Dear all,
We are glad once more to share our monthly report with you.
Kind regards,
J. Gustavo Góngora
Goloubintseff
(User:Góngora)
Courses and conferences
*Tuesday 6 & Wednesday 7 April: a workshop about edition on wikipedia at Vapor Llonch of Sabadell. It is one of the points of the Omnia network. User:Pallares
*Wednesday 21 April. Dialogical conference: "La Viquipèdia: Què és, com funciona i el que l'envolta" (Wikipedia: what is it? how does it work? what does it involve?) at the Industrial Engineers School of Barcelona, Passeig de Gràcia, 50. Organized by: Fundació Torrens Ibern. User:Martorell (also supported by Vriullop, KRLS, Ssola & Pallares).
Relation with entities
*Wednesday 14 April. Meeting with the Sociedad de Ingenieria de Fabricación (Manufacturing Engineering Society). It has been proposed to them the sponsorship of a prize concerning the development of contents involving the manufacturing technologies on Wikipedia. The Society comprehends most of the university professors in Spain who take part in the manufacturing technologies. They would fundraise the prizes and would take part of the jury. We have invited Wikimedia Argentina and other members behind the project of Wikimedia Spain to participate in the organization. Here are the requirements, still waiting for an agreement with the SIF. Gomà.
*Sunday 18 April. Meeting in Berlin with Catalan teachers and with the Executive Committee of Casal Català of Berlín. You can see all the details in the summary of the meeting. Josepnogue & Gomà.
*Sunday 25 April. Meeting with Amèrica Grau. From the World Bank. They offer themselves to support us in updating automatically the statistical data of the bank in all wikis. We have contacted the WMF in order to coordinate it globally in all projects. We will keep informing you. Vriullop
Media
*Agreement with TV3 for the program Espai Internet (Internet Space). During this month, the following articles have been created: Guernica (painting) (4/4/2010 program), Droga (4/18/2010 program; in this program they have also put the article in Spanish), and Estadística (4/25/2010 program).
Other issues
*We have opened the weblink to sell the book on Wikipedia. KRLS. We have arrived on time and for Sant Jordi's Day everything was ready. 10% of the samples have already been sold during that day and thanks to some contacts. Next month and the following one, some presentations of the book will be presented in the media and in every Catalan-speaking community. We will keep you informed.
*We have finished with the identification of all the articles from vp:Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana (Great Catalan Encyclopaedia) that were still missing on the Catalan wikipedia. They are more than 100.000. User:Pasqual
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WMFR monthly report - march 2010
================================
The WMFR monthly status update is back -- this is the activity report
for the last month, March 2010.
- *WMFR is growing*: the last fundraising campaign attracted 60 new
members and WMFR now enjoys 200 active members. Welcome to them!
- *WMFR hired its first employee*: Bastien Guerry will assist WMFR in
various projects, his main commitment for 2010 being a conference
turned toward the academic/GLAM world.
- *WMFR elected the new board* during its annual general assembly: a
warm welcome to the new board members Nicolas Vigneron (secretary),
Pierre Beaudouin (treasurer), Thierry Coudray (assistant treasurer)
and a sincere thank you to Delphine and Alexandre for their past
involvement as board members.
General Assembly 2010 (march, 13th-14th 2010)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The board has been renewed
===========================
Here is the new board:
- Adrienne Alix, president
- Pierre Beaudouin, treasurer (newly elected)
- Nicolas Vigneron, secretary (newly elected)
- Julien Fayolle, vice-president
- Thierry Coudray, assistant treasurer (newly elected)
- Rémi Bachelet (reelected)
- Florence Devouard
- Christophe Henner (reelected)
- Rémi Mathis (reelected)
We held three votes: 1) The members approved the moral and financial
annual reports. 2) Members agreed on supporting Montreal's application
for hosting Wikimania 2011. 3) Members voted on letting WMFR try to get
the "recognition of public utility" label.
Brainstorming thematic sessions (march, 13th)
==============================================
We then held three collective brainstorming sessions:
Ludovic Péron (from both WMFR and WMCH) facilitated a workshop on "how
to get accreditations as a photograph for Wikimédia France?". The
members raised the question as to whether chapters should try to
coordinate and share more information about this, but apparently most
problems are specific to each event, the trick being to bring a BIG
camera.
Bastien Guerry presented a general review (WOW report) of his first
month experience with WMFR and what he found surprising. Long story
short: there are tons of energy and potential, let's make it real by
improving inside and outside communication, and by publicly assuming
values and partnerships.
