Reports/2012/May

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 May 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

Community

The 2nd Coventry meetup

2nd Coventry meetup - 6th May 2012

Education

• 29 May - Robin Owain, John Cummings and Roger Bamkin attend meeting with Welsh Ministries to discuss Google phone support and collaboaration with the cy and en wikipedia's

GLAM activities

See also the This Month in GLAM UK report for this month.

Monmouthpedia launch

Wikimedians help new editors get to grips in Monmouth Library, during Monmouthpedia launch day.

Below is an abridged list of coverage for the Monmouthpedia launch story so far. Given that there are 277 pieces of online coverage from 36 countries, the whole document has not been recreated on wiki. A full list in PDF form can be found here. Please also note that these are simply the most notable publications and the list doesn't include small scale blogs, tweets or Facebook comments.

• 10 May 2012 – The Calcalist (Israel, in Hebrew)
• 16 May 2012 - Monmouthpedia: The world's first Wikipedia town is set to go live The Next Web
• 16 May 2012 – Monmouthpedia: world's first Wikipedia town (Milenio.com, in Spanish):
• 16 May 2012 - Caribe Noticias (Caribbean, in Spanish)
• 16 May 2012 - Forever Dope website (US)
• 17 May 2012 – nlyten.com location unknown
• 16 May 2012 - Monmouthshire CC blog
• 17 May 2012 - Monmouthshire CC blog on local business
• 17 May 2012 – Dailystuff.org (India)
• 17 May 2012 - Wall Street Journal (US) blog
• 17 May 2012 - Monmouth is first 'Wikipedia town', UK Press Association
• 17 May 2012 - The Verge (US)
• 17 May 2012 - Geek Journal (France, in French)
• 17 May 2012 - Donanim Haber (Turkey, in Turkish)
• 17 May 2012 - Ros Invest (Russia, in Russian)
• 17 May 2012 - Wales.com
• 17 May 2012 - Komputerswiat.pl (Poland, in Polish)
• 17 May 2012 - acikkod.org (Turkey, in Turkish)
• 17 May 2012 - Gigaom.com
• 17 May 2012 - 20minutos.com (Spain, in Spanish)
• 17 May 2012 - phphocam.com (Turkey, in Turkish)
• 17 May 2012 - Gizmodo (Poland, in Polish)
• 18 May 2012 - Monmouth to become UK's first 'Wikipedia town', Independent
• 18 May 2012 - [多图全球首个“Wikipedia”小镇落户英国], Sohu (Chinese)
• 18 May 2012 - Coming soon: 'Wikipedia' Town, Hindustan Times
• 18 May - Welsh town Monmouth to be world’s first ‘Wikipedia town’, Silicon Republic
• 18 May - Welcome to Wiki-ville: Monmouth becomes first Wikipedia town with barcodes at landmarks that link to smartphones guides, Daily Mail
• 18 May - Tourism boost for Wales as Britain’s first ‘Wiki-town’ is launched in historic Monmouth, Daily Mail
• 18 May - Monmouth to be world's first ‘Wikipedia town’, Telegraph
• 18 May - Monmouth Transformed Into ‘Wikipedia Town’, TechWeek Europe]
• Monmouth, Wales world's first Wikipedia town, covered in QR codes, NMA World Edition (Japanese)
• 18 May - Welsh village becomes world’s first Wikipedia town, Fox News
• 18 May - First 'Wikipedia Town' Going Live in Wales, PC Mag
• 18 May - World's first Wikipedia town to launch in Wales, CBS News
• 19 May - Monmouth becomes the world's first 'Wikipedia town', ITV News
• 21 May - World's first 'Wikipedia town' covered in QR codes, CNet
• 21 May - Tiny Welsh Burg Paints the Town Wiki, TechNewsWorld
• 22 May - Monmouth is first Wikipedia town, News Wales
• 22 May - Welcome To The World's First Wikipedia Town, Tom's Guide
• 23 May - Monmouth is the world's first Wikipedia town, Monmouth Today
• 23 May - And now, a Wikipedia town!, MSN India
• 31 May - World’s First Wikipedia Town Won’t Be The Last, Singularity Hub

Videos from the launch day

• Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding

• John Cummings shares his thoughts about the project

• Mike Booth shares his thoughts on the project

• Roisin Curran speaks about the project

• Giles Howard speaks about Monmouthpedia

Miscellaneous

• Thanks to User:Pigsonthewing's blog post, Monmouthshire County Council have open-licensed portrait photos of all their councillors (post the recent election), plus their Chief Officer, via Flickr. Some of these have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

Miscellaneous

Jimmy Wales

• Willetts turns to Wikipedia founder for advice on open access, Times Higher Education, 2 May
• U.K. Seeks Wikipedia's Help to Post Research Online, New York Times, 6 May
• Jimmy Wales: charging to access publicly-funded research makes 'no sense', Wired, 8 May

Public relations

• PR: If You Want to Understand Wikipedia, Become a Wikipedian, Huffington Post, 15 May
• CIPR calls for feedback on PR guidelines about Wikipedia use, PR Week, 16 May
• Feedback sought on Wikipedia draft guidelines, CorpComms Magazine, 16 May
• CIPR calls on PR industry to engage with Wikipedia guidance, PR Week, 24 May
• Public relations institute backs guidance for members' use of Wikipedia, Lakestar Media, 25 May
• Draft PR industry Wikipedia guidelines spark complaints, The Drum, 25 May

Upcoming activities in June

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

For events in July and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

News from the Chief Exec

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

Fundraising and Budgeting

Fundraising

This month, we received £X in one-off donations, with X individual donations. The average donation amount was £X. X of these donors have had Gift Aid Declarations made and matched with their records. If anyone would like a full (but anonymised) csv file with more information, please get in touch with richard.symondswikimedia.org.uk and let him know your requirements.

As for direct debit donations, there were N successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £X.