At the end of 2008: 146898.66 PLN (52230 USD, 35520 EUR)
Expenditures in 2009: around 150 000 PLN (53 000 USD, 36 000 EUR)[1]
Income in 2009: 296328.64 PLN (105 000 USD, 72 000 EUR)[2]
Current balance: 293600.30 PLN (103 000 USD, 71 000 EUR)
1% tax deducible donations
1% tax deducible donation season is finished. In 2009 we have
collected around 260 000 PLN (92 000 USD, 64 000 EUR) which is 190 %
more than in 2008 (136636.05 PLN).
Meetings
Meeting with Andrij Bondarenko from WMUKr
Multimedia Usability Project Meeting France
Two members of Wikimedia Polska (Polimerek and Yarl) attended the
Multimedia Usability Project Meeting France in 5-8.11.2009. We
participated in several workshop groups.
Meeting with Andrij Bondarenko, president of Wikimedia Ukraina
The meeting of several wikipedians from Warsaw with president of
Wikimedia Ukraina, Andrij Bondarenko took place in Ganders Tea Room in
Warsaw, 16 October 2009. It was a good occasion to establish closer
links between Wikimedia Polska and Wikimedia Ukraina. It was also the
first meeting of local Warsaw Wikipedia team after several year's break.
Petersburg
On October 10, wikipedian Ency represented Wikimedia Polska on
Wiki-Conference Petersburg' 09 organized by WMRU. He gave a lecture
about Polish Wikipedia and Wikimedia Polska.
Annual Wikimedia Polska Conference 2010
Annual Wikimedia Polska Conference 2010
mixed with Wikimedia Polska General Assembly is about to take place in
Warsaw, on March 27-28, 2010. At the moment the conference is in its
planning stage. The Conference venue and accommodation sites were
already chosen and booked.
Promotion
Ency and PTJ - PTI award for Polish Wikipedia
Bulletin
3 issues of Wikimedia Polska bulletins were published 8/2009, 9/2009 and 10/2009.
Lecture during the Librarian Conference in Torun
On October 7th, Wikipedian Ency had a lecture "Wikimedia projects
and Open Education Resources. Differences and similarities" during The
Methodological Conference of teachers and school librarians "About
reading books and not only.." in Toruń.
Polish Informatics Association’s (PTI) award for Wikipedia
Polish Informatics Association awarded Polish Wikipedia for being
"the most innovative web service in last decade". The award was
received by wikipedian Ency and PTJ during XXV Jubilee Autumn Meeting
of PTI, which took place in Mrągowo, on October 12-16.
Lecture about Wikipedia in Warmia-Mazury Library
On November 18th, wikipedian Margoz had a lecture about Wikipedia
and other Wikimedia projects during the seminar "Open Education
Resources"
Public Domain Day
Public Domain Day was co-organized with members of Coalition for
Open Education. The event took place in National Library in Warsaw, on
December 30 and gathered around 40 participants. It was a mixture of
lectures and workshops about recognizing public domain content, using
free licenses and related issues. [1]
Outreach activities
National In-Service Teacher Training Center Wikiacademy
Wikiacademy for librarians from Warsaw area was organized in
cooperation with National In-Service Teacher Training Center in
Sulejówek, near Warsaw. Masti conducted a workshop about Wikipedia
editing for around 50 librarians and teachers. The system of Wikipedia
categorization of articles and quality evaluation and management was
discussed in details and compared with digital librarian catalogues
systems.
Wikicontest
A "Wikicontest" - a micro-grant system for editors of Wikimedia
projects analyzed 13 applications in 2009, of which 12 were accepted,
and the 1 was refused. 11 of the mirco-projects are successfully
continued and the 1 was suspended. The total sum of accepted grants was
1638 PLN (600 USD, 400 EUR)
Labstryk 2010
Labstryk 2010
is the project initiated by Masur in cooperation with MPI-CBG Max
Planck Institute in Dresden. The idea is to take as many as possible
good quality pictures of biochemistry lab equipment which is poorly or
not represented in Wikimedia Commons. The project is about to happen in
the first quarter of 2010.
Wikifoto
WikiFoto 2010
is the workshop for Wikimedia photographers from Poland. The workshop
is about to take place in Lodz, on May 1-3 2010. Till now, the
preliminary meeting agenda was prepared, lecture rooms, and
accommodation were booked.
Wikiexpedtion 2010
Wikiexpedtion 2010
is about to take place just before Wikimania 2010 and cover the
Kashubian and Warmia areas. Actually, the project is in its planning
stage.
Others
New office - just freshly furnished - not so large, but nice
Kul's visit in Warsaw
Kul Takanao Wadhwa, Wikimedia Foundation's Head of Business
Development, visited Poland on 11-14 December; Polimerek and Masti
participated with him in Wirtualna Polska/Orange talks regarding mainly
Polish mirror of Wikipedia on Wirtualna Polska and future uses of
Wikipedia content on Orange mobile devices in Poland. Polimerek and
Mast talked with Kul about general issues regarding
WMPL/Foundation/Orange/Wikimania relationships.
New tools server
New tool server was launch at the end of October. It is dedicated
machine hired from OVH company. It has 8 GB RAM and 2 x 1 TB HD space.
Except for launching bots and other editing tools it is also host for
test wiki, Polish Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Wiki, Internal
Wikimedia Polska wiki, Coalition for Open Education Wordpress based
web-service, and several related E-mail lists.
After long discussion it was decided to redirect wikipedia.pl
domain (which is registered by Wikimedia Polska) to search page
directly maintained by WMPL. The search page is based on Wikiwix engine
and provides searching of polish, cashubian and silesian Wikipedias, as
well as Wikimedia Commons.
New employee
On December we have hired a secretary to our new office. The
secretary is about to work for 4 hours per day (1/2 of full daily
employment). The secretary is a young lawyer just staring her attorney
training/scholarship. Among other experiences she was a treasuer of
Amnesty International Polska-Lodz's division, and a volunteer secretary
of Polish division of European Law Student's Association. See her
personal info on Wikimedia Polska wiki: [2]
New office
A new office is in its organizational stage. It is just a tiny - 12 m2 room in newly renovated office building, located in nice, green area of Lodz, second largest city in Poland.
New bank account
Due to the problems with former bank, a new bank account was open,
and the funds were gradually transferred. The new bank account has
easier on-line access and lower operational costs.
Press and media
Mainstream media
2009-12-05 Rzeczpospolita - 3rd largest Polish daily
newspaper - "Knowledge does not depend on voting" - long interview with
Paweł Jochymem - a founder of Polish Wikipedia (link)
2009-12-01 Przekrój - weekley news magazine (one of the biggest in Poland) "Wikipedia is not shrinking", numer s. 8
