Reports/2011/December

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 December 2011. 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

GLAM activities

A contingent of 14 UK Wikimedians attended GLAMcamp Amsterdam.

• A group from the UK attended GLAMcamp Amsterdam, 2-4 December
• SV and RB talk on Derby Museum at TedX Bristol in September
• Talking about GLAM, Wikipedia and QRpedia in Amsterdam and Hamburg, Pigsonthewing

Other activities

• UK Wikimeets this month: Manchester (10th), London (11th)
• Microgrants approved this month include ...

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

One of the QRpedia codes in Monmouth, as part of the Monmouthpedia project.

Press coverage of Wikipedia in UK publications this month included:

• Bell Pottinger
  • Bell Pottinger faces claims it offered rogue regimes access to politicians, Guardian, 6 Dec
  • Bell Pottinger, Google and Wikipedia, BBC News, 6 Dec
  • Wikipedia pulls Bell Pottinger-linked pages, Financial Times, 7 Dec
  • Wikipedia founder attacks Bell Pottinger for 'ethical blindness', Independent, 8 Dec
  • Wikipedia suspends accounts over Bell Pottinger claims, Telegraph, 8 Dec
  • Wikipedia investigates PR firm Bell Pottinger's edits, BBC, 8 Dec
  • The arms company, the oligarch and the ex-PM's sister-in-law: lobby firm's Wikipedia hit list, Independent, 9 Dec
  • Call for transparency as agencies slam Bell Pottinger's Wikipedia use, PRWeek, 15 Dec
• GLAM activities
  • One Small Museum Making a Big Impact: An Interview with Roger Bamkin, MIDEA, 15 Dec
  • QRpedia case study:The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Museum Network Warwickshire, 21 Dec
  • Generate QR Codes ... using QRpedia, Teck.in, Dec 25th
  • Monmouth Chosen for New Wikipedia Venture, John Cummings and MonmouthpediA in Monmouth Beacon, 29th December
  • BBC Radio Wales - Monmouthpedia, 30th December
  • BBC Wales News short item on John Cummings and Monmouthpedia, 30th December
• Visual Editor
  • Wikipedia testing new visual editor, Bristol Wireless, 14 Dec
  • Wikipedia simplifies article editing for world+dog, The Register, 14 Dec
• SOPA
  • Wikipedia co-founder threatens site 'strike' in protest over anti-piracy bill, Metro, 13 Dec
  • Wikipedia co-founder threatens blackout over anti-piracy law, Telegraph, 13 Dec
  • Wikipedia threatens blackout over privacy law, CNet, 13 Dec
  • Wikipedia threatens blackout over anti-piracy bill, Tech Radar, 13 Dec
  • Jimbo Wales ponders Wikipedia blackout, Register, 13 Dec
  • Web giants appeal to US government to halt Stop Online Piracy Act, V3, 15 Dec
• Monmouthpedia
  • Monmouth chosen for new Wikipedia venture, Monmouthshire Beacon, 29 Dec
  • Wikipedia project to cover life in Monmouth, BBC News, 30 Dec
  • Community Wikipedia Scheme “Monmouthpedia” Launched, Gizmodo, 30 Dec

Plus an old news item that was omitted from our previous reports:

• Museum's web challenge winners to be selected, This Is Derbyshire, 2 September

Upcoming activities in January

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

For events in December and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

News from the Chief Exec

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

Fundraising

For more information about our participation in this year's fundraiser, see 2011 Fundraiser.

We received £X in donations from N donors via paypal this month, and expect to receive £X from N donors via direct debit over the coming year. We have also received donations by cheque, postal order, Charities Aid Foundation, bank transfer and cash this month. For more information please see the daily Wikimedia fundraising statistics and our monthly fundraising report at Fundraising Report - Monthly Totals 2011.

Staff

Events organiser

This month, Wikimedia UK began advertising for an Events Organiser. They will support the work of the grassroots Wikimedian community in the UK and be reponsible for the budgeting and resources for Wikimedia events in the UK. Applications close January 10 2012.

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