Hi Asaf,
At this point it is mostly a declaration of intent to cooperate.
Arcanum digitises content under various copyright regimes (some are already
under public domain, some they only digitise without any rights in the work,
for some they receive a fixed duration permission to use), and they agreed
to give us stuff that is under PD if/when we ask for it (some of it might
have made its way already to Wikipedia/Wikisource randomly, especially as
some of the content digitised by Arcanum is available through the Hungarian
Electronic Library or their own website, and some can be bought in the
(book)shops). So far we haven't asked for any specific content, but the
possibility is still open.
Arcanum (
) has a fascinating
wealth of content, some of it available on the internet (not all of it in
Hungarian), so I hope we can find the pieces in there that would be most
useful for a 21st century encyclopedia and request the data. If you have any
wishlist, you might help us in making this partnership more successful.
Best regards,
Bence
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, Bence.
Could you say a little more about the partnership with Arcanum?
Thanks,
Asaf
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Bence Damokos
<bence.damokos(a)wiki.media.hu>wrote;wrote:
Dear all,
Please find below the report on Wikimedia Hungary's activities in April
2011. It is available online at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…
.
Best regards,
--
Bence Damokos
Executive Vice President,
Wikimedia Hungary
http://wikimedia.hu <http://wiki.media.hu>
*Wikimedia Hungary Report*
*Vol 4 Issue 4*
*April 2011*
*Prepared by: Bence Damokos*
This is an update on Wikimédia Magyarország's activities covering April
2011. For more recent updates, you can follow our blog (in Hungarian) at
http://blog.wikimedia.hu
Presentations
In the month of April, we have held presentations about Wikipedia on the
following occasions:
- 8: A presentation at the the Apáczai High School in Budapest
- 13: A presentation at the Humanities Faculty of the St Stephen
University in Jászberény. The audience included students of library
studies.
- 26: A presentation at the Budapest
University of Technology and
Economics
Partnerships
- We have discussed collaboration opportunities with Arcanum, a
publisher of digitised versions of out-of-copyright books,
encyclopedias,
maps and similar. In this spirit we have
signed a partnership
agreement with
the publisher at the XVIII. International Book
Fair of Budapest.
(Press
release:
http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Egy%C3%BCttm%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9si_meg%C3%A1llapod…
)
- We have also had a meeting with the researchers at the Hungarian
Academy of Science (MTA-SZTAKI institute) about the possibility of
using
their anti-plagiarism software to detect
copyright violations on
Wikipedia.
on
our 10th anniversary conference held in
January. Videos of the event
are
available on our YouTube channel at:
http://youtube.com/WikimediaHU.
- Also, we have submitted a report on the 4.3 million forint ($22000)
grant we have received from the Hungarian Council of Internet
Providers to
buy a server (see previous coverage in August
2010:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…
)
- In April we have received notification that our 0.25 million forint
($1250) grant request for the National Civil Fund was approved. The
grant,
covering June to September 2011 is intended to
cover the costs of the
development of a CiviCRM credit card gateway and the printing of
outreach
publications.
Wikisprint
<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg>
<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg>
Marshall McLuhan
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan>
A group called Kitchen Budapest has organized a Wikipedia editing sprint
at
Műcsarnok, one of the biggest art exhibition
halls in Budapest to
celebrate
the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's
birthday. As part of the
sprint,
they created and improved the McLuhan article in
the Hungarian Wikipedia.
A short video and a description of the event is available in English at:
http://mcluhan100.kibu.hu/wikisprint/?lang=en
Meetings
On 4th April we held a board meeting in a Budapest café to discuss
pending
projects, approve new members, the transfer of
our share of the Wikimedia
Fundraiser (see previous report) and similar. The minutes are available
(in
Hungarian) at:
http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Eln%C3%B6ks%C3%A9gi_%C3%BCl%C3%A9s_%E2%80%93_2011.…
.
While the meeting was convened as a board meeting, it was public, and
therefore we had quite a few of our members present.
PR
We have issued a press release and a blog post to mark the 10 millionth
media file on Commons:
http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/T%C3%ADzmilli%C3%B3_szabad_k%C3%A9p_a_Wikip%C3%A9d…
,
http://huwiki.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-millio-szabadon-hasznalhato-kep.html
Fundraising
Wikimedia Hungary participated in the 2009/2010 fundraiser as a partner
of
the Wikimedia Foundation. The amount of donations
raised in Hungary in
April
was 15 000 forints ($75) by Wikimedia Hungary,
and $17.8 by the Wikimedia
Foundation.
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