On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Roger Bamkin
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@Andrew - some reasons why
@Jon. Well you'll get quite a bit of push back from the French/German's et al on 3 if not phrased well. They were awake too during the blackout.
Adding in multi-lingual challenges is a good idea if you want the popular vote. Anastasis Lvova from Russian wrote 200 articles. This idea was used in Russia, Spain, USA, Netherlands etc etc. We have a map of world showing where QRpedia is used and its pretty global.
Getting registered charity status was the hard thing to do the fund raiser was brilliant because we had this. Our Wikimedian of the year, John Byrne, took leading role with Steve Virgin. We extended the law to do this! We ran an EGM.
Monmouth. First agreement between a public body and WMF and WMUK. First wiki-town. £1m benefit. Most of the articles were not in English. We did first WMUK work in Wales and befriended the Welsh wicipedia. We now can claim to support two Wikipedias. We have 6 PhD students studying what was done! Steve Virgin crowd sourced P.R, Show them the animation!.
WIR at the British Library. A decent wage and externally funded. Thats a long way from the first ones where WIR's funded the work themselves in previous year.
GLAM in general - Lots of events, Coventry, GLAMcamp, Amsterdam, QRpedia hit the news #2 WMUK media story, This Week in GLAM, the idea was used for Wiki loves Monuments photo exhibitions, ARKive
Staff and Office. Andrew Turvey took leading role here driving it through to make sure we have 5 staff and a spare desk. I know this is covetted and was hard for us as volunteers to do, but not sure it will attract popular votes.
Green for reporting. We were the only chapter!
Wikimeets - We are not Wikimedia London (although they did well as well)On 7 June 2012 09:45, Jon Davies
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Have just received the HMRC registration forms so about to make first Gift Aid claim.
For my three..
Monmouth - volunteers and innovation
Opening an office with staff (this is BIG in wiki terms and other chapters want to follow)
Leading the movement during the Black-out for eight hours while San Francisco was asleep.
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