Happy New Year!
Hi all, the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#67) is available. This
time we wrote about our fundraising (#sostienilacultura), the exhibitions
following Wiki Loves Monuments, and the results of Wikipedia in 2013.
A s usual a link has been added to meta, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia…;
more-or-less raw text of the bulletin follows below.
ciao, .mau.
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= Wikimedia News no. 67 - January 9, 2014 =
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== Happy 2014 ==
New year, same old appointment with the newsletter of the Wikimedia Italia.
We are back on time again and take advantage of this space to wish everyone
a happy new year, dedicated to sharing and free culture!
== #sostienilacultura campaign: let's take the stock ==
The campaign [http://www.sostienilacultura.it '''sostieni la cultura''']
("support culture") began quietly at the end of 2013 but has already
achieved a great success, thanks to your support. Up to now, we had more
than 300 donors, allowing us to collect over 11000 Euro! A special thanks
goes to the two major donors: Mr. Giancarlo Pallavicini and Ms. Ines
Ruffino, for the esteem and confidence that had in us.
We remind you all that the campaign '''[
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sostienilacultura&src=typd#sostienilacultura]'''
does not stop: in fact, '''it's going on in 2014'''.
Through the site [http://www.sostienilacultura.it sostienilacultura.it] you
can continue to donate and give enrollments to the Association at any time
of the year and for any occasion. As a thank you, you will receive the
graphics that make up the kit of '''ambassador of culture''', customized
for partners and donors.
If you still have doubts, read [http://bit.ly/1kwxUXk this interview] with
our President: [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Utente:Frieda Frieda
Brioschi] explains why donations are used to maintain us independent. If
you want to know how your money will be spent, remember to visit
periodically our website and read through this newsletter: we will keep you
updated on all projects that [http://www.wikimedia.it Wikimedia Italia]
will carry on throughout the year!
We also remind you to follow the progress of the campaign on all the social
profiles of Wikimedia, especially those on [
https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Italia Facebook] and [
https://twitter.com/sostienicultura Twitter], helping to grow the hashtag
'''#sostienilacultura'''. To encourage you, we suggest a theme: [
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Associazione:Wikimedia_news/Bozza#Wikipedia_n…
there is the list] of the 100 most visited entries on Wikipedia in
Italian in 2013: it is mostly composed by TV movies. Do you agree? What
would you like to see at the first places in a country that protects the
culture? Tell us what do you think, using '''#sostienilacultura'''!
== Wiki Loves Monuments in the world ==
As in the Italian edition, also in the international competition of Wiki
Loves Monuments '''nature prevails'''! The [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RhB_Ge_4-4_II_Wiesener_Viadukt.jpgw…
photograph] represents the passage of a train in the Swiss
mountains covered with snow.
You can view [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_winnersonline]
all ten shots considered the best among those who participated in
the editions of Wiki Loves Monuments organized in the world; unfortunately
there is no Italian among the finalists, but we hope to recover in 2014.
Not to be missed is the rundown of the [[
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_winners#Finali…
photographs] selected in each country. It'll be like touring the
the world while sitting at home.
Meanwhile in '''Italy''' Wiki Loves Monuments did not stop, opening the
season of '''exhibitions''': on January 6 in '''Todi''' ended [
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.541204915987125.1073741826.201014…
exhibition] dedicated entirely to the Temple of Our Lady of
Consolation,
the monument that collected the most number of shots in our contest. The
exhibition hosted over 500 photographs of the Renaissance cathedral. Up to
December 21, it was the turn of '''Asti''':
[http://www.we-land.com/WeLand] and [
http://www.creativeasti.com/design/ CREATIVE] associations, together with
the group [https://www.facebook.com/igersAsti Instagramers Asti], concluded
the long months of initiatives related to the competition with an
exhibition of the best shots, national and local, and with the awarding of
winners of '''Wiki Loves Asti 2013'''. Moreover, always in Asti, the
exhibition will be repeated '''from 9 January until 2 February''', at the
Association [http://www.diavolorosso.it/ Il Diavolo Rosso].
== Wikisource ==
The re-reading contest organized by [
https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Pagina_principale Wikisource] to celebrate
its first decade has its official winners! On the first step of the podium,
with as many as 716 points accumulated thanks to his tireless proofreading
and correction of pages already transcribed and formatted, there goes the
user [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Utente:Chinasky Chinasky], followed by
[https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Utente:Raskolnikova Raskolinkova] with 376
points and [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Utente:Mccoy Mccoy] who has
earned 313 points. The entire list can be viewed directly on the page
dedicated to the outcome of the [
https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Decimo_compleanno_di_Wikisource/S…].
