Reports/2011/July

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 July 2011. 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 queries, please leave a comment on the talk page.

Board activities

To include recent meetings and decisions.

• 9 July - Executive board meeting
• 25 July - Board meeting

Chief executive advert

• Job advert
• Also advertised fo a temporary Office Administrator

Education

Attendees of the Summit, watching a presentation.

• 7-9 July, Wikimedia UK director Martin Poulter attending the Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit

  The three-day conference was held at Simmons College in Boston, Masachusetts. The UK's involvement was limited to Martin Poulter and Chris Hopkin (Chzz).

• University of Bristol Outreach Ambassador

Finances

We make monthly fundraising reports publicly available on our Finances webpage. Here are summaries of each month thus far this year:

• January, £49,900 received, primarily at the start of the month due to the annual fundraiser (detailed report)
• February, £2,354.95 received from 109 donors (see Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011)
• March, £2,044.60 received from 90 donors (see Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011)
• April, £1,064.43 received from 54 donors (see Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011)
• May, £1,557.73 received from 70 donors (see Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011)
• June, £1052.37 received from 65 donors (see Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011)
• July, £1371.01 received from 78 donors (see Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011)

Our accounts from incorporation until 31 January 2010 have been completed, and were approved by our members at our AGM in April (you can read them online). Our accounts for 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2011 are currently being audited; we expect to be able to have them completed by (end of June?).

In May 2011 we gave the Wikimedia Foundation a grant of £293,000 (GBP) towards their general operating costs.

In July we renewed our Fundraising Agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation (link to new version). We also began participating in the pre-testing for the Wikipedia Annual Fundraiser, as documented here. We are also close to signing an arrangement with a Direct Debit bureau to enable us to take Direct Debit payments in this Autumn's fundraiser.

GLAM

Coffee and badges at the "Comunicating the Museum" conference.

• 5 July - Fæ in BBC Radio Scotland interview for Culture Cafe
• 6-8 July, Johnbod part of Wikilounge team for "Communicating the Museum" conference, Düsseldorf
• 11-12 July, Wikipedia stand at the CILIP conference, Hatfield - report
• 16 July - V&A Wikilounge
• 11 July - Andy Mabbett starts a 'Wikipedia-in-Residence' like project with ARKive as a Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador - see ARKive project for more info.
• 28 July - began a to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Royal Navy warship histories]]

Imperica interview with Fæ, 17 July

National Railway Museum report

See also: the UK report in the global 'This Month in GLAM' report.

UK press coverage

We forgot to mention last month that Andy Mabbett, aka User:pigsonthewing, was interviewed on BBC Radio West Midlands on 12 June, talking about Wikipedia editing - see his blog post for more information and a link to the audio recording.

Press coverage of Wikipedia in UK publications this month included:

• 4 July, Kaggle contest aims to boost Wikipedia editors, One Per Cent, New Scientist
• 6 July, NOTW phone hacking protests turn to Wikipedia, The Inquirer
• 6 July, Edit and update Wikipedia articles, ComputerActive (tutorial)

Wikipedia Workshops

• 1 July - Medical Research Council Workshop
• 4 July - Bristol Wiki Academy 2 - blog post, Bristol Wireless post, Media Quest Mood blog post

Miscellaneous

English and Catalan editor meet in Derby

• Catalan editor flies to Derby to see what he and others have written ~1000 articles and translations about
• UK Wikimeets this month: London (Sun 10 July)
• UK Community IRC meetings
• 21 and 26 July - Steve Virgin talking about 'What is your Wikipedia Business Strategy', Business West event at Cheltenham Racecourse & Gloucestershire Cricket Club

Upcoming activities in August

For events in September and onwards, please see Events.