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Event: Wiki Wildlife Bristol, Watershed, 15 September

by Kevin 08/09/2011 in Bristol

The Wildscreen charity is teaming up with Wikimedia UK to run a couple of events to raise awareness of the plight of endangered species.
They’ll be helping volunteers to improve Wikipedia articles about the species, using text from Wildscreen’s award winning ARKive project.
The events will be suitable for people who’ve never edited Wikipedia before- it’s easy [...]

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Jimmy Wales: Live Webcast

by Kevin 13/01/2011 in Bristol

We are live streaming Jimmy Wales’ presentation from Bristol on Wikipedia’s development and future plans.

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Jimmy Wales speech in Bristol to be live webcast

by Kevin 05/01/2011 in Bristol

Jimmy Wales – founder of Wikipedia – makes his first visit to Bristol on 13 January 2011 to talk about Wikipedia’s development and future plans.
The visit will culminate with a speech at the University of Bristol.  Seats for the speech were fully booked very quickly, so in order to bring the speech to a wider audience, [...]

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Should PR agencies be allowed to edit Wikipedia?

by Matt 07/09/2007 in Technology

As six of the top ten PR agencies have been caught making dubious changes to Wikipedia, Montage Communications asks should PR agencies be allowed to change Wikipedia?
I potted an article in PR Week regardingsix of the top ten PR agenices in the UK being warned by Wikipedia for dubious edits. For the record those caught out [...]

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