Thanks for a fantastic report!
Asaf On Oct 15, 2011 4:49 AM, "Michael Peel" michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly reporthttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reportsfor the period 1 to 30 September 2011. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our bloghttp://blog.wikimedia.org.uk, join our mailing listhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l, and/or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/wikimediauk. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk pagehttp://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Reports/2011/September&action=edit&redlink=1 . This report is also available, complete with pictures, on our website at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September .
Contents
- 1 Recruitmenthttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Recruitment
- 2 Program activitieshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Program_activities
- 2.1 Education projectshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Education_projects
- 2.2 GLAM activitieshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#GLAM_activities
- 2.3 Other activitieshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Other_activities
- 2.4 UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#UK_press_coverage_.28and_coverage_of_UK_projects_.26_activities.29
- 2.5 Upcoming activities in Octoberhttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Upcoming_activities_in_October
- 3 Administrative activitieshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Administrative_activities
- 3.1 Board activitieshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Board_activities
- 3.2 Charitable statushttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Charitable_status
- 3.3 Fundraisinghttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September#Fundraising
Recruitment
This month we completed our recruitment of our new Chief Exec: Jon Davieshttp://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2011/09/welcoming-our-new-chief-executive/will start work on 1 October. Andrew Turvey, who led the recruitment, blogged about the process of recruiting our Chief Exechttp://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2011/09/help-us-choose-our-chief-executive/; one of the last steps in this process was the presence of the final three candidates at the 49th London Meetuphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/49so that the community could provide their input.
Our new full-time Office Administratorhttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_Administrator, Richard Symonds, known as Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chase_me_ladies,_I%27m_the_Cavalryon Wikipedia, started work this month to assist specifically with the fundraiser work, and also more generally with WMUK's administrative needs. His contract runs until mid-January. Program activities Education projects
On the 1st September, Martin Poulter and User:Martinvlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Martinvlran a workshop for members of the Institute of Physicshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics_Workshop. The event was written up in a blog posthttp://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2011/09/wikimedia-uk-at-the-institute-of-physics/ .
We funded two scholarshipshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSym_Scholarshipsto attend WikiSym 2011 http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/start in October 2011. The scholarships were awarded to Dr Mark Graham, and Han-Teng Liao, both from the Oxford Internet Institute. Following from the visit, they will also present about their work at the Wikimedia Foundation offices. GLAM activities
Two ARKive project http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/ARKive_project events were held in Bristol on 15 September (one in the afternoon, the other in the evening), led by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing), details of which are at Wiki Wildlife Bristolhttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wildlife_Bristol. These were part of a larger collaboration to improve Wikipedia articles on threatened species, full information for which is available at Wikipedia:GLAM/ARKive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/ARKive. The events were covered by a number of local blogs and media organisations.
QRPedia saw extensive media coverage this month, mostly following from the WMF blog post about ithttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/28/qr-codes-wikipedia/. See below for links to the news stories.
A number of other GLAM activities also took place, including:
- 3rd - The Mayor of Derby awarded prizes by a webstream to winners in Russia,
France and Indonesiahttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F%7Epara%2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%3Farticle%3DWikipedia_talk%3AGLAM%2FDerby%2FMultilingual_Challenge%26usecache%3D1for the Derby Multilingual challengehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/Multilingual_Challenge
- 8th - the first Wikipedia editing training session at the British
Museum was, with nine BM people present (a mix of curators, curatorial interns and volunteers) and three Wikimedians. More details are on the Wikipedia project pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Ice_Age_art/training .
- 14th - A workshop for GLAMshttp://museumnetworkwarwickshire.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/something-wiki-this-way-comes-workshop-14th-september/was run at the Herbert
Art Gallery and Museumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Art_Gallery_and_Museum. For more information on this, see the 'This month in GLAM' UK reporthttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2011/Contents/UK_report .
