Wikimediauk-l July 2017

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Give a lightning talk at this Saturday's AGM and meet up!
by Lucy Crompton-Reid 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Dear all There are quite a few places left at Saturday's AGM so please sign up *here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikimedia-uk-agm-2017-tickets-34718203080>* if you'd like to come. As well as the AGM, this is a key opportunity to feed into the final cycle of the global Wikimedia movement strategy process, as there will be a workshop/facilitated discussion on the emerging strategy in the morning. We will be joined, virtually, at this session by Ravishankar Ayyakkannu from the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Reach and Partnerships team, who will give a short summary of the New Voices strategy track and will be available to answer questions during the discussions. One of the highlights of last year's event for me was the 'lightning talks' session, but so far this year we only have one person signed up. Please consider giving a lightning talk and sharing some of your wiki wisdom! Talks should generally be about five minutes long, although of course if we don't have many people signed up the timings will be a bit more relaxed. You can sign up by emailing nicola.furness(a)wikimedia.org.uk with your name and a title for your talk. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at Senate House Library on Saturday. Best wishes Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0991 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. 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.*

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Please welcome new chair for Wikimedia UK
by Michael Maggs 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Dear friends At today's AGM, three trustees (Doug Taylor, Nick Poole and me) were re-elected to the board. I have today retired as chair, and the role has been taken by my colleague Josie Fraser. I'll be remaining on the board as an ordinary board member to support Josie until my new term expires in two years time. Our board lineup is now: Josie Fraser - Chair Carol Campbell - Vice-chair Greyham Dawes - Treasurer Kate West - HR trustee Nancy Bell - Trustee Lorna Campbell - Trustee Jordan Landes - Trustee Nick Poole - Trustee Doug Taylor - Trustee Michael Maggs - Trustee Please join me in welcoming Josie as our new Chair. Michael

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AGM
by Richard Farmbrough 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

All candidates were voted in, and all resolutions passed, nearly unanimously. On 15 Jul 2017 16:17, "Richard Farmbrough" <richard(a)farmbrough.co.uk> wrote: If Harry joins it will be 499. On 15 Jul 2017 14:53, "Michael Peel" <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote: > That's an excellent turn-around to see. :-) > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMUK_membership_over_time.jpg > > Thanks, > Mike > > On 15 Jul 2017, at 09:44, Lucy Crompton-Reid < > lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > > Yes, and today :) > > On 15 July 2017 at 12:39, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: > >> On 15/07/17 10:21, Richard Nevell wrote: >> > Membership is 498. >> >> >> Wow! That is the number of individuals (to which date)? >> >> Gordo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > > > -- > > Lucy Crompton-Reid > > Chief Executive > > Wikimedia UK > > +44 (0) 207 065 0991 > > > 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. > > 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.* > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >

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Wikimedia UK Annual Report and Accounts
by Nicola Furness 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

Dear all Ahead of our Annual General Meeting this Saturday 15th July, our Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st January 2017 have been published online here <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/File:Wikimedia_UK_Annual_Report_2017_(signatu…>. Our Annual Review - with the narrative highlights of the Annual Report - will be published online later this week, with hard copies included in delegate packs at the meeting. For those of you who have already registered to attend the AGM <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2017_AGM>, we are looking forward to seeing you. We have now reopened registration with some limited tickets still available. Unfortunately we do have a limited capacity, so we ask that anyone who has registered but is no longer able to make it to please cancel your registration to allow space for others. Please do not attend the AGM without having registered - we don't want to have to turn people away on the day. Best wishes Nicola Furness Membership, Fundraising and Operations Assistant Wikimedia UK +44 (0)20 7065 0990

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Cambridge meetup 3 September
by Charles Matthews 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

The next Cambridge meetup will be on Sunday 3 September: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/35 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-wikimedia-contentmine-meetup-ticke… As for last time, which was as large a group as we've had, we'll be in Makespace, Mill Lane, Cambridge, off the small car park – from 3 pm. Charles

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Afropunk Festival London, July 22-23
by John Lubbock 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

I asked for press passes to go to Afropunk Fest <http://afropunkfest.com/london/> in London on July 22-23 and was told we can get some, but now I'm not sure that I can go myself. Would any of our members like one in exchange for photographing acts (especially those without photos on Commons)? Let me know. John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK

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uk.wikimedia.org is no more
by Michael Peel 08 Jul '17

08 Jul '17

It looks like uk.wikimedia.org just got turned off and redirect to wikimedia.org.uk , as per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170005 . This was long overdue as the last part of moving over to wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/ and I'm just mentioning it in case anyone wonders where it went. (And I was so close to the 100k global edits mark, but now I have quite a few thousand more edits to make before I get there!) Thanks, Mike

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New videos of WMUK events
by John Lubbock 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hi all, I just wanted to direct your attention to two new videos of recent Wikipedia workshops that took place in London: Imperial College London schools workshop <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKS__1UTxhk> At the London Cinema Museum <https://youtu.be/aMF4vwB71mg> Please feel free to share them and let people know about the work we are doing. John

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