Congratulations to the winners!
== Freeing Cultural Heritage: an occasion to change the rules ==
Something is moving in favor of the sharing of Italian cultural heritage:
on the site [http://www.beniculturaliaperti.it/ beniculturaliaperti.it] you
may subscribe to the initiative (launched by [http://it.okfn.org/ OKFn
Italia] with the support of [http://www.iwa.it/ IWA Italy]) who wants to
"promote a series of amendments to the [
http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/MenuPrincipale/No…
of Cultural Heritage and Landscape], making the data of Italian
Cultural Heritage available and reusable for all."
The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism ([
http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/index.html#&panel1-1MiBACT]),
and particularly the Minister Massimo Bray, are asked to consider
a series of [http://www.beniculturaliaperti.it/il-testo-degli-emendamenti/amendments],
whose purpose is to make also the data of Italian Cultural
Heritage [http://www.beniculturaliaperti.it/opendata/ '''open data'''].
With these amendments - the accompanying letter sent to the Minister says -
the Italian artistic heritage will be amplified "due to simplification and
reuse of the data of our works of art, encouraging the preservation and
visit."
Particular attention is also paid to lesser-known works, for which the
direct accessibility to a digital archive could mean, in some cases,
salvation from neglect and oblivion. This is very dear to Wikimedia Italy,
that with the annual competition [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/ Wiki
Loves Monuments] specifically aims at cataloging the monuments of Italy,
also re-evaluating those poorly understood by the majority of users.
Please [http://www.beniculturaliaperti.it/sottoscrivi-gli-emendamenti/subscribe]
to the amendments (you can do so on behalf of an institution or
entity, or as a private citizen), to return to Italians free access to
their culture!
== Wikipedia in 2013 ==
The year has just ended and in the world of Wikipedia is already time to
look back and do the first analysis. As a start, the ranking has been
published of the most read encyclopedia entries during 2013. Here we reveal
only the top three of the [
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitrends/2013.html#italian Italian language
version], letting each of you the fun of making comparisons with other
issues: 1. [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%27s_Anatomy Grey's Anatomy]
2. [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Diaries The Vampire diaries]
3. [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia Italia].
In addition, you can [http://kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page/it download] on your
computer the updated version at December 2013 of '''the whole Italian
Language Wikipedia''', thanks to Kiwix. By doing so you will be able to
consult the encyclopedia offline, '''wherever you are'''!
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'''Notice: this newsletter is exclusively intended for information about
Wikimedia Italia, both to its members and to the general public; as per
Art. 1, Comma 2, Legge 7 marzo 2001 no. 62, it is not an editorial
product'''
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Hi all,
Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2014 in London are now being
accepted. Applications are open until the end of the day UTC on 17 February.
Wikimania 2014 scholarships is an award given to an individual to enable
them to attend Wikimania in London from 6-10 August, 2014.
Only a single type of scholarship will be available from the Wikimedia
Foundation for Wikimania 2014. A Wikimedia Foundation scholarship will
cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel costs as arranged by
the Wikimedia Foundation travel agency, shared accommodation as arranged
by the Wikimedia Foundation, and registration for Wikimania.
Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and
selection criteria by the Scholarship Committee, who will determine
which are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2014 scholarships,
please visit <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>.
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form on
<http://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply>. It is highly recommended that
applicants review all of the material on the Scholarships page and the
associated FAQ before submitting an application.
If you have any question, please contact
<wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org> or leave a message on
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships>.
Katie Chan
Chair, Scholarship Committee
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Katie Chan
Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by.
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
The report on Wikimedia Nederland's activities in December is available:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederl….
It is also included as plain text below.
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
*Wikimedia Nederland activity report for December 2013*
*COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors*
· Sweden-week on NL-Wikipedia
The Dutch Wikipedia community decided to organise a ‘Sweden week’ to
support the Netherlands-Sweden friendship year in 2014. More than 1000
articles about topics related to Sweden were added to Dutch Wikipedia. WMNL
supported this initiative by liaising with WMSE and the Swedish Embassy in
the Netherlands who promoted the activity via their website.
· End-of-year Wiki-Saturday
On December 21 volunteers, boardmembers and staff met at the WMNL office
for the last Wiki-Saturday of the year. In total, 20 people came to Utrecht
for this special festive event.
