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09/10/2026

You’re invited to our Community Celebration 🎉 Join us online on Sunday 22 November, 11am–1pm, as we celebrate the people and partners who make open knowledge happen across the UK.

Nominations are now open for this year’s awards:
🏆 UK Wikimedian of the Year (individual)
🏆 Partnership of the Year (organisations)
🏆 Up and coming Wikimedian (individual)

Know someone whose work deserves recognition?
Nominate them by submitting this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciu6pV7fpMx1jUNYwxESnfkjT-CGwGyLJ1nl2-G2tPSv2QDQ/viewform.

Nominations close on 1st November.

07/10/2026

Scottish pals, do you have time for a wee read today?? It's Wee Read day, Scotland's national celebration of reading, and we're fully supporting . Today, people across the country are making time to read together, and the goal is 50,000 readers.

Join in and share your wee reads! You can also make your pledge at WeeRead.scot.

06/10/2026

Last week we were in Accra, Ghana, for the first global Language Diversity Conference, which we co-hosted with the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub, Wikitongues and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group 🌍

More than 100 language activists, Wikimedians, researchers and heritage workers came together, bringing 82 languages into one room.

What stayed with our Deputy CEO Daria was how many language activists start from their own language and community, then use Wikimedia to support it.

Every language deserves a place in open knowledge. Swipe through for our reflections 👉

02/10/2026

Soap opera characters, long-running series, the actors and storylines most people scroll past: Danilo writes them all into Wikipedia. 💛

Since 2018 he's contributed 140+ articles, mostly on the soaps, series and fictional characters he loves. And through the Women in Red project, that same passion has helped write 33 women into Wikipedia, closing a real gap that still leaves far too many stories untold.

He's also a fixture at our volunteer training events and, by his own admission, happiest sending birthday messages to fellow editors through the Birthday Committee.

As the UK charity for open knowledge, we get to champion volunteers like Danilo and his dedication really is contagious.

Ever had a Birthday Committee message brighten your day? That might've been Danilo. Drop him a 💛 in the comments.

30/09/2026

Teachers 👋 how do your students decide what's true online? We might be able to help you!

Thoughtful Media Literacy is a 6-week online course for secondary and FE teachers, run by Thoughtful Society for Philosophical Enquiry with support from Wikimedia UK. It covers critical thinking, debate, oracy and media literacy, with classroom-ready resources you can use across subjects.

The first 8 places are subsidised by Wikimedia UK: £60 instead of £275.

Book your spot here: https://www.thoughtful.org.uk/our-offer/courses/bespoke-p4c/media-literacy/

28/09/2026

Today is the International Day for Universal Access to Information: a UN day built on the right to seek, receive and share reliable information.

This year's theme is information integrity in the digital age. And that's where it gets interesting.

For most of this day's history, "access" meant a practical question: can you get to the information at all? In 2026, the harder question is whether you can trust what you find. AI can generate a paragraph in seconds. Checking whether it's actually true still takes a person, and hours.

The bigger picture: open, human-checked knowledge is the counterweight. Information that's created transparently, properly sourced, and corrected in the open stays worth trusting. That's the work we exist to support, from the world's largest open encyclopedia to media-literacy sessions in UK classrooms.

Universal access was never only about how much information you can reach. It's about being able to believe it.

Access without integrity isn't really access at all.

In an age of AI, what does reliable information mean to you?

25/09/2026

There are only days left to take part in Wiki Loves Monuments UK: the world's largest photography competition, dedicated to documenting the UK's built heritage.

Thousands of listed sites across the UK have no freely licensed photograph anywhere online. Every entry helps close that gap, making our shared history visible to anyone, anywhere.

You don't need specialist kit or a famous landmark. Find a listed site near you on the map, photograph it, upload.

Entries close 30 September. Free to enter, open to all (link in the comments!).

24/09/2026

We’re proud to be part of a new N-RICH project exploring how Wikidata can help build a more connected digital infrastructure for UK cultural heritage.

Working with Towards a National Collection and partners, Wikimedia UK will help explore whether Wikidata and Linked Open Data can act as a shared connective layer between cultural heritage collections, data services and research infrastructures.

Many organisations already use Wikidata to enrich individual collection records. This project will look at the bigger picture: how open, structured and machine-readable data could help different systems connect across institutional boundaries, making cultural heritage information easier to discover, understand and reuse.

This work goes to the heart of our mission. Open knowledge infrastructure has huge potential to help cultural organisations connect their collections, surface new relationships between them and make knowledge more accessible to researchers, institutions and the public.

The project will produce practical guidance, an interoperability blueprint and a Wikidata-compatible metadata framework, helping inform the future development of digital research infrastructure for UK cultural heritage.

We’re excited to bring Wikimedia expertise to this important piece of work and to help demonstrate the role open knowledge can play in a more connected cultural heritage ecosystem.

18/09/2026

Fairness starts with visibility. This International Equal Pay Day, we're reminded that closing the pay gap and closing the gaps in our shared knowledge are part of the same work because you can't value what you can't see.

At Wikimedia UK, we work to close the gaps in what, and who, our record of knowledge captures. Everyone's contribution counts. Everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in it.

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