*Sorry for crossposting*
Bern, 12.04.2013 - The Swiss Federal Archives and Wikimedia CH are joining
forces to review source materials from the Federal Archives and publish
them online. To this end, the post of a “Wikipedian in Residence” is now
being advertised via Wikimedia. The first joint project will provide access
to a photographic collection on the First World War.
2013 sees the start of a new collaboration between the Swiss Federal
Archives and Wikimedia – two organisations committed to free access to
knowledge. With a view to publishing freely usable, “public domain” source
materials from the Federal Archives holdings online via Wikimedia – such as
Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiversity – a “Wikipedian in Residence” will be
working in the Federal Archives over the next few months.
Wikimedia has been gathering experience with the “Wikipedian in Residence”
concept internationally since 2010, at institutions such as the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, the British Library in London and the US National
Archives near Washington. The Federal Archives partnership is the first
collaboration with a GLAM (*Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums*)
institution in Switzerland.
The initial goal is to make more than 5,000 digitised photographs from a
collection on the First World War searchable and freely accessible via
Wikimedia by autumn 2013, providing researchers with a fascinating, well
catalogued and freely accessible body of materials just in time for the
centenary of the war’s outbreak in 1914.
As a guest of the Federal Archives, the Wikipedian in Residence will
promote entries in the online encyclopaedia that relate to the Federal
Archives and their holdings, and publish material under open-content
licences. Links between the Federal Archives and the Wikipedia community
will also be expanded.
The Federal Archives and Wikimedia CH will report on the collaboration and
its results at regular intervals.
The advertisement for the post of “Wikipedian in
Residence”<http://members.wikimedia.ch/images/c/c7/Job-Advertisement-WiR.pdf>
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Charles ANDRES, Chairman
Wikimedia CH <http://www.wikimedia.ch/>- Association for the advancement
of free knowledge
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch
Dear all,
please find Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for March 2013 on Meta.
You can find out more about the symposium "Wikidata meets Archeology" which
took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the newly-launched project
"Chapters Dialogue" which will coordinate communication between Wikimedia
chapters and, of course, much more.
Here's the link:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutsch…
Best,
Katja
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Dear Wikimedians,
Here is the monthly report of Wikimedia Argentina for March 2013.
You can read the full report (in Spanish and English) here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2013-03
== Education Strategy Meeting ==
The Education Strategy Meeting took place on Saturday, March 2nd, at
Wikimedia Argentina headquarters in Buenos Aires. Fifteen people took part
in the meeting, all involved in the education field from different
perspectives: academic faculty members, teachers and Wikipedia volunteers.
They came from various cities, such as Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario
(in Argentina), and Montevideo (in Uruguay).
During the meeting, the discussion took place around the different features
an educational plan should have: main teaching aims, differentiated by
levels, key roles identification in each one, and main actions to be
promoted. The goal of the meeting was to develop a strategy in Education
for Wikimedia Argentina, with a special focus on different levels: primary
and secondary education, university students and teachers training.
After the meeting, a mailing list and a new wiki were created to continue a
colaborative work. We expect to organize a second meeting in the next few
months to carry on activities and discussions. Should anyone be willing to
take part, just send an email to correo(a)wikimedia.org.ar
== Second edition of “Ibero American Women” ==
On March 8th, 2013, as part of the commemoration on International Women’s
Day, Wikimedia Argentina launched the second edition of the contest
“Iberoamerican Women”. The aim of the competition is to increase the
biographical contents of renown Ibero American women, by creating new
articles or expanding the ones already written. In 2011, this contest
allowed the creation of 500 new articles about important women in our
continent.
The following prizes are offered to the winners:
* To the user with the highest scoring: an automatic camera Panasonic LUMIX
DMC-FH6 or equivalent.
* To the best article: an automatic camera Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FH6 or
equivalent.
* To the second user with the highest scoring: an Amazon 100 dollars gift
card or equivalent.
* To the third user with the highest scoring: an Amazon 50 dollars gift
card or equivalent.
Those interested in taking part of the contest can submit their work by
August 30, 2013. Check for rules, terms and conditions at
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/edici%C3%B3n_23
== Edit-a-thon at the Buenos Aires City Legislature ==
On Saturday, April 27, a new editing marathon will take place in Buenos
Aires City, as Wikimedia Argentina and the Buenos Aires City Legislature
invite the community to take part in the first “Legislative Edit-a-thon”.
