Please note that though the link Katie just supplied with the CC's
guidance on "The Advancement of Education for the Public Benefit" is
relevant to the theoretical issue, we are not actually now applying
under that heading but under one of general public utility, so it is the
general guidance
<http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Charity_requirements_guidance/Charity_…>
on the CC website that is directly relevant, and the three parts of
Principle 1. I can't say much more, as I'm not in a position to share
the correspondence with the CC .
In addition to the items mentioned, academic studies or high-quality
press stories on the Wikimedia projects' impact in the Third World would
be helpful - we have Wikipedia for Schools covered.
Please add anything unearthed at the page here:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charity_status_application/help_wanted
Thanks,
John
Hi,
** Do you know of examples of WM-UK's charitable public benefit? **
Please go to the collaboration page at
<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charity_status_application/help_wanted>
to raise further good examples for our charity application team to
incorporate in our final proposal to the Charity Commission.
Text from the call for help on :wmuk copied below for information.
Cheers,
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---- Text from uk.wikimedia.org [18 September 2011] ----
Call for help!
For the application to become a Registered Charity, we think we still
need more evidence as follows. Ideally please send a link plus a quote
or brief summary/abstract of the material (example at bottom), the
sooner the better, but by Wednesday September 21st at latest.
PUBLIC BENEFIT evidence of public benefit in some areas. The best sort
of evidence are: academic studies, reports in top-quality press,
quotes from top figures in their fields. The emphasis is on evidence
of specific and actual public benefit that does not amount just to
"the increase of knowledge". More evidence that lots of people use
Wikimedia is not needed; we need specific beneficial results of that
usage, other than increasing knowledge .
I think we have higher education covered, but primary secondary
education, public health, and other areas could use more. Also
academic studies from 2010/11 - I think we have the earlier ones
covered.
WMF: the record of the Wikimedia Foundation intervening in or
controlling policy and content areas.
WE ALREADY HAVE covered the following sources, among others: 2005
Nature WP/Encyc Brit study; PC Pro stories; Hansard quotes, WMF
fundraiser testimonials, the big stories from the NYT, Economist, New
Yorker, Guardian; Casper Grathwohl of Oxford University Press, How
today’s college students use Wikipedia for course–related research”,
by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg. First Monday, Volume 15,
Number 3 - 1 March 2010., Are chemicals killing us? By S. Robert
Lichter, Ph.D, May 21, 2009 - Society of Toxicologists; “Early
response to false claims in Wikipedia”, by P.D. Magnus, First Monday,
Volume 13 Number 9 - 1 September 2008,
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2…;
“How quickly are errors corrected?” by Stuart Andrews, PC Pro, 12 Jul
2007 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/119641/how-quickly-are-errors-corrected
; The paradox of expertise: is the Wikipedia Reference Desk as good as
your library?
IDEALLY post in this sort of format: "Through user-generated efforts,
Wikipedia is comprehensive, current, and far and away the most
trustworthy Web resource of its kind. It is not the bottom layer of
authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal
vetting. In this unique role, it therefore serves as an ideal bridge
between the validated and unvalidated Web." Casper Grathwohl, vice
president of Oxford University Press
http://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899/
---- End ----
Hi, heads-up,
As we will be finalizing our agreement with Museums Galleries Scotland
on 30/9 for the recruitment of a Scotland coordinator, Brian McNeil
and I will be arranging the next Edinburgh wikimeet for the next day,
Saturday 1st October.
As the budget holder for the coordinator and the point of contact for
MGS, I am open to being quizzed at the Wikimeet about the new role
based in Edinburgh, the plans we have with MGS and what our joint
expected outcomes will be. MGS have been working on a jobspec for the
role and would hope to be able to share and discuss the details of
that at the Wikimeet too. The job will be for 6-months (terms
negotiable, though the initial preference was for a full time
position) and based at the MGS offices in Edinburgh. As the title
implies this is to help coordinate the logistics of the GLAM programme
in Scotland using MGS's 350+ member organizations (see link) as well
as vitalizing Scotland's Wikimedian culture in general such as
Wiki-meets and other outreach activities.
