<center><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Our last bulletin follows (I hope the HTML will be better than last time).<br>As usual, you can read the complete HTML version online at <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en">http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en</a> and you can watch <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia</a><br>
<br>____________________________________<br></div><big><b><br>W i K i M e D i A N e W s</b></big> no. 30 - December 6, 2010</center>
<br><small><center>Official monthly bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.</center></small>
<table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle"></span></div>
<ul><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Editorial"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Editorial</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#What_happened_during_last_months"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">What happened during last months</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Members.27_meeting_in_September"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Members' meeting in September</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Mantua:_Festivaletteratura_and_Premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2010"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Mantua: Festivaletteratura and Premio Wikimedia Italia 2010</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Panel_on_comics_and_free_licenses_at_Romics"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Panel on comics and free licenses at Romics</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Linux_day"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Linux day</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Lucca_Comics_.26_Games_2010"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Lucca Comics & Games 2010</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Other_events"><span class="tocnumber">2.6</span> <span class="toctext">Other events</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#What_will_happen_next_months"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">What will happen next months</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#News_from_our_groups"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">News from our groups</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Ideas_from_Wiki"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Ideas from Wiki</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#New_WikiGuide"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">New WikiGuide</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#News_from_our_groups_2"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">News from our groups</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#News_from_our_projects"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">News from our projects</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#News_from_Biblioteca"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">News from Biblioteca</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#News_from_Musica"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">News from Musica</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#News_from_wiki.40home"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">News from wiki@home</span></a></li>
</ul>
</li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#News_from_WMF_projects"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">News from WMF projects</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Talk_with_us"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Talk with us</span></a></li>
</ul>
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<a name="Editorial" id="Editorial"></a><h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">Editorial</span></h2>
<p>Autumn. Halloween is celebrated, trips outside the city are
organized, maybe people think that Christmas is approaching. This
happens in the world out there. <br>
It's the second year that in November the most difficult period of the
year for the Board begins: the organization and the daily management of
the fundraising.<br>
Organizing the fundraising means to shadow the Wikimedia Foundation and
their demands, to study contracts, to subscribe to new mailing lists, to
come up with slogans, to spread pages of explanations, to translate
FAQs and in the meantime to try and optimize the tools so that we may be
prepared for the wave of activity which will begin shortly. <br>
When the fundraising actually begins and banners appear on all projects'
pagess, the first thing that happens is that we lose our treasurer and
secretary for a few months: Cotton, Aubrey and all their staff (Xaura,
Dinwath, Remulazz) are completely absorbed by subscriptions flowing in,
questions about donations, registrations of gifts, contacts with WMF
which are nevertheless required (every self-respecting fundraising gets
technical problems or changes to do on the spot!). At the time of
writing, there are 170 mail in the subscription mailbox, 88 in the
information mailbox and still others in the general one.<br>
Install OTRS, enroll people directly from the site and write scripts for
importing data are some of the little things we did to simplify the job
of secretary and treasurer, but they are only the tip of the iceberg:
we were not able to customize our CRM, it's more than six weeks since we
tried to open an account at the post office but we have not succeeded
yet - despite all our efforts - and the list of problems does not stop
there. <br>
On 11 December, when the directors shall meet <i>visually</i>, one of
the topics on the agenda will be hiring one or more persons during the
next year to help us carry out those activities for which we don't have
sufficient resources (and sometimes expertise): communication,
secretariat, various consultants (fundraising, legal, graphics,
non-profit specialists). <br>
In closing I remind you of the hot topics still open, that we're
overlooking because discussion, consensus and interests languish: the
celebration for the ten years of Wikipedia and the forthcoming Festival
of Digital Freedom.
</p><p>Frieda
</p>
<a name="What_happened_during_last_months" id="What_happened_during_last_months"></a><h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">What happened during last months </span></h2>
<a name="Members.27_meeting_in_September" id="Members.27_meeting_in_September"></a><h3><span class="editsection"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Members' meeting in September"></a></span><span class="mw-headline">Members' meeting in September </span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 182px;"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/File:WMI_Bologna_2010_9649.JPG" class="image" title="A break in a hecting day. Other photos in Commons."></a></div>
</div>
<p>On September 25 we held our yearly <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/it:Wikipedia:Raduni/Bologna_2010_Assemblea_WMI" class="extiw" title="w:it:Wikipedia:Raduni/Bologna 2010 Assemblea WMI">ordinary members' meeting</a> of Wikimedia Italia, hosted by the Dipartimento di discipline della comunicazione at the University of Bologna.
