London

This page only includes information on the events in London. For information on the event in Bristol, see here.

London Meetup 41

Our 41st London Meetup is on Sunday 9th, January - we hope this will start the week of celebrations for the tenth anniversary.

More details on Meta:Meetups. Organisers James F. and WereSpielChequers

Editathon at the British Library, London

Date

09.30-17.00, Friday 14 and Saturday 15th January, 2011

Description

An editathon at the British Library - with the help of the contents and curators of the British Library, go mad editing Wikipedia to celebrate its 10th birthday. Full details are on the Wikimedia UK wiki at wmuk:Editathon, British Library.

Organisers

User:Mike Peel, on behalf of Wikimedia UK

Imperial College London event

Date

12:30-16:30, Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 (may be moved to Jan 26th)

Description

A (potential) veritable joyfest celebrating the anniversary at Imperial College London, South Kensington campus. Hopefully our aspiring student club - Imperial College Wikipedia Society - will already have been approved following the submission of our request to the Student Union (which we think is likely!). Even if it hasn't, we will be supporting Wikipedia in whatever way we can, but this is all preliminary planning as we await approval from the college for the event to be held in some form.

Lineup

Vinesh Patel, Sheikh, Wang, Rashad, Tom and Jeevana and their many friends will hopefully be engaging the student body at campus to get involved with the many plans we have for our society (it being approved) or otherwise to generally get involved with Wikipedia.

Organizers and how to get involved

User:Vinnypatel is hoping to found the society. He was directed to this page by User:Charles Matthews after meeting him at the 40th London Meetup. You can either e-mail Vinnypatel or post a message on his talk page if you're interested

Ockham Blue Plaque

Hi everyone. I am shortly applying to the City of London for a 'blue plaque' to be installed at the site of the old Greyfriars monastery on London Wall, by Newgate Street, to commemorate the great English philosopher William of Ockham. I have a long list of distinguished (some not so distinguished!) philosophers from all over the world who are prepared to support this. I am not sure whether the process will be finished by April 10 2011. Even if not, it would be great to add to the London Greyfriars article on Wikipedia to include some facts about Ockham's period of residence there (when he wrote some of his greatest works). And I am sure that Merrill Lynch (current occupiers of the site) would be happy to host drinks, perhaps with a Wikipedia connection, on April 10. Also the article on Ockham himself could do with a lot of work. Would anyone be happy to help with this? I could post material here, and people could paste it into the relevant articles. Best Peter Damian 12:36, 31 December 2010 (UTC)