Deal all,
The March report of Wikimedia Hungary is available in English at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…
(and
for your convenience, copied below).
Translations, questions, comments, +1's, likes, etc. are appreciated.
Best regards,
Bence Damokos
Wikimedia Hungary
*Wikimedia Hungary Report*
*Vol 5 Issue 3*
*March 2012*
*Prepared by: Bence Damokos*
This is an update on Wikimedia Hungary's activities covering the March 2012
period.
Our newest reports, originally written in English, are now translatable to
any language, and we would appreciate if you found them worthwhile for
translation. Earlier reports not originally published in English will not
be prioritised for translation as long as the Translate extension does not
support translation from source languages other than English (see bug
35489<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35489>
).
Activities
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Hungary_Cake.JPG>
Cake to celebrate the best articles of 2011
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meeting_1032012_Budapest_2.jpg>
Group picture at the 10 March meetup
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Globus_Cannery_02.JPG>
The Globus Cannery, an example of a picture taken of a building whose
article was written as a result of the photowalk
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vince_f%C3%A9nyk%C3%A9pez.JPG>
The ograniser of the tour is taking a picture of the interior of a church.
- Building on the success of our 2010 maintenance competition we
organised a big spring clean up
competition<http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1…>
on
Hungarian Wikipedia aimed at reducing the backlog in maintenance
categories. In three weeks over 1700 maintenance issues were solved: over
500 articles were provided with sources, around 250 were given an infobox
and at least 300 articles were expanded. The various tasks performed by the
38 competitors were assigned 1-5 points, and the editors with the most
points in the end could choose from a number of Wikipedia-themed items and
shopping vouchers as their prize, while all editors who participated will
receive some small gift.
- On 10 March we held a community meetup in Budapest, with about 40
Wikipedians, including three people invited from the Slovene Wikipedia
community. At the meetup the writers of the best Wikipedia articles of
2011<http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Az_%C3%A9v_sz%C3%B3cikke/2011>
were
acknowledged. The best articles, written or expanded in 2011, were
nominated by the community and chosen by a vote. Wikimedia Hungary provided
the diplomas and celebratory cake for the award ceremony.
- Vince, a community member has volunteered to systematically photograph
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and to write some of the missing
articles. To make the event more fun, he has started organising photowalks
in Budapest,<http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikital%C3%A1lkoz%C3%B3k/Fot%C3…>
where
participants photograph all the notable buildings and public features of a
given part of the city. The first tour was held on 25 March with the
participation of 5 people, who took about a hundred
pictures<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_photowalks_in_Hungary>
and
later about a dozen articles were written or improved about the buildings
the photos show. The next tour is scheduled for 15 April and everyone is
welcome. Wikimedia Hungary has supported the organiser in covering his
transportation costs and we would be happy to fund other community-led
projects<http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1…>,
as well.
- On 9 March Bence Damokos visited Bratislava to meet the Wikipedians
behind the future Wikimedia
Slovakia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Slovakia> chapter.
Wikimedia Slovakia held its first General Assembly with the three original
members who were later joined by a few local and Austrian Wikipedians. At
the meeting they discussed projects like Wiki Loves Monuments, and an
outreach effort they initiated towards local schools and libraries, as well
as the technicalities of running an NGO. Bence advised them that Wikimedia
natonal organisations (or chapters) are usually approved when they have a
membership of at least 15-20 people, but nevertheless the group could ask
to be recognised as a User
Group<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models>,
and get general support from the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Gergő Tisza and Bence Damokos have participated in the Berlin Wikimedia
Conference <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2012>.
Our annual State of the Chapter presentation is available
here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_HU_State_of_the_Chapters_2012…>
.
- We have signed an agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation that allows
us to ask Hungarian visitors of the websites operated by the Foundation to
allocate one percent of their income tax to Wikimedia Hungary.
Subsequently, a landing page <http://wiki.media.hu/wiki/1%25> was set up
to solicit these donations, and we plan to start a short banner campaign in
May.
- A number of merchandise items have finally been produced, including
Commons-themed yo-yos, Wikipedia themed textile shopping bags and stickers
and buttons. These will be used as give-aways at community events and
prizes in our smaller competitions.
- A laptop was purchased for our employee.
- One new member has joined Wikimedia Hungary in March.
Finances
The following financial data is provided for informational purposes only.