Jean-Fred presented the regional activity of the western "cabale" (aka
la Non-Cabale de l'Ouest). This is a very active group of wikipedians
holding regular meetings in Rennes, adding many pictures of Brittany
(and more) to Wikimedia Commons, maintaining local contacts within the
citiy and with public authorities, etc.
Thematic workshops (march, 14th)
=================================
Sunday 14th was dedicated to three workshops: 1) ongoing partnerships
with GLAMs, 2) internal communication processes, 3) academic/GLAM
conference (colloque).
The city of Toulouse (south west of France contacted WMFR to build a
partnership about their prehistorical collections so that wikimedians
might be allowed to take pictures of it and work with labs on proper
scientific metadata. This partnership might span over other picture
collections from the city of Toulouse in the next months.
Internal communication of WMFR can be improved: the monthly newsletter
is back; some members are working on a "welcome kit" to help newcomers
better understand where they can help and propose new projects. The
purpose of the various mailing lists will be clarified so that people
can join small - but effective - active working groups.
The colloque is planned to take place at the end of 2010. There is an
overall agreement on the fact that WMFR should focus on GLAMs for this
colloque. The next steps are these: find a location, stabilize a
date/time, make a "save your date" announcement, build the program,
call for contributions.
WMFR's participation to local events and conferences
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- March, 12th: Julien Fayolle participated to a debate about Web 2.0.
- March, 21st: Adrienne Alix presented WMFR and fr.wp to PhD students
from the Wikipeplum project (a project of scientific communication),
also presenting them with the /Plume !/ project (some PhD students
validating credits by contributing to fr.wp.)
- March, 22nd: Emilie, Carl and Bastien represented WMFR to the Forum of
Cognitive Sciences. They engaged in fruitful discussions with
students and researchers about fr.wp and Wikiversity.
- March, 29th: Adrienne Alix presented fr.wp participated to a panel
about « Internet for everyone, by everyone? » organized by the local
LUG in Toulouse.
- Three members (Jastrow, Jeffdelonge and Mikani) covered the local
elections and took pictures of various events.
(Of course, this list is not exhaustive.)
News from some Wikimedia projects
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On march 16th, the french wikiversity reached 1000 courses: see [this
blog entry] (fr) for WMFR's announcement.
In February, WMF deleted some french texts from the french Wikisource,
after the (french) publisher Éditions Gallimard sent them a take-down
notice. WMFR [blogged about this] to clarify the issue.
[this blog entry]: http://blog.wikimedia.fr/la-wikiversite-francophone-atteint-les-1-000-lecon…
[blogged about this]: http://blog.wikimedia.fr/gallimard-retrait-wikisource-domaine-public-1447
Dear Wikimedia partners,
Here we send our monthly report of the activities which are being carried out by Amical. Just as we did last month, when we sent you our February report. We are pleased to share our experiences with all of you.
Kind regards,
J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff
User:Góngora.
Courses
and Conferences
*Friday
26 (Majorca), Monday 29 (Minorca), and Tuesday 30 (Eivissa), Viquibalear
contest prize-giving took place. Pau Cabot & Gomà.
*Wednesday
31 March. Meeting between the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Catalonia's Government
Department of Education, and Amical Viquipèdia. Wikiletter's (Viquilletra) test
experience is confirmed. Four schools will start using it in May, while the
whole project will be carried on next course. User:Barcelona.
Relation
with entities
*Thursday
4th March. We had a meeting with the Castelldefels city council and the Center
for Regional Studies (Centre d'Estudis Comarcals) of Baix Llobregat to start
with the test Wikiproject:Castelldefels. This is part of the association's
collaboration with the Center for Regional Studies of Baix Llobregat. Further
information. KRLS
*Wednesday
10th March. Meeting with the Visual Artists Association of Catalonia. They
manage the Hangar space of Poble Nou, where one of the conferences of the Free
Culture Forum of Barcelona took place. One of the purposes is to sign an
agreement to have an editing workshop on Wikipedia on Hangar, having an
experienced person in edition to give support for the ones who need it and,
besides that, one of the aims is to have a Wikiproject in charge of enriching
the Wikipedia contents on visual arts. KRLS & Gomà.
