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 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)
Technology
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
- Microgrants
- Microgrants/Core Contest (prizes) has been approved for a re-run of the competition in August.
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
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.symonds
wikimedia.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.