Reports/2013/August

Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 31st August 2013. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog, join a UK 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

Discussions / training of the following: the Welsh Society at Monmouth, presentation at Cardiff University (discussed wiki with Ken Skates), the Coleg Cymraeg (met Ioan Matthews Chief Exec, Dr Dafydd Trystan and Dr Dylan Phillips), Swansea University (met Proff. Iwan Davies, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Dr Rhys Jones etc), HWB (met Catrin Hughes), Bridgend County Council (Mike Evans), SAW (met Katie Fisher). Welsh Book Council places 3,249 professionally written book reviews on CC-BY-SA.

Microgrant outcome

Andy Mabbett successfully applied for a microgrant for sound recording equipment to support his project to record the voices of notable people to include in the appropriate Wikipedia articles. More detail can be seen here. Updates on Andy's project will be made available at a later date.

GLAM activities

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Other activities

Wiki Loves Monuments

The UK's logo for Wiki Loves Monuments

Microgrants

Information about microgrants that are currently running, and how to submit a microgrant application of your own, are at Microgrants/Applications.

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

Storming Wikipedia - Project tackles the site's 'women problem' - Huffington Post

Upcoming activities in August and September

September

For events in October 2013 and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Board activities

Three Board members (Chris, Saad and Alastair) attended Wikimania in Hong Kong. We had a number of very productive meetings and sessions with the Foundation, FDC and other Chapters. Chris was interviewed as part of Wikimedia Deutschland's Chapters Dialogue project.

News from the Chief Exec

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

For the 'holiday month' a lot happened. See our reports on Wikimania Hong Kong for instance. The office did more than chug along. A huge amount of preparation want on towards the autumn and winter programme, Wiki loves monuments is particular. In parallel the trustees were working towards the expansion of the board. The number of volunteers has been growing steadily as well and we hit the 100 mark eventually. Jon Davies (WMUK) (talk) 11:17, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Communications

Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in June and blog posts published during the same period.

If you're interested in getting more involved with our communications or have any questions or comments, please email Stevie Benton – stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk

Fundraising and Membership

Fundraising

This month, we received £115 in one-off donations, with 5 individual donations. The average donation amount was £23.00 - 20% 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 katherine.bavagewikimedia.org.uk and let her know your requirements.

There were 4,786 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £18,834.77

Membership

Up to 31st August 2013:

• 185 new (membership commenced in preceding three months) and current members - with 11 new join-ups in August.
• 35 'grace' members (membership within six months after date membership should be renewed)

This adds up to 220 members who were eligible to vote

• Brochure translated into Welsh.