The data presented is not audited and may change slightly as all invoices
come in. Amounts are in Hungarian Forints. For convenient calculation about
300 HUF = 1 EUR, and 220 HUF = 1 USD.
Expenses
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hungary_expenses_in_2012.png>
Expenses by month of Wikimedia Hungary in 2012
*Category**January* *February**March* *January–March**Plan 2012*postage fees 18
286 Ft2 315 Ft4 655 Ft25 256 Ft30 000 Ft server maintenance34 375 Ft34 375
Ft34 925 Ft103 675 Ft 420 000 Ftemployee17 705 Ft235 038 Ft251 459 Ft 504
202 Ft2 500 000 Ftoffice space13 875 Ft9 398 Ft 4 699 Ft27 972 Ft60 000 Ft
telephone11 553 Ft - Ft5 135 Ft16 688 Ft100 000 FtPrinter and printing costs 33
610 Ft- Ft6 223 Ft39 833 Ft70 000 Ft Debt to Wikimedia Austria61 100 Ft- Ft-
Ft61 100 Ft 50 000 FtBanking costs7 165 Ft3 850 Ft3 000 Ft 14 015 Ft50 000
Ftcommunity travel4 320 Ft21 504 Ft 26 799 Ft52 623 Ft1 725 000 Ftboard
travel- Ft 119 200 Ft46 926 Ft166 126 Ft650 000 Ftboard meeting - Ft46 818
Ft- Ft46 818 Ft100 000 FtSmall grants programme - Ft3 200 Ft- Ft3 200 Ft100
000 Ft Accountant13 208 Ft- Ft- Ft13 208 Ft300 000 Ft Community budget- Ft-
Ft30 550 Ft30 550 Ft 250 000 FtIT equipment- Ft- Ft127 890 Ft 127 890 Ft250
000 Ftsupport for the creation of chapters in neighbouring countries- Ft -
Ft7 074 Ft7 074 Ft250 000 Ft*Total:**215 197 Ft**475 698 Ft* *549 335 Ft**1
240 230 Ft*
The overspending in case of the debt repayment to Wikimedia Austria (to
cover the costs of the 2011 Fundraising Summit) is due to the change in
exchange rates and a rounding error in the original plan.
It is expected that our accounting fees will exceed the target by about 50%
as we transition to an accountant that better suits our needs and from a
yearly payment schedule to a monthly one, meaning that we will have to
cover this year the accounting costs of both 2011 and 2012. Due to
increased ticket prices and the number of international events, we project
that travel spending both for community members and the board will exceed
planned levels. Banking and printing costs are at expected levels, however,
we have under-budgeted for postage fees.
Due to the cancellation of the Belgrade Management Congress, the 300 000
HUF allocated to support it will not be spent; however we are still
committed to support the Central and Eastern European Wikimedia meetup to
be held in Belgrade.
Revenues
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hungary_income_in_2012.png>
Revenues by month of Wikimedia Hungary in 2012
*Income category**January* *February**March**January–March* *2012 Plan*
donations9 500 Ft113 000 Ft11 000 Ft133 500 Ft- Ft interest39 705 Ft36 406
Ft36 954 Ft113 065 Ft- Ftmembership fees19 000 Ft6 000 Ft6 000 Ft31 000 Ft100
000 Ft other- Ft23 985 Ft39 900 Ft63 885 Ft- Ft*Total**68 205 Ft**179 391 Ft
**93 854 Ft**341 450 Ft*
Other revenue includes the conversion of food vouchers and the
reimbursement of a plane ticket issued by the bankrupt Malév airline.
Planned income for 2012 includes categories of revenue (e.g. 1% income tax
allocation) that will only be realized later in the year and is therefore
not shown in the table. Our full budget plan is available
here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/2012_Progra…>
.
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Hi all,
We currently have this public list for Wikimedia Foundation matters,
as well as a private list called "internal-l" which in practice is in
large part used for WMF/chapters discussions, because chapter board
members are added to it by default. The latter is often used for
discussions that impact community members, but neither the discussions
nor the results are always a matter of public record.
Unfortunately, the name foundation-l is also one which signals
exclusion; it pre-dates the very complex and large network of
organizations and individuals that we are today.
Others have made this suggestion before me, and I like it, so I've
tried to put it into a proposal: Let's have a public list that's
clearly named and scoped to be relevant to all Wikimedia matters.
