Hello all,
I see from the 2012 activity plan that there's a budget for a World
Wars project [1]. Is there a leader for this? An online presence?
I'd like to keep in touch with the project with focus on WWI so as to
get stuff done before the centenary. I actually read a heap of WWI
articles last year and no doubt did some wikignome-like edits along
the way. I'm not inclined to do social things like leaving the house
and talking to people, but anything that's computer-based I may be
persuaded to attend to for two or three hours a week. I can be
persuaded to invest in and read some books, although if the books were
to come out of the budget and then be placed in Wikimedia UKs hands
afterwards that would be preferable.
There is, of course, a MILHIST task force for each war. [2] [3]
If anyone's in charge of this, make yourself known and I shall follow
you for a bit and see what's up. I suggest whoever takes the lead
brings MILHIST on board as they are (I believe) a very successful
wikiproject with tons of experience and many featured and other high
quality articles to their name.
User:Bodnotbod
[1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012_Activity_Plan#Cultural_sector
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/World_W…
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/World_W…
The following seminars may be interesting to people on this list:
OS OpenData(tm) seminars now include other Government agencies
Learn about data from Land Registry, Met Office, British Geological
Survey and Environment Agency(tm) at our OS OpenData seminars. The
Government agencies will be on hand to answer your questions about their
products. To register for your free place at one of the two seminars
taking place on 2 November 2011 at Holborn Bars, City of London, visit
&www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/useopendata
<http://response.gv-c.com/Mail/Click/144?a=4DFD95F8BC5AD4C1023E53E947F64
23E&r=6A7182894583245F944980D76B6A686B> where you'll also find the
latest agenda for the seminars.
Please forward to anyone else who may be interested.
Regards,
Andrew
This email and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended addressee you must not use, disclose, copy or rely on its content. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately.
Emails are not guaranteed to be secure or virus-free. We cannot accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with this email or from the transmission of any viruses.
Any views expressed are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Coventry Building Society or its subsidiary companies.
Coventry Building Society is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA reference number 150892 www.fsa.gov.uk) and is a member of the Building Societies Association. Coventry Building Society. Registered Office: Economic House, PO Box 9, High Street, Coventry, CV1 5QN.
Godiva Mortgages Limited is registered in England and Wales (with company registration number 5830727 ) and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA reference number 457622 www.fsa.gov.uk). Godiva Mortgages Limited. Registered Office: Oakfield House, Binley Business Park, Harry Weston Road, Coventry CV3 2TQ.
ITL Mortgages Limited is registered in England and Wales (with company registration number 2321779) and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA reference number 302608 www.fsa.gov.uk). ITL Mortgages Limited. Registered Office: Oakfield House, Binley Business Park, Harry Weston Road, Coventry CV3 2TQ.
______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email
______________________________________________________________________
Just an FYI:
We have a Liverpool meetup in November, but it's currently only got one
attendee! For those of you nearby, the details are at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Liverpool. Please sign up if you can!
The pub itself is in rather a fantastic building, and there are likely to
be some 'new wiki-recruits' turning up, as there's a WMUK event being held
during the day at the local University. I may make an appearance myself,
even though it's a bit of a distance to travel.
All the best,
Richard
Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for 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 blog, join our 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.
This report is also available, complete with pictures, on our website at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2011/September .
Contents
1 Recruitment
2 Program activities
2.1 Education projects
2.2 GLAM activities
2.3 Other activities
2.4 UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)
2.5 Upcoming activities in October
3 Administrative activities
3.1 Board activities
3.2 Charitable status
3.3 Fundraising
Recruitment
This month we completed our recruitment of our new Chief Exec: Jon Davies will start work on 1 October. Andrew Turvey, who led the recruitment, blogged about the process of recruiting our Chief Exec; one of the last steps in this process was the presence of the final three candidates at the 49th London Meetup so that the community could provide their input.
Our new full-time Office Administrator, Richard Symonds, known as Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry on 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:Martinvl ran a workshop for members of the Institute of Physics. The event was written up in a blog post.
We funded two scholarships to attend WikiSym 2011 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 events were held in Bristol on 15 September (one in the afternoon, the other in the evening), led by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing), details of which are at 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. 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 it. 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 Indonesia for the 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 page.
14th - A workshop for GLAMs was run at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. For more information on this, see the 'This month in GLAM' UK report.
27th - A presentation was given to all staff at the British Library by Fae and Roger
30th - Fae meet with Museums Galleries Scotland to talk about an upcoming partnership.
Other activities
UK Wikimeets this month: London (11th) and Manchester (17th)
2nd-3rd - Mike Peel presented at Science Online London 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 Bristol
13th - Jimmy Wales uses QRpedia in Indianapolis
14th - Editathon in Barcelona creates articles to support QRpedia at Foundation Joan Miro
27th - Fiona Apps (User:Panyd) spoke about Women and Wikipedia at Manchester Girl Geek Dinner at B-Hive, Manchester. A report is available on the wiki.
We have offered travel grants to support UK residents' attendance of WikiConference India in November.
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 radio
8th - Wikipedia creator’s keynote speech at radio festival, JournalLive
9th - Wikipedia founder wows Cambridge Network audience - "Wikipedia attracts more readers than the top 20 newspapers in the world combined. ", also covered in Cabume (13th)
12th - Joan Collins Corrects Wikipedia Entry, Express
14th - Johann Hari: A personal apology, Independent. Also covered in The Guardian and Periscope Post.