</p><p>Unfortunately we could not record and transmit a real-time video of the assembly: an <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/WikimediaItaliaAssembleaBolognaSettembre2010" class="external text" title="http://www.archive.org/details/WikimediaItaliaAssembleaBolognaSettembre2010">audio recording</a>
is available, although the presence of a single microphone at the chair
meant that the questions from the public are barely audible.
</p><p>The morning began with brief presentations by our guest,
Professor Lalli, and Frieda. The presence of a large and involved
audience led to an interesting discussion: a useful opportunity for
information and comparison.<br>
</p><p>Some of the topics discussed were:
</p>
<ul><li> Relationships with schools, universities and cultural and heritage institutions;
</li><li> The quality of Wikipedia articles in the medical field and other specific areas;
</li><li> The possibility of increasing their quality through collaboration with institutions and experts in the category<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>;
</li><li> The encouragement of participation through certificates or other evidence that can be added to their curriculum vitae <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup>;
</li><li> Statistics and attention to the confidentiality of the Wikimedia projects;
</li><li> Accessibility ok Wikipedia content to deaf-mutes.
</li></ul>
<p>During the afternoon the actual Members' meeting took place. We renewed the <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Direttivo" title="Direttivo"> Board</a> and reviewed the main events of the past year (they are discussed in more detail in our <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Relazione_sulle_attivit%C3%A0_2009" title="Relazione sulle attività 2009"> annual report</a>). We also have the opportunity to present and discuss briefly the project "ideas from Wiki" (see <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Idee_da_Wiki" title=""> below</a>) and the new WikiGuide on Wikimedia Commons produced by Christian Biasco (see <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#Nuova_WikiGuida" title="">below</a>).<br>
</p>
<dl><dt>Notes
</dt></dl>
<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Compare <a href="http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Academy#Wikipedia_Academy_Bethesda_.28NIH_headquarters.29.2C_United_States_2009" class="extiw" title="m:Wikipedia Academy">Wikipedia Academy, NIH</a>.</li>
<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&printable=yes&uselang=en#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> . See also <a href="http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/strategy:Task_force/Recommendations/Community_health_1#Volunteering_should_give_you_something_to_put_on_your_resume.2FCV" class="extiw" title="m:strategy:Task force/Recommendations/Community health 1">one of the recommendations</a> for community health emerged from Wikimedia strategic planning process.</li>
</ol>
<a name="Mantua:_Festivaletteratura_and_Premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2010" id="Mantua:_Festivaletteratura_and_Premio_Wikimedia_Italia_2010"></a><h3><span class="editsection"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mantua: Festivaletteratura and Premio Wikimedia Italia 2010"></a></span><span class="mw-headline">Mantua: Festivaletteratura and Premio Wikimedia Italia 2010 </span></h3>
<p>As usual in the last years, the Association attended <a href="http://festivaletteratura.it/" class="external text" title="http://festivaletteratura.it/">Festivaletteratura</a> in Mantua (held on September 12) together with Lettera27 association, our partner in <i>WikiAfrica</i> project. During Festivaletteratura we awarded our annual <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Premio_Wikimedia_Italia" title="Premio Wikimedia Italia">Premio Wikimedia Italia</a>.
This year the winner was project "<a href="http://www.sanbaradio.it/podcast/ponte-radio" class="external text" title="http://www.sanbaradio.it/podcast/ponte-radio">Sanbaradio - Ponte Radio</a>"
by Cooperativa Mercurio «For having released with a Creative Commons
license (CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0) contents produced in project "Ponte Radio"
(Radio Link), "sound contaminations between Trentino and Mozambique"
able to bring near two worlds quite far apart».
