Dear colleagues;
I am pleased to submit the following Chapter report for the potential Wikimedia CAT chapter:
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Courses and lectures *Saturday 5 June. "Let's make Wikipedia grow" workshop in Biblioteca Districte 2, Sant Cosme, 157, Terrassa (User:Gomà) *End of the pilot stage of the Viquilletra project, conducted jointly with the Department of Education and the UOC. The model article is "L'amor a Ausiàs March". (User:Barcelona).
Content release
*Wednesday 30 June. Meeting with the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, with a cooperation agreement being signed. Said agreement will draw inspiration from the experience between the British Museum and Wikimedia UK. They will grant us access to the museum, content about its works, images, etc. We will also organise Wikipedia editing courses for the museum personnel. If you are interested, please contact User:Kippelboy, there will soon be many opportunities for activities.
Media
*The Catalan Association of Shire Press has supported our Wikimedia CAT application. Its members have contributed to spread aroung the news that we have reached 250,000 articles. *Our efforts focused on spreading the news that the Catalan Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles. (User:Ssola) **This has been reported by a great deal of media from all over the Catalan Countries: TV3, IBdigital, Vilaweb, Racó català, Diariocritico, bitscatalans, Tinet, Segre, L'Informatiu, Informatics.cat, La veu de Mallorca and many more.
Institutional relations
*Tuesday 15 June at 11:30 am: meeting with the "La Caixa" Welfare Project, studying various possibilities for cooperation, including with the CosmoCaixa museums (Gomà). *Thursay 17 June at 9:00 am: cooperation meeting with the Institute of Catalan Studies. We asked for linguistic advice provided through regular reviews of a sample of articles. It seems providing this service may be difficult, they have to consider it, but there was a good level of understanding and the desire to cooperate. (Users:Barcelona and Pallares). We also opened contact with copyediting postgraduate studies. *Friday 25 June: "Wikipedia is the most" interview for the Terrassa library network (Gomà).
Miscellaneous
*Sunday 27 June: meeting in Sabadell to promote cinema-related content (Pallares). *Tuesday 29: meeting of the Coordinator of Institutions for Free Knowledge and Software at the Citilab in Cornellà (Esenabre, Pallares, Toniher and Gomà). *Wednesday 30: dinner with Mark Surman, managing director of the Mozilla Foundation, to take part in the 2010 Drumbeat Festival, held from 3 to 5 November in Barcelona. We will organise a Wikipedia workshop and we are really interested in bringing proposals which may arise at Wikimania in Gdansk. (Toniher, Esenabre and Gomà). *Amical-bot is prepared to create articles on USA towns and cities. See [[Pinckard (Alabama)]] as an example. *Six travel grants have been awarded for Wikimania 2010. *Sales of the Viquipèdia book continue at a good pace, with a special mention for an order for 50 copies from the Department of Linguistic Standardisation of the Government of Catalonia.
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Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to submit the following Chapter report for the potential Wikimedia CAT chapter:
Yours, J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff (User:Góngora)
---- Cuerpo del mensaje Courses and lectures This month, where courses are over, there have not been any courses but we are managing to prepare more activities for next month. * Meeting with the Department of Education of the Catalan Government and the UOC for the project Viquilletra, which begins in September. (User:Barcelona) * Meeting with the UOC (Catalonia Open University) in order to make them use Wikipedia on postgraduate studies. (User:Barcelona) * Meeting with the Department of Pedagogical Innovation of the Balearic Government. They confirm an economic support of 4.000€ for the 2010-2011 edition of Viquibalear and the spread of it through the department at the schools. (User:Paucabot)
Content release
* The collaboration at the free knowledge and free content coordinator begins to be fruitful. Miquel Adroer has uploaded at Wikibooks the Ubuntu Guide. (User:Miquel Adroer). * The Department of Linguistic Standardization of the Balearic Government has set under consideration the possibility of releasing contents. Especially, the ones from web hudà. Further information: (User:Paucabot)
Media
* 20 July: meeting at the "Racó Català" in order to see how we can improve the outreach of the news on Wikipedia. * A letter has been sent to the media just to let them be aware of the British Museum awards. Some journalists have already published something about it: La tafanera, Racó Català. (User:Gomà) * At Wikimania, we participated at several interviews with the media. For instance, the Mediapro staff interviewed some members from the Catalan Delegation for a TV program they are preparing and that it will be available on many European TV channels.
Institutional relations
* 15 July. Meeting at the Picasso Museum of Barcelona with several regional museums: Macba, CCCB, Archaeological, Sciences, MNAC. We are grateful to Liam Wyat for his incredible task in explaining his experience with the British Museum. He even translated most of the slides into Catalan (without our help). Further information: (User:kippelboy). * 27 July. Meeting with the Centre d'Estudis Comarcals del Baix Llobregat. We are considering the idea of running the project that we have worked at for so long with the support of Fundació Punt CAT (Dot CAT Foundation). The idea is to carry out a pioneering project which later can be applied to other study centres of the Catalan Countries. Further information: (User:KRLS) * 28 July: Meeting at the Department of Linguistic Standardization of the Balearic Government. They are going to buy our book on Wikipedia and deliver different copies of it at each library and at each school of the Balearic Isles. Further information: (User:Paucabot).
Miscellaneous
* We encouraged more participation at Wikimania 2010. The Catalan group made an effort. At Wikimania, there has been the possibility of participating at the European Project and we have also met different entities interested in getting involved with the Comenius Project, among which we find a Polish school. More information soon. *Within the free knowledge and free content coordinator, we have set a joint agenda. We hope it will help to increase the synergies and the crossed collaborations between entities to promote free knowledge. (User:Gomà) * We are working on the organization of the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in November, where we are going to participate with workshops about contents edition on Wikipedia and initiatives of education by using Wikipedia. This year's motto is "Learning, freedom and the web". (User:Esenabre, (User:Toniher), (User:Barcelona).
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