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Today's Topics:
1. Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for
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2. Wikimedia Israel report, September 2011 (Harel Cain)
3. Wikimedia Espa?a Jul-Sep 2011 Chapter Report (Mar?a Sefidari)
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:17:57 -0700
From: Jay Walsh <
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Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia
$3.6 Million for Technology Improvements
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*Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for Technology
Improvements*
SAN FRANCISCO, CA ? October 5, 2011 ? The Wikimedia Foundation announced
today it has been awarded the largest-ever grant in its history: $3.6
million from the Stanton Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to fund
major investments in the technology infrastructure that supports Wikipedia
and its sister projects, in order to successfully serve their growing
readership. The Wikimedia projects
currently reach more than 422 million
unique visitors around the world every month (comScore, August 2011), making
Wikipedia the fifth most-popular website in the world.
The grant will fund development of a new editing interface that will make it
possible for people to easily edit Wikipedia without needing to learn
special wiki syntax. It will also support development of new technical
features to make Wikimedia a friendlier and more understandable environment
for new editors, and an improved mobile experience for readers and editors.
"The Stanton Foundation is a long-time funder of the Wikimedia Foundation,
and I am thrilled they're increasing their investment in us," said Sue
Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The Stanton
Foundation was one of the first institutions to recognize that Wikipedia is
a serious educational endeavor that's having a significant impact on people
around the
world. I will always be grateful to them for taking a risk in
first funding us, many years ago."
The Stanton Foundation is the foundation created by the American
broadcasting executive and media pioneer Frank Stanton, who, in 1960,
organized the first-ever televised presidential debate. Among its previous
grants to the Wikimedia Foundation, the Stanton Foundation provided $1.2
million in 2010 for the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, a program
designed to improve the quality and quantity of information related to
public policy topics in Wikipedia. The project resulted in 800 American
students at universities such as Harvard and University of California
Berkeley adding the equivalent of 5,800 printed pages of material to
Wikipedia, and has now been expanded to include universities in Canada and
India.
*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://blog.wikimedia.orgThe Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization which operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive more than 422 million unique visitors per month, making them the
fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, September 2011).
Available in more than 280 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 18
million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than
100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation
is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations
and grants.
Media Contact:
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel.
+1 415 839 6885 x 6609
jwalsh@wikimedia.org*(to be removed from future mailings, please reply to this email with
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:54:47 +0200
From: Harel Cain <
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Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Israel report, September
2011
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Dear all,
Here is our activity report for September 2011.
== IDF Spokesperson releases images under CC-BY-SA license ==
The spokesperson unit of the Israel Defense Forces began publishing its
photographs online (on its Flickr account) under a free Creative Commons
license. This move follows a long and protracted process of legislation
promoted by WMIL in discussions in the Science and Technology Committee of
the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. While legislation meant to free any
work created by the Israeli
government of copyright has not yet been
accepted, the move by the IDF is certainly motivated by it. Hundreds of IDF
Spokesperson images are now in use on Wikimedia projects. WMIL released a
widely circulated press release condoning the move by the IDF spokesperson.
* Images uploaded to Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_taken_by_Israel_Defense_Force
* A blogpost in Hebrew in WMIL's blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org.il/?p=255== Wikimedian-in-Residence in Israel Museum, Jerusalem ==
On September 18th, Yair Talmor became the first ever Wikimedian-in-Residence
in the Israel Museum and in Israel in general. Talmor, an art teacher with
academic background in art, will be employed for a two months period at the
museum,
concentrating on tutoring museum staff on wiki editing, organizing
events of public outreach such as editathons and backstage tours, uploading
material from the museum's library and enhancing Wikipedia articles about
prominent Israeli artists. His employment is funded in part by WMIL.
While the focus of the project is in Hebrew, there's also some work on
material in English.
* Project page on English Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/IMJ
* Blogposts in Hebrew in WMIL's blog:
**
http://blog.wikimedia.org.il/?p=267**
http://blog.wikimedia.org.il/?p=237
== Haifa University Faculty of the Humanities ==
On September 22nd, a large meeting was held at Haifa University between
members of
staff from the Faculty of the Humanities and volunteers from
Wikimedia Israel. This was a preparatory session for a large-scale project
in which students in various courses will write Wikipedia articles as part
of their academic assignments.
== Training of Haifa Linux club ==
On September 12th, Tomer Ashur gave a hands-on training session on Wikipedia
editing to members of Haifa Linux club (Haifux). Eight people took part and
five articles were written during the training session.
== Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ==
WMIL representatives met with a Deputy Director of the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. They are very interested in releasing some of their
material under free licenses and in receiving further training from WMIL
about Wikipedia editing. A training session is planned for October 5th.
== Israeli Ministry of Education ==
Tomer Ashur, Deror Lin and Amir Aharoni met with the people
responsible for
Internet ethics and safety education in the Ministry of Education to start
planning one-time experimental classes for elementary school pupils that
will teach them to understand Wikipedia's background, to read it correctly
and to understand the right conduct on talk pages. The lessons are scheduled
for November and chapter members are preparing the detailed lesson plans.
== Photoshooting excursion in Haifa ==
As part of the "Elef Milim" project about 20 Wikimedians took part in an
educational excursion in Haifa.
*
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A3_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA%27%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA
== Thank-you event for Wikimania volunteers ==
A thank-you picnic was held for the many volunteers that helped us make
Wikimania 2011 succssful. The event was attended by about 50 volunteers.
== Board Meeting ==
The WMIL board met on September 13th in Ramat Gan. The Board approved and
signed the Chapter's Agreement with the Foundation and decided to raise a
few more questions about the Grants Agreement. The Board also approved the
2012 workplan with a couple of minor items on the plan reserved for future
discussion. The workplan will be posted shortly on Meta.
