Reports/2012/May

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

The 2nd Coventry meetup

2nd Coventry meetup - 6th May 2012

GLAM activities

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

Below is a list of coverage for the Monmouthpedia launch story so far.

• 10 May 2012 – The Calcalist (Israel, in Hebrew)
• 16 May 2012 - Monmouthpedia: The world's first Wikipedia town is set to go live The Next Web
• 16 May 2012 – Monmouthpedia: world's first Wikipedia town (Milenio.com, in Spanish):
• 16 May 2012 - Caribe Noticias (Caribbean, in Spanish)
• 16 May 2012 - Forever Dope website (US)
• 17 May 2012 – nlyten.com location unknown
• 16 May 2012 - Monmouthshire CC blog
• 17 May 2012 - Monmouthshire CC blog on local business
• 17 May 2012 – Dailystuff.org (India)
• 17 May 2012 - Wall Street Journal (US) blog
• 17 May 2012 - The Verge (US)
• 17 May 2012 - Geek Journal (France, in French)
• 17 May 2012 - Donanim Haber (Turkey, in Turkish)
• 17 May 2012 - Ros Invest (Russia, in Russian)
• 17 May 2012 - Wales.com
• 17 May 2012 - Komputerswiat.pl (Poland, in Polish)
• 17 May 2012 - acikkod.org (Turkey, in Turkish)
• 17 May 2012 - Gigaom.com
• 17 May 2012 - 20minutos.com (Spain, in Spanish)
• 17 May 2012 - phphocam.com (Turkey, in Turkish)
• 17 May 2012 - Gizmodo (Poland, in Polish)
• 18 May 2012 - [多图全球首个“Wikipedia”小镇落户英国], Sohu (Chinese)
• 18 May 2012 - Coming soon: 'Wikipedia' Town, Hindustan Times

Upcoming activities in June

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

For events in July and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative 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.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.