On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:58 PM, .mau. (maurizio codogno) <
wiki.mau(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
New bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#81) was available. Summary:
- 1.1 ANPI frees all its biographies
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#ANPI_frees_all_it…>
- 1.2 The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#The_European_Comm…>
- 1.3 OpenStreetMap
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#OpenStreetMap>
- 1.4 Events and announcments
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#Events_and_announ…>
- 1.5 News from the wiki world
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#News_from_the_wik…>
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 n. 81, July 24th 2014 =
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[[File:Parlamento wiki.png|thumb|450px|center| A screenshot of
@Parlamento_wiki Tritter account, source:Twitter]]
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<font size="5">Wikipedia and Twitter for transparency</font>
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<p align=justify>Wikipedia and Twitter cooperate in '''forbidding arbitrary
and anonymous edits''' to articles about corridors of power around the
world. Tom Scott, an Englishman, had the idea of creating a series of
Twitter profiles to highlight all the edits to Wikipedia pages about
powerful entities; then on July 9th Ed Summers, an American, created [
https://twitter.com/congressedits congress-edits]: a profile where all
edits to Wikipedia from anonymous users with IP addresses related to the US
Congress can be showed. The goal is to preserve the transparency and
reliability of Wikipedia. A similar account was just created also for
Italy: its name is [https://twitter.com/Parlamento_Wiki
'''@Parlamento_Wiki'''] and its stated goal is to “publish Wikipedia edits
performed anonymously from the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Senate of
Republic”.</p>
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<BR>
[[File:Locandina WLM dettaglio.png|thumb|450px|center| A close-up of the
flier about "freed" monuments, by Alessandra Gasparini, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
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<font size="5">Wiki Loves Monuments becomes big(ger)</font>
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<p align=justify>The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it
reaches the large public: with the brand new joining of the [
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/07/a-pompei-per-fotografare-la-storia/
'''Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e
Stabia'''] the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting
the archaeological site with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed”
all the monuments and the “emergenze” (protrusions) located in one of the
most important sites of the world. Along with that there is a long list of
Municipalities and Institutions, accessible in [
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/istituzioni/ the dedicated page] of the
contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to
take pictures of participating locations: to know where to go, just watch
the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/blog/ blog], updated as soon as a new
trip is planned. You may also suggest a destination, writing at
contatti(a)wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement is that it must be one
of the participating Municipalities.</p>
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== ANPI frees all its biographies ==
[[File:ANPI Sesto San Giovanni.jpg|thumb|150px|left| The ANPI plaque in
Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - by Triangle rouge (Own work) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
<p align=justify>The ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Italiani -
National Association of Italian Partisans) published all the 3072
biographies of Resistance Women and Men under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IT license:
thanks to the choice of a free license, a [
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie/ANPI project] started on
Wikipedia to facilitate the creation of new articles and the extension of
the existing ones using that material. This effort is part of the bigger [
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie “Biographies project”] of
Italian Wikipedia, that gives guidelines for consistent and easy to
understand biographies published on Wikipedia.</p>
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== The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses ==
[[File:European Commission logo.svg|thumb|150px|left| Logo of the European
Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]]
<p align=justify>The '''European Commission''' recently invited Member
States to '''use licenses compliant to “open” standards''' while publishing
their documents. The published [
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-491_en.htm guidelines] aim to
support institutions of different countries in complying to the Directive
in public sector information re-use.
Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to
put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible.
A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: [
http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses]
<br style="clear: both"></p>
== OpenStreetMap ==
[[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su
OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by
Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
* [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/16.489/77.827 OpenGeoFiction] is a
website based on the same application behind openstreetmap.org (from
database to messaginng) with a difference: the represented world is not the
real one, but a fictional one. Many users are using it to draw a plausible
world set in our time (no orcs or elves: rather power stations, metro lines
and so on).
* Many newspapers reported about the #agenziauscite initiative (for example
on the [
http://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/societa/2014/12-luglio-2014/strada-d…
Corriere della Sera]). Now that the attribution on the Osservatorio del
Mercato Immobiliare has eventually been added, it is time for [
http://www.chefuturo.it/2014/07/lagenzia-delle-entrate-chiede-scusa-per-le-…
asking about the openness of the Italian land register].
* The new portal [http://cycle.travel/map cycle.travel] is devoted to
bicycle mobility, with a route planner based on modifications to the famous
routing engine OSRM.
* OpenStreetMap Foundation [
http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members announced] the first
corporate members.
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== Events and announcments ==
* '''From July 21th to August the first''': during those two weeks,
Wikimedia Italia offices will be open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 to
13.30.
* '''Saturday August 2nd 2014''', Monastero Bormida: Simone Cortesi,
Vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, is going to talk about [
http://www.arteneidintorni.it/incontri-mappe-monferrato/ '''Monferrato
maps: from historic cartography to digital revolution''']. The panel is
part of the exhibit "IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN
PICCOLO STATO": open from July 5th to October 26th. Wikimedia Italia
members can access at a discount rate of 5 euro, by showing the membership
card.
