Happy New Year! Editing events in TOG Hackerspace We are kicking off our monthly editing events in TOG Hackerspace on Wednesday 31 January from 7-9pm. Whether you are new to Wikipedia or an old hand at editing, come along for a chat with fellow Wikimedians! To get a reminder Read more
Happy Christmas from all of us at Wikimedia Community Ireland, and hoping for an exciting and busy 2018! Wiki Science Ireland’s first year of the photography/image competition took place during November 2017, and we had 80 entries over our 6 categories. The six winning images for each categories are: Read more
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 We have been working hard with our panel of judges, sorting through all the photographs submitted to this year’s competition. Come join us in the Science Gallery on Thursday 9 November when we celebrate the top 10 photos, and reveal who got the top spot! You Read more
Wikimedia Community Ireland Newsletter – October 2017 Wiki Science We are very excited to announce that Ireland will be taking part in Wiki Science for the first time this year. Wiki Science is a photo competition looking for images under 5 broad categories relating to science: people in science, Read more
Wikimedia Community Ireland Newsletter – September 2017 Ireland’s Internet Day – An evening with the founder of Wikipedia To celebrate Ireland’s third annual Internet Day, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the company that manages and maintains Ireland’s country domain name, .ie, will host an evening with Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Read more
Wiki Loves Pride at GAZE Festival Join us at our very first Wiki Loves Pride event, which is taking place on the 7 August, 11am to 1pm, at the Light House Theatre, Smithfield, Dublin. Find all the details and sign up on Facebook. If you attended the recent Pride Parades Read more
GAZE Festival – Wiki Loves Pride We are delighted to announce that we will be partnering with a number of groups over August to deliver events around LGBTQ history as part of Wiki Loves Pride. The first of these events will take place during the GAZE International Film Festival from Read more
Terry Pratchett editathon May 24 We were delighted to once again partner with the Library of Trinity College Dublin to host an editing workshop. The Library holds a diverse collection of Pratchett works, donated by Colin Smythe. The Library staff have been cataloguing the volumes, which include translations of Pratchett’s Read more
First staff member After receiving its first Simple Annual Plan Grant for the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Community Ireland is delighted to announce the hiring of its first staff member! Rebecca O’Neill is the group’s Project Coordinator, acting as the point of contact for anyone interested in working with Wikimedia Community Read more