*March
26. Meeting with the enterprise in charge of the Environment Information Point
of the Balearic Islands' Government. The aim is to sign an agreement with them
to let them use the vp:Portal:Ecologia. We would assist them with volunteers to
have some edition courses on Wikipedia. They will use the Wikipedia's book as a
starting point and some activities in this sense will be held for the purpose
of promoting Wikipedia and encouraging more people to use it on Balearic Islands
ecology-related articles. Gomà.
*March
26. Meeting with the General Director of Innovation and Teachers' Formation of
the Balearic Government. Their support for next year's edition of Viquibalear
is confirmed. One of the questions that arouse during the meeting was helping to develop software tools to
improve the system. They will enable us to involve the GD of linguistic
policy and the regional tourism ministry to achieve further economic support.
There is also the possibility of opening the project in other territories. Pau
Cabot & Gomà.
Release
of contents
*Thoughout
the conversations with the Visual Artists Association of Catalonia, we have agreed with the associated artists the possibility of releasing
images/files of low resolution of their works so that they can be uploaded
under CC SA license. The most suitable ones can be used for Wikipedia.
*At
the meeting with the GD of pedagogical innovation of the Balearic Government,
we have proposed the regional tourism ministry to release images/files to
illustrate those Balearic-related articles.
*We
have made contact with Vilapedia and they have agreed to upload their contents
under a compatible license with Wikipedia. They will soon update the license on
their website.
Media
*On
March 12, User:Góngora was interviewed by a Canadian local newspaper on the
present situation of minority languages on the Internet and Wikipedia. This
interview is still pendent to be published. We will keep on informing you about
this issue. Góngora.
*The
agreement with TV3 for the Espai Internet (Internet Space) program has started
to work fully. At TV3 weekend news they have dealt with topics linking to the
corresponding articles on Wikipedia, which had been improved before.
*Ona
Balear interviews User:Paucabot about Viquibalear. User:Paucabot.
Other
issues
*We
have made contact with the Institute for Catalan Studies to see if they can analyze
periodically the language quality in the articles of Wikipedia in Catalan. More
information soon. User:Gomà.
*We
have proposed the MNAC to carry on with a Wikipedian resident-like initiative. We
are still waiting for a response. More information soon. Gomà.
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Dear all,
Following conversations with Lodewijk Gelauff we start sending our monthly reports to the list, even if we are not an officially recognized chapter (yet) . We are happy to share our experiences with all of you.
Kind regards,
J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff
(User:Góngora)
Courses and conferences
Viquibalear has already finished the stage of presenting articles. More than 800 articles have been presented. Prize-giving time will be on April 30, 2010, with the presence of the Hble. Mr. Bartomeu Llinàs Ferrà, the councilor of Education and Culture for the Balearic Government. We would like to thank Xavigivax's contribution, who designed the degrees that will be delivered in schools. Pau Cabot.
On February 10, a workshop on Wikimedia Commons took place at the headquarters of Òmnium Cultural de l'Alguer, in Alghero. Gus. dan
February 22, a dissertation at the 4th Meeting of Associated Enterprises at the UOC (Catalonia Open University). We are indebted to Kul Wadhwa who, in spite of not being a member of the association, we would be delighted if he eventually becomes one next time he visits Catalonia.
Relation with entities
On Wednesday 3 February, we had a meeting with the General Director of the Information Society of Catalonia's Government. We talked about different ways of contributing such as, for example, having someone who knows wikipedia and the association to be a regional contact and help other users to take an active role on wikipedia, through the TIC network. We will keep informing you of whatever is going on with this issue during the next months. KRLS
On Monday 8 February, we were invited to attend The Torrents Ibern Foundation Board. Among the activities of the Foundation: they fund the physics and chemistry dictionaries carried out by the termcat with an income of 24.000€/year. They purchase the copyright of scientific books, they translate them into Catalan and then publish them with free access to the material. They soon will publish the first one titled Data and Computer Communications, by Stallings. The idea is to do one per year, the permitted amount given the expenses of 25.000€/year. They also organize dialogues on scientific and technological topics. By now, we have already agreed with them that: 1) the next dialogue to take place will be about wikipedia, 2) they have set materials about professor Torrents Ibern under a free license. We will study the situation of physics and chemistry dictionaries to see if they can be published with a free compatible license with wikipedia. Gomà.
On February 22, we talked with the TV3 television program Espai Internet. As a result, we have opened the Wikiproject:Espai Internet (the Catalan for "Internet Space"). The idea is that before starting with a topic they will tell us, and if we can create or improve an article on the Catalan wikipedia, they will take it to the program.
