@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 <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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.
Jon
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38 AM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Becoming a registered charity is pretty cool (we
were already a charity).
Have we had our first cheque back from the taxman of money reclaimed under
the terms of Gift Aid? If so that would be good to mention.
WSC
On 6 June 2012 21:49, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On 6 June 2012 16:12, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
Short version: What are our three coolest
projects between Wikimania
2011
and Wikimania 2012?
Monmouthpedia, of course but also, separately, the spread of QRpedia
around the world.
Becoming a charity for #3?
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