Reports/2012/August

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

Jimmy Wales

• Jimmy Wales keynoting at 'Technology: Disruption and Convergence', London, 4 August

Eisteddfod

(Summary to be imported here from Visit report - National Eisteddfod 8 Aug 2012.)

Olympics

• How Wikipedia Won Olympic Gold, Wired, 10 August.

GLAM activities

See also the This Month in GLAM UK report for this month.

QRpedia

• Andy Mabbett convinced the historic Bartons Arms to make use of QRpedia codes, see commons:Category:QRpedia codes at The Bartons Arms.
• On 24-26 August, Andy will represent Wikimedia-UK at Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte/2, a workshop (editathon) at Hamburgmuseum in Germany, where he will assist in the deployment of QRpedia, about which he spoke in Hamburg last December.
  • The evening before, he will give a talk on Wikimedia QRpedia and more at Kultwerk West in that city (free entry, all welcome).
• Andy is also proposing to make Wolverhampton into a Wikipedia City.

Technology

Recruitment for our first developer position continued throughout this month.

Miscellaneous

2013 activity planning

(Summary of 2013 Activity Plan/Ideas)

Upcoming activities in September

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

For events in August and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Fæ

• Wikipedia bans the chairman of the Wikimedia charity, 8 August

News from the Chief Exec

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

Fundraising and Budgeting

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.symondswikimedia.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.