Release of contents
On Wednesday 24 February, we had a meeting at the Columbian Studies Center (Centre d'Estudis Colombins). They have a project that consists of including in their web page all the historical documentation about Columbus, to digitalize it, to transcribe it, to comment on it, and to translate it into Catalan and English. We are planning to sign an agreement with them in order to have all that material available under a compatible license with Wikimedia. This will enable us to copy whatever we want from it according to our aims and purposes. We will keep you informed about this. KRLS & Mafoso.
Other issues
News at the TV3 telenotícies. Kul & Gomà. [1]
Viquilletra [Wikiletter] Project. In collaboration with the UOC and the Education Department to work on Catalan literature. The teachers from the ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) and high school will work on Catalan literature by topics. Once they have worked on that, they will go to a proofs wiki, following Viquibalear's model, and they will put that information on an article, following our conventions of style. They will not be moved to the Catalan wikipedia until they follow the rules. From those articles, there will be links to authors and their works, which also will have to be completed. By now we are experimenting this. We will make the proof in ten educational centers. If it works, the project will begin in September.
We have opened the weblink on identi.ca and on twitter. Martorell & Toniher.
Catalan Wikipedia Book (Llibre Viquipèdia). We are finishing with it in order to be printed in paper and to have it as a material for courses and meetings on wikipedia. The following users have contributed: Vriullop, Mafoso, Ferbr1, KRLS, Miquel puig, and Gomà. It goes without saying, that were are thankful to Florence Devouard and Gullaume Paumier for being the authors of the original version in French.
[1] http://blogs.ccrtvi.com/espaiinternet.php?itemid=29388
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New Years Reception
The new years reception at January 23 was organized together with the
Tropenmuseum and Creative Commons NL. The reception, held in the
Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, was preceded by a guided tour through the
exhibition "Kunst van overleven" (Art of survival) about the Maroon culture
and history in Suriname. The reception was well visited with 40-50 visitors:
not only Wikimedians, but also people from cultural institutions and other
enthousiasts.
CoSyne
The University of Amsterdam organized a cooperation between 7 organizations
that will develop software under a free license which will make it easier to
maintain a multilingual wiki. The idea is that a change in one language will
lead to changes in the same page in the other languages. The project under
the name CoSyne with participants such as the Dutch institute "Beeld en
Geluid" (Sound and Vision), Deutsche Welle and Wikimedia Nederland is
exploring the usefulness. The European Commission has approved the funding
request.
National Archive / Spaarnestad
The "Nationaal Archief" (National Archive) is the larges public archive in
the Netherlands and has a large collection around several themes. The
National Archive has sought contact with Wikimedia Nederland and we will
probably be able to announce a project where the National Archive and
Spaarnestad Photo release a part of a photo collection under a free license
for use on Wikimedia Commons. More to follow!
Library Association
Wikimedia Nederland is cooperating with the Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken
(Association of Public Libraries) on a joint project around media literacy
and cultural heritage. The expectation is that a pilot can be launched in
2010 in the province of Zeeland.
Board Interest Meeting
In February, Wikimedia Nederland will organize a special meeting for people
who are interested in candidating for the board during the elections in
March. This meeting will give an opportunity to get to know the other
candidates, to ask questions to the current board about how the board works.
Coming Up:
- February 20: Board Interest Meeting
- Until March 7: Exposition of Wiki Loves Art/NL photos in the Maritime
Museum
- March 13: Annual General Assemblee, election of new board
Wikimedia News no. 28 - January 14, 2010
Editorial
This year Italy joined for the first time the annual fundraising campaign
launched and organized by Wikimedia Foundation. We made this choice because
now we are listed in the register of Associations for Social Promotion, and
so the donations we receive are tax deductible; this could attract and
encourage further the potential donors. Wikimedia Italy joined the campaign
a few weeks later it started because we wanted to be sure to become an APS.
The worldwide result of this year's fundraising has been quite good: the
Foundation reached its target of 7.5 million dollars well ahead of schedule.
As for WMI, despite the late start and some unexpected obstacle on the way
(PayPal blocked our account on Christmas Eve because of the high traffic),
the fundraising can overall be judged satisfactory; the final result, with
more than 3,300 individual donations, exceeded the forecasts that the
hopeful Board members made at its start.
