[Wikimedia Chapters Reports] WMFR reports from April to June 2010

Dear chapters, below is a compilation of the WMFR reports from April to June 2010. I am also attaching a PDF version of it, which might be more readable, especially for links. The next report is due early september in french and will cover the whole summer. I'll try to post its english version around the 15th of september. Enjoy, Bastien ######################################################################## April 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~ General figures and facts ========================== Some figures ------------- - At the end of April, Wikimedia France has 203 active members. - In April, our website (http://www.wikimedia.fr) has been visited more than *9000* times and our blog (http://blog.wikimedia.fr) more than *2600* times. - Our search portal http://www.wikipedia.fr has been improved to allow search to be performed on regional languages spoken in France (such as Breton). This portal receives each month more than *20000* visits. Strengthening regional groups ------------------------------ New mailing lists have been created for regional groups - these groups are a way for WMFR to encourage local initiatives. Regional group # members Mailling list -----------------------------+-----------+----------------------------- Non-Cabale de l'Ouest (NCO) 8 rennes(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Cabale Toulousaine 7 toulouse(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Cabale à la noix (Grenoble) 4 - Cabale d'Île de France 13 paris(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Skill-based groups ------------------- Building up on the dynamics of our general assembly, skill-based groups are being formed or reactivated. WMFR wants to provide more autonomy to these groups, and make sure they communicate smoothly with the rest of the association. The "photo" group has now its own mailing list. Skill-based group # members ------------------------+-----------+-------------------------- Photo and reporting 13 photo(a)lists.wikimedia.fr Conferences, workshops 3 - GLAM 9 - Wikimedia projects 1 - Legal issues 1 - Research 1 - Communication 1 - Activity ========= Presentations, conferences, workshops -------------------------------------- - From March 31st to April 4th, WMFR participated to the Festival Déclic de Nanterre (http://www.nanterre.fr/Envies/Multimédia/Declics.htm) - April 8th, Christophe et Adrienne participated to a movie projection on free licenses in a cinema in Toulouse. - April 9th, Julien gave a conference on Wikipedia in Viroflay. - April 14th, Thierry Coudray presented the Wikimedia projects and Wikimedia France to the board of the "Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme" in Paris - April 17th, Julien held a workshop on Wikipedia in Viroflay. - April 17th, several members participated to the Breizh Entropy Congress (http://www.breizh-entropy.org) and gave a conference on Wikipedia. - April 29th, Alexandre Moatti and Bastien gave a talk at the « le numérique éditorial et sa gouvernance » conference at INHA (http://www.sens-public.org/spip.php?article734). International presence in the Wikimedia sphere ----------------------------------------------- - From 2nd to 5th of April, Yves participated to the /Commons Photoworkshop Nyköping 2010/ in Sueden, an international meeting of wikimedians on photography. - From 14th to 16th of April, Sébastien participated to the developers meeting in Berlin. - From 14th to 18th of April, Florence and Delphine participated to the chapters meeting. Projects ========= « Colloquium » 2010 -------------------- A page on the wiki has been created to let everyone shares her thoughts on what the program should be for this event. A specific mailing list has also been created. Museum de Toulouse ------------------- WMFR is actively working on this partnership. WMFR will work with the Museum to take pictures of paleographic objects and put them online on Commons (http://snipurl.com/10tr9w). University projects -------------------- WMFR has been working with the University of Lille to let students validate credits by editing Wikipedia articles. This workshop started in february and ended in April. This projects in Lille is similar to the one that has been done with the Plume! (http://www.plume.info) association in Toulouse (see the page on the french Wikipedia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wikipeplum) News from the Wikimedia projects ================================= Wikisource: partnership with the French National Library (BnF) --------------------------------------------------------------- The partnership has been officially announced on April 7th (read the press release - http://snipurl.com/10tra4). Wikisource contributors are working on 1400 books that the BnF sent to them. May 2010 ~~~~~~~~~ News from the Wikimedia projects ================================= Wikisource: Partnership with the French National Library (BnF) --------------------------------------------------------------- After the partnership has been officially announced in April, the first books are now getting published on Wikisource. Wikimedia Commons: projects with the Museum of Toulouse -------------------------------------------------------- The Museum of Toulouse wants us to wait for the local event of the city of Toulouse (la Novela - http://novela.toulouse.fr) to be launched in october 2010 before we publish the first pictures on Wikimedia Commons. The details of the partnership are still being actively discussed. We hope that our careful approach for this first project will help build new ones with the Museum in the next coming years. New from the regional groups ============================= Toulouse --------- The Wikipeplum project (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wikipeplum) is going on okay. With the help of local Wikipedians and members of the Plume! association, PhD students contribute to Wikipedia on topics related to their PhD (and others if they want.) AFter more than 400 contributions in a few weeks, some students have already been diagnosed as "wikipediholic". General activity ================= Night of the Museum (May 15th) ------------------------------- Five members of the regional NCO group (Brittany) have been taking photographs during the [European Long Night of Museums]. See some of their photographs in the [dedicated category on Commons]. [European Long Night of Museums]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Night_of_Museums [dedicated category on Commons]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Night_of_Museums_2010_in_Rennes Conferences et manifestations ------------------------------ - May 15th-16th : NCO members participated to the Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre (http://www.rbll.info). - May 28th: Bapti animated a workshop on Wikipedia in Toulouse, together with the local Linux User Group (Toulibre - http://www.toulibre.org). Meeting of WMFR's board ------------------------ WMFR's board spent two days in Paris to work. The contract with Bastien Guerry, our first employee, was signed after three months and a half of probing period. Groups activity ================ "Photo" group: the biggest jump in the world --------------------------------------------- Thesupermat took pictures of Taïg Khris for his new worl record of the highest jump. Pictures where immediately published on [Commons], and an article on [lepost.fr] and on [our blog] followed, a nice example of a quick Wikimedia-Project/WMFR/press reactivity. [Commons]: http://snipurl.com/10tr89 [lepost.fr]: http://snipurl.com/10tr4i [our blog]: http://snipurl.com/10tqyw Fundraising group ------------------ After lengthy discussions on the fundraising mailing list, the donation page of WMFR website has been improved: we now collect more rigorously details of people donating to WMFR; we also keep a [public history of donations (http://dons.wikimedia.fr/journal.php) for donors who accept to appear online. Internal communication group ----------------------------- On May 7th, we held on IRL meeting two try to sort out internal communication issues -- i.e. make sure everyone knows the tools, use them efficiently, feel confident in communicating with the board and the rest of the association. We also had an IRC meeting during which we skimmed through the "ideas box" -- a webpage on the internal wiki collecting ideas posted by the members). The goal was to discuss/rework ideas and restate them in a more "activable" form so that those bottom-up suggestions come closer to something that the board can actually take a decision on, and activate. June 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~ News from the Wikimedia projects ================================= Wikiversity and Wikibooks - what living space for each one? ------------------------------------------------------------ There is on ongoing [debate] on how to help the french Wikiversity and the french Wikibooks projects better thrive by avoiding any overlap in goals and content. [debate]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Xzapro4/WB_et_WV WMFR Activity ============== GLAM-WIKI event: December 3rd-4th at the National assembly, Paris ------------------------------------------------------------------ We now have a date and a location for our GLAM-WIKI event: it will happen on the *3rd and 4th of december* at the *National assembly* (Victor Hugo's room). The program is still under heavy construction. We also need to find a catchy name for this event (as "GLAM" doesn't give any clue of what it's all about in French.) Projects with the City of Toulouse ----------------------------------- Bastien went to Toulouse and attended several meeting with officials of Toulouse. The first one with the Archives of Toulouse: they are willing to publish some of their pictures from the [Eugène Trutat] archives on Commons. The other one with the Museum of Toulouse, where things are going quite smoothly for the current project. The last meeting with the administration of Toulouse: all participants to the [Novela] event in october (including universities, local associations, companies, etc.) where meeting eachothers. Bastien and Adrienne presented Wikimedia France's mission and the ongoing projects with the Museum and the Archives. Bastien went to Toulouse and attended several meeting with officials of Toulouse. The first meeting was with the Archives of Toulouse: they are willing to publish part of their their [Eugène Trutat] funds to Commons. The other meeting was with the Museum of Toulouse, where things are going quite smoothly for the current project. The last meeting was with the administration of Toulouse: all participants to the [Novela] event in october (including universities, local associations, companies, etc.) where meeting eachothers. Bastien and Adrienne presented Wikimedia France's mission and the ongoing projects with the Museum and the Archives. [Eugène Trutat]: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Trutat [Novela]: http://novela.toulouse.fr Welcome to Elisabeth Coye -------------------------- June 16th, Florence announced that Elisabeth Coye, who has been of vital help for processing all the 2009 donations, joined the assocation. As Elisabeth might progressively be involved in more tasks for the fundraising, she wanted to know more about the association itself and to be part of it. Welcome Elisabeth! On the blog this month ======================= A new textbooks publisher ignores copyright -------------------------------------------- lelivrescolaire.fr (http://lelivrescolaire.fr) is a new textbooks publisher who reused many pictures from Wikimedia Commons for its paper-based and online manuals. This is quite an original move in this market and WMFR heavily encourages this publisher to explore this possibility further. But this publisher gave the wrong credit for the pictures, only mentionning (c) Wikimedia... Read more on the blog (in french): http://snipurl.com/10traq Contribute to Wikipédia and win 100£ British Museum vouchers ------------------------------------------------------------- In March, WMFR announced that Liam Wyatt was going to be [a Wikipedian in residence at the British Museum]. The Museum just announced it will give 100£ vouchers to the authors of the first five featured articles about objects of the Museum's collections. This offer is available for all wikipedians and articles can be written in any language. Read more on the blog (in french): http://snipurl.com/10tr0x [a Wikipedian in residence at the British Museum]: http://blog.wikimedia.fr/wikipedia-residence-british-museum-1388 WMFR on twitter, identi.ca and Facebook ---------------------------------------- Follow Wikimédia France: - Identi.ca users can follow us here: http://identi.ca/wikimediafrance - Twitter users can follow us here: http://twitter.com/Wikimedia_Fr - Facebook users can subscribe to the Wikimedia France Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wikimedia-France/107558089273305