- 27th - A presentation was given to all staff at the British Library
by Fae and Roger
- 30th - Fae meet with Museums Galleries Scotlandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museums_Galleries_Scotlandto talk about an upcoming partnership.
Other activities
- UK Wikimeets this month: Londonhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London_49(11th) and
Manchester http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Manchester (17th)
- 2nd-3rd - Mike Peel http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peelpresented at Science
Online London http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/ in the "How are wikis being used to carry out and communicate science?" session, and also the 'Micro-attribution' session.
- 8th - Steve Virgin and Roger Bamkin presented at TEDx Bristolhttp://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2246
- 13th - Jimmy Wales uses QRpedia in Indianapolishttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2011/Contents/USA_report
- 14th - Editathon in Barcelonahttp://theglamwikiexperience.blogspot.com/2011/09/edit-thon-at-fundacio-joan-miro.htmlcreates articles to support QRpedia at Foundation Joan Miro
- 27th - Fiona Apps (User:Panydhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Panyd)
spoke about Women and Wikipedia at Manchester Girl Geek Dinnerhttp://www.manchestergirlgeeks.com/upcoming-event-girl-geek-dinner-at-b-hive/at B-Hive, Manchester. A report is available on the wikihttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Girl_Geek_Dinner#Girl_Geek_Dinner_2:_Manchester .
- We have offered travel grants to support UK residents' attendance of
WikiConference India in Novemberhttp://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2011/09/wikiconference-india-travel-grants/ .
UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)
Press coverage of Wikimedia in UK publications this month included:
- 1st - QRpedia and Lori on Indianapolis local radiohttp://www.wfyi.org/podcast/newscasts/NEWS_1108310830.mp3
- 8th - Wikipedia creator’s keynote speech at radio festivalhttp://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/arts-news/2011/09/08/wiki-creator-s-keynote-speech-at-radio-festival-61634-29384251/,
JournalLive
- 9th - Wikipedia founder wows Cambridge Network audiencehttp://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=85087-
*"Wikipedia attracts more readers than the top 20 newspapers in the world combined. "*, also covered in Cabumehttp://www.cabume.co.uk/blog/running-wikipedia-possibly-not-as-easy-as-jimmy-wales-makes-it-look.html(13th)
- 12th - Joan Collins Corrects Wikipedia Entryhttp://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/270706,
Express
- 14th - Johann Hari: A personal apologyhttp://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-personal-apology-2354679.html,
Independent. Also covered in The Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/14/johann-hari-apologises-orwell-prizeand Periscope Posthttp://www.periscopepost.com/2011/09/johann-hari-apologises-for-plagiarism-and-wikipedia-edits-or-does-he/ .
- 15th - QR Codes at the National Archives: National archives newshttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/620.htm&
- 16th - coverage of ARKive event:
Bristol Wireless
- Life’s wild editing Wikipediahttp://www.bristolwireless.net/2011/09/lifes-wild-editing-wikipedia/,
Bristol 24/7
- Bristol ‘Wikipedians’ taught to edit online encylopaediahttp://www.bristol247.com/2011/09/16/bristol-wikipedians-taught-to-edit-online-encylopaedia-26319/,
ARKive blog.
- ARKive on the Road: Wiki ‘Wildlife editathon’ in Bristol, UKhttp://blog.arkive.org/2011/09/arkive-on-the-road-wiki-%E2%80%98wildlife-editathon%E2%80%99-in-bristol-uk/,
- 24th - QRpedia on Spanish Discussion programmehttp://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/para-todos-la-2/para-todos-2-23-09-11/1205515/as part of 40 minute programme on Wikipedia - one of three Spanish TV
interviews
- 28th - 维基百科推出可能有史以来最酷的QRpedia » 竹筱杰http://zhuxiaojie.sinaapp.com/?p=2086QRpedia and also in two other places.
