[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Wikimedia UK monthly report, January 2014

[Richard Nevell]

Hi everyone,

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
.

If you prefer to see the report on wiki, you can do so here -
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Reports/2014/January

Regards,
Richard Nevell

Program activities Community Project grants outcome


GLAM activities

The previously approved macrogrant
application
for
a Macmini to support
commons:User:Faebot
activities
have been supplied, with images uploading on Wikimedia Commons started to
take place.

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 
 and his January
Report
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*

Pat Hadley our Wikipedian in Residence at York Museums trust reports that
Andy Woods, curator of numismatics has provided 110 images of 54 coins from
the Middleham 
Hoard.
Now they are uploaded Pat hopes to work with
user:Wehwalt
 and user:Johnbod  to create an
article on the hoard itself through
AFC
and
use the coins to illustrate further articles. Pat has made contact with
WikiProjects, 
Archaeology,
and 
Yorkshire
.
 Image Releases

The Wellcome trust announced the release of 100,000 images under an open
licence 
 Education and expert outreach Coleg Cymraeg advertises for a Wikipedian in
residence

This is one of the first full time Wikimedians in Residence world-wide who
will be employed by a university.
2014 Activity Planning

January has been a time of intensive activity planning, with 6 or 7 events
taking place during the months of February and March. See 2014 Activity
Plan for University and Education
Outreach
Scholarship for EduWiki in Serbia

Wikimedia Serbia is organising a two-day event in March called EduWiki
following on the model established by WMUK. Brian Kelly is attending this
event in Belgrade, through a WMUK schoarship organised in January. Details
here
.
Wikimedia Ambassador at Jisc

Dr Martin Poulter continues as Wikimedia Ambassador with Jisc. See his 5th
report covering January
2014
.
Future of Education at Wikimania 2014

Preliminary planning for a fringe/hack event ahead of Wikimania (21-22
June) is underway. WMUK is participating in this through Stuart Prior and
Toni Sant but other UK-based Wikimedians are also involved.Details
here
.
 EduWiki Conference 2014

Preliminary planning for EduWiki 2014 has started. See plans for EduWiki
2014 .
 Technology Other activities


Swansea Library

[Wikimedia-l] Need help with your IEGrant proposal? Join a Hangout today

[Siko Bouterse]

Hi all,
Just a reminder that we're hosting the first of 4 Individual Engagement
Grants proposal clinic Hangouts today, and it will begin a few hours from
now.

What: WMF grantmaking staff and IEG committee members will spend an hour
answering specific questions about IEGrant proposals, helping people create
their proposals, etc.  If you'd like to get or give advice about grant
proposals for this program in real time, please join us!

When: Friday, 7 March 2014, 0100 UTC (Note: This is still Thursday in many
time zones)

Where: https://plus.google.com/events/chbmi5iegel2kru9irbgveinoqk

We're hosting 3 more of these before the March 31 proposal deadline for
IEGrants, on different days and times to accommodate various timezones, so
if today doesn't work well for you please consider joining in one of the
coming weeks:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events

And, as always, we're happy to take questions via the usual wiki-channels
anytime - these sessions are just an experiment in providing some extra
fast help, with voice :)

Hope to see you there,
Siko

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG

-- 
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

sboute...@wikimedia.org

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*Donate  or click the "edit" button today,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF February 2014 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, March 6, 19:00 UTC

[Greg Grossmeier]

> REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.

Links here:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/currentmeeting

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF February 2014 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, March 6, 19:00 UTC

[Praveena Maharaj]

REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.



On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Praveena Maharaj
wrote:


> Dear all,
>
> The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
> March 6, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
> #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast
> as a live YouTube stream.
>
> The current structure of the meeting is:
>
> * Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
> specialized reports and analytic
> * Review of financials
> * Welcoming recent hires
> * Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority
> initiatives
> * Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available
>
> Please review
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for
> further information about how to participate.
>
> We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> Thank you,
> Praveena
>
> --
> Praveena Maharaj
> Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering & Product Development
> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6689
> www.wikimedia.org
>
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