Reports/2014/March

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

GLAM activities

Editathons

Jonathan Cardy assisting at the Royal Society event on the 26th March

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 Economist - WikiPeaks? The popular encyclopedia must work out what is next

Activities in February and March

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 April 2014 and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Communications

The chapter was approached by both Sky News and ITN this month with a view to finding someone to speak about Wikimedia and Wikipedia in relation to the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Unfortunately to the story of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, the segment was bumped both times. The approaches show that we are making progress in terms of recognition and awareness.

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 £588 in one-off donations, with 20 individual donations. The average donation amount was £29.4 - of the donations that were eligible for gift aid, 65% 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.bavageatwikimedia.org.uk and let her know your requirements.

There were 4878 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £20337.17

Membership

You can view more detailed membership data here

The Chapter's donor newsletter was distributed at the beginning of March by the WMF to all UK donors on their contact database. This saw a high number of new sign-ups. All new members were accepted and welcomed swiftly. It is to be hoped future such sign ups will be repeated to broaden the Chapters' membership base.