Dear fellows,
The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities
developed during the last two months by Amical Viquipèdia.
Kind regards,
David Parreño Mont
User:Davidpar
(As a member of Amical Viquipèdia)
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*Source:*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia/Febru…
*JANUARY*
GLAM-WIKI
- January 14. Follow-up meeting with the Historical Archives of
Barcelona. Kippelboy
- January 14. Meeting with Fundació Suñol. Kippelboy
- January 15. Meeting with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) to
discuss a possible Wikipedian in Residence. Kippelboy
- January 15. Meeting with Samuel Baussom of Museomix (France). Kippelboy
- January 15. Meeting with the Catalan Art historian Josep Casamartina.
Kippelboy
- January 16. Lleida. Meeting of the Catalan Network of Art Museums.
Kippelboy
- January 16. Meeting of the Wikiclub at the Girona Art Museum. Kippelboy
- January 17. Creation of the working group for BibliotequesCAT 2013.
Kippelboy
- January 21. Meeting with the History Museum of Catalonia. Possible
Wikipedian in residence. Kippelboy
- January 22. Meeting with the Maritime Museum to prepare an
Edit-a-thon. Kippelboy
- January 23. Meeting of the Wikiclub at the Girona Art Museum. Kippelboy
- 24 and 25 January. Visit the Library Service of the Basque Country to
share our experience with Catalan libraries. Kippelboy
- January 30. Meeting of the Wikiclub at the Girona Art Museum. Kippelboy
Educational projects
- All month. It carries out the Viquiprojecte Viquimodernisme
Wikiproject with the Research Group on the History of Art and Contemporary
Design at the University of Barcelona. More info here[1]
- All month. It carries out the Museums Wikiproject[2] with students
from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Kippelboy
- January 28 - EDRA visit to the 1st level of elementary school in
Bellaterra to receive children feedback from the illustrations of "Parlem
de... la mina de Naica" that art school students are making in the
framework of the wikiArS[3]. Jaume Ferrer.
- January 8. Meeting with Jordi Tresserras of the University of
Barcelona to discuss a possible OpenGLAM seminar on Summer 2013.
- January 30. Meeting with University of Barcelona to evaluate
Viquimodernisme wikiproject with people of GRACMON Reserach Center.
Kippelboy & Esther Solé
Workshops and Courses
- January 8. Welcome to Wikipedia course for students at the University
Pompeu Fabra. Kippelboy
- 21 January. Digital Humanities Conference about GLAMWIKI project at
the International University of Catalonia. Kippelboy
- 24 January. UIC Digital Humanities Symposium, Workshop on Wikipedia at
the International University of Catalonia. Kippelboy
Media
- January 9: Monthly meeting at IRC to chatting with Wikipedia editors,
Amical Members open to everyone
- January 21: Appearing in national Broadcasting TV: Amical Wikipedia
Collaboration with Public Libraries of Catalonia[4]
- January 7. *How Europeana helps Wikipedia editor and GLAM ambassador*[5],
at Europeana's pro official blog.
Other
- 24 January. Lecture-discussion within the framework of the exhibition
"Land of Athenians" at the Museum of History of Catalonia. Barcelona
*FEBRUARY
*GLAM-WIKI
- February 2. Meeting to outline the 2013 ICUB Wikiproject[6]. Kippelboy
- February 4. Meeting with Casa Batlló for guidance with the
Wikiproject. Kippelboy
- February 5. Meeting with Fundació Palau for guidance with the
Wikiproject. Kippelboy
- February 5. BibliotequesCAT Wikiproject[7] preparation meeting. Woman
Librarian competition. Kippelboy
- February 6. Meeting with user Galazan for the upcoming Wikiproject
with the Catalonia History Museum (MHC). Kippelboy
- February 18. Meeting with the Chief Archivist of Barcelona and the
Municipal Archive System of the Barcelona City Hall. Kippelboy
- February 19. Meeting with the director of the Jaume Morera Art Museum
to prepare the Jaume Morera Art Museum Wikiproject[8]. Kippelboy
- February 20. Presentation of study at the Map Library of Catalonia.
Kippelboy
- February 21. Wikipedia workshop with technicians from the Ministry of
Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Kippelboy
- February 22–24. Participation in Wiki Academy Kosovo[9] (Pristina,
Kosovo) as mentor and speaker on GLAM in Catalonia. Project organised by
the IPKO Foundation. Arnaugir
- Weekly. Open Wikipedia editing meetings at the Girona Museum of Art.
