[Wikimedia Chapters Reports] Wikimedia Polska Report April-June 2009

[Tomasz Ganicz]

Wikimedia Polska report: April-June 2009:

==Financial matters==

The budget of the Wikimedia Polska as calculated on 27 April 2009
    Current account: 17514.59 PLN (3884 EUR, 5376 USD)
    Tax deducible donation account: 105095.68 PLN (23300 EUR, 32260 USD
    In cash: 1450.56 PLN and 85,75 EUR
    Balanace:
    At the of 2008: 146898.66 (32570 EUR, 45090 USD)
    Expenditures in 2009: 34039.48 (7548 EUR, 10450 USD)
    Income in 2009: 10704.16 (2373 EUR, 3286 USD)
    Current balance: 123566.34 (27 400 EUR, 37960 USD)

Accountant
    Due to increasing amount of duties, which cannot be undertaken by
bona-fide Accountant WMPL has hired a part time paid accountant. This
is a very first employee of WMPL.

1% tax deducible donations
    Polish Tax offices started to transfer our donators' 1% tax
amounts on our bank account. The wave of the transfers is its very
begining so it is difficuilt to predict the final results.

==Meetings and promotion ==

WMPL in Polish Parliament

    Open Education Coalition of which WMPL is a founder member
organized a conference in Polish Parliament : Open Education in
Poland. The conference took place 23 April 2009 in Columnar Hall in
Parliament building in Warsaw. The conference was organized under
auspicies of chairman of Sejm (lower house of parliament) Mr.
Bronisław Komorowski. President of WMPL Tomasz "Polimerek" Ganicz had
short oral communication about the problems with access to govermental
materials needed for Wikimedia projects. More information: in
Polish...

WMPL Annual Conference 2009
    Took place on May 1-3 in Jadwisin near Warsaw. There were around
150 participants including Richard Stallman, Ahrash Bissell from
CC-learn, Wladimir DrBug Miedieyko from WMRU and guests from WMCZ. 21
lectures and workshops took place in two paralell sessions. see more..

Bulletin
    We continue publishing our Bulletin, which covers not only WMPL
activities but also news from Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia Foundation
and "outside world". This year 4rd issue was published on 27th April,
and 5th issue was released on June 1st.

Wikimania 2010 bid
    We supported local Wikimania 2010 team from Gdańsk, which
succeeded to win the bid. After talks with local team and Carry Bass
from WMF it was decided that the local team will create its own
temporary asscociation to take control and responsibility for
Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk. We are still open to help the local team if
needed.

T-shirts and other promotional gadgets
    200 T-shirts with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Polska, Commons, Wikibooks
and Wikisłownik were made. Around 100 of them were distributed among
participants of Wikimedia Polska 2009 conference. The remaining
T-shirts are to be used for outreach and fundrising needs. 500
leaflets about Wikimedia Polska and Wikimedia projects were printed
for using the outreach and fundarising activities.

GDJ workshop
    GDJ - an annual workshop and discussion panel for Wikipedia
editors will take place in Gdańsk at September 2009. The venue and the
accomodation place have been choosen and booked already. See more (in
Polish).. and [1]

Chapters meeting in Berlin
    Tomasz Ganicz (president of WMPL) and Agnieszka Kwiecień
(secretary of WMPL) took part in chapters meeting in Berlin. WMPL
donated the other chapters with 500 EUR. WMPL donated also one Polish
participant of developers meeting in Berlin.

==Outreach activities ==

Wikipstryk
    A local photo-contest was organized in Wrocław, by WMPL together
with local media (Gazeta Wrocławska - a newspaper and Radio Wrocław).
Thw contest was directed to junior high and high school students (age
between 14-20). Participants had a list of objects (buildings,
bridges, monuments etc.) located in Wrocław of which they should take
pictures and upload them to Commons. 442 pictures were taken and
uploaded covering many "targets" from the list. A jury consisting of
professional photographers from Gazeta Wrocławska, Radio Wrocław
photo-expert and WMPL members selected 20 best pictures. Internet
users could vote via a special webpage on their favorite photo and
thus grant a special award. The prizes were photo-cameras,
photo-printers, books about photography and some minor gadgets. See
the list of winners and all the photographs.