The aim of this activity is to improve and develop a series of articles in
Wikipedia about the history and heritage of this governmental institution.
The event has the support of the professional body of the institution, who
specialize in the history of this public organ and the building that hosts
it. This same place used to accommodate, decades ago, the offices of the
National Ministry of Labour and of the Eva Perón Foundation, during her
public life. The legislative body also donated a series of images that will
be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons during the following weeks, including
historical and current images of the building.
To take part in the edit-a-thon, sign up at
https://eventioz.com.ar/1-editaton-legislativo. The event will take place
on Saturday, April 27th, as of 16 hs onwards at the Palacio Legislativo,
Perú 160. If you have any questions, please email correo(a)wikimedia.org.ar
== Institutional tutoring program ==
In 2012, Wikimedia Argentina started a process of professionalization,
which continues today in different actions. We want to become a leading
organization in the conception, management and promotion of Wikimedia's and
other free knowledge initiatives in the country.
The project of “institutional tutoring”, conceived in WM-AR, allows us to
identify areas for improvement, adapt successful projects and acquire best
practices through some of the best WM chapters worldwide, like Wikimedia
Deutschland (WM-DE).
Cornelius Kibelka, a member of WM-DE and a former employee, visited Buenos
Aires and took part in this new project, focused on the areas of
Administration, Communication and Volunteers participation. His 20-days
stay made possible interviews with different members of the Board, and
after that, a series of recommendations were elaborated in colaboration
with WM-AR Executive Director. These advice involves both short, mid and
long term actions. The report in English is available at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutoria_en_Buenos_Aires_final_report…
== Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 - Awards Ceremony ==
The international contest Wiki Loves Monuments had its Argentine version
last September, when 6,034 photos took part in the competition. 10 of these
images were chosen to participate in the international contest. Among the
ten winners of the global edition, which were revealed on December 2012,
was the Argentine photographer Tomás Terroba, who got the 8th place. His
picture gave him the 1st place in the Argentine edition of the contest. It
shows the military cemetery of Puerto Darwin, in Soledad Island, one of the
Malvinas Islands. There lay 237 Argentine soldiers who died in the
Falklands War in 1982. More than half of the bodies buried there have not
been identified yet.
The award ceremony for the Argentine edition of the contest will take place
on June 4th, 2013, at 18:30, in the Buenos Aires Palace of Culture (Avenida
de Mayo 575). Invitations will be sent in proper time.
>From June 4 to 17, a photo exhibition will take place in the same building,
including the top 10 pictures from the Argentine edition, together with the
photo that won the international competition (an image of the Tomb of
Safdarjung in New Delhi, India). The exhibition will be opened every day of
the week, from 14:00 to 18:00.
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Kind regards,
*Osmar Valdebenito G.*
Director Ejecutivo
A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
We have now published the Chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige, February
2013. The full version in English is available on:
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-02
- *HIGHLIGHTS:* Our Wikipedia Education progress are really picking up
speed. We are focusing on working with the educators that are most
interested in really making a difference, which gives us a very positivie
spin.
- *WIKI-FOCUS:* Our target this month has mostly been Wikipedia but we
are using Wikiversity as a platform for our Wikipedia online cours for
educators.
- *GROWTH:* Over 75 educators reached through a number of activities,
workshops and personal meetings.
*Jan Ainali*
CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
+46 729 67 20 48
Hi all,
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#49) is available. We wrote
about Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2013, past and forthcoming meetings
where we attended as experts or rapporteurs.
As usual a link has been added to meta, at
Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; more-or-less raw text of
the bulletin follows below.
ciao, .mau.
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== Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2013 ==
The preparatory phase of the 2013 edition of
[http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/ Wiki Loves Monuments Italia] has
already started, and there are many ways in which you can help too:
find new monuments, ask for permission to take photos with a free
license, help us with editing Wikipedia entries; these are just a few
possibilities.
[http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2013/03/le-scadenze-del-2013/ In
this post], published on the official website of the contest, Emma
Tracanella (project manager) summarizes the deadlines and the main
phases of the project.
