Reports/2013/December

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

GLAM activities

Editathons

Art Nouveau

On the 4th December we had an Art Nouveau editathon partnering with Plus Partage. This gave us the opportunity to tap into the expertise of a volunteer whose real life job involves valuing Art Nouveau objects for Christies.

BCS Women in Science

On the 9th December John Cummings ran an editathon in Southampton covering Women in Science.

Image uploading

The British Library announced a major image release of circa 1 million images.

The massuploading tool went live on Commons and is now available for live testing - unlike most of our existing tools it has the ability to generate categories from data in xml databases. So a non-programmer can use it to upload hundred thousands of files without having every file in an upload go into the same categories.

Royal Society

WMUK and the Royal Society were delighted to announce the appointment of John Byrne as Wikimedian in Residence. John takes up his post in January.

Other activities

Wiki Loves Monuments

The UK's logo for Wiki Loves Monuments

On the tenth of December Wikimedia UK hosted the prizegiving for the UK section of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013.

Jimmy Wales presenting the second prize to Matt Emmett

Microgrants

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

Upcoming activities in January and February

December

For events in January 2014 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.

Communications

Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in December 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 £xx in one-off donations, with 5 individual donations. The average donation amount was £xx - xx% 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 xx successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of xx

Membership

Up to 31st December 2013:

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

This adds up to xx members who were eligible to vote

You can also view full membership figures over a longer period here