</p><p>Special mention to project <a href="http://www.nigrizia.it/sito/copertina.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www.nigrizia.it/sito/copertina.aspx">Nigrizia</a>: «For having released with a free Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA-2.5) a lot of contents about Africa».
</p>
<a name="Panel_on_comics_and_free_licenses_at_Romics" id="Panel_on_comics_and_free_licenses_at_Romics"></a><h3><span class="editsection"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Panel on comics and free licenses at Romics"></a></span><span class="mw-headline">Panel on comics and free licenses at Romics </span></h3>
<p>Saturday, October 2 2010, Wikimedia Italia organized in collaboration
with Gente di Cartoonia association a panel on copyleft and the world
of comics at Romics 2010. Participants were Senpai, <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro_Biani" class="external text" title="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro_Biani">Mauro Biani</a>, <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Eleuteri_Serpieri" class="external text" title="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Eleuteri_Serpieri">Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri</a>,
Francesca Perri (of Tonucci & Partners, law firm which takes care
of the business of Disney in Italy), and some publishers and lawyers
expert in copyright and free licenses.<br>
</p><p><small>report by <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Utente:Senpai" title="Utente:Senpai">Utente:Senpai</a></small>
</p><p>I made only a presentation of our association and some background
comment. Biani had a very interesting intervention; he boasted of being
one of the first cartoonists to adopt Creative Commons licenses on the
web, and explained that his choice was dictated essentially by two
reasons: one kinda ethical, and another "practical". As regards the
second reason, he said that in more than one occasion - when he released
its work with traditional copyright - his cartoons have been grabbed
from his blog and used without permission. In an occasion a newspaper
with regional circulation even changed the dialogue before publishing
the cartoon. Since adopting CC licenses, however, he realized that the
web morally condemns and prosecutes cases of appropriation of the
content released in copyleft, and when a strip of him is stolen many
people signal him the fact. <br>
The intervention of the Serpieri showed then the "comics" side of the
matter; an established artist as he has, to date, no interest in
releasing his works on CC but ethical issues.
Serpieri then talked about his battle for recognition of the cartoonist
as a professional artist, especially when his work is commissioned.
Working for the publisher, perhaps drawing a character who is owned by
the same publisher, in fact, is frankly simplistic for the artist and
distorts his role. <br>
In conclusion, the panel was a complete success; Gente di Cartoonia is
asking us to organize another one, this time as a flagship event.
</p>
<a name="Linux_day" id="Linux_day"></a><h3><span class="editsection"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Linux day"></a></span><span class="mw-headline">Linux day </span></h3>
<dl><dt>Milano, Linux day <a href="http://linuxday.openlabs.it/" class="external text" title="http://linuxday.openlabs.it/">OpenLabs</a>
</dt></dl>
<p>CristianCantoro attended the Linux Day held at Parco Trotter in
Milano. His talk was a presentation of Wikipedia and its philosophy,
followed by a <i>demo</i> session with modification to Sandbox and practical explanation about how Wikipedia works.
</p>
<dl><dt>Modena, <a href="http://eavicamp.wordpress.com/" class="external text" title="http://eavicamp.wordpress.com">EAVIcamp</a>
</dt></dl>
<p>Aubrey attended EAVIcamp, barcamp dedicated to crowdsourcing and
user-generated content, organized in conjunction with the Linux Day.
His presentation on Wikipedia and its sister projects received positive
comments and compliments: being a competent audience, he could fly over
on Wikipedia and talk about Wikimedia universe. Participants agreed that
it was an interesting event, although it was long and difficult;
hopefully we would repeat it next year.
</p>
<dl><dt>Grosseto, Linux day held by <a href="http://www.grolug.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.grolug.org/">GroLug</a>
</dt></dl>
<p>Senpai attended Linux Day in Grosseto.
Our intervention was focused on the issue of free licenses and copyleft
in general. Public, unfortunately, was not very numerous, but they
proved interested in the subject. It persists (even in a
pseudo-specialized environment as that of linux gruop) substantial
misinformation about what "we can do and not do" under a free license.
</p><p>Grolug contacted us also for a possible intervention at coming <a href="http://www.publicdomainday.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.publicdomainday.org/">Public domain day</a>.
