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A particularly important decision this month was the resolution approving our [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Wikimedia_UK_statement_of_principles&oldid=3330719 statement on fundraising and funds dissemination principles].
== News from the Chief Exec ==
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Revision as of 20:45, 31 January 2012

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 January 2012. 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.

Program activities

GLAM activities

One of the images donated by Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Education projects

Martin Poulter, along with two members of Wikipedians at Imperial College, visited Oxford University on 27th January to train fourteen graduate students in basic Wikipedia editing. This is part of the Free Speech Debate project led by Prof. Timothy Garton Ash, which is creating its own multilingual site at http://freespeechdebate.com and also improving Wikipedia articles. The target articles, which participants will improve over the coming weeks, are "Freedom of speech" in Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu.

The Free Speech Debate project was launched by a public talk featuring Jimmy Wales and Timothy Garton Ash. Despite being streamed online, it filled up the lecture theatre and an overflow room. Wikipedia, and its blackout the previous day, were the main focus of discussion. One Twitter comment described the event as a "love fest for Wikipedia". Prof. Ash acknowledged this, saying that the success of the encyclopedia's was something for other crowdsourcing projects to learn from.

Expert outreach

11th Wikipedia Birthday cake
  • The Girl Geek Dinner group in Bristol celebrated Wikipedia's 11th birthday with a training event/ editathon at the University of Bristol's Virtual Reality Suite. Wikimedia UK provided experienced Wiki editors and a birthday cake. Among the edits was a new stub page for the Nobel Womens Intiative.

Technology

Other activities

  • Microgrants approved this month include ...

SOPA

This month's major news story was the English Wikipedia blackout against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) that took place on 18 January. The blackout was a community decision; Wikimedia UK supported the community's decision, and explained it to the media and public. Roger Bamkin, Jon Davies, David Gerard, Martin Poulter and Steve Virgin gave many interviews to the media, supporting the Wikimedia Foundation's media communications led by Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner and Jay Walsh. WMUK also put out two blog posts: [1] [2]

Newspaper coverage
Radio
TV


UK Wikimedian blogs

More information

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

Monmouthpedia

Wikimedia fundraiser

PR company and Stella Artois

Oxford free speech project

Related to http://freespeechdebate.com/

Miscellaneous

Upcoming activities in February

  • (To be copied here from Events at the end of this month)

For events in March and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Board activities

Board meetings

A particularly important decision this month was the resolution approving our statement on fundraising and funds dissemination principles.

News from the Chief Exec

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

Fundraising

Staff

This month the chapter began recruiting for a Communications Organiser and interviews were conducted for the Events Organiser.

Office



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