We're too big and too complicated to fit comfortably under the
"Foundation" umbrella any longer.
That new list wouldn't be intended to replace foundation-l (which
would continue to be used for matters strictly related to the
Wikimedia Foundation) or to internal-l (which may have some legitimate
uses, although I personally find it unnecessary and unsubscribed from
it).
The full proposal is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l_proposal
I'd appreciate your thoughts and comments here or on-wiki.
All best,
Erik
Hello Wikimedians,
On behalf of the 2011 POTY committee, I'd like to invite you to join the
Commons Picture of the Year (POTY) Committee. A volunteer-led contest,
Picture of the Year is run by an organizing committee of Wikimedians. Since
its inception in 2006, thousands of photos from people all over the world
have been selected as Featured Pictures, and all of them are free for
anyone in the world to reuse, remix and share. POTY is one of Wikimedia's
most prominent events.
The committee currently has several dedicated members, but we're looking
for some more help. Last year, the committee counted 2,463 votes from
Wikimedians! There are lots of ways to help out, including helping set up
contest pages, posting messages in relevant locations, *translating
interface messages,* assisting voters, and counting votes. We want to make
POTY 2011 accessible to as many people as possible, so translating pages is
a priority.
We're looking for a handful of experienced and dedicated users. Together,
we'll be able to run one of the most successful POTY contests ever. If
you're interested in helping out, *please fill out this
form<http://pictureoftheyear.wufoo.com/forms/picture-of-the-year-2011-committee/>
* and we'll get in touch with you. You can also keep up with the POTY 2011
contest on Twitter <http://twitter.com/commonsPOTY>, in the #poty2011 IRC
channel on Freenode<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=poty2011&uio=MTE9MTMz98>,
or by visiting the POTY page on the Wikimedia
Commons<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2011>.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
Thank you for your consideration,
User:Mono
Coordinator
POTY 2011
With the launch of the WikiData effort, I am reminded that we should
return to our early willingness to experiment with new project ideas.
This means both starting new types of projects (like commons, like
wikidata!) and closing / archiving / spinning off projects (like the
sep11 wiki).
Two things I would love to see in the near future:
- a fixed new-project process, and at least one proposal evaluated
through it. Starting to work through the backlog of new project
ideas/requests that have existing active projects elsewhere
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are
as a society towards reaching that goal
SJ
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Klein <sj(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I would love to see the new project process on Meta come back online.
(much of this email is posted to [[m:talk:new project proposals]])
I could use some help in making this happen - we need to start an
incubator process for ideas with support, and a separate process for
proposing existing projects that have been incubated elsewhere for
support or hosting. The meta page for each proposed project should
track its progress, whether offsite or on the incubator... a project
infobox should be designed... an interested group (if less formal than
langcom) should go through and review the backlog of proposals and
suggest the necessary next step for each.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Alec Conroy <alecmconroy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can always make Wikinfo a sister project.
A space to hold POV debates would be an interesting intermediate
ground between no-restraint edit wars and topic bans, for those in
heated argument. Is Wikinfo designed for this? I was thinking of
something more like 'Wikireason'. There have been various proposals
for an 'argument wiki' over the years, but I've never seen a working
implementation.
> I have actually been independently trying to think of other wikis that
> should be "sister projects". Some are really obvious and
> non-controversial--
> SNPedia, for example, an encyclopedia of single nucleotide polymorphisms and related studies
Yes. Link: http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia
Genealogy: WeRelate and Rodovid. Both remarkable and lovely
projects. Combinable, if all parties could be brought together.
Both could use support; I've touched on the possibility of becoming
WMF projects with each, and they are willing to discuss it. The
result would be by far the largest free collection of genealogy
information, with support from one of the major libraries studyig and
archiving related data in the US
Children's encyclopedia: WikiKids, Vikidia, Grundschulwiki, Wikimini.
These projects could be coordinated better to share ideas and lessons,
and could use more visibility. Some people active in these projects
are already Wikimedians.
Dictionaries: OmegaWiki. This multilingual dictionary could help
revamp our toolchain for Wiktionary, which remains a bit broken.
Interface translation: TranslateWiki. iirc it does not want to be a
WMF project per se, but could use more explicit support than we have
given so far.
Citations and bibliography: AcaWiki (and the budding WikiScholar).