Scouting contest
    Polish Scouting Association together with Wikimedia Polska tried
to organize a contest for the new, best Wikipedia article about
Scouting written by scouting teams from all over the country. The idea
was that scouting teams are writing new articles about scouting. The
teams which writes best articles will be awarded (1000 PLN for first
prize). Unfortunately, just two scouting teams registered for the
contest, so it was abandoned, and those two got some Wikimedia gadgets
as a kind of excuse. The main reason of failure was that Polish
Scouting Association authorities, which formally supported the idea do
not advertise effectively the contest via its organizational
structures and we were not able to reach the teams without that help.
See more... (in Polish)

Wikicontest
    Vth edition of mini-grant project which had been launched 15
January 2009 is in good progress. Till now 8 projects were drafted of
which 7 were accepted and are now in progress.

Polish-Lithuanian Wictionary project
    The aim of the project was a cross-border co-operation of young
people from schools in Poland and Lithuania to create and develop the
Polish-Lithuanian dictionary on Wiktionary platform. The first stage
of the project took place on May 18-22. Two editors of Polish
Wiktionary organized two workshops: one in co-operation with several
secondary schools from Ełk (Poland) and the one in co-operation with
Nataljos Kazakovos kompiuterių Mokykla from Vilnius (Lithuania). The
WMPL covered the cost of travel by car for Wiktionary editors. During
the workshops around 100 new Wictionary's articles were created and
some more were expanded with information regarding Lithuanian
language. Several Workshop's participants continue their work in
Wictionary. The project is about to be continued. See more..

Kiloff art
    workshop and several lectures related to the creation of films and
other art under free licenses were provided by members of the WMPL
during 5th Independent Film Festival kilOFF in Katowice. The lectures
and workshop was devoted to presentation Wikimedia Commons film
resources, Wikipedia articles about amateur film production and about
how to use ogg multimedia format. See more..

Wikiexpedition
    A project of expedition in Podlasie - the worst covered area of
Poland in Polish Wikipedia - is in its final preparation. The aim of
the expedition is to make some photographic documentation of villages
and small towns in the area of Podlasie, photographic records of
specimens of nature in the region, and collection of locally available
sources of information. The Wikiexpedition is about to happen on July
10-18. 12 Polish Wikipedians are about to travel throughout Podlasie
using cars and bicycles, taking pictures and collecting data. WMPL
covers the cost of accommodation and travel for them. See more...

==Others==

BT-Phorm opt-out
    WMPL following WMF and several WM Chapters sent a formal letter to
BT-Phorm to exclude from their system all the domains which are
registered by WMPL.

Silesian Wikipedia domain
    Silesian Wikipedia editor who registered Polish domain for this
project, donated it to WMPL. WMPL took over control on this domain and
covered cost of keeping registration for 2009/2010 period.

WM-PL E-mail server change
    From 2005 WMPL was using free web E-mail service to which all
*@wikimedia.pl addresses were redirected. Due to increasing needs of
having more profesional E-mail system WMPL has decided to use one of
Polish paid services. After selection several offers we have choosen
"PERSONAL hosting" service from AZ.pl, which provides up to 100 E-mail
boxes under common control of which all of them have no storage limit.

Arnold Buzdygan case
    At 31 May 2009, a long story of Arnold Buzgydan's case found it's
end in court. In 2007 Arnold Buzdygan sued WMPL for the reason, that
he was called a "usenet troll" in his biography in polish Wikipedia.
WMPL line of defense was that we are not able to change anything in
Wikipedia as an organization, therefore we are not responsible for the
content. The case blocked possibility to redirect wikipedia.pl domain,
which is maintained by WMPL from Wikipedia-pl to search engine, as
French and German chapters did several years ago. After almost 2 years
and several trials the City Court in Wrocław finally rejected the
Buzdygan's case. However Mr. Buzdygan can still appeal to Higher Court
of Appeal.

Kataryna case
    An illegal reveal of the name of famous but anonymous Polish
blogger "Kataryna" by Polish newspaper Dziennik, started a long
discussion in Polish main-stream media about responsibility and
anonymity on the Internet. Many voices in media demanded to
delegalization of anonymous publishing in Internet. WMPL produced an
official statement defending the right of anonymous publishing which
was broadcasted by several media in Poland.

==Press and media==

TOK FM
    2009-05-12 TOK-FM, Paweł Zienowicz, Tomasz Ganicz and Sebastian
Skolik were talking with Cezary Łasiczka about Wikipedia and related
projects. Wikipedia - czytamy, poprawiamy.

