Wiki Loves Art / NL
Together with Creative Commons NL Wikimedia Nederland organizes Wiki Loves
Art / NL. 41 museums are participating, including the famous Van Gogh
Museum. Participants can make photographs during the month of June in these
museums of (parts of) their collection. Photos will be uploaded to Flickr
(CC-BY-SA or CC-BY), and the allowed photos will be uploaded en masse to
Wikimedia Commons after the tagging and judging has been finalized.
On June 1, a kickoff event was organized in the Jewish Historical Museum in
Amsterdam (>50 participants), and on June 21 a party will be organized in
the Rotterdam museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Wiki Loves Art was mentioned on
the national news with a 2 minute report and in several other main stream
news sources.
More information:
http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_loves_art/en
Lobby European Legislation
Wikimedia Nederland took the initiative to organize a meeting for European
chapters about EU legislation and policy lobbying. Interested chapter
representatives will come together mid July in Brussels to talk about a
strategy to set up a coordinated lobby to influence the EU legislation and
policies in a positive way for the Free Content movement.
More information:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_lobby
Workshops
In the month September a series of Workshops and Open evenings will be
organized to familiarize people with Wikipedia and Wikimedia and to help
them become a volunteer more easily. People will be introduced to
Wikipedians and the basic principles of editing. Participants of Wiki Loves
Art are made aware of these workshops and meetings and are invited to
participate. Wikimedia Nederland attempts to bring in more volunteers to the
Wikimedia projects this way.
Presentations
Several presentations about Wikipedia/Wikipedia have been given. Hay gave a
presentation about OpenStreetMap and Wiki(p)(m)edia at the Geo Freedom Day
in Baarn.
Wikiwijs
The Dutch government has decided to support the creation of learning
material by teachers, which should become available under a CC-BY license.
This is being organized in the Wikiwijs project (not using a Wiki though),
currently in the development phase by the Kennisnet foundation. Wikimedia
Nederland keeps touch with the developments and to give advice and input
where appropriate and possible.