Grants talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014 round1/Wikimedia UK/Progress report form/Q2

Thank you

Thank you to the FDC for allowing Wikimedia UK an extension on the deadline for the report as Wikimania took place in July. It was very much appreciated! Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 16:16, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for submitting your complete report, and for your attention to the extended deadline. We will be reviewing it in the coming weeks and offering you feedback on this discussion page. Cheers, Winifred Olliff (FDC Support Team) talk 21:54, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Comments from FDC Staff

Thank you for submitting this report and testing out some new ways of reporting! Thank you too for your work on a very successful Wikimania! We hope your team and volunteers are enjoying a well deserved break. :) We very much enjoyed attending the event and were grateful to you--and so many volunteers-for all of the support you gave the event.

We were pleased to see the number of files uploaded this quarter (21,036 uploaded with a Creative Commons license) as well as the measures of quality. We noted that 90% of the files were uploaded as part of the avionics project grant, with 99 uploads from the “photographing cathedrals" project grant. In addition, we noted a significant number of articles edited in your Barclays edit-a-thon (380 articles in 18 languages).

We really enjoyed the Wikipedians in Residence Review. The infographics created allow for a quick understanding of the inputs, resources leveraged, outputs and outcomes to be easily understood. Bravo!

The report card you created this quarter provided gives us -- and the movement more broadly -- a good indication of where you are making progress. We believe the format works well and appreciated the clear format very much. Well done, colleagues!

It was interesting to know that 3.1% of the files uploaded in the second quarter are in use, but when mass upload projects are excluded, that number increases to 38.3%. This is an impressive number. We encourage you to continue to focus on uploading content that you expect to have good usage.

Again, thanks for all your hard work this past quarter! KLove (WMF) (talk) 22:33, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Request for an edit

We would like to change the text in our report card for the Transparency commitment to read as follows:

"This quarter, we ensured that our published expenses lists are clearly defined and are regularly updated, we defined formal new transparency commitments, we published an explanatory table of Matters reserved for the Board and delegated to the Chief Executive, we published old in camera resolutions of the board, and we ensured that new in camera resolutions are published as soon as possible, in redacted form if need be. Against that, the costs of the Berlin conference were not reported promptly and openly, as they should have been.".

This is the correct wording direct from our Governance Committee - we neglected to include it in the report originally! Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 11:10, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Richard! Please feel welcome to change the report if you need to. Thank you for providing an explanation here. Cheers, 50.185.138.198 15:23, 7 October 2014 (UTC)