Hello everyone,
I've just published the Wikimedia UK activity report for December, which
was a shortened month for the office due to the winter break. You can find
the report at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2012/December
For those of you who prefer plain text, this is below.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
Reports/2012/December
Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 December
2012. 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.
Community
The office hosted a shared lunch in December for staff and volunteers.
Everyone who came brought some food and drink along and we spent some time
enjoying each other's company and getting to know each other a little. A
very pleasant and useful afternoon!
GLAM activities
Wikimedians in Residence program resulting from our November 2012
recruitment has been progressing with Wikimedia UK in negotiations with the
institutions taken forward. We are working with Natural History Museum and
Science Museum, National Library of Scotland, Black Cultural Archives in
cooperation with Equiano Centre, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
Technology
During December we spent time setting up the new infrastructure and began
migrating Wikimedia UK properties. For example, the board, office and other
private Wikis were moved to a new server - and preparations were made to
move Civi CRM and email in the new year.
Other activities
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)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20680725
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-12-11/wikipedia-we-want-those-start-ups-focused-on-making-great-products/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9736665/Wikipedia-founders-solution-to-inaccurate-entries-send-us-an-email.html
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/williamhenderson/18453/wikipedia-vandals-will-be-stopped-in-their-tracks-as-pending-changes-safeguard-goes-live/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/us-news-blog/2012/dec/19/cards-against-humanity-wikimedia
http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/12/cards-against-humanity-holiday-stats/
http://tyneandwear.sky.com/newcastleunited/article/50706
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f3fc3be1-0146-4b64-a4c5-d97927a53d09
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/20865218
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/24/technology-links-newsbucket
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9764719/Wikipedia-co-founder-Jimmy-Wales-restricts-discussion-of-Tony-Blair-friendship.html
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/378829/breakfast-briefing-outlook-features-stripped-wikipedia-money-trail-and-google-goes-shazam
http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/29/most-read-wikipedia-pages-revealed-facebook-one-direction-and-death-3332240/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/26/koh-wikipedia-apple-samsung-edit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/27/wikipedia-most-viewed
http://www.itv.com/news/2012-12-28/wikipedias-top-10-viewed-articles-in-2012/
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/facebook-tops-list-of-most-viewed-wikipedia-articles-in-2012-50010059/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20858333
http://video.sky.com/news/related/55523/0/Wikipedia%20Boss%20Hope%20For%20Old%20Media/true
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGNCIxwsM/2012/12/09/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-tells-skynews-levesons-assessment-of-i
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8g6s
Upcoming activities in January and February
January
08 - Board meeting - call
12 - Manchester meetup
13 - London meetup
13 - Oxford meetup
14 - AHRC Wikipedia training workshop at the British Library
16 - IRC office hours
20 - Reading Meetup
February
08 - Introduction to Wikipedia workshop at the British Library
09–10 - Board meeting - in person
10 - London meetup
16 - Liverpool meetup
17 - Coventry meetup
20 - IRC office hours
23–24 - Training the Trainers/February 2013 event - Manchester
For events in March 2013 and onwards, please see Events.
Administrative activities
Board activities
There was a meeting of the Executive Working Group, and the minutes are in
the process of being drafted. Work continued with Compass Partnership on
our Governance Review.
News from the Chief Exec
For information on Jon's activities this month, see News from the Office.
Communications
Links to December's press coverage can be found higher up this page.
In general December was a fairly quiet month for Wikimedia UK
communications. In part this is because the chapter didn't participate
directly in the Wikimedia Foundation annual fundraising campaign. It was
also a sho