</p>
<a name="Lucca_Comics_.26_Games_2010" id="Lucca_Comics_.26_Games_2010"></a><h3><span class="editsection"><a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_30/en&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Lucca Comics & Games 2010"></a></span><span class="mw-headline">Lucca Comics & Games 2010 </span></h3>
<p>During <a href="http://www.luccacomicsandgames.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.luccacomicsandgames.com/">Lucca Comics and games</a> our Association revamped WikiWall, a project ideated for the Festival of Digital Freedoms.
This time the WikiWall had on one side the theme <i>"comics"</i>; bystanders were urged to stop and write something (what's comics for you?) or to make a drawing.
</p><p>On the other side there were some postcards with free (as in speech) images, which were really appreciated
</p><p>Sull'altro lato erano presenti delle cartoline con immagini
libere che hanno riscosso molto entusiasmo (they were also sought from
other exhibition stands).
</p><p>Even some cartoonists who caught the spirit of the project worked
with us and left a picture on the wall. Among others: Leo Ortolani,
Darix, Gabriele Dell'Otto and Marco Albiero, ullustrator of Sailor Moon.
</p><p>Jaqen took photos and interviewed people for all four days, for Sanbaradio e Wikinews.
</p>
<a name="Other_events" id="Other_events"></a><h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">Other events</span></h3>
<ul><li>October 4, Modena: Aubrey gave a lecture on Wikipedia and free
knowledge at Sacred Heart High School. The lesson was two hours long,
and had been specifically requested by the professor with whom he
already worked in the past. The video of Wikiguida on Wikipedia was
shown, and well received, and has given an overview of Creative Commons
licenses and copyright in general.
</li></ul>
<ul><li> On November 26 Aubrey took part to a panel, organized by "<a href="http://www.azioniacatena.it/" class="external text" title="http://www.azioniacatena.it/">Azioni a catena</a>", in Verona. Title was "Condivisione dei saperi?" (Sharing knowledges?), other participants Officina S3 and Il Superstite.
</li></ul>
<a name="What_will_happen_next_months" id="What_will_happen_next_months"></a><h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">What will happen next months </span></h2>
<ul><li> On December 4, Aubrey will be in Paris for the second <a href="http://rencontres.wikimedia.fr/index.php?title=Accueil" class="external text" title="http://rencontres.wikimedia.fr/index.php?title=Accueil">GLAMWIKI</a> to talk about Wikisource in the conference session devoted to metadata.
</li><li> Monday, December 13th from 14:30 to 17:30 in Milan as part of a
series of seminars on "digital media languages and citizenship" at the
headquarters in Milan, Lombardy territorial nucleus of the National
Agency for the Development of Education (formerly IRRE Lombardia) is
organizing a meeting entitled "Education for citizenship and the
development of writing skills: the case of Wikipedia". Attending <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Utente:CristianCantoro" title="Utente:CristianCantoro">CristianCantoro</a>.
</li></ul>
<a name="News_from_our_groups" id="News_from_our_groups"></a><h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">News from our groups </span></h2>
<a name="Ideas_from_Wiki" id="Ideas_from_Wiki"></a><h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">Ideas from Wiki </span></h3>
<p>The Association launched, at the annual meeting in September, a <i>call
for ideas" called "Ideas from Wiki" (ie the various wiki projects): we
tried to gather ideas on how to promote Wikipedia and its sister
projects and how to raise awareness on the issue of free licenses.</i>
</p><p>Some ideas have been selected and who had proposed the meeting
was called to expose the Wikimedia Bologna of Italy. The next phase, not
yet put into practice, will be the development of the selected ideas.
</p><p>In the (only) two weeks available for the submission of proposals
we received more than thirty ideas; we take this opportunity to thank
all those who participated.
</p><p>The ideas proposed were often similar, they all echoed the
proposals discussed and brought to light very often and at length within
the association, demonstrating that the disconnect between what the
members discuss and think they shoul do and what outsiders asked to the
association does not exist; nobody has however a magic wand or easy to
do recipes to work on the ideas.
</p><p>The full list of ideas submitted and evaluations can be found at <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Idee_da_Wiki" title="Idee da Wiki" class="mw-redirect">Idee da Wiki</a>.
