Please find below the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 30th September 2013. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog, join a UK mailing list, and/or follow us on Twitter. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk page. If you prefer to read the page on wiki, you can find it at https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Reports/2013/September
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
This summer Wikimedia UK embarked on a systematic campaign to raise awareness of the assistance the charity can offer to university students towards the creation of new student societies associated with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. With support from Wikimedia UK, Wikipedia student societies have already been established at Imperial College London and Cambridge University. We are keen to see this sort of activity develop on other campuses across the UK.
We’re in the process of discussing the possibility of new Wikipedia students’ societies developing at a number of universities in Cardiff, Dundee, Manchester, Hull/Scarborough, Swansea and London. Please help us spread this information across university campuses throughout the UK, or if you’re a university student and a Wikipedian just email education@wikimedia.org.uk and we’ll take it from there
We were also preparing for the delivery of the EduWiki Conference 2013 on 1-2 November.
In September, the WMUK wiki was migrated from the Wikimedia Foundation's datacentre to Wikimedia UK's. Details of the migration can be found on the WMUK website, which is now at the new address of wikimedia.org.uk
15 October is recognised as Ada Lovelace Day and is dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Wikimedia UK was proud to be a part of those celebrations. We have delivered many events about Women in Science in October. For example, along with Jisc, we have supported an editathon focusing on women in science which took place at the University of Oxford. As if to illustrate that the ongoing campaign to encourage greater recognition of women in STEM, BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour show featured a discussion of this topic, featuring our very own Daria Cybulska. UK readers of this blog can listen to the show here. The section about Ada Lovelace Day begins after around 7:45 of the recording.
To ensure participants could ask questions, it was possible for them to comment on the Wiki Loves Monuments UK website, get in touch via Twitter or Facebook, or send an email which would be picked up through OTRS.
Information about microgrants that are currently running, and how to submit a microgrant application of your own, are at Microgrants/Applications.
For events in November 2013 and onwards, please see Events.
On Saturday 14th September there was a board meeting in London. Minutes from the meeting are available online.
Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in September and blog posts published during the same period.
If you're interested in getting more involved with our communications or have any questions or comments, please email Stevie Benton – stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk
This month, we received £1,164.50 in one-off donations, with 5 individual donations, one of which was for £1000. Removing that donation from consideration the average donation amount was £32.90 - 40% of these donors have had Gift Aid Declarations made and matched with their records. If anyone would like a full (but anonymised) csv file with more information, please get in touch with katherine.bavagewikimedia.org.uk and let her know your requirements.
There were 4,786 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £18,834.77
Up to 30th September 2013:
Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton
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