Reports/2011/August

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 August 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 ask them to us on this report's talk page.

GLAM activities

• 8 August, British Museum makes the Wikipedia connection, The Guardian - based on an interview with Matthew Cock - covering the museum's viewpoint of Liam's Wikipedian in Residence, creating content vs. uploading photographs, QR codes and more.

Wikimania

Roger Bamkin attended Wikimania on behalf of the chapter on 4-7 August. (Key points to follow.)

WMUK also provided scholarships to Isaac Kosgei from Kenya and ??? from Hungary. Isaac Kosgei was particularly successful as a proposal to improve health related issues in sub-saharan Africa was created around him. He is off in 3 weeks to meet Michelle Obama to discuss his work.

UK presenters included Christopher Cooper, Roger Bamkin, Ironholds and WereSpielChequers.

WereSpielChequers was interviewed by the local press [1] (google translate)

Wikipedia Workshops

"On 15th July Simon Smith Tagishsimon ran a Wikipedia workshop for post-graduate students of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, Medieval Studies and Eighteenth Century Studies as part of the King's Manor Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of York. Feedback from the 15 participants was very positive and Simon stayed on for a workshop on interdisciplinary studies of the past and the conference's wine reception. PatHadley 08:26, 8 August 2011 (UTC)"

Forty people attended an evening event at the University of Bristol, jointly organised by Wikimedia UK and Bristol Girl Geek Dinners. The theme was Women in Wikipedia and the evening was led by Fiona Apps (User:Panyd). The mostly female audience had one-to-one help from experienced Wikipedians including Jezhotwells, MartinPoulter and Bs5er.

Board activities

• Executive board meeting, 9 August
• In-person board meeting, 27-28 August

Charitable status

As mentioned in last month's report post-publication, a revised submission has now been sent to the Charities Commission; we expect their reply by mid-August.

Fundraising

This month, we received £XX in donations from NN donors; for more information please see our monthly fundraising report at Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011.

(Ideally could also provide amount spent this month and year to date.)

Our annual accounts for the period 1 February 2010 until 31 January 2011 are now available at File:Wikimedia UK accounts 31 January 2011.pdf (note that they are pending the correction of one minor error, after which they will be signed and filed.)

UK press coverage

Press coverage of Wikipedia in UK publications this month included:

• 2 August, London plods raid Wikipedia in counter-anarchist operation, Register - covering the reuse of Wikipedia content by the Metropolitan Police without attribution.
• 5 August, "The US should let its credit rating be downgraded – and shrug" mentions "You may have never heard of David Beers but every finance minister in the world knows of him," noted Reuters in a recent – and rare – profile of the analyst, who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page."
• 8 August, S&P's powerful chief steps out of the shadows - "Some time last Friday night, someone created a Wikipedia page for David T Beers. Overdue, you might think."
• 8 August, British Museum makes the Wikipedia connection, The Guardian (see #GLAM activities)
• 8 August, Wikipedia wants more contributors, MacWorld UK; also Wikipedia targets addition of many more contributors in ComputerWorldUK
• 8 August, Women! Wikipedia needs you, Guardian blogs

Miscellaneous

• UK Wikimeets this month: London (Sun 14 Aug)
• UK Community IRC meetings

Upcoming activities in September

For events in October and onwards, please see Events.