Reports/2014/February

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 28th February 2014. 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

Community

Wikimania

Over a hundred submissions have been made for Wikimania and more are expected by the deadline of the 31st March 2014. click here to submit a proposal for a talk

GLAM activities

We currently have Wikipedians in Residence in York, Scotland and at the Royal Society

Editathons

On the 1st of February we held Art and Feminism editathons in both London and Dundee

Fæ lead a Cornwall GLAMs workshop at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, which was attended by a number of museums in Cornwall.

Martin Poulter ran a Wellcome Library editathon on the 26th February.

Preparations are advancing for Wikimania with a London Libraries page listing specialist libraries in London that Wikimanians can visit.

Image Releases

Lidded box by Jane Hamlyn, image courtesy of York Museums Trust

As a result of the York Museums Trust WIR the W.A. Ismay Studio Ceramic Collection was loaded to Commons. Discussions continue with various partners for the first mass uploads with the new mass upload tool

Other activities

Project grants

Information about project grants that are currently running, and how to submit an application of your own, are at Project grants/Applications.

UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)

• The Guardian / Observer: Stop women scientists being written out of Wikipedia history

Upcoming activities in January and February

January

• 07 - Tech Com meeting
• 12 - London meetup
• 14 - Education Committee meeting
• 18 - Speakerthon: uploading voice samples from the Radio 4 archive to Wikipedia
• 18 - Post speakerthon meetup (from 5pm)
• 18 - Women in zoology and natural history editathon at London Zoo
• 19 - Oxford meetup
• 23 - Using Wikimedia to link research impact and open education - workshop for staff in Bath Spa University
• 25 - Anybody but Burns editathon, Edinburgh
• 26 - Swansea Editathon and Wiki training
• 26 - Manchester meetup

February

• 01 - TaPRA Wikipedia Workshop - London
• 01 - Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Middlesex University
• 01 - Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Dundee
• 01–02 - Training the Trainers/February 2014 event - Cardiff
• 04 - Tech Com meeting
• 05 - UEA Wikipedia Workshop for PhD Students - Norwich
• 09 - London meetup
• 14 - Wikipedia and Archaeology or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the free Encyclopedia
• 15 - Cambridge meetup
• 16 - Oxford meetup
• 17–20 - Wikipedia Takes UCL - London
• 20 - Cornwall GLAMs workshop - hosted by the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth. Contact:Fæ
• 23 - Liverpool meetup and museum visit
• 25 - WWI editathon with students at University of Hull in Scarborough
• 25 - Education Committee meeting 25 February 2014
• 26 - Wellcome Library editathon
• 27–28 - Ally Crockford at The EDGE Conference - Edinburgh
• 27 - Magnus Manske speaking about Wikidata to Cambridge University Wikipedia Society, all are welcome

For events in March 2014 and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Communications

Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in January 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 £1,892.00 in one-off donations, with 7 individual donations, 1 of which was a donation of £1,342 Removing this large donation from consideration the average donation amount was £91.66 - of the donations that were eligible for gift aid, 40% 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 4696 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £18989.02

Membership

Up to 28th February 2014 there were 242 members of the charity eligible to vote.

You can view more detailed membership data here

Visitors to the office this month

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