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Ann an Alba, obraichidh sinn le pàirtichean de dh’iomadh seòrsa airson luchd-amhairc cruinneil a thoirt dhan dualchas cultarach beart againn, agus airson comasan na litearras didseatach a leasachadh </p> </div> <div class="cell small-12 medium-4"> <div class="margin-bottom-1"> <figure><img src="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-16.37.41-720x405.png" alt="" /><figcaption>Cropped Aberdeen panorama, by Alan Jamieson. CC BY-SA 3.0</figcaption></figure> </div> <p> Wikimedia UK works with a wide variety of partners in Scotland to give our rich cultural heritage a global audience through engagement with the Wikimedia Projects such as Wikipedia. We also work in partnership with the education sector to improve digital literacy skills, with a particular focus on information and data literacy. </p> </div> <div class="cell small-12 medium-4"> <div class="margin-bottom-1"> <figure><img src="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Grayfriars-e1610644526300-720x405.jpg" alt="" /><figcaption>Grayfriars by Grant McIntosh. CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption></figure> </div> <p> Wikimedia UK is the national charity for the roon-the-warld Wikimedia apen knawledge muivement. In Scotland, we wark we a richt braid boorach o pairtner tae gie oor rich cultural heirskip a warld-wide audience, and tae heist up digital leeteracy kennin an skills. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <div class="content-page padding-top-4"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:100%"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Scotland Programme Manager</h3> <p>Scotland has has seven Residents, with partners including the University of Edinburgh, and the National Library of Scotland. Each residency is unique, but bound by a common thread: to work as a bridge between the institution and the Wikimedia community. There are those who volunteer independently from partner organisations, and our Scotland Programme Manager, Dr Sara Thomas, also supports these efforts.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"></div> </div> </div> <div class="child-pages-teasers"> <section class="child-pages-container"> <div class="grid-container"> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x"> <div class="cell small-12 medium-4"> <div class="card"> <figure><img width="720" height="405" src="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1600px-The_Geography_Lesson_or__The_Black_Spot_-720x405.jpeg" class="attachment-medium-16-9 size-medium-16-9 wp-post-image" alt="classroom, painting" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1600px-The_Geography_Lesson_or__The_Black_Spot_-720x405.jpeg 720w, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1600px-The_Geography_Lesson_or__The_Black_Spot_-360x202.jpeg 360w, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1600px-The_Geography_Lesson_or__The_Black_Spot_-1440x810.jpeg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 85vw, 720px" /><figcaption class="has-caption"">The Geography Lesson or "The Black Spot" by Albert Bettannier. CC0</figcaption></figure> <div class="card-section"> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/scotland_residencies/"><h2>Wikimedians in Residence</h2></a> <div class="description-container"> <p>Scotland has been host to six Residencies, and currently hosts two - Ewan McAndrew at the University of Edinburgh, and Dr Doug Rocks-Macqueen at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Each Residency is unique, but bound by a common thread: to work as a bridge between the institution(s) and the Wikimedia community.</p> </div> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/scotland_residencies/"> <div class="wp-block-button"> <span class="wp-block-button__link">More</span> </div> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cell small-12 medium-4"> <div class="card"> <figure><img width="720" height="405" src="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1280px-Greyfriars_Church_Dumfries_6-720x405.jpg" class="attachment-medium-16-9 size-medium-16-9 wp-post-image" alt="Greyfriars Church detail" decoding="async" srcset="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1280px-Greyfriars_Church_Dumfries_6-720x405.jpg 720w, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1280px-Greyfriars_Church_Dumfries_6-360x202.jpg 360w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 85vw, 720px" /><figcaption class="has-caption"">Greyfriars Church. Brian Madill CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption></figure> <div class="card-section"> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/partnership-projects/"><h2>Partnership projects</h2></a> <div class="description-container"> <p>Wikimedia UK engages with a range of different organisations across Scotland in a varied programme of partnership projects. These include Cultural and Heritage organisations, as well as Universities, Charities, and Community groups. We are particularly interested in reaching those communities and organisations outwith the Central Belt, those working in Scots and Gaelic, and those whose knowledge and voices are left out by structures of power and privilege.