Program activities

Community

Microgrant outcome

GLAM activities

Other activities

Microgrants

Information about microgrants that are currently running, and how to submit a microgrant application of your own, are at Microgrants/Applications.

Microgrants/Photographing of London approved. The microgrant enables User:Chmee2 to travel round London taking high-resolution photographs of the city. Over 500 photographs have been taken so far, and already two are Featured Pictures on Commons: a statue of Genghis Khan at Marble Arch, and a close-up of railings at the Albert Memorial.
Microgrants/Wrecks on Doom Bar update. On 15 April the article on Doom Bar was promoted to Featured Article status. WormThatTurned's next target is creating a list of wrecks at Doom Bar.
Microgrants/Core Contest (prizes) update. The article improvement competition with prizes from WMUK began on 15 April and will conclude on 12 May. So far nine articles have been submitted, ranging from the crusades to Charles Babbage.
Microgrants/KFC update. This microgrant covers the purchase of books to enable User:Farrtj, an independent editor who has no affiliations with KFC, to improve the KFC article on the English-language Wikipedia. The books were purchased and sent to Farrtj who has improved the article and is ready to nominate it at Featured Article Candidates.

UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)

Blog posts this month

2nd April - Announcement: QRpedia donated to Wikimedia UK This was also pushed out as a press release to our media list a week later.
4th April - Open Educational Resources - some reflections on OER'13 This review of the OER'13 conference was written by Wikimedia UK Associate Dr Martin Poulter.
8th April - THATCamp London: Have you registered yet? This post was written by Martin Lugton, co-organiser of THATCamp - The Humanities and Technology Camp. It is part of a series of guest blogs leading up to our GLAM-Wiki conference.
9th April - GLAMWiki keynote preview: Lizzy Jongma, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Another in our series of guest blogs leading into GLAMWiki, this was written by Lizzy Jongma of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
10th April - GLAMWiki keynote preview: Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC Another GLAMWiki preview guest blog, this was written by Michael Edson of the Smithsonian.
11th April - GLAMWiki preview: Nick Poole, Collections Trust, London This is the final GLAMWiki preview guest blog and was written for us by Nick Poole of the Collections Trust. Nick presented at the conference.
18th April - National Library of Scotland and Wikimedia UK to jointly appoint Wikimedian in Residence This post announced the beginning of the recruitment process for our first Wikimedian in Residence in Scotland.
22nd April - Wikimedia projects reach more than 500 million people per month This post was written by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation and was originally published on the Foundation's blog. Reaching 500 million unique visitors to Wikimedia projects is a huge achievement and represents around 1 in every 14 people - of all people on the planet! - using a Wikimedia project in March 2013.
25th April - Jisc and Wikimedia UK to jointly recruit a Wikimedia Ambassador This post announced the beginning of the recruitment process our first education-focused long term residency project.
25th April - The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia This was written by Tilman Bayer, Senior Operations Analyst of the Wikimedia Foundation, and was originally published on the Foundation's blog.

Activities in April and May

April

06 - Manchester meetup
07 - Coventry meetup
10 - Martin Poulter delivering a workshop on "Improving Psychology Articles on Wikipedia: An opportunity for education and impact" at British Psychological Society Conference 2013, Harrogate
10 - A tour of Blythe House from 14:00-16:00, details on the GLAMwiki page
12–14 - GLAM-WIKI 2013
13 - EGM 2013
14 - London meetup
17 - IRC office hours
18 - Technology Committee - 1900 - 2100 UTC+1 (BST) on Mumble (joining details here)
18–21 - Wikimedia Chapters Meeting, Milan
25 - Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK planning meeting
26 - Wikidata workshop, British Library
26 - Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 26 April Wikipedia training
27 - Oldham Wikipedia training
28 - First ever Brighton meetup
30 - University of Oxford Zoology Department Wikipedia training day
30 - Governance Committee meeting

May

05 - Oxford meetup
11 - Board meeting (in-person, London)
12 - First Glasgow meetup
12 - First Nottingham meetup
12 - London meetup
15 - IRC office hours
18 - Liverpool meetup
18 - Cambridge meetup
19 - Lua on Wikimedia
20 - Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 20 May Wikipedia training
24 - Queen Victoria's Journals University of Oxford editing day
24–26 - Amsterdam Hackathon
25 - Academic Dress editathon, London
28 - Education Committee conference call

For events in June 2013 and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Board activities

EGM 2013
13 April 2013 board meeting to approve new members
29 April Audit & Risk committee meeting
30 April Governance Committee meeting

News from the Chief Exec

For information on Jon's activities this month, see News from the Office.

Communications

Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in April, as well as blog posts published this month.

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

Fundraising and Membership

Fundraising

This month, we received £220 in one-off donations, with 4 individual donations. The average donation amount was £55 - 75% 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 4,963 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £19,474.77

Membership

Up to 30th April 2013:

189 new (membership commenced in preceding three months) and current members - with 8 new join-ups in April.
96 'grace' members (membership within six months after date membership should be renewed)

This adds up to 285 members who were eligible to vote

23 Expired members
April 2013 Members Newsletter

Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton

Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.