Reports/2014/February

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 28th February 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

Other activities

Project grants

Information about project grants that are currently running, and how to submit an application of your own, are at Project grants/Applications.

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

• The Guardian / Observer: Stop women scientists being written out of Wikipedia history

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

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 £1,892.00 in one-off donations, with 7 individual donations, 1 of which was a donation of £1,342 Removing this large donation from consideration the average donation amount was £91.66 - of the donations that were eligible for gift aid, 40% 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 4696 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £18989.02

Membership

Up to 28th February 2014 there were 242 members of the charity eligible to vote.

You can view more detailed membership data here