Donation amounted to more than 58,000 euro. After taking the expenses away,
approximately 26,000 euro will be sent to Wikimedia Foundation, while
approximately 32,000 euro remain available to the Association for promotion
and development of our projects.
We take this opportunity to thank especially all the members who wanted and
were able to become donors.
It is important to note that the fundraising also created the opportunity
for many people to approach to our Association as well as to the projects of
the Foundation; between mid-December and early January we enrolled 31 new
members. A hearty welcome among us to all of these people!
Cotton
WMI Treasurer
2010 subscriptions campaign
Social year 2010 started. Everyone who became member of the Association
before October 1st, 2009 can renew their membership by sending their share
in the usual ways:
- *money transfer* on the bank account of the Association (IBAN:
IT73K0200861804000100330777)
- Moneybookers - use account *iscrizioni[image:
(presso)]<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/File:Presso.svg>
wikimedia.it*
- PayPal - use account *iscrizioni[image:
(presso)]<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/File:Presso.svg>
wikimedia.it* (If you pay with PayPal, please add 2€ for commission
fees.)
In all cases you should always send an email to *iscrizioni[image:
(presso)]<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/File:Presso.svg>
wikimedia.it* with the references and the receipt of the transaction, and
any other communications.
Further information is available at: Associazione:Rinnovi
2010<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Rinnovi_2010>.
What will happen
- January 14, Florence: Laurentius and Aubrey will hold a lecture to
Tuscan librarians about Wikipedia and the Municipalities project.
- January 22, Bologna: Barcamp Accessibility and CMS 2010 (
http://www.barcamp.org/Accessibilit%C3%A0-e-CMS-2010 ), organized by
Emilia-Romagna region; some some members will attend it.
- February 18, Florence: caffescienza ( http://www.caffescienza.it )
about Wikipedia and Free Software.
- Date yet to be determined:
meeting<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/it:Wikipedia:Raduni/Lugano_fondue_2010>for
a fondue among Wikipedians for knowing each other, chatting, pulling
out
some ideas and discussing possible activities to be held in Italian-speaking
Switzerland (not just Ticino).
News from our groups Wikimedia Roma
After the Christmas break we are back with the group. At the end of the
month we'll have a meeting to draw up a calendar of upcoming activities.
GLAM
- Thanks to a contact with Wikipedia OTRS service, All About Apple Museum
of Valleggia (SV) ( http://www.allaboutapple.com/ ) released all the
pictures on its website (unless otherwise specified) with a Creative Commons
license cc-by-sa 2.5. Moreover, the museum staff is willing to make pictures
of the items in the museum upon request.
*Bravo!* and *thanks!* to the All About Apple Museum!
- On 14 January a workshop will be held, with support by WMI, with
librarians in Tuscany. The meeting aims to train participants on the culture
and methods of the Wikimedia projects, among which are emphasizing
Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource. More information, including the agenda and
materials used, may be found
here<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Commissione_rapporti_con_le_…>.
News from our projects News from Biblioteca
Publication of *Il sapere
liberato<http://biblioteca.wikimedia.it/wiki/Il_sapere_liberato>
*, a book released under Creative Commons license by LASER Group, is going
on.
News from Wiki@Home <http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Wiki@Home>
The second season of W@H ends with the shift between IlCorda (aka
DracoRoboter) and CristianCantoro as project manager. The second season
ended with a fall of the number of interviews compared to the previous year;
the project should therefore be relaunched in the new season (2009/2010).
Note the new format of the project Wiki@Home-Video, with its first reports;
the new formula (though still to be defined in detail) must certainly be
supported for the upcoming interviews.
We'll try and broaden participation in the project even among users of
Wikipedia or Wikinotizie, opening it also to contributions external to the
association. We really hope that this will also bring new members to WMI
itself; premium Wiki@Home (not awarded in 2008/2009) should be exploited in
this regard. Of course, we also seek volunteers within the association,
since there is much to be done (maintenance of the pages, proofreading,
etc.) To make a new proposal, what about a business card for the
wiki-reporters (a related proposal is discussed in depth in Proposal:Wikinews
Accredited Reporter Identity
Cards<http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/strategy:Proposal:Wikinews_Accredited_Report…>)?
News from WMF projects
- *Wikipedia*: Wikipedia in Italian language won the 2009 Golden Shield
Award 2009<http://www.centrostudiaraldici.org/notizie/1000420/premio-scudo-doro-2009-a…>issued
by Heraldic Studies Center, for the category "generic heraldic sites"
(here<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/it:_Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Premio_Scudo_d%…>the
discussion at it.wiki Village Pump).