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== News from the wiki world ==
* From the 15th to the 17 of July, Berlin hosted the [
http://2014.okfestival.org/ Open Knowledge Festival], devoted to the Open
Data world. A [http://sched.co/1kuEQ3B workshop] about the development of
OpenStreetMap to support humanitarian issues, followed also by our
treasurer Cristian Consonni. Katie Filbert of Wikimedia Deutschland, active
member of Wikidata, was the chair.
* The Court of Rome, [
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Angelucci-WMI acquitted]
Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation from the charges moved by Antonio
and Giampaolo Angelucci, father and son, businessmen and Italian
politicians. The two verdicts, the first on July 9th for Wikimedia
Foundation and now the second one in favour of Wikimedia Italia, relieved
both the American foundation, as a neutral hosting provider, and the
Italian chapter from any responsibility about content published by
Wikipedia users.
Dear fellows,
The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities
developed in July by Amical Wikimedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/July_2014
Kind regards,
David Parreño Mont
User:Davidpar
Communications, Amical Wikimedia
----
*Source:* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/July_2014
GLAMwiki Outreach
- July 4 & 5th - Catalan History editathon of 1714. More info in
Catalan[1]. There was a photo walk and afterwards an edit-a-thon which
involved also local people.
- July 21st - First contact of Editors Group focused in pedagogy at
Premià de Mar Library. Dvdgmz, nurianau, annagfont, Albavm, ainafer
Projects
- July 1st - Kick of session of Viquiprojecte Castellar del Vallès[2]
(local Catalan town wikiproject) at Castellar local library. Led by a local
volunteer and developed by Kippelboy
- July 7ths - Wikipedia training session for Viquiprojecte Castellar del
Vallès (local Catalan town wikiproject) at Castellar local library, led by
a local volunteer (Pere Serafí).
- July 10th - Wikipedia training session in Mollet del Vallès (Catalan
town) for Museu Abelló (museum) artwork documentation in Wikipedia, led by
a volunteer (Pau Colominas).
Meetings
- July 2th - Meeting at Pompeu Fabra Library (Mataró) about wikiArs
exhibition and other future activities Vàngelis Villar, Dvdgmz
- July 9th - Meeting with La Bonne to arrange a project to reduce gender
gap: barcelona, Kippelboy
- Jul 7th- Jul 10th - Meeting with Barcelona's Town council Culture
Institute and several local museums for planning 2014-2015 Glamwiki project
with local museums. Project's info here[3]. 3rd year of ongoing project-
kippelboy
- Jul 30th: meeting with the chief librarian of Castell de Peralada,
Inés Padrosa, to seek collaboration. Arnaugir
Education Outreach
- Jul 3- Presentation of CCCB cultural project briefcase, featuring
Wikipedia educational project for schools. (+info[4]) Kippelboy. Event for
teachers.
Projects
- Ongoing project: wikiArS[5]
- Students in internship uploaded il·lustrations to Commons, mainly
using commons:Campaign:wikiArS[6]
Meetings
- Jul 11- Presentation of Results[7] of Wikiproject Design Museum, where
300 students from 13 schools created design-related Wikipedia articles-
Kippelboy
Other Outreach
- Jul 2 - Catalan Areas Wiki Loves Earth Awards ceremony (gallery[8])
- Jul 21 - Wikipedia workshop for Public Servers, members of the Open
Innovation group (Xarxa Xip)
- "Music as a written text and its educational possibilities" in
Societat Coral el Micalet, València. ESM
Meetings
- Jul 2 - Meeting with Catalan Assotiation of Esperanto - kippelboy
- Jul 8 - Meeting with Meteorology broadcasting TV program presentor
Tomàs Molina - kippelboy and KRLS
- Jul 14 - Catalunya Dades (Opendata Catalan group) quarter meeting-
kippelboy
- July 11. Meeting with the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Pallares
- July 22: meeting with the editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine
Catorze.cat. Davidpar
- July 30: meeting with the social capital manager of Ara newspaper.
Davidpar
Tech
- Collaboration with the Language Engineering Team on the development of
the Content Translation Tool[9].
Media
- July 15th: interview with ViaEmpresa. It will be published on
September. Arnaugir
- WLE covarage: El 3 de vuit, lafura.cat, Cerdanyola al Dia,
Cerdanyola.info, premsa.gencat.cat, Regió 7, NacióBerguedà.cat, La
Vanguardia, Ara, Llibertat.cat, 324.cat, 2, Telenotícies TV3 Davidpar
- Others: eldiario.es (on Catalan Wikipedia), Ara (on a photo exhibit
where Amical took part in), L'Actual de Castellar del Vallès (on the
Viquiprojecte Castellar del Vallès), Manresainfo (on Catalan History
editathon), El Punt Avui (on wikiArS initiative), UAB, Ara (on WikiClassics)
Organization
- Amical has published its second quarterly progress report for 2014:
see [10]
[1] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Viquimarat%C3%B3_Ruta_1714
[2] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Castellar_del_Vall%C3%A8s
[3] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:ICUB
[4] http://www.cccbeducacio.org/web/guest/activitats/-/institut/a_10814
[5] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/wikiArS
[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wikiArS
[7]
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Museu_del_Disseny_de_Barcelona/…
[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014_awards_ce…
[9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
[10]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round1/Amica…
Dear community:
Below you will find the report of activities of the month of July 2014 done
by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in
touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or
only to make some suggestions.