· Wiki-café Groningen en Den Haag
Wikipedians met in café’s in Den Haag and Groningen to get to know each
other better and talk Wikipedia. In total some 11 Wikipedians attended.
They enjoyed this opportunity to meet fellow Wikipedians and want to repeat
the event.
*WORK: content, collaboration and activity development*
· Kick-off meeting World War II project
A group of volunteers and staff met with representatives of the National
Committee for Remembrance (Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei) to start
preparations for a campaign aimed at improving content concerning war
monuments both on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia. April 2014 will be war
monument month.
· DISH 2013
Staff member Sebastiaan ter Burg co-hosted Alex Hinojo's chef table about
starting Wiki-related projects for GLAM's at DISH 2013, an international
conference about digital strategies in heritage.
· Presentation Landscape Heritage Utrecht
Staff member Sebastiaan ter Burg gave a presentation about GLAM projects at
the soft launch of UtrechtAltijd, a province wide new landscape heritage
platform. This event was organized by Landscape Heritage Utrecht on the
19th of December.
· Event organisation and evaluation toolkit
WMNL is developing a (beta) version of an event organisation and evaluation
toolkit. The toolkit is designed to support volunteers in setting up events
and to increase the quality and consistency of the evaluations. In January,
it will become available for testing.
· GLAMWiki Toolset
The GLAMWiki Toolset is a tool for uploading large content donations. The
tool has been added (can be used from) the 17th of December. Wikimedia
Nederland was one of the partners of this project.
*WMNL*
· Media coverage
An article in national newspaper NRC Handelsblad about the future of
Wikipedia (partly based on the MIT report and interviews with Wikipedian
Lodewijk Gelauff and WMNL executive director Sandra Rientjes) led to two
radio-interviews and and a 10-minute item in a well-watched current affairs
programme on national tv. Although the original article had a quite
negative focus on problems within Wikipedia concerning editor recruitment
and software, the media follow-up was more nuanced and generally
sympathetic to Wikipedia.
(Full list of media coverage)
· Membership
On December 31, WMNL had 217 members. We started the year with 175 members.
This growth occurred despite a rigorous ‘cleaning’ of the membership list
to remove people whose membership expired in 2012.
· Newsletter
The last Newsletter of the year was published. In 2013, the number of
people receiving the newsletter rose from 189 to 360.
*MONEY*
· A private grant-making foundation donated € 20,000 to
Wikimedia Nederland to improve coverage on Dutch wildlife and nature via
Wiki Loves Earth.
*ORGANISATION: board, management and support*
· WMNL started the search for candidate Board Members.
Elections will take place in March 2014. More information can be found on
the WMNL website.
*Upcoming*
The New Years Reception will take place on January 18 in The Hague.
tel. (+31) (0)6 31786379
www.wikimedia.nl
*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
Hello, friends in the Wikimedia community,
Organizations that receive Annual Plan Grants from the Funds Dissemination
Committee (FDC) have been hard at work this last quarter! If you haven't
yet had a chance to look at some of their most recent reports, do take a
look to get a sense of some of the exciting developments. As always, the
FDC staff has also produced an overview of these reports, including
observations from global-level trends and program updates. [1] We've also
highlighted some of the biggest successes and some ongoing challenges for
these organizations, and included a financial summary of spending to date.
I'm happy to say that the overview report is also available in French [2];
thank you to our amazing translators!
I encourage you to take a look at the overview report. From there, you can
easily find the progress reports from the organizations in depth, or see
their associated Discussion pages for more in-depth appreciation, questions
and suggestions from the FDC staff. You'll find some beautiful photos and
interesting audio and video files, learn about recent work on Wiki Loves
Monuments, celebrate with those completing tenth Wikipedia anniversaries,
review updates on partnerships with GLAM institutions, and learn more about
Wikipedians-in-Residence programs. And much more! You'll also get good
insight into what is working well and how entities are adapting as they
learn about programs or approaches that aren't working as well.
I want to thank all the organizations submitting Annual Plan Grant reports
to the FDC for their hard work over this last quarter. These progress
reports are from both Round 1 and Round 2 2012-2013 and offer us all a
chance to learn from movement organizations. I thank them for capturing and
sharing what they are learning as they go so that we can celebrate and
build on successes and grow together.
Fell free to contact me with questions or comments. And a very Happy New
Year to all!
Katy
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Staff…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Staff…
