Reports/2013/December

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 31st December 2013. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog, join a UK 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

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Aftermath of the Soufriere eruption 1902 - photo by Tempest Anderson

Editathons

Art Nouveau

On the 4th December we had an Art Nouveau editathon partnering with Plus Partage. This gave us the opportunity to tap into the expertise of a volunteer whose real life job involves valuing Art Nouveau objects for Christies.

BCS Women in Science

On the 9th December John Cummings ran an editathon in Southampton covering Women in Science.

Image uploading

The British Library announced a major image release of circa 1 million images.

The massuploading tool went live on Commons and is now available for live testing - unlike most of our existing tools it has the ability to generate categories from data in xml databases. So a non-programmer can use it to upload hundred thousands of files without having every file in an upload go into the same categories.

Wikimedians in Residence

Royal Society

WMUK and the Royal Society were delighted to announce the appointment of John Byrne as Wikimedian in Residence. John takes up his post in January.

York Museums Trust

Pat Hadley published his second report highlights included image release re the Middleham Hoard, also the first of the Tempest Anderson photos were uploaded.

Other activities

Wiki Loves Monuments

Jimmy Wales presenting Matt Emmett a trophy for his second prize photo of C Station Pump House, Abbey Mills.

10th December saw the awards ceremony for the winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments UK photography competition take place at the Wikimedia UK office. The event coincided with the charity's community Christmas party and was attended by over thirty people.

Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s largest photography contest. The objective is to collect high quality photographs of some of the world's most important buildings – in the UK for 2013, this meant Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings. Over 570 people took part in the UK competition, contributing more than 12,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons.

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said: "It's fantastic that so many people took the time to contribute their photos to the Wiki Loves Monuments competition. The standard of the winning images is incredibly high and I'm very pleased to be able to present the winners with their awards."

Robin Brown, who received a highly commended prize for his photo of Wrest Park Banqueting House said: "I'm still trying to decide if I am more delighted to have a glass trophy for the mantelpiece or in having my image selected by an exceptionally talented group of my peers for an award. I think it's probably the latter though."

Microgrants

Information about microgrants that are currently running, and how to submit a microgrant application of your own, are at Microgrants/Applications.

Upcoming activities in January and February

December

For events in January 2014 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.

Communications

Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in December and blog posts published during the same period.

If you're interested in getting more involved with our communications or have any questions or comments, please email Stevie Benton – stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk

Fundraising and Membership

Fundraising

This month, we received £xx in one-off donations, with 5 individual donations. The average donation amount was £xx - xx% 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 katherine.bavagewikimedia.org.uk and let her know your requirements.

There were xx successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of xx

Membership

Up to 31st December 2013:

• xx new (membership commenced in preceding three months) and current members - with xx new join-ups in October.
• xx 'grace' members (membership within six months after date membership should be renewed)

This adds up to xx members who were eligible to vote

You can also view full membership figures over a longer period here