Reports/2011/November

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

Program activities

Education projects

• 8th - Fiona Apps and Roger Bamkin meet with John Rylands University Library in Manchester
• 12th - Manchester Girl Geeks Editing Day; Event review
• 13th - 18:30-20:00 Sue Gardner Speaking at Imperial College

On 4th November Martin Poulter met with a researcher for a University of Bristol/ University of Cardiff project on crowdsourcing. Explained how Wikimedia projects can benefit arts and humanities researchers

GLAM activities

• 10th - Steve Virgin speaking at UK Association of Science & Discovery Centres Marketing Managers Conference - event entitled 'Word of Mouth'
• 14th - John Cummings and Roger discuss QRpedia project with Monmouth County
• 16th - Roger Bamkin speaking at Lillehammer
• 17th - Roger Bamkin on Special Libraries Assoc panel
• 18th - Sue Gardner, Jo Pugh, Roger and Fae at National Archives
• 18th - Martin Poulter speaking at ESRC Research Seminar on "Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights", Leicester University
• 24th - Fae presenting at Open Data in Cultural Heritage workshop hosted by Wellcome Trust & Open Knowledge Foundation

Technology

• 19-20th - Brighton Hackathon 2011

Other activities

• UK Wikimeets this month: London (13th), Liverpool (22nd)
• 1st - Fae at PICTFOR meeting on Hargreaves' report on UK copyright changes, blog post

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

Press coverage of Wikipedia in UK publications this month included:

• Jimmy Wales on the future of the internet at the Cyberspace conference:
  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the internet's future, BBC News
  • Jimmy Wales: 'Wikipedia can topple tyrants', Telegraph
  • Injunctions are 'bad law', says Wikipedia founder, Independent
• 3rd - Wikipedia Loves Monuments in St Petersburg on Russian TV. QRpedia labels in Russian, English, Catalan, Finnish
• 3rd, Martin Poulter, 25 minute interview on BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset on Wikimedia and other topics
• Charity status
  • Wikimedia UK granted charity status, Third Sector
  • Charity Commission approves promoting Wikipedia as a charitable purpose, Civil Society
  • Wikimedia UK gets charitable status, The H
  • Bristol trustee’s delight at charity status for Wikimedia UK, Bristol 24/7
• Sue Gardner visit:
  • The World at One, BBC Radio 4

Upcoming activities in December

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

For events in January and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Board activities

• 1st - Exec board meeting
• 19-20th - In-person board meeting}}

Charitable status

• Recognition as a charity

News from the Chief Exec

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

Fundraising

For more information about our participation in this year's fundraiser, see 2011 Fundraiser.

We received £XX in donations from N donors via paypal this month, and £XX from N donors via direct debit (including M new direct debits). For more information please see our monthly fundraising report at Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011.

Membership

(Current number of members, number of new members this month, number of lapsed members)

Staff

Our new office, in the Old Street part of London, opened on 14th November. We are currently in the process of equipping it.

(Update on the Office and Development Manager to come here.)