Links
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Edinburgh_3
* http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/who-we-are/
Cheers,
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Hi all,
Wikipedians at IC are looking forward to their Fresher's Fair on October 4th<x-apple-data-detectors://2> and are wondering when and how we can get T-shirts, badges etc. for the students. I have been rather busy and am flying out this Saturday, but my colleagues will be around for the arrangements.
Vinesh
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To answer Lodewijk's question it is all the Wikimedia projects, and not
WMUK's activities, that we need to show public benefit from (without
saying too much, anyone who finds this puzzling might start here
<http://www.btinternet.com/%7Eakme/shaw.html>). There is also a special
page set up on the WMUK website at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Charity_status_application/help_wanted for
responses, or they can be emailed to me.
Thanks,
John (Johnbod)
Call for help!
>
> For the application to become a Registered Charity, we think we still
> need more evidence as follows. Ideally please send a link plus a quote
> or brief summary/abstract of the material (example at bottom), the
> sooner the better, but by Wednesday September 21st at latest.
>
> PUBLIC BENEFIT evidence of public benefit in some areas. The best sort
> of evidence are: academic studies, reports in top-quality press,
> quotes from top figures in their fields. The emphasis is on evidence
> of specific and actual public benefit that does not amount just to
> "the increase of knowledge". More evidence that lots of people use
> Wikimedia is not needed; we need specific beneficial results of that
> usage, other than increasing knowledge .
>
> I think we have higher education covered, but primary secondary
> education, public health, and other areas could use more. Also
> academic studies from 2010/11 - I think we have the earlier ones
> covered.
>
> WMF: the record of the Wikimedia Foundation intervening in or
> controlling policy and content areas.
>
> WE ALREADY HAVE covered the following sources, among others: 2005
> Nature WP/Encyc Brit study; PC Pro stories; Hansard quotes, WMF
> fundraiser testimonials, the big stories from the NYT, Economist, New
> Yorker, Guardian; Casper Grathwohl of Oxford University Press, How
> today?s college students use Wikipedia for course?related research?,
> by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg. First Monday, Volume 15,
> Number 3 - 1 March 2010., Are chemicals killing us? By S. Robert
> Lichter, Ph.D, May 21, 2009 - Society of Toxicologists; ?Early
> response to false claims in Wikipedia?, by P.D. Magnus, First Monday,
> Volume 13 Number 9 - 1 September 2008,
>
> http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2…
> ;
> ?How quickly are errors corrected?? by Stuart Andrews, PC Pro, 12 Jul
> 2007
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/119641/how-quickly-are-errors-corrected
> ; The paradox of expertise: is the Wikipedia Reference Desk as good as
> your library?
>
> IDEALLY post in this sort of format: "Through user-generated efforts,
> Wikipedia is comprehensive, current, and far and away the most
> trustworthy Web resource of its kind. It is not the bottom layer of
> authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal
> vetting. In this unique role, it therefore serves as an ideal bridge
> between the validated and unvalidated Web." Casper Grathwohl, vice
> president of Oxford University Press
> http://chronicle.com/article/Wikipedia-Comes-of-Age/125899/
/* This is something of a back-burner topic but an important area for
our growing GLAM network and WMUK office */
Hi,
I have been intermittently reporting our "pipeline" of GLAM events to
the WMUK board by using a Google Document. This just lists our main
partners (British Museum, Derby Museum etc.) and says what has been
happening recently and what we are discussing as a forthcoming event.
Now we have a WMUK office, a CEO about to join and we will have a
coordinator in Scotland in a couple of months, it might be useful to
take this up a notch to ensure coordination is a bit more reliable and
we don't loose too many new opportunities by accident.
There are some options based on our experience so far and I would
welcome suggestions for how to do this better.
* Google Docs * This is my favourite option, it's free, good for
collaboration and tracking and we could run, say, a spreadsheet
summary with one tab per cultural partner to log the progress of
actions, phone calls and meetings. Though documents can be fully
public, they don't all have to be so there are fewer issues with
including contact details for our partners. It might be worth running
a central "office" account that then manages who the key documents are
shared with. With some support from WMUK office staff, GDocs could be
run as a reasonable customer relationship management solution.
* Wiki * We have some experience of trying this with the outreach wiki
but it is hard to maintain (boring having to cut & paste templates and
fiddle about) and security becomes more of an issue if we would like
to keep contact details on it.