Several users
Educational projects
- February 8. Prize award ceremony of the Viquifabricació
Wikiproject[10] at the Polytechnical University of Madrid. Project
organised jointly by Amical and SIF. Final report in Catalan, Final
report in English[11]. Arnaugir
- The entire month. Museums Wikiproject with students from the Pompeu
Fabra University. Kippelboy
- The entire month. Start of the second semester of the Wikimodernism
Wikiproject[12]. Kippelboy and ESM
- Start of the UPF-Art[13] Wikiproject. Kippelboy
- Drafting and submittal of a grant application[14] to the WMF to
further WikiArS. Dvdgmz
- Addition of four new Llotja studens to the wikiArS project with
Scientific Drawing Professor Luís Casado, with the task to draw mammals
under the supervision of Leptictidium.
- Fulfilment of requests on the geology of the Bages for wikiArS. Dvdgmz
- Cooperation with the WikiSkills project. Barcelona
Open data
- February 5. Meeting with Mèdia140 to prepare BigDataWeek BCN 2013.
Kippelboy
Communication
- February 11. Monthly chat meeting open to members, Wikipedians and
others.
- February 21. The documentary *La força de Babel*[15] ("The strength of
Babel"), on the benefits of multilingualisnm is broadcast on El 33
(Catalonia's second public television channel). A sizeable part of the
documentary deals with Wikipedia, with quotes from Wikipedians and Amical
members at Wikimania in Haifa.
- February 22. VilaWeb talks about Wiki Academy Kosovo and the
participation of Amical member Arnau Duran.[16]
- February 25. Meeting with the Barcelona Tourism Board. Kippelboy and
Amadalvarez
- February 25. "Viquimodernisme: una cruïlla afortunada"[17], an article
by Esther Solé in the *Núvol* digital cultural newspaper. Davidpar
- More coverage of the cooperation between libraries and Wikipedia:
Catalunya Música[18], Wiki4HE (UOC)[19]
- Global Voices publishes a news item on the Wikimodernism project in
Catalan[20], Spanish[21], English[22] and French[23]. Davidpar
Others
- February 2. Meeting with the Associació Foto-Connexió to explain how
to create a wiki and what needs to be taken into account when uploading
images.
- February 4. Visit to the IGOP to speak about the Amical offices.
- February 13. Grant application Studying content interest and editor
engagement factors with new editors[24] submitted to the WMF. Marc Miquel
[1]
http://theglamwikiexperience.blogspot.com/2013/02/viquimodernisme-lucky-cro…</>
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:_Museums </>
[3] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/wikiArS </>
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxjllggTKw </>
[5] http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/pro-blog/-/blogs/1466485 </>
[6] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Viquiprojecte:ICUB </>
[7] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Viquiprojecte:Biblioteques </>
[8] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Viquiprojecte:Museu_d%27Art_Jaume_Morera</>
[9] http://wikiacademykosovo.org/ </>
[10] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Viquiprojecte:Viquifabricaci%C3%B3 </>
[11]
http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Fitxer:Informe_final_Viquifabricaci%C3%B3_a…</>
[12] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Viquiprojecte:Viquimodernisme </>
[13] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Viquiprojecte:UPF-Art </>
[14]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_ar…</>
[15] http://laforcadebabel.media314.cat/ </>
[16]
http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4087047/20130222/kossove-dona-coneixer-trave…</>
[17] http://www.nuvol.com/noticies/viquimodernisme-una-cruilla-afortunada/</>
[18]
http://elquaderndelapuntador.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/enriquint-la-viquiped…</>
[19]
http://oer.uoc.edu/wiki4HE/les-biblioteques-publiques-catalanes-en-xarxa-am…</>
[20]
http://ca.globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/viquimodernisme-el-modernisme-cata…</>
[21]
http://es.globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/26/wikimodernismo-el-modernismo-ca…</>
[22]
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/27/spain-catalan-modernism-from-the-c…</>
[23] http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/2013/02/27/139498/ </>
[24]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Studying_content_interest_and_ed…</>
Dear all,
you may find on Meta, at
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Bilancio_consuntivo_2012/en , the
English translation of the Financial Statement of Wikimedia Italia for
year 2012.
