Hi all,
Several organizations have held AGMs and (re)elected boards.
Congratulations to Wikimedia Deutschland for electing a new board. Great
wisdom and strength to them in their transitional period.
Congratulations to Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) who reelected the board of WMIL
and to WMHU for reelecting a new board.
Finally good luck to Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of
Wikimedia Italia.
Ad Huikeshoven
Bestuurslid / Board member Wikimedia Nederland
Internationaal / International Affairs
Educatieprogramma / Education Program
tel. (+31) (0)70 3608510
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Steun vrije kennis! Kijk op wikimedia.nl
<http://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/doneren-aan-wikimedia-nederland>
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Sorry for crossposting:
Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons
restore his stolen equipment.
Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you
don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone
can share freely-licensed content with everyone. Wikipedia uses
Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository, so, in fact, most of the
times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a
Wikimedia Commons image.
While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons
volunteers, he is a very special one: he's one of the main Commons
contributors ever, having some amazing records, such as being the user
with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever (153 images) and also
the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777
Quality Images. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material,
that Diego has given to every living person for free.
Never heard about Wikimedia Commons? It's the repository that hosts
allmultimedia files that you can see (and download) in Wikipedia and all
other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and
are also available for everybody else with a free license.
Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways.
One of them is by supporting (by being an organizer or a jury) two of
the most importantphotographic contests in the Wikimedia movement (and
in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.
Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a
Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, he
got his equipment stolen. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost
his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also every single picture he
took during his 2 weeks trip in South America, which he was going to
upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone,
everywhere.
As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of
this, so we decided to help him to restore his equipment. You can help,
too, by contributing to this campaign!
Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly
the same equipment he lost.
All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference
to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.
Tipo Modelo Preço
Camera body Canon EOS 5D Mark II $ 2,694.00
Objective fisheye f/4.0 Canon EF 8-15mm L USM $ 1,349.00
Objective wide-angle f/4.0 Canon EF 17-40mm L USM $ 839.00
Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0 Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM $
1,149.00
Laptop Acer Aspire 1810T $ 600.00
Total $ 6,631.00
Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300
Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect.
This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-p…
You can use the short link http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social
networks
Thank you
--
Santiago Navarro Sanz
Wikimedia España
http://www.wikimedia.org.es/
tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on
organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each
other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire
Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement:
The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with
TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger
Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and
sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to
improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the
movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and
conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how
organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is
unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and
supported almost entirely by volunteers.
The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how
impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2)
what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3)
what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more
effective in the strategies they choose to pursue.
In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several
organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and
attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with
AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and
other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the
movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations,
resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models
leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time
to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the
globe created the foundation for this work.
The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online
organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help
organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness
learning center, which may help organizations think about the different
strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to
be more successful with those strategies.
*Learning center:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center.
*User guide:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide
*Questionnaire text:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionn…
*Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more
links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire
The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia
organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and
best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers
from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to
take.
Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has
consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note
that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual
organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with
individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will
aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness
Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team, along
with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider
movement - think about how organizations can build capacity for specific
program strategies.
*We request that you respond to the questionnaire by December 21st*, so
that TCC can collate the results and share it with all of us early in the
new year. Please let us know if you have any difficulties or questions: the
WMF contact for this process is Winifred Olliff. Please contact us with
questions or suggestions at <orgeffectiveness(a)wikimedia.org>.
Many thanks to all who offered their time and expertise to the different
stages of this project. We hope this tool will be useful to you in your
work, and we welcome your continued feedback.
Warm regards and looking forward to our continued work together!
Anasuya
--
*Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation*
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
And just to clarify currently WHO is "green open access", free to view but
not free to reuse.
The request is for them to go "gold open access" free to view and free to
reuse.
They are wondering why is this reuse bit important.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Hi,
The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in
September 2014 is
now available:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/201
4/September
The full text of the report isn't included in this announcement
any more because its large size is against the list's rules. I'm
sorry for the inconvenience.
--
Guillaume Paumier
Hi all,
WMHU had its general assembly last Saturday where a new board was elected
for the 2014 December - 2016 December period.
Gervai, Péter - president (reelected)
Balogh, Mónika - financial vice president (reelected)
Bihary, Gábor - executive vice president
Gyenes, Orsolya - board member
Mészöly, Tamás - board member
Please join me in congratulating and wishing them a successful term.
Cheers,
Balazs
(the outgoing executive VP of WMHU)
Dear all,
This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly
meeting, during which the members held the elections for members of the
Board of WMIL.
