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Booklet called "How to make a Wikipedia Town" about Monmouthpedia project was printed and delivered to the Wikimania organisers. 1,000 copies were printed and delivered to the venue. They were placed in the delegate packs for Wikimania.
Booklet called "How to make a Wikipedia Town" about Monmouthpedia project was printed and delivered to the Wikimania organisers. 1,000 copies were printed and delivered to the venue. They were placed in the delegate packs for Wikimania.


The Russian language Wikipedia was blacked out on 10 July in protest at a piece of legislation making its way through the Russian Duma. Stevie arranged for a Russian Wikipedian to appear on a news bulletin on BBC World News. (Video not available as show not broadcast in the UK)
The Russian language Wikipedia was blacked out on 10 July in protest at a piece of legislation making its way through the Russian Duma. Stevie wrote a blog post, and arranged for a Russian Wikipedian to appear on a news bulletin on BBC World News. (Video not available as show not broadcast in the UK). UK media coverage of this event includes:
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/10/russian-wikipedia-shut-down-protest Russian Wikipedia in shutdown protest over internet censorship], Guardian, 10 July
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18781869 Russian Wikipedia goes dark in protest at censor law], BBC News, 10 July
* [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-wikipedia-shuts-in-protest-16183292.html Russian Wikipedia shuts in protest], Belfast Telegraph, 10 July


== Fundraising and Budgeting ==
== Fundraising and Budgeting ==

Revision as of 20:11, 10 July 2012

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

Education

GLAM activities

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


Technology

Miscellaneous

  • Our new Fundraiser, Katherine Bavage, was mentioned in an article in the Third Sector this week [1]

Upcoming activities in August

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

For events in August 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.


Communications

Booklet called "How to make a Wikipedia Town" about Monmouthpedia project was printed and delivered to the Wikimania organisers. 1,000 copies were printed and delivered to the venue. They were placed in the delegate packs for Wikimania.

The Russian language Wikipedia was blacked out on 10 July in protest at a piece of legislation making its way through the Russian Duma. Stevie wrote a blog post, and arranged for a Russian Wikipedian to appear on a news bulletin on BBC World News. (Video not available as show not broadcast in the UK). UK media coverage of this event includes:

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.symondsatwikimedia.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.



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