2014 Activity Plan

This is based on the plan subm,itted to the FDC here/

Community

Volunteer Support

Volunteer support is the central key to growing our capacity and engagement with our community. An extensive volunteer programme has been established and a Volunteer Support member of staff appointed. She has created a working plan and we intend to commission a study into developing our volunteer base when capacity allows within the next year. A lot of the activities in this stream of activity will come from the proposals in our agreed volunteer activity programme – see the Volunteering Strategy. This budget has, as its fundamental aim, the ambition that initiatives come from our community. If staff support is needed in addition to financial support, it will be given.

Key elements include local activities focused on Wales and Scotland (Wales supported additionally by the Wales Manager and the Living Paths project); local activities in England: volunteer meetings, editathons, training for the volunteers (as per demand, e.g. media and photography workshops, to supplement our Train the Trainer courses and the continuing support through our Virtual Learning Environment); grants programme & scholarships. It has in the past and will continue to react to initiatives from the community.

Goals

Increase the number of active volunteers to 150

Ensure available volunteer equipment is deemed relevant and comprehensive by volunteers

Have >3,000 media files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons that are either generated by our pool of volunteer equipments or as a result of support from our project grants

>300 hours of use of our volunteer computer equipments

3 training opportunities organised, attended by on average 10 volunteers each, evaluated as useful by attendees (on top of the Train the Trainer)

We will aim to receive 25 Project Grants in a year and work with volunteers to make at least 80% application approved for funding

1 active meetup each per area per quarter

1 event in each area per quarter

Additionally, during the next 10 months (till July 2014), the Living Paths (Wales) project will:

Advertise its existence through Welsh language websites and newspapers

Publish 6,000 guides on editing Wicipedia

contact and work with 9 county councils which border the Coastal Path

publish more than 25 Welsh training videos on Wicipedia Cymraeg

ensure that 2,000 communities in Wales have a Welsh and English article

>400 articles on different elements of the Path (eg Points of Interests) available

>representatives from >100 groups have been trained in wiki-skills

>500 Listings and links to Wikivoyage

Annual Conference and AGM

The Annual Conference has traditionally been the opportunity for members of the chapter, and anyone else interested, to discuss topics of interest and make the annual decisions at the AGM. In 2014 we have reduced the costs as Wikimania 2014 will serve part of this purpose.