</p>
<a name="New_WikiGuide" id="New_WikiGuide"></a><h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">New WikiGuide </span></h3>
<p>The new WikiGuida dedicated to Wikisource is in the workings. The publication is scheduled for the end of January.
The script, as in the previous guides, is taking shape on the <a href="http://biasco.ch/wiki/index.php5/Copione_della_WikiGuida_%22Wikisource%22" class="external text" title="http://biasco.ch/wiki/index.php5/Copione_della_WikiGuida_%22Wikisource%22">sta prendendo forma Cantiere</a>, the site of Biasco, and is open to suggestions and comments: <a href="http://biasco.ch/wiki/index.php5/Discussione:Copione_della_WikiGuida_%22Wikisource%22" class="external text" title="http://biasco.ch/wiki/index.php5/Discussione:Copione_della_WikiGuida_%22Wikisource%22">go contribute!</a>
</p>
<a name="News_from_our_groups_2" id="News_from_our_groups_2"></a><h3><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">News from our groups</span></h3>
<dl><dt>Regional group Lazio
</dt></dl>
<p><small>by Markos90 and <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Utente:MM" title="Utente:MM">MM</a></small>
</p><p>In "Project WikiTrips" - proposed for the first time during the Assembly of 19 September 2009 - a WikiTrip was made to <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallustiano" class="external text" title="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallustiano">Sallustiano district</a> in Rome.
The destination was chosen by the users Markos90 and MM: a special page in Wikipedia rallies' section was created (<a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Roma_WikiGita_novembre_2010" class="external text" title="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Roma_WikiGita_novembre_2010">Wikipedia:Raduni/Roma WikiGita novembre 2010</a>), and user of <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Roma" class="external text" title="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Roma">Project:Rome</a>
and, in general, all Wikipedians were advised. The trip was pleasant
and useful: information gathered will enhance the entries about
Sallustiano, and photographs will soon be uploaded to Commons. Given the
relatively low turnout of participants, a template-bulletin in the
discussion pages of the project and the portal on Roma in Wikipedia has
been proposed to facilitate the participation of other interested users.
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<dl><dt>New Progetto fumetti on Biblioteca
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<p>Progetto Fumetti (Project Comics) started on out site Biblioteca. Its
aim will be to collect, categorize and describe the comics free
(broadly speaking), on the Internet (and outside it, if we could find
them). We decided to be very liberal in accepting material. All Creative
Commons licenses are well accepted and, at least at the time, no
foreclosure is made for "not encyclopedic" comics' authors, if their
strips meet our favor.
</p><p>The project is just at its beginning: for now we just picked up
some strips without adding a lot of information, but we expect it to
become a meeting point of free comics culture, to advertise it properly
and soon reach a reasonable level of completeness. To achieve this goal a
lot of work from fans and curious people (members or non members) will
help. <a href="http://biblioteca.wikimedia.it/wiki/Progetto:Fumetti" class="external free" title="http://biblioteca.wikimedia.it/wiki/Progetto:Fumetti">http://biblioteca.wikimedia.it/wiki/Progetto:Fumetti</a>
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<p>We are going on with the extension of the guide on how to publish songs with a free license, the FAQs <a href="http://musica.wikimedia.it/wiki/Musica:Rilasciare_la_propria_musica_con_licenza_libera/FAQ" class="external text" title="http://musica.wikimedia.it/wiki/Musica:Rilasciare_la_propria_musica_con_licenza_libera/FAQ">were updated</a> and in the coming weeks we'll start step-by-step structuring of the guide.
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<p>Member <a href="http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Utente:DracoRoboter" title="Utente:DracoRoboter">DracoRoboter</a> contacted the journalist of <i>l'Unità</i>
Marco Salvia, after an article in which he noticed that the Ministry
for Education copied (without due credits...) from Wikipedia. The
interview was published on Wikinotizie: <i><a href="http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Marco_Salvia:_chi_copia_Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="n:Marco Salvia: chi copia Wikipedia">Marco Salvia: chi copia Wikipedia</a></i>.