The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki:
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/ (Spanish)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/en
(English)
Kindly regards.
On behalf our chapter.
Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito)
WMMX Secretary.
==Highlights==
===Three simultaneous Wikipedia workshops in three different cities===
On July 26, three Wikipedia workshops were given in three cities of Mexico.
The venues was TelmexHub in Mexico City by Omar Sandoval, Carmen Alcázar,
Iván Martínez, y Gustavo Sandoval; HackerGarage in Guadalajara by Salvador
Alcántar and Capilla del Arte in Puebla by José Flores. It is the first
time in the history of Mexican chapter that we have three training
activities in three Mexican cities simultaneously and in the case of
Guadalajara, this workshop was the first to be taught in that city. [1]
===Volunteer's WikiPicnic for Wikimania 2015===
On July 20, a Volunteer's WikiPicnic for Wikimania 2015 was held in the
Second Section of Chapultepec, bound for Wikimania 2015. Carmen Alcázar
initially spoke about the event and solve some questions about the
Wikimedia projects, giving way to a soccer match among the attendees. At
the end, the picnic was held with everyone within a casual and fun time.
The last to leave the park did about 6 pm. [2]
Jul 5
* Moebius radio program 14/19: "''De Juan O'Gorman a Alberto Kalach''"
(From Juan O'Gorman to Alberto Kalach)
Jul 10
* Working meeting for Wikimania 2015
Jul 12
* Moebius radio program 14/20: "''De lambada a murciélagos''" (From lambada
to Chiroptera)
Jul 14
* Beginning of Wikipedian In Residence project in
Museo Soumaya [3]
Jul 20
* Picnic at the second section of Bosque de Chapultepec in order to meet
the team of volunteers who will participate in Wikimania 2015.
Jul 23
* Participation of Carmen Alcázar in "Participación de las mujeres en el
campo tecnológico" discussion table at Universidad del Claustro de Sor
Juana, Mexico City, among other female involved in tech initatives. [4]
* Interview to Carmen Alcázar for La Jornada newspaper with the title
"Demandan políticas tecnológicas con perspectiva de género" on July 24. [5]
Jul 26
* Workshop: Introduction to Wikipedia at Capilla del Arte, Puebla.
* Workshop: Introduction to Wikipedia at Hackergarage, Guadalajara.
* Wikipedia Monthly Workshop at Telmexhub, Mexico City. [6]
Jul 30
*Virtual meeting of the Wikimedia Mexico board.
Jul 31
*GLAM meeting with Centro de Cultura Digital staff. [7]
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_workshop_at_Telmex_Hub
Photos in Wikimedia Commons
[2]
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Wikipicnic_Wikimania_2015_volunteers.…
[3] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Museo_Soumaya
[4]
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Participaci%C3%B3n_de_las_mujeres_en_…
[5] http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2014/07/24/sociedad/039n1soc
[6]
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Taller_Mensual_de_Wikipedia_Julio_06.…
[7] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Centro_de_Cultura_Digital
Hi All,
We are very happy to report that we have released the Wikimedia
Foundation's first transparency report, which can be found at
transparency.wikimedia.org. You can read more about the release in this blog
post
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikimedia-foundation-releases-first-t…>.
We encourage you to take a look and explore the report!
We would also like to update you on some news regarding the "right to be
forgotten." The right to be forgotten has been the subject of much
discussion and debate, within the Wikimedia movement and throughout the
world, particularly following the May European Court of Justice judgment
<http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62012CJ0131>
ordering Google to delist some links related to a Spanish citizen. Since
then, search engines have been receiving requests to remove hundreds of
thousands of URLs from search results. Google recently released more
information
<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/file/d/0B8syaai6SSfiT0EwRUFyOENqR3M…>
about its right to be forgotten requests.
Since the judgment, the WMF legal team has been watching the “right to be
forgotten” issue closely and considering what legal strategies we should
take going forward. Over the course of the last week or so, we have
received our first five notices from Google advising us that over 50 links
to Wikimedia sites were to be removed from search results.
Today, WMF held a press briefing announcing our strategy of advocacy and
transparency on link censorship. We will oppose what we see as a misguided
court decision that has resulted in a crude implementation of the “right to
be forgotten.” Lila has also issued a statement
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/european-court-decision-punches-holes…>,
and Geoff and I have published a blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikipedia-pages-censored-in-european-…>
about the notices we have received and our plan going forward.
Best,
Michelle
--
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Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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San Francisco, CA 94105
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