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
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Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive
Wikimedia UK
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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.*
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
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
>>
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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
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
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
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