As you may see, we had 57K euro of net loss, which are covered by our
operating surplus in the previous years.
ciao, .mau.
This morning, the WMF legal team posted a blog concerning trademark
licensing practices going forward in the context of QR code projects and
Wikitowns. Please go
here<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/08/wmf-trademark-practices-for-qr-codes-a…>
in
order to view the post.
--
Rubina Kwon
Attorney
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
rkwon(a)wikimedia.org <mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org>
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415.882.0495 (Fax)
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volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*
Hi all,
Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for February is out now. This month
about
- a reformation of the German copyright
- how WMDE starts the conversation about Open Educational Resources
- and many projects that helped gather more pictures for Wikipedia, e.g.
by means of a helicopter flight
Please find the report on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutsch…
Best,
Katja
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Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Yesterday I erroneously sent a message having as title "number 46 - 20
February 2013". Actually the content was that of number 47, but I
added the wrong title. I am resending the bulletin, so that a casual
reader browsing the list may find the text. I am sorry for any trouble
I have caused... .mau.
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#47) is available. You may
find a report of our Assembly held last week, some request for help of
different types, and a wiki-curiosity about fact-checking.
As usual a link has been added to meta, at
Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; raw text of the bulletin
follows below.
ciao, .mau.
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== March, time for our assembly! ==
The assembly of the Wikimedia Italia took place on March 2 in the
press room of the headquarters of Telecom Italia, in Milano. In the
morning we attended the presentation of the "Wikimedia Italia -
Telecom Italia - Università Cattolica Project" (a synopsis of the
project will soon be added on our website) by Federico Ascari (Telecom
Italia), Nicoletta Vittadini (Università Cattolica), Chiara Ottaviano
(Telecom Italia Historic Archivers) and the six graduating students
involved in the project. Then we had the presentation of the other
ongoing projects which will characterize 2013 (Veneto in Wikipedia,
Archeowiki, Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2013); we hosted Matteo
Ruffoni (http://wiildos.wikispaces.com/Pagina+iniziale) who proposed a
partnership with schools on several topics: Wikipedia in the
classroom, an Italian equivalent of Wikipedia in "Simple English" and
textbooks released under Creative Commons.
In the afternoon the actual assembly took place, with the renewal of
the Board (http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Direttivo : all members of
the previous one were re-elected) and of the Board of Trustees
(http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Collegio_dei_garanti: one new member),
the approval of the final budget 2012 and of the provisional budget
2013, preceded by a presentation of the fundraising actions we intend
to undertake during the year and by a vote on a small change to the
Internal Regulations (we added the paragraph "Status of a member") to
clarify the "life cycle" of a member for the association. In closing,
there was also time to exchange a few words about Wikimedia Conference
(to be held in Milan from April 18 to 21,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2013).
== We want you! ==
* The timeframe for presentation of the curricula for our future
collaborators for the project Archeowiki ended. The Board is now
evaluating the nominations. Good luck to all applicants!
* Giulia Sepe, the organizer of the Wikimedia Conference, is looking
for volunteers who can be present during the days of the conference to
lend a hand (solving small logistical problems, responding to requests
from participants, writing the minutes of meetings, etc..). If you
want to help, write to Giulia: giulia.sepe (at) wikimedia .it.
== The Giannino affair: when fact-checking means a lot ==
Oscar Giannino, a business journalist at the head of the list To Act
to Stop the Decline, resigned from President of the movement a few
days before Italian general elections, after it was discovered that
the master in economics that he had claimed to have achieved the
Chicago Booth University was nonexistent. The news was discussed for a
long time, but the trigger was in all probability a post written by
Wikipedians Jaqen and Toob]. Read the analysis on the Wikimedia
Foundation blog,
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/27/when-fact-checking-means-a-lot/
; another report may be found on the Italian blog Voices,
http://voices.telecomitaliahub.it/2013/02/oscar-giannino-mycroft-holmes-e-f…
.
== Your "cinque per mille" to Wikimedia Italia ==
Italian law allows people to select a non-profit association to which
devolve 0.5% ("cinque per mille") of the tax to be payed. By donating
to Wikimedia Italia, you can support your projects without spending
anything. If you do not have to file your tax module, request the
module for the choice of the association to your employer or the
entity paying your pension, and compile it indicating the tax code of
the association: '''94039910156'''. More information on
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Cinque_per_mille. Thank you for
supporting us!
