Reports/2011/May
Below is the Wikimedia UK report for the period 1 January to 31 May 2011. We'll be making future reports available on a monthly basis from now on.
WikiConference UK and AGM
We held the first WikiConference UK, which included our 2011 Annual General Meeting, at the Watershed in Bristol. The three main themes of the conference were Wikipedia and GLAM; Wikipedia content; and Wikipedia in Education (including two keynotes). Slides from the presentations are available online.
At the AGM our members elected the Board for the coming year. 8 members stood for the 7 available seats, and it was a very close-run election. The new Board consists of Roger Bamkin (Chair), Andrew Turvey (Treasurer), Michael Peel (Secretary), Chris Keating, Martin Poulter, Ashley Van Haeften and Steve Virgin. The new Board put out a blog post announcing their appointment and first board meeting.
The AGM also included the formal business of the outgoing Board's report, approval of minutes from the 2009 and 2010 AGMs, and voting on resolutions. 5 resolutions were put to the members. The first was on extending board seats to 2 years, which failed to receive the required 75% support. The other four - on setting membership fees; appointing board members; approving the 2008-2010 annual accounts; and appointing auditors - were unanimously approved.
GLAM
(Fæ to expand)
Should include a mention of:
- The Wright Challenge.
- Roger's visit to Vienna for the UGC4GLAM conference
- Fæ's visit to NYC for GLAMcamp
- GLAMcamp London
- Derby Backstage Pass
Education
(MLP to expand)
Should mention:
- Wikipedia Contribution Team.
- Formation of the Imperial student society & wikipedia:Wikipedia:CONTRIB/Imperial & wikipedia:Wikipedia:CONTRIB/Imperial2
- British Library events: Editathon, British Library/January 2011 Editathon in January 2011] (announcement), which will be followed by another event in June 2011.
- London Wikipedia Academy
- Martin's presentation at Open Educational Resources 2011
Wikipedia Workshops
(MP & MLP to expand)
Cancer Research UK, to be followed by Medical Research Council Workshop in July
Charity status
(AT to expand)
Hiring staff
(AT to expand)
Finances
(AT to expand)
We make fundraising reports publicly available each month via our Finances webpage. Here are summaries of the months covered by this report:
- January, £49,900 received from NN donors (detailed report)
- February, £XXX received from NN donors (URL to complete report to come)
- March, £XXX received from NN donors(URL to complete report to come)
- April, £XXX received from NN donors(URL to complete report to come)
Our accounts from incorporation until 31 January 2010 have been completed, and were approved by our members at our AGM in April (you can read them online). Our accounts for 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2011 are currently being audited; we expect to be able to have them completed by (end of June?).
Miscellaneous
- We put out a blog post on Wikimedia Commons reaching the 10 million multimedia files milestone.
- For Wikipedia's 10th birthday, Jimmy Wales gave a talk in Bristol. Jimmy then threw a celebratory party in London. See summary of events.
- Mike Peel attended the Chapters meeting 2011 in Berlin on behalf of WMUK. Documentation from the meeting is available online.
- Minutes of board meetings are available for 4 January, 5 February, 1 March, 8 April, 16 April (pre-AGM), 16 April (post-AGM), 26 April (full board) and 20 May (Exec).
- Wikimeets happened in London on 9 January, 13 February, 13 March, 10 April and 8 May; in Cambridge on 27 February and 21 May; and in Manchester on 24 April.
- UK Community IRC meetings were held on 3 May and 17 May.