* Off the shelf * Anything decent would not be free, but it might be
worth paying for a few tens of licenses for a (cloud based) customer
relationship management tool that can have a official shared contact
book, a calendar (maybe sync with GCal) and track events, report
action status, risks, log key emails and phonecalls with partners and
WMUK suppliers.
I think that we have automatically resisted "forcing" a tracking tool
on our GLAM e-volunteers but I keep hearing of things going on that I
(and sometimes the board) were either not aware of or might have
forgotten about the "chat in a pub" that a volunteer interpreted as
the nod to do something. The GLAM programme is now too large for one
person to know about everything so a centralized system is becoming
quite urgently needed.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
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Just to let you know, Wikimedia UK is now accepting Direct Debit donations.
http://directdebit.wikimedia.org.uk/
We'll be working on making this more attractive over the next few weeks but
the functionality is there.
Of course if any of you felt like setting up a Direct Debit then that would
be wonderful, but this email is mainly to let you know what some of us like
to spend our Friday evenings doing. :-)
Chris
Just in case anyone forgot, we estimated that Direct Debits would give us
the same benefit (in the long term) as this years fundraiser,.Gift Aid gives
us an almost immediate extra 25%, but DD may gives us (in time) an extra
100%. This is brilliant news.
Moving the fundraiser outside the UK could easily half the take.
Well done.
On 17 September 2011 00:20, Richard Symonds <
richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> WSC,****
>
> ** **
>
> I can’t speak for the board here, and I’ll let Chris or Mike go into
> greater detail if they feel comfortable with doing so. I will also happily
> stand corrected, as I’m merely running the system, rather than setting it
> up.****
>
> ** **
>
> However, the short answer is that yes, that would be ideal, and it’s a
> possibility that we’re looking into – however, annual renewals for members
> are more difficult to set up technically. The renewals have to link up in
> more places with our database and record the correct information in the
> correct places - we need to make sure that the Direct Debit form is working
> and recording information properly first. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Richard****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
> wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *
> WereSpielChequers
> *Sent:* 16 September 2011 23:20
> *To:* wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] We are now accepting Direct Debits****
>
> ** **
>
> Monthly and quarterly are nice to haves, but presumably most members will
> want to do an annual payment for their annual renewal?
>
> WereSpielChequers****
>
> On 16 September 2011 23:05, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
> wrote:****
>
> We're working on finding an easy way to give donors the choice of monthly
> or quarterly direct debits, but we haven't got it working quite yet. For
> now, if you want to donate by direct debit each month, then you can do so by
> visiting:
> http://directdebit.wikimedia.org.uk/index_monthly.html
>
> Hopefully we'll have a more integrated solution working in the near future.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike****
>
>
> On 16 Sep 2011, at 22:59, Chris Keating wrote:
>
> >
> > This is fantastic! Well done!
> >
> > Thank you. We have taken a shortcut, which is to outsource the absolute
> maximum of the administration involved in Direct Debiting. Once we are on a
> firmer administrative footing we can bring it back in-house if needs be.
> >
> >
> > Hmmm... I just tried to set up a direct debit and it seems the only
> > option for the frequency is quarterly. I want to donate monthly. Why
> > can't I? Obviously, the fees are greater for 3 donations of £2, say,
> > than for one donation of £6, but I think you'll get a lot more takers
> > if you offer monthly direct debits for the simple reason that people
> > tend to be paid monthly.
> >
> > We are set up for monthly and quarterly direct debits. I'm not quite sure
> why that form insists on quarterly, I doubt it will continue to insist after
> we speak to the suppliers on Monday, as we have other test forms that are
> definitely accepting monthly DDs.
> >
> > You're right about the advantage of monthly DDs. during the fundraiser
> we'll test prompting different amounts/frequencies and different layouts of
> form to see which gives us the best long-term income.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >****
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The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using
uk.wikimedia.org which is, strictly speaking, the Ukrainian
sub-domain; and should be using gb.wikimedia.org
Is this something we should rectify sooner, rather than later,
choosing some pain now over more pain later?
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> Much as Liam set up glamwiki.org as a handy re-direct
Apologies, of course Mike did the real work of sorting this out, Liam
sticks to the hand waiving and dodgy beard. It's a team of super
talents ;-)
Cheers,
Fae