To stay up to date on all developments, you can subscribe to the
newly-born [http://wikilovesmonuments.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=644d6a39ee430ef92…
newsletter] of Wiki Loves Monuments.
(''"Logo Wiki Loves Monuments Italia"'' by Jollyroger, Derived from
File:LUSITANA_WLM_2011_d.svg, CC-BY-SA-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
== "Open Access: il sapere liberato" ==
On Thursday 21 March, the Students' Forum of the Scuola Normale of
Pisa has held a meeting making some considerations on the theme of
open access to scientific literature, and the state of academic
publishing. The meeting was called
[http://www.sns.it/scuola/attivitaculturali/forumallievi/anniprecedenti/2013…
"OpenAccess, il sapere liberato"] ("knowledge freed"), and it was
attended by two members of the board of Wikimedia Italy, Lorenzo Losa
([[:it:Utente:Laurentius|Laurentius]]) who was among the organizers
and Andrea Zanni ([[:it:Utente:Aubrey|Aubrey]]) as rapporteur,
together with researchers Francesca Di Donato and Maria Chiara
Pievatolo. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yrIJ48KsKUw
full video] of the meeting may be browsed, together with the materials
presented by the speakers:
[http://www.sns.it/scuola/attivitaculturali/forumallievi/anniprecedenti/2013…
slides] from Di Donato;
[http://www.sns.it/scuola/attivitaculturali/forumallievi/anniprecedenti/2013…
slides ] from Pievatolo;
[http://www.sns.it/scuola/attivitaculturali/forumallievi/anniprecedenti/2013…
slides] from Zanni. The organizers expressed their satisfaction with
the presence of a public large and interested in the issue of open
access.
== Wikipedia and women ==
As we announced in the previous number of the newsletter, on Saturday
March 23 in Bologna [[:it:Utente:Frieda|Frieda Brioschi]], Emma
Tracanella and [[:it:Utente:Atropine|Ginevra Sanvitale]] took part in
the meeting [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Wikipedia_donne_Bologna_…
"Marilyn, Rita, Catherine: Wikipedia and women"]. Here is a
[http://storify.com/Panz/wikipedia-e-le-donne very special report] of
the meeting, told through the tweets of the day.
== Next appointments ==
* April 5, Bergamo: in the event [http://studenti.imparadigitale.it/
"Tablet School"], promoted and supported by the Research Center
ImparaDigitale ("Learn Digital"), [[:it:Utente:| Maurizio Codogno]]
(''spokesperson for Wikimedia Italia'') is one of the experts who will
answer students' questions. [http://www.imparadigitale.it/
ImparaDigitale Study Centre] is an association established in March
2012 with the aim of promoting the development of an innovative
teaching method, for allowing Italian and European school system to
benefit significantly from the potential offered the introduction of
digital technology. You can browse
[http://studenti.imparadigitale.it/programma-della-manifestazione/ the
program of the event], which will take place on 5 and 6 April.
* April 9, Bologna: the University of Bologna organizes a meeting on
[http://www.dar.unibo.it/it/ricerca/centri/soffitta/2013/cinema/la-rete-cont…
The disputed network. Participation, creativity, citizenship and
digital media]. The debate "Productions Bottom: Wikinomics,
crowdsourcing crowdfunding" will see the participation of
[[:it:Utente:Frieda|Frieda Brioschi]] (''President of Wikimedia
Italy'') with Luca De Biase (IULM), Federico Bo and Tania Innamorati
(Cineama). The appointment is at 17:00 at Palazzo
Marescotti-Brazzetti, via Barberia 4, 40123 - Bologna.
== News from Wiki world ==
* Sue Gardner announced his resignation from the post of Executive
Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Read the
[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/27/sue-gardner-departure-announcement/
post] (in English) on the official blog of the WMF, and the
[http://punto-informatico.it/3756423/PI/News/wikimedia-lascia-direttore-esec…
article in Italian] that reports the news.
* The computer science department of Wikimedia Commons has made it
even easier to illustrate Wikipedia entries with photos taken with
your smartphone: you can load the image directly on the page.
[http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/ Here] the post in which they
explain the news.
* The translation mode on Wikipedia have been
[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/25/redesigning-the-translation-experienc…
improved].
