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English: Brown hare (Lepus europaeus). An animal which has become extremely rare in Wales. More here on Lepus europaeus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hare Cymraeg: Yr ysgyfarnog, sy'n anffodus wedi prinhau'n arw yng Nghymru.

Competition winners for Wiki Loves Earth in Wales

13 September 2021

By Robin Owain, Wales Programme Manager at Wikimedia UK This year Wales took part in the international photography competition ‘Wiki Loves Earth’ organised by the Wikimedia movement. Founded 9 years ago as a focus for nature heritage, the competition raises awareness of protected species and sites globally.  Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Wales… read more »

A lush green swamp forest, with rays of tigt streaming through the trees.

Spotlight on Wales for international photography competition

13 September 2021

Upload your photographs during June to be in with a chance of winning country and international prizes. This year Wales is taking part in the international photography competition ‘Wiki Loves Earth’ organised by the Wikimedia movement. Founded 9 years ago as a focus for nature heritage, the competition aims to raise awareness of protected sites… read more »

Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales

16 December 2019

By Jason Evans, National Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales Over 7 years ago the National Library of Wales made the decision not to claim any rights to digital reproductions of public domain works. I was then employed as a Wikimedian, in partnership with Wikimedia UK, to actively begin sharing this content openly on… read more »

Education in Wales and Wikipedia

16 May 2019

By Robin Owain, Wikimedia UK Wales Manager Wales has always had more than its fair share of ministers of religion, farmers… and educators! During the Medieval period, the training of a ‘Prifardd’ (a registered Chief Poet), took ten years, but educating ordinary folk was by word of mouth. Around 1402, the last Welsh Prince of… read more »

GB1900 Project Launch: The Historically Open Gazetteer of Great Britain

27 June 2019

Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Project Launch of of GB1900; the first ever historical gazetteer of the entirety of Great Britain, capturing the isles between the years 1888 to 1914. I was invited by Humphrey Southall, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Portsmouth. Dr Southall, who… read more »

Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias

11 January 2019

By Delphine Dallison, Wikimedian in Residence at the Scottish Libraries and Information Council (SLIC) At the beginning of July, I attended the Celtic Knot 2018 conference at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth organised in partnership with Wikimedia UK. As a Wikidata novice, but enthusiast, I was excited to see that the conference had… read more »

Aaron Morris at WiciMon! Promoting the Welsh language with WikiWales

5 June 2018

Hi, I’m Aaron Morris and I was appointed WiciMôn Project Officer nearly two years ago. I’m based at the offices of Menter Iaith Môn, the project organisers, at Llangefni, Anglesey, North Wales. We are funded by the Welsh Government and Horizon and have received valuable support from Wikimedia organisations in Wales: both Wikimedia UK and… read more »

Welsh Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles

28 March 2018

Wicipedia Cymraeg, the Welsh Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. Welsh Wikipedians have been working hard over the past year to reach this target, which is a big achievement for a minority language Wikipedia. Wikimedia UK is committed to diversifying Wikimedia’s content and contributors and supporting the Celtic British languages, and reaching this milestone demonstrates the… read more »

Celtic Knot 2018

20 February 2018

The Wikipedia language conference is back, and it’s coming to Wales. By Jason Evans, National Wikimedian for Wales Celtic Knot provides a stage and a meeting place for contributors to small and minority language Wikipedia’s from all around the world. You can now submit a paper and register for this years conference, which will be… read more »

3000 new articles added to the Welsh Wicipedia

5 April 2018

Volunteers at the National Library of Wales have been translating important health articles from English into Welsh – image by Jason Evans CC BY-SA 4.0 By Jason Evans, National Wikipedian for Wales Improving health related content on the Welsh Wicipedia The Welsh language Wicipedia is the most viewed website in the Welsh language, and articles… read more »

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