This is *the first report of Wikimedia Hungary* (or as we call it Wikimédia
Magyarország, or just WMM). During the reporting period we were dealing with
the official business of the incorporation. This report focuses on our
activities during this time, and more.
*You can find this report on Meta-Wiki: [[Wikimedia
chapters/Reports/Wikimédia Magyarország/August–October 2008]].*
*== Activities ==
=== August 2008 ===*
The plans and discussions about a Hungarian chapter were brewing for over a
year by August (c.f. our short summary on the subject on [[Wikimédia
Magyarország]]). At a meeting held on 1 August we decided on finally
establishing the chapter. This is what happened after the meeting in August:
* We contacted the Chapters Committee with our plans, and than adapted those
to the requirement of the WMF.
* Opened a temporary, closed wiki for discussions about founding the chapter
(
http://sunfire.mokk.bme.hu/wikimedia).
* We gathered information regarding WMF policies and guidelines, the local
legal environment, our fiscal needs and capabilities.
* Contacted as many chapters as we could to have a clearer idea of what to
expect, and asked for advice. We received valuable input from all the
chapters we contacted, and also a welcoming attitude in forming a new
organisation in the family of chapters.
* During this month we discussed the operation, activities and goals of the
planned chapter, and drafted our bylaws.
* Through the help of our president we secured the domains
''wiki.media.hu''
and ''wikimédia.hu <http://xn--wikimdia-f1a.hu>'' (unfortunately we
found
that ''wikimedia.hu'' is "squatted").
* We prepared the introduction of the Flagged Revisions extension on the
Hungarian Wikipedia. After a period of testing on a copy of Wikipedia, the
community has approved and asked for the introduction of this extension on 1
September. A Bugzilla request (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15568) has been filed to this
effect, now we are waiting for the developers to implement the decision.
*=== September 2008 ===*
* On 3 September we had a meeting and decided on a schedule of the founding.
The local tax laws put pressure on us to incorporate before the end of the
year, which at the time didn't seem entirely possible.
* Meanwhile, the admins of the Hungarian Wikipedia have started removing
images that cannot be legally used according to Hungarian copyright law.
Hungarian law doesn't recognise the concept of fair use and there are only
limited cases when a copyrighted work can be used without permission.
Finding proper legal expertise over the years to advise on crucial issues
has been extremely difficult, though we can acknowledge the help of the
Hungarian Creative Commons community. Many questions remain open that in the
future we hope will be answered by legal counsel made available through the
facilities of WM Hungary.
* Concurrently we applied and received [[OTRS]] access, established a
Hungarian information and permissions queue, and adopted a way of handling
permissions similar to the one used on Commons.
* We have redoubled our involvement in the translation effort, translating
some of the Foundation web pages that would be useful for our chapter's
website as well. Note, that MediaWiki localisation of the Wikipedia UI has
been constantly close to 100% for a longer period of time.
* We introduced ourselves on Meta-Wiki ([[Wikimédia Magyarország]] and
[[Wikimedia Chapters]]), and started a community wide discussion in the
Hungarian projects about the chapter.
* Concurrently, in the first half of the month we have sent the draft of the
bylaws to the Chapters Committee.
* The end of September has been significant in the life of our chapter, we
organised the founding meeting on 27 September in Budapest. At the meeting
20 founding members showed up from different parts of Hungary and one member
even travelled from Transylvania, Romania just to be a member. Apart from
the founding members there were present some spectators that couldn't join
(for being too young, we hope that we can clarify the legal situation and
offer some form of involvement for the members of the younger generations as
well).
* After a successful founding meeting the elected board and the certifiers
of the minutes handed in the necessary paperwork at the Metropolitan Court
in Budapest (housed in a very impressive, old building, still bearing signs
of once being a court in the Austria-Hungary of the 19th century).
*=== October 2008 ===*
* The Court has ordered some smaller changes in the bylaws and additional
papers, and to affect them a repeated founding meeting had to be held with
the same members present as before.
* We organised this new meeting, gathered the necessary documents and
changed our bylaws. The repeated meeting was held on 19 October where we
accepted the necessary changes. The request for incorporation with the new
bylaws and the additionally requested documents was handed in at the
Metropolitan Court the next day.
* During October we started collecting ideas about our future homepage and a
possible strategy regarding buying the necessary domains for the different
projects that have a Hungarian name (all except Commons, at this time).
*
== Chapter administration ==*
* We have voted on our Board at both founding meetings we have held, with
the same results. The composition of the Board is as follows, their term
starting at the moment of legal registration (incorporation):
** [[hu:User:Grin|Péter Gervai]], President;
** [[hu:User:Samat|Tamás Mészöly]], Executive Vice-president;
** Dániel Zrínyi, Financial Vice-president;
** [[User:Bdamokos|Bence Damokos]], Board member (for international
relations);
** [[hu:User:Cassandro|Gábor Hanák]], Board member.
*
== Lobbying/Political ==*
* Some of our members were present at the founding of the Hungarian Creative
Commons Association (Creative Commons Magyarország Egyesület).
* We conducted successful negotiations with the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics and the Media Education and Research Center
thereof, they have agreed [possibly outside the current reporting period] to
provide us with an official seat at the University.
* Some of our members were invited to a meeting in the Hungarian Department
of Health with the representatives of ESKI (Health Strategic Research
Institute) about the Hungarian version of the [[w:ICD|ICD]] classification
(they were concerned about the copyrights and the importance of providing
accurate information about this fixed system on a freely editable interface
that is Wikipedia).
*== Media and news ==*
* After our founding meeting we were mentioned in national and regional
newspapers, and their online editions:
**
http://www.origo.hu/techbazis/20080929-egyesuletet-alapitanak-a-magyar-wiki…
an online newspaper article about us and the Creative Commons
community
forming an association;
**
http://www.bmhirlap.hu/index.php?apps=cikk&d=2008-09-30&r=236&c… –
regional newspaper, a short mention in of their columns;
**
http://nol.hu/archivum/archiv-508639 – article about us founding an
association in one of the biggest dailies in Hungary;
**
http://hu.wikinews.org/wiki/Még_idén_létrejöhet_a_Wikimédia_Magyarország_Eg…
Hungarian Wikinews article about our founding.
== News from the Hungarian Wikimedia projects ==
* The Hungarian Wikipedia has overtaken the Esperanto edition, regarding
number of articles, becoming the 21st biggest edition (8 August).
* The number of edits on Wikipedia has reached 4 million in total (14
August).
* The Hungarian Wikipedia reached an article milestone of 105,000 articles
(11 September).
*== Coming up ==*
This concludes our report on activities in the period of August–October, you
can find out more on our website and Meta pages:
http://wiki.media.hu and
[[Wikimédia Magyarország]] (currently both point to the same page, this will
change however).
Coming up in the next issue of our report and in the next chapter of our
chapter:
* The race between the Board and the Court results in a tie: they approve us
on the same date;
* Starting up an open wiki for our chapter, moving the members only wiki to
its final hosting place;
* Further media appearances.
*Wiki-links in this report:*
[[Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimédia Magyarország/August–October 2008]]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…
[[Wikimédia Magyarország]]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g
[[Wikimedia Chapters]]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters
[[OTRS]]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS
[[w:ICD|ICD]]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD
[[hu:User:Grin|Péter Gervai]]:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Grin
[[hu:User:Samat|Tamás Mészöly]]:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Samat
[[User:Bdamokos|Bence Damokos]]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bdamokos
[[hu:User:Cassandro|Gábor Hanák]]:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Cassandro
Best regards,
Tamás Mészöly
WM Hungary, Executive Vice-president