Happy Wildlife Conservation Day! 🌿✨This year Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales took part in the Wiki Loves Earth photography competition, with 5204 photos submitted between them. Wiki Loves Earth...

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Thank you to everyone who donated to our #GivingTuesday campaign!The graphics were created using public domain digitised paintings from Wikimedia Commons, by Henry Constantine Richter and Okada...

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There are now two courses available on WikiLearn about getting started with OpenRefine.📈 The basics of OpenRefine for Wikidata: https://bit.ly/3ZENKdx📸 The basics of OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons:...

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🌟 The GLAM-E Lab Toolkit has now launched!Our Digital Skills Wikimedian, Lucy Hinnie, was part of this process and we hope the tools created will go on to help all of our Wiki work going forward.See...

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🖼️ Part of the toolkit is an Image and Metadata Handbook for Wikimedia Commons that has already been adopted by a selection of GLAMs worldwide. Thanks to @Jason for his help proofreading and...

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Do you regularly take part in campaigns and advocate for yourself and your community? Want to know how Wikipedia can be used in activism? Find out what change-making is and how it relates to editing...

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Students at Durham University have been supporting each other to add content to the Wikimedia projects. They're covering topics about North-East England, while also catering to their personal...

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🌍 EXPO 2025 is a months-long event in Japan that "brings together people and innovations from around the world in an effort to address issues facing humankind on a global scale."🤝 We worked with the...

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We just launched our Blue Sky account, come connect with us over there! 🦋 😊 https://bit.ly/4fhvP10

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It's been three years since we launched a residency with the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research). Adam Harangzo has been ensuring accurate medical research makes its way onto...

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Higher levels of information literacy help students defend against misinformation, while building their understanding and tolerance of a wide range of cultural information and skills. At Wikimedia UK,...

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The winners of the UK Wikimedian of the Year Awards have been announced! Thank you to all of the shortlisted contributors, and to everyone who made a nomination. The awards will return next year, and...

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20% of English Wikipedia's biographies are about women! This is a huge milestone, but there's so much more work to be done on notable women who are more than qualified for their own Wikipedia...

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Season's Greetings from everyone at Wikimedia UK!We just sent our end of year newsletter and we're once again impressed by the incredible portfolio of work from our volunteers. Thank you for helping us...

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