2013 Programme progress
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This page sets out the implementation of Wikimedia UK's budget and plan of activities for our financial period of 1 Feb 2013 to 31 Jan 2014. The budget lines, amounts and responsible individuals that describe Wikimedia UK's activities through this financial year are set in the 2013 budget; this page gives a more detailed description of what those budget lines incorporate; the timetable for its implementation; and any risks in achieving it and the anticipated cost breakdown.
Changes to the budget allocations, and budget holders, are subject to board approval. Budget holders may change the plans within their allocated budgets to reflect changing circumstances, but the board must be given notice of any significant changes (exceeding £500). This page will be kept up to date so that everyone can be aware of what is happening.
Income
The total estimate of incoming funds is £743,000.
Local funding
Direct Debit Donations
| Amount: | £270,000 | Responsible: | Fundraiser | Board approved summary |
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Gift aid, membership fees, interest and one-off donations
| Amount: | £30,000 | Responsible: | Chief Exec | Board approved summary |
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Underspend from 2012-13 carried forward
| Amount: | £111,000 | Responsible: | Chief Exec | Board approved summary |
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Global funding
Wikimedia Foundation FDC grant
| Amount: | £330,000 | Responsible: | Chief Exec | Board approved summary |
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Expenditure
Toolserver
| Amount: | £10,000 | Budget holder: | Mike Peel | Board approved summary |
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We will continue to support the Wikimedia Toolserver, which is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland, throughout this financial period. The Toolserver is widely used by the Wikimedia community to enable automated editing, statistics and other tools to keep Wikipedia running smoothly. This support will be provided via a grant to Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Primary contact: Mike Peel
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently establishing the Wikimedia Labs (WL), which will incorporate the role of the current Toolserver. However, the WL currently do not have the technical capacity to host the projects that are currently operating on the Toolserver. As such, this grant helps ensure that the facilities provided by the Toolserver will continue throughout this WMUK financial year.
We will ensure that our two contract developers pay due attention to the work carried out by the Toolserver project.
For background information based on expenditure in previous years, please see:
Europeana mass upload tool project
| Amount: | £60,000 | Budget holder: | Fæ | Board approved summary |
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We are supporting the development of a Toolserver/MediaWiki extension that provides the facility to upload media files en mass to the Wikimedia projects - specifically content that is provided via content partnerships from partner organisations. The development of this extension is being led by Europeana, and is being financially supported by the budgets of other Wikimedia chapters, and is also being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure that the resulting code is deployed on the Wikimedia projects.
This is a strategically important project on the basis that it aims to remove the bottleneck constraining the expansion of Wikimedia Commons that is due to the lack of an appropriate facility to upload and appropriately categorize significant quantities of media files (i.e. upload batches in excess of 100 files) to the project. This project was started in 2012, and is expected to conclude in 2014 with the successful deployment of the extension to the Wikimedia projects.
- Primary contact: Fae
We are supporting the development of a Toolserver/MediaWiki extension that provides the facility to upload media files en mass to the Wikimedia projects - specifically content that is provided via content partnerships from partner organisations. The development of this extension is being led by Europeana, and is being financially supported by the budgets of Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Nederlands and Wikimedia Deutschland, and is also being supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure that the resulting code is deployed on the Wikimedia projects.
This is a strategically important project on the basis that it aims to remove the bottleneck constraining the expansion of Wikimedia Commons that is due to the lack of an appropriate facility to upload and appropriately categorize significant quantities of media files (i.e. upload batches in excess of 100 files) to the project.
This project was started in 2012, and is expected to conclude in 2014 with the successful deployment of the extension to the Wikimedia projects. Fae is the Board's representative on the steering committee, and as such has responsibility for providing reports and financial recommendations to the WMUK board on this topic.
Our initial commitment was for €160,000, (approx £131,200) over two years. We estimate that we will have contributed £31,609 so far leaving a residue of £99,591. Given our reduced budget and the real possibility the project may be scaled down we are proposing a commitment of £60,000.
The risk to WMUK is that the project does not proceed if other chapters currently encountering financial uncertainty decided to withdraw. This could mean the project will not have made any progress and the funds to date wasted.
WikiConference UK 2013
| Amount: | £5,200 | Budget holder: | Chief Executive | Board approved summary Detail and implementation subpage |
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WikiConference UK 2013 will combine our Annual General Meeting with general conference consisting of a series of presentations about the Wikimedia projects and chapter activities, following up on the success of our 2012 conference. It will be held outside of London.
For more information, please see the Detail and implementation subpage