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Wikimedia Community Ireland

Ireland
Location Ireland
Country codeIE
Approval dateDecember 8, 2014
Official language(s)Irish and English




About

Wikimedia Community Ireland is an active user group representing all Wikimedians in Ireland. We were officially recognised as an affiliate group on December 8, 2014. We are currently running a number of events, training members, and attending outreach events.

Take Part

The WCI's next monthly meeting is scheduled for November 25 at 6pm (Ireland). The organization holds its meetings every month on the last Tuesday. You can join the meeting online (Google Meet) here.

Get involved with our monthly online community editathon, MeithealWiki. Find out more here.

If you are interested in taking an active role in the working group, please add your name to the list of members and email info(_AT_)wikimedia(_DOT_)ie

The group meets virtually monthly. Minutes from those can be found here: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022


You may also consider participating in WikiProject Ireland.

Our Mission

To aid and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate educational, cultural, and historic content in the public domain or under a license that allows everyone to freely use, distribute and modify said content without the payment of royalties. To encourage public and private galleries, libraries, archives and museums on the island of Ireland to make their holdings more broadly and freely available and to collaborate with these institutions in an effort to preserve the heritage of the island of Ireland. To make use of, encourage the use of, and educate people in the use of free and open source information resources, in any form, for the advancement of education. To encourage the development and release of these materials in the languages of the island of Ireland including but not limited to English and Irish.

Members

The working group for the Wikimedia Community Ireland consists of:

Tóraí | RashersTierney | Alison Cassidy | Joseph Quinn | Antiqueight | Donna Alexander | Brian McKenzie | Éamonn Ó Gribín | Meghan Dowling | Abigail Walsh | Gabriel Beecham | Claire Murray | Rebecca O'Neill | Priyangee Guha | Éoin Bairéad | Amr Druid | Gwinyai Masukume | Teresa Lynn | Conor Malone | Niall O'Mara | Dan Garry (Deskana)

Events

Interested in co-hosting one? Do get in contact with us, we are always interested in new or novel ways of introducing more people to Wikimedia (in English or as Gaeilge)!

Our Safe Space Policy

You can find updates about all our upcoming events on our website.

Contact

If you know of an event which we can participate or would like to discuss holding your own event we welcome you to contact our Project Manager or: For news and updates, sign up to the Wikimedia Ireland mailing list. For general discussion, please use our discussion page. Follow us on Bluesky @wikimediaIE. Like us on Facebook. Join our Telegram group. Email info(_AT_)wikimedia(_DOT_)ie.

Projects

History

Recognition Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group - December 2024
Renewal Wikimedia Community Ireland User Group - June 2016