2013 Annual Review

This report is still a draft and is not ready for release. Feel free to edit it. You may find Wikinews' manual of style useful.

The time is fast approaching when we need to start compiling our annual report for 2012-13. We have plenty of time but it makes sense to make a start right away. Please get involved in this discussion and edit the page accordingly. Think about the type of content you would like (such as video and audio elements for the online version) and the topics you would like to be covered. What are your favourite projects? What have been your highlights? I hope that everyone who would like to be involved in this piece of work gets the opportunity to participate! --Stevie Benton (WMUK) (talk) 09:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Topics to cover

• Intro messages from Chair and Chief Executive (online version to include short voxpops)
• Executive summary - can also be recorded as an audio file and shareable
• Programmes - add contextual information in here for people who aren't familiar with our work. Highlight why our programme work is useful and important
• Events - particularly focus on those that opened up new possibilities such as Ada Lovelace Day and EduWiki. Link back to any photos, videos and other resources
• Governance - explain also how we are governed and our structure
• Membership - not just the numbers. Look at how membership is important. Include calls to action to join.
• Fundraising - report on WMUK income and how we attract donors. Look forward to participating in the global fundraiser in 2013.
• Communications - what have been our biggest stories this year? How do we tell our stories? Think Monmouthpedia but also PR guidelines.
• Administration and finance - should speak for itself!
• GLAM - British Library and The Herbert in Coventry would make excellent case studies for this.
• Education - EduWiki was a booming success and generated lots of good resources we can link to. The work with Digital Disruption and Demos will be good to feature here too.
• Wikipedians in Residence - lots of these. Let's find one to tell their story and share their experiences. Multimedia elements here would be good too.
• Partnerships - who are we working with? What are we creating?
• Community - I envisage lots of little inserts throughout the publication with quotes and resources from volunteers. A theme bringing them all together would be great. My favourite wiki thing?
• What's coming up? A look ahead, with a focus on the 2013 action plan and where we're going from here.

Content

Please link here to any images, videos, documents and web / wiki pages that will be of use for the report.

Name

Can we start calling it the "Annual Review"? By convention, the "Annual Report" typically includes the audited accounts & official Trustees' & Chief Exec's Reports, which (as in the past) may well not be ready, and won't be included in full even if they are (I expect). Many organizations combine these with a glossy magazine-style thing like this, but where there are 2 documents, as in our case, the magazine-style one is most often called the "Review". It avoids confusion & I think we should follow this style. Johnbod (talk) 17:18, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply John. I think it's a sensible suggestion and I have no objections. More than happy to change the name. Thank you. --Stevie Benton (WMUK) (talk) 22:44, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Images, video and audio

Please make suggestions for multimedia content you;d like to see. Would you like particular videos to be included / recorded in preparation? How about audio? How can we make this year's report more engaging? Would you like to be filmed / recorded speaking about a project you've been involved with? Let us know here.

• I would be keen on asking Members and Donors to be interviewed in short v-logs for the appropriate sections - happy to work on this if valuable? Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 14:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

That would be very helpful, thanks!--Stevie Benton (WMUK) (talk) 15:23, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Other suggestions

Any other suggestions? Add them here!

• Year in pictures
• Another infographic (I like them - but they make some people want to cry, so I'll defer to the consensus on this!)