Reports/2012/June

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 30 June 2012. 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 questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk page.

Program activities

Community

London meetup - 10 June

Manchester meetup - 23 June

Cardiff meetup - 30 June

Education

• 18 June - Martin Poulter speaking on "Wikipedia and Education" at [http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester

Train the Trainers event, London, 9-10 June

GLAM activities

See also the This Month in GLAM UK report for this month.

GLAMcamp London, 8 June

World War I Editathon, 16 June

National Archives partnership

• See commons:Commons:The National Archives (United Kingdom) (includes media coverage)

Miscellaneous

Public relations

• Related to Draft best practice guidelines for PR, David Gerard participated in a live debate with the PR industry about the issues that connect the Wikimedia community and the PR industry.
• The Wikipedia debate: will two communities collaborate or collide?, CIPR webstream, 20 June
• Wikipedia by Numbers Can Be Misleading, Jane Wilson, Huffington Post, 15 June
• Quality of brand pages low on Wikipedia, CorpComms, 14 June
• Brands suffer on Wikipedia, study reveals, PR Week, 14 June

Wikimedia UK annual awards

• WMUK awarded its first annual awards at WikiConference UK 2012 in May this year.
• OII Recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK's Annual Conference, OII press release, 15 June
• We won Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK's Annual Conference!, Zerogeography, 19 June

Upcoming activities in July

• (To be copied here from Events at the end of this month)

For events in July and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Board activities

• Board meeting - in person in London - 30 June-1 July

News from the Chief Exec

For information on Jon's activities this month, see News from the Office.

Fundraising and Budgeting

Fundraising

This month, we received £X in one-off donations, with X individual donations. The average donation amount was £X. X 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 richard.symondswikimedia.org.uk and let him know your requirements.

As for direct debit donations, there were N successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £X.