Wikified maps: Wikimapia. currently profitable and popular; probably
fine on their own. However they use a non-free map stack and use an
NC license; finding a way to help that project migrate to a free stack
and license [now that there is a free orthorectified aerial map
available http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima]
would be of benefit to the whole world.
Other projects for which there is a supply of raw materials available
from content donors (which we cannot currently accept):
* Annotated source materials and their translations: Part of Wikisource++ ?
* Translation memory: Part of Translatewiki++ ?
* Public datasets: Wikidata
* Music scores: Wikimusic
> We're at the point where the lack of diversity of our English language
> project 'styles' may be a major factor dissuading new users from
> participation.
It is certainly one of the factors.
Sam.
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Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
Hi all,
The Board has published a Q&A document around the recently published
fundraising & funds dissemination resolutions.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Board_FAQ
It's quite long -- sorry! -- but hopefully informative. Note that we
did this as everyone was traveling and, in the interests of time,
didn't put it up for a final vote -- so not every trustee may agree
with every word, and we reserve the right to edit :)
The first section of the FAQ, "overview", focuses on board process for
coming to a decision and a summary of the decisions; the next two
sections focus on specific questions about the resolutions' content
regarding fundraising & funds dissemination plans. Some of the
questions we were asked this past weekend already, and some of them we
are anticipating might be asked.
If you've got more questions, please put them on the talk page; if you
want to discuss the resolutions themselves, there's a talk page on
meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Fin…
all best,
phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
<at> gmail.com *
Hi,
I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles. The work was done as part of their Information Design class. The teachers of the class wrote about the class and its results in here:
http://informaatiomuotoilu.fi/2012/03/student-works-from-our-course-part-i/
I think this is a good example of running Wikipedia Education Program / Wikipedia Academy kind of activities in art and design schools. Please copy!
- Teemu
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Teemu Leinonen
http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/
+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
Aalto University
School of Arts, Design and Architecture
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Hi there,
new projects suck, because there are (close to) none
asked some time ago already with few positive replies
bug was already filled at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29923
is there someone who can help move on?
not really expecting tremendous action(s), but just giving it a try
before I give here up completely
Cheers,
Kozuch
Forwarding to f-l/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Do you use MediaWiki as a conference website?
Related to this idea, OpenMeetings is a site established to capture
meetings and video/audio/text of talks at them, under a free license.
The site is a wiki and founded by a wikipedian, but they are looking
for it to be adopted by a wider community.
http://openmeetings.org/wiki/Main_Page
SJ
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:57 AM, aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> If you administer a MediaWiki installation and use it as a conference
>> website when you host conferences and conventions, you might be
>> interested in this suggested summer project:
>
> I would be very interested in there being some investment in the technology
> for running a Wikimania and other conferences.
>
> Unfortunately, the Wikimania 2012 is very much tied up with actually running
> the conference and then we need a long holiday to not think about organizing
> conferences. :)
>
> Also, there is the Drupal Conference Organizing distribution which does a
> lot and has been a product of several years work by experienced Drupal
> developers. I don't think it's simple to magically make MediaWiki into
> wonderful conference software, as stuff like international payment
> processing is complex.
>
> If the GSOC project can be some small piece of what a Wikimania needs, that
> might be more feasible.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> > I seek to work on building a Convention extension as part of the Google
>> > Summer of Code project.I have set up a proposal for the same , here is
>> > the
>> > link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012)
>> > .
>> > I haven't found a mentor to work with me for this project yet, so if
>> > anyone
>> > feels the need for this extension just the way I do, please feel free to
>> > add the feedback to the proposal page, or reply here.
>> > More information regarding this extension can be found here :-
>> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/ConventionExtension
>> > Thanks ,
>> > Akshay Chugh
>> > (irc - chughakshay16)
>>
>> No skilled MediaWiki administrators or developers have shown interest in
>> mentoring this project, so right now it's unlikely to progress. If you
>> think you could mentor him this summer, please reply to me and cc him at
>> chughakshay16(a)gmail.com . Mentoring takes about five hours a week
>> (communication, code review, design help, and so on).
>>
>> (He is applying to participate in Wikimedia Foundation's Google Summer
>> of Code program -- details at
>>
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012/management#GSoC_manageme…
>> and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012 .)
>>
>> --
>> Sumana Harihareswara
>> Volunteer Development Coordinator
>> Wikimedia Foundation
