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  "textContent": "### Season 2\n\n**By Rupal Karia** **– Outreach & Community Coordinator** | **22 Apr 2026**\n\nWe are excited to announce a second season of the virtual **Sandbox Session** and invite community members to propose sessions they are interested in leading. Community Sandbox Sessions offer a space for community members to share their learning, meet other Wikimedians and try new things. They are volunteer-led events, supported by Wikimedia UK.\n\nOur \nfirst season featured sessions on the Wikidata tool Duplicity, how to edit calmly in controversial areas, a wikisource transcribe-a-thon, smell-related content on Wiki, and being an en.wiki admin! Huge thanks to all our presenters – **Josef Anthony, Femke Njise, Martin Poulter, Lucy Moore,** and **Harry Mitchell.**\n\nThe type or format of an event is open; however, we’d like to encourage proposals which go beyond the traditional Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Maybe there is something you do on Wikimedia projects you’d like to do in community with others? Here are some session suggestions?\n\n  * A talk on how to advocate for the release of images from a collection\n  * Here’s how I overcame hurdles related to adding under-represented content\n  * Let’s add images to Wikipedia from this collection\n  * My special niche on Wikimedia projects\n  * Let’s spend an hour thanking people on Wikipedia\n  * Let’s build a worklist and find reliable sources for this under represented topic on Wikipedia\n  * Hints and tips on translation of articles\n  * Here’s a cool Wikidata tool I’ve found, let’s try it out\n  * How to add structured data to images\n  * Add pictures to articles together\n  * If you have extended user rights and are involved in the governance of Wikipedia tell us about your role\n  * Here’s how I got this article to Featured Article status\n\n\n\nWe would love to hear any other ideas that you might have.\n\n### **Support WMUK can offer**\n\n  * Advice on refining your format\n  * Setting up of Event Registration\n  * Event promotion through UK listings & mailing lists\n  * Hosting on the WMUK Zoom account / Google Meet\n  * Friendly space support from a WMUK staff member (or volunteer) during the event\n\n\n\n### **Dates and times**\n\nEvents can take place throughout the year, and can also be on an evening or weekend. Suggested duration is an hour, but longer (or shorter!) events could be considered. We’re suggesting that these events are online in the first instance, to reach the widest possible audience, and all events should of course be run in line with the Wikimedia UK Safe\nSpace policy.\n\nIf you’re interested in running a session, \nplease submit a proposal here.\n\n### **Deadline**\n\nThe initial deadline for submitting proposals is **18th May 2026.** If you have any questions, please contact rupal.karia@wikimedia.org.uk\n\n### Season 1\n\n**By Dr. Sara Thomas** **– Programme Manager** | **24 April 2025**\n\nDo you have an idea for a Wiki-learning session? Have you found something that you’d like to share with other Wikimedians, or an idea that you’d like to try out? And would you like some help from Wikimedia UK in sharing it?\n\nIn response to feedback from the community around having opportunities to improve Wiki-skills, and connecting with other community members, and as part of the overall training package for 2025, we’re excited to introduce a new strand of event programming, called **Community Sandbox Sessions.**\n\nWe’re looking to programme up to 6 virtual events over the next year, which would be open to all members of the UK community, and supported by Wikimedia UK. We’re asking community members to **propose sessions that you’d like to lead**.\n\n### Session suggestions\n\nThe type or format of any event is open; but we’d like to encourage proposals which go beyond the traditional Wikipedia editathon – for example:\n\n  * Here’s a cool Wikidata tool I’ve found, let’s try it out\n  * Wikisource transcribe-a-thon\n  * A talk on how to run backstage pass events\n  * Here’s how I got this article to Featured Article status\n  * Let’s add images from this collection to Wikipedia\n  * A mobile meeting where we take pictures of our local area for Wikimedia Commons\n  * Minoritised language work – eg: adding Wikidata labels\n  * Building a worklist & finding reliable sources for future events\n\n\n\n### Dates and times\n\nEvents can take place throughout the year, and can also be on an evening or weekend. Suggested duration is an hour, but longer (or shorter!) events could be considered. We’re suggesting that these events are online in the first instance, to reach the widest possible audience, and all events should of course be run in line with the Wikimedia UK Safe\nSpace policy.\n\n### **Support WMUK can offer**\n\n  * Advice on refining your format\n  * Setting up of Event Registration\n  * Event promotion through UK listings & mailing lists\n  * Hosting on the WMUK Zoom account / Google Meet\n  * Friendly space support from a WMUK staff member (or volunteer) during the event\n\n\n\nThis is very much an experiment, and we hope that the format will allow community members to share knowledge and skills, and get to know other UK Wikimedians, as well as test out new ideas! If you’d be interested in running a session, \nplease submit a proposal here.\n\n### Deadline\n\nThe initial deadline for submitting proposals is **Tuesday 20th May.**\n\n\nIf you have any questions, please contact sara.thomas@wikimedia.org.uk.\n\nThe post Community\nSandbox Sessions appeared first on Wikimedia UK.",
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