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<ul><li><b>Wikinews</b>: Two new sysops were elected, <a href="http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Utente:Codicorumus" class="extiw" title="n:Utente:Codicorumus">Codicorumus</a> and <a href="http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/utente:Osk" class="extiw" title="n:utente:Osk">Osk</a>, while two were removed for inactivity: <a href="http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Utente:Olando" class="extiw" title="n:Utente:Olando">Olando</a> and <a href="http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Utente:Wappi76" class="extiw" title="n:Utente:Wappi76">Wappi76</a> (who since 2007 was also bureaucrat).
</li><li><b>Wikiquote</b>: In aNobii, a <a href="http://www.anobii.com/itwikiquote/books" class="external text" title="http://www.anobii.com/itwikiquote/books">profile of Wikicitazioni</a> and an <a href="http://www.anobii.com/groups/0105f4f6d9a205e8a9/" class="external text" title="http://www.anobii.com/groups/0105f4f6d9a205e8a9/">associated group</a>
were created to promote the project in the site of book lovers, the
most known in Italy; 8000 libri have been added, all of them with their
incipit or a paragraph included in Wikiquote articles. aNobii users
appreciated the initiative, and today the group has nearly 250 members;
we also made a <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkbTq2pGEiCodExxRXdYdlV2bTlPRzZxdnBTSmlreGc" class="external text" title="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkbTq2pGEiCodExxRXdYdlV2bTlPRzZxdnBTSmlreGc">spreadsheet with the list</a> of all books added in aNobii (<a href="http://it.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Bar&oldid=366068#Siamo_ufficialmente_in_aNobii" class="external text" title="http://it.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Bar&oldid=366068#Siamo_ufficialmente_in_aNobii">discussions</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0bTq2pGEiCoYmFlOTQ0OTctYWY0Yy00NWI5LTg3YzUtZDJlY2NhNmQzOGZh&export=download" class="external text" title="https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0bTq2pGEiCoYmFlOTQ0OTctYWY0Yy00NWI5LTg3YzUtZDJlY2NhNmQzOGZh&export=download">technical details on how we did it</a> and <a href="http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Utente:Nemo_bis/Elenco_titoli/Incipit/Codice" class="extiw" title="q:Utente:Nemo bis/Elenco titoli/Incipit/Codice">little program</a> to export titles). We also have <a href="http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Utente:Nemo_bis/Elenco_titoli/Registro" class="extiw" title="q:Utente:Nemo bis/Elenco titoli/Registro">a list</a> with roughly 10 000 titles of works which are featured in Wikiquote articles, excluding sections "Incipit of".
</li><li><b>Wikisource</b>: <a href="http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Utente:Candalua" class="extiw" title="s:Utente:Candalua">Candalua</a> studied and installed tool <a href="http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Trascrizioni/Match_and_split" class="extiw" title="s:Progetto:Trascrizioni/Match and split">Match&Split</a> by ThomasV; a test on <i><a href="http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Storia_della_letteratura_italiana" class="extiw" title="s:Storia della letteratura italiana">Storia della letteratura italiana</a></i>
gave excellent result. This means that we have much more capacity of
coupling original versions of a page with transcribed text. We started <a href="http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Rilettura_del_mese" class="extiw" title="s:Wikisource:Rilettura del mese">month's rereadings</a>, advertized also in the sister projects since also novice users of Wikisource may profitably work on them.
</li><li><b>Wiktionary</b>: A new sysop was elected, <a href="http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Utente:Siciliano_Edivad" class="extiw" title="wikt:Utente:Siciliano Edivad">Siciliano Edivad</a>.
</li><li><b>Wikipedia</b>: Wikipedia in Italian language, like some 30 other projects, eventually features the group of <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/it:Wikipedia:Autoverificati" class="extiw" title="w:it:Wikipedia:Autoverificati">self-verified users</a>,
to ease fighting vandalisms: self-verification of contributes reduces
the number of potentially vandalistic updates, and people may find
improper or harmful modifications with more ease. Because of simple
procedures, a week after its inception the group already includes nearly
300 users, most of which added the first day. As for sysops, 5 were
elected (or re-elected), 4 quitted (among them, a bureucrat) and 1 was
removed for inactivity.
</li></ul>