Sincerely,
Harel Cain
Secretary,
Wikimedia Israel
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:30:17 +0200
From: "Mar?a Sefidari" <
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Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Espa?a Jul-Sep 2011
Chapter Report
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Hi all,
Please find below the Chapter Report of Wikimedia Espa?a for the months of
July, August and September 2011. You can also find it in meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/2011-07-09
Thank you,
----
Mar?a Sefidari
Wikimedia Espa?a
http://www.wikimedia.org.es;July:
*02.07.2011: Workshop about Wikipedia and Wikimedia at Ciberia LAN Party.
Segorbe,
Castell?n.[1]
*08.07.2011: Participation at presentation of "The Power of Open" with Joi
Ito. Madrid.
*16.07.2011: Workshop about Wikipedia and Wikimedia at Campus Party.
Valencia.
*24.07.2011: Workshop about Wikipedia and Wikimedia at AIS LAN Party. Silla.
;August:
*01-31.08.2011: Throughout the whole month, preparations for Wiki Loves
Monuments in Spain took place almost daily. Only significant details will
be highlighted here.
*03-07.08.2011: Participation in Wikimania 2011. Haifa.
*15.08.2011: Interview in radio program "La Rosa de los Vientos" - Onda
Cero. [2]
*16.08.2011: Placed order for 20 WLM t-shirts to WLM-eu.
*21.08.2011: Asked for a 310? grant from WLM-eu budget to finance prizes
of Wiki Loves Monuments contest in Spain. Received it four days later.
*25.08.2011: Received official notification from FICOD: Wikimedia Espa?a
has been selected as content
collaborator for FICOD 2011.
*31.08.2011: Official press release of Wiki Loves Monuments contest in
Spain distributed to 1000+ media contacts. [3]
*31.08.2011: Events created in Facebook and Tuenti for Wiki Loves
Monuments contest in Spain. 618 people contacted in total the first day,
80 confirming participation.
*31.08.2011: Main prizes of Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain bought.
;September:
*01.09.2011: Start of Wiki Loves Monuments Contest (
http://wikilm.es). It
will last all month.
*01.09.2011: Interview in Onda Cero Seville radio about Wikipedia and Wiki
Loves Monuments contest in Spain.
*01.09.2011: Fundaci?n Telef?nica releases data on WikiEducared event, in
which Wikimedia Espa?a participated along with other Iberocoop members.
[4][5]
*05.09.2011: Documentation for FICOD 2011 sent, notification of
reception
received.
*05.09.2011: Interview in "El Faro de Vigo" (newspaper) to Wikimedia
Espa?a's Chair. [6]
*07.09.2011: Created Announcements-l. Public mailing list of announcements.
*08.09.2011: Received T-shirt order for Wiki Loves Monuments contest.
*20.09.2011: Interview in Radio Le?n about Wikipedia, Wikimedia and
Wikiproject Le?n. [7]
*21.09.2011: Wikimedia Espa?a, official partner of "Share Your African
Knowledge: European cultural institutions share their African knowledge on
Wikipedia", also known as WikiAfrica. [8]
*23.09.2011: Participation of the Secretary of WMES in TV debate titled
"Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia", in TV program "Para todos La 2" in channel La
2 (RTVE) -Spanish public television-. [9]
*29.09.2011: Meeting between Wikimedia Espa?a and the local community of
Mozilla Firefox. Valladolid. [10]
*30.09.2011: End of Wiki Loves Monuments in Europe and
Spain. Provisional
stats: 168,555 pics submitted for the European contest, of which 17,167
are from Spanish monuments submitted via WMES contest (10.18%). Wikilm.es
[11] website stats: Between 4,000-6,000 unique visitors per day every day.
Web stats 15-30 September: 83927 visitors. Since September 8: 102,456
Visits, 214,965 Pageviews, 168,679 Unique Pageviews, 94,833 people visited
this site, 2.10 Pages/Visit, 00:01:10 Avg Time on Site, 62.96% Bounce
Rate, 92.29% % New Visits, 92.37% New Visitor, 7.63% Returning Visitor.
Top ten cities: 1. Madrid, 2. Barcelona, 3. Valencia, 4. Sevilla, 5.
M?laga, 6. Zaragoza, 7. Bilbao, 8. Granada, 9. La Coru?a, 10. Alicante.
Links:
[1]
http://ciberia.org/?p=163[2]
http://www.ondacero.es/audios/la-rosa-de-los-vientos/
[3]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011/Press_mentions#SpainPress mentions
[4] Release:
http://www.educared.org/global/premiointernacional/noticias/wikieducared[5] PDF file (Spanish):
http://www.educared.org/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=15f950f0-4ca5-4059-b7d1-dac08d05ac88&groupId=4520136
[6]
http://www.farodevigo.es/galicia/2011/09/05/jorge-sierra-alumnos-les-digo-crean-wikipedia/577387.html
[7]
http://corazonleon.blogspot.com/2011/09/el-vinculo-leones-lxxii-wikipedia.html[8]
http://www.wikiafrica.org/
[9] Video:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/para-todos-la-2/para-todos-2-enciclopedia-wikipedia/1205506/#aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ydHZlLmVzL2FsYWNhcnRhL2ludGVybm8vY29udGVudHRhYmxlLnNodG1sP3BicT0zJnNlY3Rpb25GaWx0ZXI9NDM0MzImbW9kbD1UT0MmbG9jYWxlPWVzJnBhZ2VTaXplPTEyJmN0eD0zNzQxMCZhZHZTZWFyY2hPcGVuPWZhbHNl
[10]
http://eventos.mozilla-hispano.org/9/mozpub-001-valladolid/[11]
http://wikilm.es
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