The results of the elections are as follows:
Itzik Edri,(reelected)
Deror Lin, (reelected)
Ido Ivri, (reelected)
Hana Yariv,
Yan Nasonov (reelected)
The new Board then proceeded to reelect Itzik Edri to Chairman, and to
elect Ido Ivri as Board Secretary.
In addition, the board will re-approach the two external board members,
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli and Prof. Karine Nahon, to stay with the board for
another year and keep providing their excellent mentorship and advice.
We would like to take this opportunity and extend our many thanks to Yael
Meron, the departing Board Member, for her long and good service to WMIL
and its community.
Cheers,
Itzik
The WMNL report on October is available on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederl…
It is also included in this message as plain text.
*COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors*
- Wiki-Saturdays
In October there were two Wikisaturdays, one devoted to last-minute
preparations for the annual Wikimedia Nederland Conference on November 1.
Writing event Naturalis
*WORK: content, collaboration and activity development*
- Project Nature
The writing event in cooperation with the natural history museum Naturalis
took place on October 5, around the theme of nature in the Netherlands.
Around 11 new and existing editors participated in the editing event. This
event was also the awards ceremony for Wiki Loves Earth NL 2014 (jury
report) where 17 visitors attended.
- Project World War II
The Worldwar II projectpage on Wikipedia was remodelled and revitalised. It
now includes a list of articles missing and to be improved. We will use it
as a platform for online writing events.
- Wiki loves libraries
The monthly local training in the public library of Amersfoort were
continued in October by volunteers of WMNL.
- Wikipedia awareness campaign
WMNL will launch a Wikipedia-awareness campaign in January 2015. Aim of the
campaign is to make the general public more aware of the fact that
Wikipedia is a volunteer project. The campaign will not focus on
fundraising or membership recruitment for WMNL. In October, we choose the
agency that will help us develop and run the campaign. We selected MV, a
two-woman company with a track record in working for non-profits.
- Wikipedia in the Museum
Thanks to a donation from a private grant making foundation earlier this
year, WMNL could start developing an application that will allow visitors
to a museum to directly access Wikipedia-articles related to the exhibits
they are seeing. At this stage, it is a pilot with one or two museums.
*GLOBAL*
- GLAMout Global
WMNL organised the global GLAMout in October, the hangout is available on
youtube. The next global GLAMout will be organised by WMSE.
*GOVERNANCE*
Board meeting
The WMNL Board met on October 8.
Q3 report
We submitted our report on the third quarter of 2014 to WMF.
*UPCOMING EVENTS*
- Wikimedia Nederland Conference, Utrecht, November 1.
- Wikipedia beginners course, Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Middelburg, November
11.
- GLAM Hackathon, Amsterdam, November 14 - 16.
- workshop Wikidata for GLAMs, Amsterdam, November 14.
- Wikipedia intermediate course, Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Middelburg,
November 25.
- Writing event on World War II at NIOD, Amsterdam, November 29.
- New Years Reception and Presentation year plan 2015 to partner
organisations, January 17.
- GLAMwiki Conference 2015, tbd, April 10-11-12 2015
*OTHER EVENTS*
*These events are relevant to the Netherlands and/or Dutch language
Wikimedia-projects but were not organised by WMNL*:
- Writing event Nature, Utrecht University, October 4 - organised by
User:Spinster for the expeditions project
- Lecture by Hay Kranen, National Archives of the Netherlands, October 5
- organised by User:Husky
- Writing event Scientific expeditions, Technical University of Delft,
October 18 - organised by User:Spinster for the expeditions project
-
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238
mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379
www.wikimedia.nl
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia Nederland is looking for people to join the Program Committee for
the GLAM WIKI 2015 conference.
GLAM WIKI 2015 is a conference focussed on projects of/with Galleries,
Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) that are related to Wikimedia
projects and/or have another open knowledge component. The goal of the
conference is:
1. To let professionals and volunteers from the cultural sector share
lessons learned and best-practices on this topic.
2. To inspire and motivate participants to join existing or start up
their own projects that support the mission of the Wikimedia movement.
3. To increase awareness of the importance of accessible cultural
heritage and to put currently available content in the spotlight.
More information about the Program Committee, such as the profile and how
to apply, can be found on https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015.
Applying is possible until this Friday, 24:00 CET.
Best,
Sebastiaan ter Burg
*Projectleider Culturele Samenwerking*
*Wikimedia Nederland*
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wiki: Ter-burg <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg>
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