15th - QR Codes at the National Archives: National archives news & GovernmentNews
16th - coverage of ARKive event:
Life’s wild editing Wikipedia, Bristol Wireless
Bristol ‘Wikipedians’ taught to edit online encylopaedia, Bristol 24/7
ARKive on the Road: Wiki ‘Wildlife editathon’ in Bristol, UK, ARKive blog.
24th - QRpedia on Spanish Discussion programme 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 QRpedia 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, PanArmenian
QRPedia: Wikipedia makes visiting museums more fun, MemeBurn
QRpedia creates multilingual QR codes for Wikipedia articles, The Next Web
QRPedia: Wikipedia launches QR code tool for museums, Australian Techworld
Several others that day
30th More coverage of QRpedia
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 TechFrom and several others that day
Upcoming activities in October
1st - Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Backstage Pass
1st - Warwick University Freshers fair - Panyd organising stall
1st - Edinburgh meetup - run by Fæ and Brian McNeil
1st - Tom Morris attending 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, Bath
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
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 meetup
16th - EGM - see below
24th - 10.00-18.00 Wikipedia Lounge at The University of Manchester
28th - Meeting scheduled in Monmouth to try and launch partnership with the town
For events in November and onwards, please see Events.
Administrative activities
Board activities
We held an In-person executive board meeting on 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 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 to 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 subject 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.
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: 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 2011.
Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited.
Wiki UK Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
The Registered Office is at 23 Cartwright Way, Nottingham, NG9 1RL, United Kingdom.
to encourage and assist those volunteers willing to translate pages
from English into other languages, who perhaps have never edited
Wikipedia before, I have started a guidance page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translate_us
mirroring the already-existing page for those translating '/into/ English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translate
Please feel free to improve or publicise it.
I'm very keen to work on recruiting more such translators, based on
the work done as part of the Wright Challenge.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
WSC said:
I can understand the need for wiggle room in the next few months in order to
achieve charitable status. But I would suggest following this up at the next
AGM with a resolution that restricted subsequent changes to a General
meeting.
WSC
There is no need for this. As explained on the EGM talk page, the "wriggle room" is, and under the Companies Act only can be, just for this one occasion and covering only "such minor amendments to this Article as the Charity Commission may require for the purposes of registering Wiki UK Ltd as a charity". It has no ongoing effect. Furthermore the Companies Act does not allow any company to alter its constitution other than by a Special Resolution passed at a General Meeting or in written form.
To use the inevitable "blank cheque" metaphor, Sunday's resolution is a cheque that has an "up to" figure rather than being blank, and is a single cheque, not a chequebook.
In fact, as we had hoped, during the compulsory notice period for the Meeting we have received verbal agreement from the CC that the exact form of the clauses set out in the resolution will be ok with them, assuming their decision is to give us registered charity status. So no "minor changes" will be needed. But, again because of the Companies Act, we cannot change the text of the resolution to remove the "minor changes" bit. But once we are registered, which should certainly be before the next AGM, the "minor changes" power has lapsed, and in any case any different changes to the constitution (other articles for example) are not covered by it at any time.
I'll copy this exchange to the WMUK EGM talk page.
John/Johnbod
Link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam
Hi,
If you have been involved in the UK GLAM programme and are committed
to helping in the future, the GLAMcamp Amsterdam workshop should be of
interest if you would like to learn from the experience of Wikimedians
from other countries delivering their own GLAM initiatives and have
the opportunity to share your own UK experience.
In the UK we have our own in-residence projects, negotiated new
partnerships, held workshops and edit-a-thons, run multilingual
challenges and experimented with QR codes. Don't think our work has
been unnoticed by our fellow Chapters, and this event is a chance to
use our bragging rights.
At the moment myself, Leutha and Rock Drum have added our names as
wishing to attend, please add yours so that Liam and WM-NL can start
adding you to their plans. Accommodation costs will be covered by
WM-NL and for suitable attendees travelling from the UK, reasonable
economy travel costs (such as the train) and some subsistence costs
will be reimbursed by WM-UK.
In terms of suitability, the event is targeted at those currently
involved in our GLAM programme with a story to share. We may limit
numbers depending on the level of response and may have to reject
applications from those without suitable experience. Drop me a note if
you have any questions.
Cheers,
Fae
--
http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae
Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags
Just a reminder about the EGM on Sunday;
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/EGM_2011
If everyone who's signed up comes along then we will (just) be quorate - so
if you've signed up, please do come - if you haven't then please either
appoint a proxy, or just turn up ;)
There was some debate over the fact that the resolution allows "minor
changes" to the proposed Object without a further EGM. We are now confident
that no such "minor changes" will be necessary - I'll leave others to go
into that in more depth though - and there will be a full update on the
progress of the charity application at the EGM, along with news from Jon
about our office :-)
Chris
Just read this BBC article
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15216513> where the correspondent
wanders around a Paris cemetery, smartphone in hand, searching the
internet for information about the people buried there. How much more
convenient if the graves of notable people were tastefully and
discretely marked with QRpedia codes. A Wikimedia UK collaboration
with Highgate Cemetery maybe?
Andrew