A few weeks ago (during purdah) I went on a flying visit to Bristol for the day to attend the WikiMedia UK AGM and give the KeyNote address at the associated Conference.
Wikimedia UK (incorporated under the name "Wiki UK Limited") is the local Wikimedia chapter covering the United Kingdom. It exists to help collect, develop and distribute freely licensed knowledge (and other educational, cultural and historic content), which is done by supporting the charitable activities of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The Wikimedia Foundation has a number of products of which its most famous is Wikipedia. But it has lots of other projects as well such as Wiktionary, Wiki Books, Wikiversity and lots more…
Anyway, my brief was to speak about WIkipedia is Schools. I have a fairly long history with this agenda, which is why I was delighted to accept the invitation!
The slides that I used during my presentation are here:
And most of the talk was captured as a series of three YouTube Videos (thanks WikiFabric):
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
There seems to be a lot of momentum building around WikiMedia UK and I will certainly continue to contribute every way I can.
I am a beneficiary of Wikipedia, love the information there and with UK edition here...it gets better!
Posted by: Afrika | May 17, 2011 at 07:38 PM
Loved the bit about how the
press distorted your words.
So typical. Glad you've been
able to live it down :-)
Posted by: Stephen Bray | May 19, 2011 at 08:37 AM