- 29th - coverage of QRPedia (a project developed by UK wikimedian and
Terence Eden): - Wikipedia launches QR code creation service to assist museum visitors http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/79515/, PanArmenian - QRPedia: Wikipedia makes visiting museums more funhttp://memeburn.com/2011/09/qrpedia-wikipedia-makes-visiting-museums-more-fun/, MemeBurn - QRpedia creates multilingual QR codes for Wikipedia articleshttp://thenextweb.com/media/2011/09/29/qrpedia-creates-multilingual-qr-codes-for-wikipedia-articles/, The Next Web - QRPedia: Wikipedia launches QR code tool for museumshttp://www.techworld.com.au/article/402669/qrpedia_wikipedia_launches_qr_code_tool_museums/?fp=16&fpid=1, Australian Techworld - Several others that day - 30th More coverage of QRpedia - How Wikipedia Is Making QR Codes Useful Againhttp://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/09/how-wikipedia-is-making-qr-codes-useful-again/ - 维基百科二维码移动应用 QRpedia,简单并且好用,堪称应用典范! | TechFrom科技源http://www.techfrom.com/16401.htmlTechFrom and several others that day
Upcoming activities in October
- 1st - Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Backstage Passhttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Backstage_Pass
- 1st - Warwick University Freshers fair - Panyd organising stall
- 1st - Edinburgh meetuphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Edinburgh_3- run by Fæ and Brian McNeil
- 1st - Tom Morris attending Over the Airhttp://overtheair.org/blog/category/about/about-over-the-air/at Bletchley Park where Terence Eden did keynote on QRpedia
- 5th - Martin Poulter speaking on "Common pitfalls in engaging with
Wikipedia" at Bathcamp #26, the Innovation Centre, Bathhttp://bathcamp.org/events/event/open-spirit/
- 5th - Roger Bamkin speaking at Europeana Conference at Austrian
National Library on "WLM, GLAM and QRpedia"
- 7th - 13.30-17.00 British Museum internal training workshop.
- 7th - Meeting with Central Midlands Archives, Derby City Council re
QRpedia
- 8th - Andy Mabbett - "GLAM and QRpedia" at Library Camp UK in
Birmingham
- 8th - Cambridge meetup
- 11th - Board meeting http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Agenda_11Oct11
- 13th - 10.00-17.00 British Museum Ice Age art "Behind the Scenes"
event.
- 15th - Largest Joan Miro exhibition for 20 years in Barcelona uses 17
QRpedia codes which access English articles (Oh and some in Catalan)
- 16th - London meetuphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/50
- 16th - EGM - see below
- 24th - 10.00-18.00 Wikipedia Lounge at The University of Manchesterhttp://manclounge.eventbrite.com/
- 28th - Meeting scheduled in Monmouth to try and launch partnership
with the town
For events in November and onwards, please see Eventshttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events . Administrative activities Board activities
We held an In-person executive board meetinghttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Agenda_18Sep11on 18 September in Derby. Discussions focused on plans for our upcoming EGM (see below) and on the induction process for our new chief exec.
Draft reports from board members on their recent activities are available on the WMUK wiki http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports_11Oct11 in preparation for the next board meeting on 11 October. Charitable status
Our application to be recognised as a charity by the UK's Charity Commission was significantly progressed this month. We will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting on 16 October 2011 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EGM_2011to pass a special resolution to change our Objects to bring them in line with the Charity Commission's view of what a charity is. See our blog post on this subjecthttp://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2011/09/egm-16th-october-help-us-become-a-charity/for more information. Fundraising
In preparation for the upcoming fundraiser, we have run a series of fundraising tests this month. The tests and their outcomes are described on meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Local_testing/GB .
We received £3624.73 in paypal donations from 272 donors this month - more than twice what we received in August. We have also started accepting monthly and quarterly Direct Debits http://directdebit.wikimedia.org.uk/: this month we recieved eight new Direct Debit instructions, averaging £22/month. All but one of these came in during the hour-long fundraising test on 28 September.
For more information please see our monthly fundraising report at Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_Report_-_Monthly_Totals_2011 .
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