Newspapers and journals

    * maj 2009, "Żak":
          o "Wikipedia - Slobodna enciklopedija", Paulina Mosiołek, s. 8
          o "Czy można ufać Wikipedii?", Tobiasz Lemański, s. 9
    * 2009-05-20 "Gazeta Wyborcza", dodatek wrocławski, s. 3 -
"Zakończył się proces przeciwko Wikipedii" Katarzyna Lubiniecka
    * 2009-05-14 "Przekrój", nr 19/3333, s. 16 - "Wikizjazd. Do
Gdańska przyjadą miłośnicy Wikipedii z całego świata"
    * 2009-05-08 "Dziennik Zachodni", Nr 107 (19.400) - Beata Sypuła
"Wywalczyli nam Wikimanię"

Internet portals

    * 2009-06-30 heise-online.pl - "Wikipedia chroni ofiary porwań, ale..."
    * 2009-06-29 Lipcowa Wikiekspedycja, CHIP On-line
    * 2009-06-29 Lipcowa wikiekspedycja na Podlasiu - Onet.pl (przedruk z Chipa)
    * 2009-06-29 Wikiekspedycja w województwie podlaskim, Wiadomości
Białystok, bstok.pl
    * 2009-06-29 Egospodarka.pl (przedruk z Chipa)
    * 2009-06-26 dobreprogramy.pl - "Internet bezsilny po śmierci
Michaela Jacksona"
    * 2009-06-22 heise-online.pl- "Treści multimedialne w Wikipedii"
    * 2009-06-04 wyborcza.pl - "Najlepsze ilustracje Wikipedii"
    * 2009-05-29 gazeta.pl - Wikipedia blokuje adresy IP scjentologów
    * 2009-05-22 dobreprogramy.pl - "Wikipedia przechodzi na licencję
Creative Commons"
    * 2009-05-18 gazeta.pl - "Wolfram Alpha - Wikipedia Killer?"
    * 2009-05-11 vbeta.pl - "Wikimania 2010 - u nas"
    * 2009-05-11 Dziennik.pl - "Za rok w Polsce odbędzie się Wikimania"
    * 2009-05-11 Wirtualnemedia.pl - "Gdańsk gospodarzem Wikimanii 2010"
    * 2009-05-09 Trojmiasto.pl - "Wikipedyści w Gdańsku: będziemy
internetową stolicą świata"
    * 2009-05-08 netPR.pl - "Netia wśród wikipedystów"
    * 2009-05-07 gp24.pl - Wikimania 2010 w Gdańsku. Na Pomorze
przyjadą twórcy Wikipedii z całego świata
    * 2009-05-07 gazeta.pl - "Wikimania 2010 odbędzie się w Gdańsku"
    * 2009-05-07 dobreprogramy.pl - "Wikimania 2010 odbędzie się w Gdańsku"
    * 2009-05-07 di.com.pl - "Wikipedyści w Polsce: Gdańsk zyska prestiż"
    * 2009-05-07 chip.pl - "Przyszłoroczna Wikimania odbędzie się w Gdańsku"
    * 2009-05-07 wp.pl - "22-letni student nabrał światowe media"
    * 2009-05-07 di.com.pl - "Wikimania 2010 będzie w Polsce!"
    * 2009-05-07 mmtrojmiasto.pl - "Wikimania 2010 odbędzie się w Gdańsku!"
    * 2009-04-30 Internauci łączcie się. Życie Warszawy o planowanej
konferencji w Jadwisinie.
    * 2009-04-23 gsmonline.pl - "Globalna umowa FT z Wikimedia Foundation"
    * 2009-04-23 WP.PL - "Orange zawarł umowę z Wikipedią, na której
skorzysta WP"
    * 2009-04-23 netpr.pl - "Orange zawarł umowę o współpracy z
Wikimedia Foundation"
    * 2009-04-23 Gazeta.pl - "Wikipedia w Orange"
    * 2009-04-22 di.com.pl - "Wikimania w Gdańsku: Mamy spore szanse"
    * 2009-04-21 Gazeta.pl - "Wikipedia nie zgadza się na śledzenie
użytkowników"
    * 2009-04-16 Gazeta.pl - "Wikipedia będzie miała nową licencję?"
    * 2009-04-16 dobreprogramy.pl - "Wikipedia rozważa przyjęcie
licencji Creative Commons"
    * 2009-04-11 dobreprogramy.pl - "Konferencja Wikimedia Polska 2009"
    * 2009-04-10 osnews.pl - "Konferencja Wikimedia Polska pod
Warszawą i ze Stallmanem"
    * 2009-04-08 linuxnews.pl - "Wikipedia stawia na OpenStreetMap"
    * 2009-04-07 heise-online.pl - "Wikipedia stawia na OpenStreetMap"
    * 2009-04-07 interia.pl - "Wikipedia stawia na OpenStreetMap"
    * 2009-03-31 vBeta.pl "Microsoft zamyka Encartę"


-- 
Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek
http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html