- *Wikiquote*: Community keeps working on an automatic filtering
extension-based AbuseFilter
<http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbuseFilter>to spot at least some
insertion of new quotations without source, and warn
users of the inconveniences of this practice, as per our
guidelines<http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/it:Aiuto:Fonti>,
before they even save the page.
here<http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/it:Speciale:AbuseFilter/4>the
technical details).
- *Wikisource*:
- Wikisource start a brand new homepage<http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/>,
with a compete reorganization of content and graphics. Among the
innovations, there is a page *Help Wikisource*, to invite new users to
contribute to the project.
Help<http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Aiuta_Wikisource>Wikisource
you too!
- After a software update, it is now possible to load texts in .pdf
format as images in parallel
texts<http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Speciale:IndexPages>(the feature
was requested in 2007 and implemented only in August 2009, see
technical details <http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/bugzilla:11215>).
- *Wikiversity*: Community
started<http://it.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversit%C3%A0:Bar&oldid=5438…>
Progetto
aiuto <http://it.wikiversity.org/wiki/it:Wikiversit%C3%A0:Progetto_aiuto>,
designed to facilitate the growth of the project community.
- *Wiktionary*:
- The process of choosing the logo for Wiktionary is finally winding
up: after the first vote in December, a ballot between the two most voted
logos will be going throughout January. Participants from any
WMF project in
any language may vote. The purpose of the selection, initiated
by Cary Bass,
WMF Volunteer Coordinator, is to determine the final overall logo for
Wiktionary (Wiktionary) in all languages, because different editions
(especially the English one) have resisted the adoption of the
logo chosen
by vote in 2006, and have maintained that the provisional one created
earlier. It seems that the Italian community prefers to keep the
logo chosen
in 2006.
- After Wikiquote did in November, also Wiktionary has reached 10,000
registered users. Wikiquote remains the italian project with
more registered
users, after Wikipedia.
- Community has started to consider seriously and to work on some
projects to improve the content of Wiktionary, and in particular the
inclusion of tens of thousands of
terms<http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/it:Wikizionario:Importazione_dizionari_PD>contained
in some dictionary now into the public domain after the expiry of
their copyright, and construction within Wiktionary of a Italian-Italian
Sign Language (LIS)
dictionary<http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/it:Wikizionario:Bar/Archivio/2009-nov#richies…>.
Monthly strip
See it at http://www.wikimedia.it/images/Singloids201_eng.jpg (yes, it's in
English, don't worry :-) )
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Reports from WM-IT may also be found at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia.
ciao, .mau.
Workshop
On December 19, a workshop on Wikimedia was organized for Wikimedians,
together with a workshop for OTRS agents. The workshop was visited, despite
the bad weather, by 11 people, including Lyzzy, who was involved in the
discussions on OTRS and explained the German Flagges Revisions system.
Translation Rally End 2009
VWN Sponsored two "*Translation Rallies*" at
translatewiki.net<http://translatewiki.net/wiki/>this year. The second
rally ran until the end of the year (UTC) and resulted
in over 33,000 new translations for MediaWiki and its extensions.
New Year cards
Snail mail New Year cards were sent to all members and the volunteers who
helped the chapter in the activities in the past year. The members were also
invited in a letter for the New Year drinks, and the volunteers were thanked
for their help with a hand written note. Also several organizations with
whom the chapter worked together in the past year received a card. Several
recipients expressed that they were very pleased by this gesture.
Wiki Loves Art exposition
In the maritime museum in Rotterdam, an exhibition has been placed of Wiki
Loves Art/NL photo's taken last summer. The exhibition is on sight until
March 2010 in the main hall of the museum.
New Year Reception
In cooperation with Creative Commons NL and the Tropenmuseum, on January 23
a New Year reception will be organized in the Tropenmuseum. This will be
combined with a tour through the Marron exhibition, a cooperation project
between Wikimedia Nederland and the Tropenmuseum. Wikimedians, cultural
heritage institutions and marrons are invited to participate the reception.
(want to come? http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/ontmoeten )
Fundraising
Wikimedia Nederland was participating in the fundraising of end 2009, and
was able to offer iDEAL transactions, an online payment method used a lot in
the Netherlands. Results will follow later.
Coming Up
- New Year reception
- Fundraising results
- Thank you notes for donors
- Annual General Assemblee: March 13
