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A couple of major pieces of work this month as far as comms goes. Version one of the Communications Strategy has been finished and shares with the board, staff and the wider community. It's a substantial report and covers most aspects, if not all, of our communications. A | A couple of major pieces of work this month as far as comms goes. Version one of the Communications Strategy has been finished and shares with the board, staff and the wider community. It's a substantial report and covers most aspects, if not all, of our communications. A [http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMUK_comms_strategy_v1.2.pdf|full version is here] and a [http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comms_strategy_extract_-_recommendations.pdf|version with only recommendations is here]. Some feedback has already been received and this will be acted upon when the document is revised in July. A key example of this is the suggestion that even the shortened version of the strategy is too long. This will be condensed into ten key recommendations. | ||
Work continued with CIPR and development of best practice guidelines - not our guidelines, but the discussion was facilitated by us. Arranged for David Gerard to appear on a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9y_c8woMIc CIPR webcast] on the issue. First draft of guidelines published at end of the month. | Work continued with CIPR and development of best practice guidelines - not our guidelines, but the discussion was facilitated by us. Arranged for David Gerard to appear on a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9y_c8woMIc CIPR webcast] on the issue. First draft of guidelines published at end of the month. | ||
Revision as of 12:52, 5 July 2012
Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 30 June 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
- London meetup - 10 June
- Manchester meetup - 23 June
- Cardiff meetup - 30 June
Education
- 18 June - Martin Poulter speaking on "Wikipedia and Education" at Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester
- Train the Trainers event, London, 9-10 June
GLAM activities
- See also the This Month in GLAM UK report for this month.
- GLAMcamp London, 8 June
- World War I Editathon, 16 June
- National Archives partnership
- See commons:Commons:The National Archives (United Kingdom) (includes media coverage)
Technology
Miscellaneous
- Public relations
- Related to Draft best practice guidelines for PR, David Gerard participated in a live debate with the PR industry about the issues that connect the Wikimedia community and the PR industry.
- The Wikipedia debate: will two communities collaborate or collide?, CIPR webstream, 20 June
- Wikipedia by Numbers Can Be Misleading, Jane Wilson, Huffington Post, 15 June
- Quality of brand pages low on Wikipedia, CorpComms, 14 June
- Brands suffer on Wikipedia, study reveals, PR Week, 14 June
- Wikimedia UK annual awards
- WMUK awarded its first annual awards at WikiConference UK 2012 in May this year.
- OII Recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK's Annual Conference, OII press release, 15 June
- We won Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK's Annual Conference!, Zerogeography, 19 June
- Microgrants
- Microgrants/Core Contest (prizes) has been approved for a re-run of the competition in August.
Upcoming activities in July
- (To be copied here from Events at the end of this month)
For events in July and onwards, please see Events.
Administrative activities
Board 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.symonds
wikimedia.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.
Communications
A couple of major pieces of work this month as far as comms goes. Version one of the Communications Strategy has been finished and shares with the board, staff and the wider community. It's a substantial report and covers most aspects, if not all, of our communications. A version is here and a with only recommendations is here. Some feedback has already been received and this will be acted upon when the document is revised in July. A key example of this is the suggestion that even the shortened version of the strategy is too long. This will be condensed into ten key recommendations.
Work continued with CIPR and development of best practice guidelines - not our guidelines, but the discussion was facilitated by us. Arranged for David Gerard to appear on a CIPR webcast on the issue. First draft of guidelines published at end of the month.
A booklet has been produced for Wikimania about the Monmouthpedia project and how to create a Wiki town. The document was finalised and sent to printers in Washington DC and will be placed in all Wikimania delegate packs.
Excellent Skype meeting with Jay Walsh. Relationship with the Foundation is developing nicely. Also ongoing work with Bold Creative should begin to bear fruit soon. Another meeting booked for 9 July. Other meetings include with David Gerard, The Times and Charles Matthews. Press releases this month include QRpedia stories on railway and church installations. Also offered quotes and comments for CIPR and National Archives releases.