Reports/2014/January

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

Two of our Wikimedians in Residence Pat Hadley and John Cummings signed in on a visit to Development House

Editathons

BBC

Andy Mabbett led a very successful event at the BBC uploading sound files.

London Zoo

John Cummings led an editathon at London Zoo addressing the gender gap by creating articles on Women in zoology.

Royal Society

John Byrne started his residence at the Royal Society with several training sessions for Royal Society staff, and internal meetings with various departments. More details of past and future activity at User:Wiki at Royal Society John

Scotland

Ally Crockford ran an "anyone but Burns" event to remind people that Scotland has more than one great poet.

York

Image Releases

The Wellcome trust announced the release of 100,000 images under an open licence

Other activities

Microgrants

Information about microgrants that are currently running, and how to submit a microgrant application of your own, are at Microgrants/Applications.

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

• Telegraph: Revealed - 2013's top 20 viewed articles on Wikipedia
• Guardian: Wikipedia - Breaking Bad leads TV dramas in top pages list
• RTE - Breaking Bad tops Wikipedia TV searches list
• Digital Trends - TV, movies and celebs: Wikipedia's top searches of 2013
• Third Sector - Cancer Research UK advertises for 'wikipedian in residence'
• Cancer Research UK - We’ve joined forces with Wikipedia to improve cancer information
• Civil Society - CRUK to recruit a Wikipedian in Residence
• Charity Digital News - Cancer Research UK develops in-house Wikipedian role for cancer information
• British Journal of Healthcare Computing - Cancer Research UK to employ its own Wikipedia contributor
• The Next Web - Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations
• Sondika Internet - Wikipedia's Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People's Biographies
• sairah.net - Wikipedia’s Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People’s Biographies
• Aaress info media - Wikipedia's Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People's Biographies
• Soviders tech - Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations
• Techauntie.com - Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations
• Inethonduras.com Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations
• Gizmodo.com.au - Wikipedia's Adding Voice Recordings To Famous People's Biographies
• techlomedia.in - WikiVIP adds voice samples of celebrities in Wikipedia articles
• wwwhatsnew.com - WikiVIP, nuevo proyecto de la Wikipedia para obtener clips de audio con voces de celebridades
• Endlessness Technology - Wikipedia’s adding voice recordings to famous people’s biographies
• chicabinaria.com - #Wikipedia Añade Voces de Celebridades a las Páginas Wiki Para Preservarlos Para el Futuro
• amazoncompraronline.com - Proyecto WikiVIP: Wikipedia comienza a incorporar voces de celebridades
• Webonomia.com - Proyecto WikiVIP: Wikipedia comienza a incorporar voces de celebridades
• paginamendocinas.com.ar - Proyecto WikiVIP: Wikipedia comienza a incorporar voces de celebridades
• Digitaltrends.com - Wikipedia adding voice recordings to famous people’s pages
• Eju.tv - Proyecto WikiVIP: Wikipedia comienza a incorporar voces de celebridades
• aveventures.net - Wikipedia’s Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People’s Biographies
• FWVentures.net - Wikipedia’s Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People’s Biographies
• clasesdeperiodismo.com - Wikipedia quiere preservar las voces en su plataforma
• Librarystuff.net - Stephen Fry records his voice for Wikipedia
• webmasto.com - Wikipedia’da Artık Ünlülerin Ses Kayıtları da Yer Alacak
• love74.com - Wikipedia documents the celebrity voices in their pages(in Arabic)
• takesontech.com - Wikipedia Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People’s Bio Pages
• blog.software-nation.com - Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations
• Raduoncescu.ro - Wikipedia VIP
• sage-computers.com - Wikipedia documents the celebrity voices in their pages
• tariq-aljaser.com - Wikipedia documents the celebrity voices in their pages (in Arabic)
• GeeksRoom.com - El Proyecto WikiVIP quiere preservar la voz de famosos
• Green-tea-reviews.com - Wikipedia’s Adding Voice Recordings to Famous People’s Biographies
• networldinteractive.com - Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations
• beartai.com - Wikipedia began collecting audio clips celebrities added to the online encyclopedia (in Thai)
• haryanaabtak.com - WikiVIP: A place where Salman, Shah Rukh, Arvind Kejriwal can speak only for 10 seconds
• techwhack.co - Wikimedia starts a WikiVIP program to record voices of celebrities for posterity
• socialnet.mk (Macedonia, unable to translate)
• Technicsandtime.com - Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations
• i3con.co.kr - from Wikipedia, the celebrity voice recording (in Korean)
• hi-tech.leonardo.it - Wikipedia Stephen Fry: perché un’autorità registra la propria voce per i posteri
• htxt.co.za - Wikipedia project hopes to add celebrity voices to Wiki pages
• webrazzi.com - Wikipedia önemli kişilerin biyografilerine ses kayıtlarını eklemeye başladı
• freshinfos.com - Wikipedia Launches WikiVIP to Preserve Voices of Celebrities
• memeburn.com - Wikipedia looks to preserve celeb voices by adding them to pages
• excoft.net - Wikipedia documents the celebrity voices in their pages (in Arabic)
• www.sosmedblog.com - Wikipedia biographies of important people began to add voice recordings
• gizmodo.it - Wikipedia inserisce le registrazioni audio delle voci nelle voci biografiche

Upcoming activities in January and February

January

• 07 - Tech Com meeting
• 12 - London meetup
• 18 - Speakerthon: uploading voice samples from the Radio 4 archive to Wikipedia
• 18 - Women in zoology and natural history editathon at London Zoo
• 19 - Oxford meetup
• 25 - Anybody but Burns editathon, Edinburgh
• 26 - Swansea Editathon and Wiki training
• 26 - Manchester meetup

February

• 01 - TaPRA Wikipedia Workshop - London
• 01–02 - Training the Trainers/February 2014 event - Cardiff
• 09 - London meetup
• 15 - Cambridge meetup
• 17–21 - Wikipedia Takes UCL - London
• 21 - National Maritime Museum Cornwall & Cornish GLAMs one day workshop - Falmouth, contact:Fæ
• 26 - Wellcome Library editathon
• 27–28 - Ally Crockford at The EDGE Conference - Edinburgh

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

Administrative activities

Board activities

The December board meeting

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 £xx in one-off donations, with 5 individual donations. The average donation amount was £xx - xx% 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 katherine.bavagewikimedia.org.uk and let her know your requirements.

There were xx successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of xx

Membership

Up to 31st January 2013:

• xx new (membership commenced in preceding three months) and current members - with xx new join-ups in October.
• xx 'grace' members (membership within six months after date membership should be renewed)

This adds up to xx members who were eligible to vote

You can also view full membership figures over a longer period here