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[i UK Love] Britain Loves Wikipedia « Wikimedia UK Blog | i UK Love: Britain Loves Wikipedia is organized by Wikimedia UK in collaboration with the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Collections Trust, Culture 24 and Museums Galleries Scotland .Full information is available at …

[Wikimedia UK Blog] Wikipedia celebrates Public Domain Day on 1st January « Wikimedia ...: Wikimedia UK promotes the uploading of copyright-free text to Wikisource, a sister site to Wikipedia, so that it can be widely enjoyed. Audio recordings of public domain works may be added to the Wikimedia Commons site, and Wikimedia UK invites you to join us and help digitise and preserve our common cultural heritage.

[Heritage Key blogs] Britain Loves Wikipedia: Wikimedia seeks underexposed UK Museum ...: The event runs throughout February 2010, with members of the (Wikipedia) public visiting participating museum across the UK to photograph out-of-copyright parts of their collections. Rather than just photographing all objects - or specific ones - the contest will be themed with pre-specified targets, to be decided jointly by the museums and Wikimedia UK.

[Culture24 latest news] Unseen Mary Rose pictures revealed in groundbreaking Wikipedia ...: Snaps of the salvage operation to save the Mary Rose and 500-year-old tools found onboard the historic warship have been revealed to the public after bosses at the Portsmouth naval icon donated dozens of precious pictures to Wikipedia.

[UK Fundraising - Information and community for professional charity and nonprofit fundraisers] Wikipedia appeal raises $430000 in one day | UK Fundraising: Wikimedia is sharing the details on its appeal income. An interactive bar graph (move your cursor over the bars to find out detailed information) provides comparative data on a day-by-day basis on income for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 appeals.

[IanVisits - The Blog] IanVisits » Photo contest with Wikimedia and Museums: Britain Loves Wikipedia is a photography contest that will be held in museums and cultural institutions across the UK, with the aim of increasing the number of pictures available to illustrate existing articles on Wikipedia and to inspire new articles.

[OpenCulture] OpenCulture » Blog Archive » Seeking museums to love Wikipedia: is to get UK museums to throw open their doors (and ideally their stores) to Wikipedians (people who create Wikipedia records or provide photos for Wikimedia Commons) and allow them to take photographs of out-of-copyright works in their Collections. These photos will be uploaded to a staging server where the museum can review them, remove anything dodgy, and then approve them for upload to the commons.

[Open Access News] Peter Suber, Open Access News: 2009 was Wikipedia's ninth year, and the sixth year for the Wikimedia Foundation. 2009 saw major growth of the Wikimedia Foundation, global outreach and partnership activities, and more major grants and fundraising than ever before.

[Photo Blog: Bizarre, Interesting and Unusual, Discoveries and Conspiracies] Some Facts About Figther Jets: Photo from Wikipedia. UK: De Havilland Vampire. Photo by f0rbe5 on Flickr. Photo by f0rbe5 on Flickr. Russian: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. Photo by The-Doctor on Flickr. Photo by Ken's Aviation on Flickr ... Japan: Mitsubishi F-1. Photo from atchat.jp. Photo from militaryphotos.net. Photo from militaryphotos.net. USSR: Tupolev Tu-28 'Fiddler'. Photo from wikimedia.org. USA: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Photo by Ken's Aviation on Flickr. Photo by Ken's Aviation on Flickr ...

[Open Knowledge Foundation Blog] Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Public Domain Day ...: Wikimedia UK promotes the uploading of copyright-free text to Wikisource, a sister site to Wikipedia, so that it can be widely enjoyed. Audio recordings of public domain works may be added to the Wikimedia Commons site, and Wikimedia UK invites you to join us and help digitise and preserve our common cultural heritage.

[CAN Outreach blog] CAN Outreach blog » Blog Archive » National Portrait Gallery (UK ...: However, Australia’s approach to originality has traditionally been more aligned with the UK than the US. In fact, the leading Australian case on the issue (Telstra v Desktop Marketing) arguably sets the bar even lower by finding that a telephone book was original based almost purely on the level of effort required to put it together.

[http://www.cyberinquirer.com/] http://www.cyberinquirer.com/ » Blog Archive » “Wikiblackmail”: UK ...: That Wikipedia, or the lawyers for their US-based parent, Wikimedia, made no attempt to fight the case, and were willing to comply with a UK court order, is significant too - although Wikipedia’s increased tightening of safeguards and crackdowns on abuse has been cited as one of the reasons for the great decline in number of editors over the past year. The law has arrived in Deadwood and while it may be a while yet before it civilizes the wild frontier of the Internet, the writing is well and truly on the wall.

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