Wikimedia news/numero 20/en
W i K i M e D i A N e W s no. 20 - October 2nd, 2008
Original at:
http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Wikimedia_news/numero_20/en
Official monthly bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.
Table of contents:
* 1 Editorial
* 2 What happened last month
* 3 What will happen next month
* 4 News from our projects
o 4.1 News from Italian WMF projects
o 4.2 News from W@H
* 5 News from Wikimedia Italia
o 5.1 New Project
o 5.2 News from Biblioteca
* 6 Featured Wikimedian/Picture of the month
== Editorial==
A new board, new members and new ideas... this seems to be the output
from the meeting in Caserta, which marks out the activity of our
association during last month. When you read this issue of wikimedia
news you'll notice how ideas, new proposals, and committments of our
association are today various more than ever, so that they need not
only care from the board but also and above that the whole WMI takes
active part in them.
I wish a happy social year to every member and to the board, and I
hope that it will bring growth and development to our Wikimedia
Italia.
Senpai
==What happened last month==
* September 6th, 2008 - at CEFORS, in Marcianise (CE), we held the
Annual Meeting of Wikimedia Italia Association. Its agenda:
1. Report from the Board about the State of the Association
2. Changes to the Regulations of the Association
3. Ratification of the Board Deliberations
4. Approval of the Final Balance for 1H2008
5. Renew of Social Offices
6. Discussion about policies and activities of the Association.
Wiki@Home staff made a WMI report (in Italian) for the event, and
an interview (in Italian) to the new appointed Board.
* September 13th and 14th: we attended the Arezzo Copyleft
Festival. Here there is a short report by Senpai:
The Copyleft Festival in Arezzo has been a really good place to
make contact with the world in favour of the free spread of knowledge.
We have a notable talk with the staff of Schiaffo Edizioni, who will
probably add some of their short stories in Biblioteca. Also notable
was a talk with the organization, which led to the possibility that
next year WMI will take part to Italia Wave (one of the most important
music festivals in Italy). Out presence wouold be important especially
since we are broadening our scope to include music.
We also met the authors of Don_Zauker, an Italian comic strip, who
agreed to look at the articles about them in it.wiki and who gave us
an illustration for the comic in cc-by-sa.
As for participation... well... we had continuing rain, with very
few glimpses of sun. It was however nice to talk with many users of
it.wiki, who asked us a lot of questions and bought some gadget.
From an economic point of view, taking into account the really bad
weather, the result was rather satisfactory.
* September 20th, Schio (VI): we attended "Software Freedom Day"
at the Piazza Telematica di Schio with two talks: "Wikipedia e i
contenuti liberi" (Wikipedia and free contents) and "Wikimedia Commons
e i 500 anni di Palladio" (Wikimedia Commons and Palladio's 500th
Anniversary).
== What will happen next month==
* October 18th, Milano: we will attend European Humanist Forum. We
will have a stall and we will join the panel Digital Technologies to
enslave us or at the service of humanity?. We should also be part of
the working group "Digital Technology".
* October 23th-26th, Firenze: We will attend Festival della
Creatività]. This year we will have a stand in a nice position, at the
entrance of the main pavillon. Moreover wikinews and the blog of the
festival will collaborate. All members of WMI, and especially those
involved in wikinews, are urged to give a hand, since this is a really
big event (last years there were 350.000 visitors in 4 days), so that
we will need a lot of help.
* October 25th: As usual, we will attend Linux Day in several
Italian cities; who would like to represent the Association at a Linux
Day near home should leave his/her name in the relevant page in
wikipedia, asking also for promotional material when possible.
== News from our projects ==
=== News from Italian WMF projects===
* Wikibooks: More than 60% of modules is classified according to
Development stages. More than 3,600 modules are present.
* Wikinotizie: Reached 6,200 articles.
* Wikipedia: Festival della qualità: after the Festival for
rewriting sentences using "purtroppo" ended, now we have Festival for
cleaning RevertBot.
* Wikiquote: Gacio quit from sysop. Verbal and direct sources are
now deprecated, as per the new guidelines.[1] [2] [3]
* Wikisource: OrbiliusMagister has been elected bureucrat.
* Wikiversità: Nick1915 quit from sysop. Reached 5,800 total pages.
* Wikizionario: After voting, Frieda, .mau., Snowdog, The Doc have
been revoked sysop status. Reached 95,000 headwords.
=== News from W@H===
During the meeting in Caserta, a report for the last season of
interviews has been shown. Torsolo won the Wiki@Home Prize 2007/08
(see article (in Italian) on Wikinotizie). An interview to the
mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi is in the works; who wants to
cooperate may access the relevant page.
== News from Wikimedia Italia==
* Our Association has a new Board, which includes:
Frieda Brioschi, president
Luca Sileni, vice-president and secretary
Marco Chiesa, board member (and attached to international relationship)
Maurizio Codogno, board member
Federico Leva, board member and treasurer
=== New Project ===
We just started a new project under the umbrella of Wikimedia Italia:
Musica. Its goal is to collect songs, lyrics and scores released under
a free license. Musica will be officially launched at the end of
October at Faenza, during M.E.I. 2008. Before that date, all members
are invited to give their contribution to let this new idea start
well.
=== News from Biblioteca===
After a quick poll we decided to split Biblioteca in two sections, one
for texts which cannot be put on wikisource because of differences in
copyright laws between Italy and U.S., and another for recent texts
released under a Creative Commons license. Now we are discussing al
the project's Village Pump how to put in practice this split.
[modifica] Featured Wikimedian/Picture of the month
The picture of the monty is of course from the meeting in Caserta
....ok, maybe it's time to start working?
....ok, maybe it's time to start working?
==Editorial staff:==
* Luca Sileni;
* Frieda Brioschi;
* Marco Chemello;
* Nemo (section "News from our projects")
* Aubrey (section "News from Biblioteca")
* DracoRoboter and Elitre (section "News from W@H")
To contact the staff, write at: redazione(a)wikimedia.it or directly to
the editor:
* Luca Sileni - wikisenpai(a)gmail.com
* Frieda Brioschi - ubifrieda(a)gmail.com
Notice. This newsletter is exclusively intended for information about
Wikimedia Italia, both to the members and to the general public; as
per Art. 1, Comma 2, Legge 7 marzo 2001 no. 62, it is not an editorial
product