Reports/2014/January

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Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 31st January 2014. 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

Microgrant outcome

GLAM activities

Two of our Wikimedians in Residence Pat Hadley and John Cummings signed in on a visit to Development House

Editathons

BBC

Andy Mabbett led a very successful event at the BBC uploading sound files.

London Zoo

John Cummings led an editathon at London Zoo addressing the gender gap by creating articles on Women in zoology.

Royal Society

John Byrne started his residence at the Royal Society with several training sessions for Royal Society staff, and internal meetings with various departments. More details of past and future activity at User:Wiki at Royal Society John

Scotland
Participants editing at the Anybody but Burns edit-a-thon, 25 January 2014, at the National Library of Scotland

Ally Crockford ran an Anybody but Burns editathon at the National Library of Scotland, supported by the Scottish Poetry Library, to remind people that Scotland has more than one great poet. The results have been posted on the events page, and we are happy to report that despite the miserable weather, we had thirteen participants who created five new articles and improved twelve more.

York

Image Releases

The Wellcome trust announced the release of 100,000 images under an open licence

Education and expert outreach

EduWiki Conference 2013

Technology

Other activities

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)

Blog posts this month

Upcoming activities in January and February

January


February


For events in March 2014 and onwards, please see Events.

Administrative activities

Board activities

The December board meeting


Communications

Please see the above links to relevant press coverage received in January 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 xx 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.bavageatwikimedia.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 January 2013 there were XX members of the charity eligible to vote.

You can view more detailed membership data here

Visitors to the office this month

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