</p> </div> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/partnership-projects/"> <div class="wp-block-button"> <span class="wp-block-button__link">More</span> </div> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cell small-12 medium-4"> <div class="card"> <figure><img width="720" height="405" src="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-13.20.35-720x405.png" class="attachment-medium-16-9 size-medium-16-9 wp-post-image" alt="coronation, queen, victorian, painting, sacrament" decoding="async" srcset="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-13.20.35-720x405.png 720w, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-13.20.35-360x202.png 360w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 85vw, 720px" /><figcaption class="has-caption"">Queen Victoria Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation by Charles Robert Leslie. CC0</figcaption></figure> <div class="card-section"> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/volunteers-and-community/"><h2>Volunteers and community</h2></a> <div class="description-container"> <p>Volunteers are at the heart of the Wikimedia projects, as a community-driven enterprise. In Scotland, we work to support a number of individuals and groups of volunteers engaging with open knowledge in general and the Wikimedia projects in particular. </p> </div> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/volunteers-and-community/"> <div class="wp-block-button"> <span class="wp-block-button__link">More</span> </div> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <section class="blog-loop-container blog-posts alignwide"> <div class="grid-container"> <h2 class="fullwidth">Latest news</h2> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x"> <div class="cell small-12 medium-4 margin-top-2"> <div class="blog-post"> <div class="post-image margin-bottom-1"> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/12/wmuk-2023-community-meeting-videos-and-opportunities/"> <figure><img width="720" height="405" src="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Community-meeting-2023-videos-and-opportunities-blog-header-720x405.png" class="attachment-medium-16-9 size-medium-16-9 wp-post-image" alt="Photo of a group of people at the 2022 Community Festival, collaged green toned images from Wikimedia Commons with text overlaid reading: 2023 Community Meeting videos and opportunities" decoding="async" srcset="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Community-meeting-2023-videos-and-opportunities-blog-header-720x405.png 720w, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Community-meeting-2023-videos-and-opportunities-blog-header-360x202.png 360w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="has-caption"">Photo from the 2022 Community Festival by Tammy Gede, collaged with images from Commons. Full details: File:WMUK Get Involved header.png</figcaption></figure> </a> </div> <div class="post-details"> <a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/12/wmuk-2023-community-meeting-videos-and-opportunities/"><h2>WMUK 2023 Community Meeting – videos and opportunities</h2></a> <ul class="post-meta"> <li>06.12.2023</li> <li><ul class="post-categories"> <li><a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/category/connected-heritage/" rel="category tag">Connected Heritage</a></li> <li><a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/category/cultural-partnerships/" rel="category tag">Cultural partnerships</a></li> <li><a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/category/cymru/" rel="category tag">Cymru</a></li> <li><a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/category/diversity-2/" rel="category tag">Diversity</a></li> <li><a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/category/events-2/" rel="category tag">Events</a></li> <li><a href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/category/gender-gap/" rel="category tag">Gender gap</a></li> <li><a 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src="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1164px-British_delegation_at_the_2nd_international_conference_held_by_the_Womens_International_League_for_Peace_and_Freedom_conference_Zurich_1919-720x405.jpg" class="attachment-medium-16-9 size-medium-16-9 wp-post-image" alt="Black and white photo of a group of British women at the 2nd international conference held by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom conference in 1919" decoding="async" srcset="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1164px-British_delegation_at_the_2nd_international_conference_held_by_the_Womens_International_League_for_Peace_and_Freedom_conference_Zurich_1919-720x405.jpg 720w, https://wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1164px-British_delegation_at_the_2nd_international_conference_held_by_the_Womens_International_League_for_Peace_and_Freedom_conference_Zurich_1919-360x202.jpg 360w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 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