ARMS INDUSTRY WIKITHON 1

agnes, Feb 12, 2026

The first wikithon was a bit of an experiment with the form. We had around 20 editors, learned about editing technique, and made a number of successful edits.

Edits

In this session, much of our work focussed on edits around the relationship between the British Government and the arms industry, and making general informational and grammatical edits to pages. Edits we made included:

Updating information about a number of technologies used by the UK Border Force:
- Including the Home Office in the page for Facial Age Estimation systems, and adding information about use by the border force to age verification company Yoti
- Updating information about the drone company Tekever
- Starting a new page for the company Sirius Insight, who make maritime surveillance technology, some of which is used on the UK Border. The draft will still need some love before it can be approved!
Adding information about British government officials’ private-sector work, including:
- Lord Willetts’ work with Sirius Insight
- ex-MP Geoff Hoon’s work with helicopter company AgustaWestland
- General Nick Carter’s appointment to the Tony Blair Institute
- Palantir’s donation to MP Lee Rowley
Documenting the use of General Dynamics’ MK-80 and BLU-109 bombs in Gaza