== News from Wiki world ==
* Saturday 2 March in Ivrea Radio Abawalla
(http://www.radioabawalla.net/ ) was born! It is a new non-commercial
webradio, broadcasting music and content under a Creative Commons
license.
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Hello everyone,
The minutes of the WMF Board Meeting on February 1-2, 2013 have been
ratified and published here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2013-02-01
The meeting's agenda included:
* Housekeeping
** Amendment to the Affiliations Committee Charter
** Pledge of Personal Commitment
** Managing Duty of Loyalty
** Governance Committee report
* Presentation on 2012-13 Year-to-Date and Planning for 2013-14
* Legal presentation
* Term limits
* Feedback on 2012-13 year-to-Date and Planning for 2013-14
* Update on the search for a new Trustee candidate
* The Affiliations Committee and the Chapters Association
* Advisory Board
* Comments from Doron Weber
* Letter to the Chapters Association
* Executive session
--
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Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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capacity.*
Hi all,
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#46) is available.
Members of the association talked a lot in these weeks, and our official
Members' Meeting is due in ten days! We also remember a Wikipedian friend
who passed away.
As usual a link has been added to meta, at
Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; raw text of the bulletin
follows below.
ciao, .mau.
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== Twice25 ==
We open this newsletter with a sad news. Some days ago Tullio Arecco, known
on Wikipedia with the nickname '''Twice25''', passed away. He joined the
encyclopedia back in 2003.
Twice has never been a member of Wikimedia Italia or sysop of it.wikipedia
(except for a temporary assignment a few years ago to help in the clean-up
of contributions in violation of copyright) because it was not the type who
loved this kind of commitment, but he has always been an expert contributor
and a pillar for the community.
Twice always had in mind that Wikipedia is made up of people before
articles: it was not a chance that the first meeting of Italian Wikipedians
was held in Genoa, where he lived; Twice helped organizing and was the
perfect guest. Our condolences go out to the family and Rina, his partner.
== Recent events ==
In the last few days, Wikimedia Italia took part to several events.
* The International Tourism Exchange (BIT, Borsa Internazionale del
Turismo), held at Fiera Milano from 14 to 17 February 2013, saw two
speeches in which Wikimedia Italia partecipated. Friday 15, at the stand of
Friuli-Venezia Giulia, there was the Show X Conference, with a format
similar to TED that addressed the issues related to new technologies,
especially digital communication and open access, and their application to
tourism. Maurizio Codogno ([[Utente:.mau.|.mau.]]), ''spokesperson for
Wikimedia Italia'', talked about sharing, Wiki world and Open Content, with
particular focus on the newborn project Wikivoyage and on Wiki Loves
Monuments. He also indicated that the work of Wikipedian volunteers would
be facilitated if the local authorities gave permission to take photographs
of the monuments they manage as per Italian law, so that they may be used
in a commercial environment.
* Also at the International Tourism Exchange, on Saturday 16
[[Utente:Frieda|Frieda]] (''chair of Wikimedia Italy'') took part in a
debate on "Reputation Online, Direct and Indirect Network Presence"],
describing the project "Adopt a word" dedicated to Wikipedia and developed
by Emilia Romagna Tourism Office, describing the new opportunities that
start with Wikivoyage and finally signaling Wiki Loves Monuments and their
photos freely reusable also for tourism ventures.
* On February 19, [[Utente:Cotton|Cotton]], board member of Wikimedia
Italy, attended the presentation of [
http://www.veneto.beniculturali.it/gli-studenti-scrivono-wikipedia"Progetto
Veneto in Wikipedia"], which was held in Padua, at the
Einaudi-Gramsci Institute. Also members [[Utente:Conrad|Conrad]] and
[[Utente:LCM|LCM]] took part in the meeting, together with Wikipedia sysop
Aplasia as well as representatives of the regional branch of the Ministry
for Heritage and Culture.
== Wikipedia and women ==
On February 21, initiative [
http://caffeculturale.ch/wikimedia/79-wikipedia-e-le-donne Wikipedia and
women] will be held in Lugano, organized by Wikimedia Switzerland and
Associazione Caffè Culturale Lugano. Frieda (''chair of Wikimedia Italy'')
and Emma Tracanella (''project manager for Wiki Loves Monuments'') are
among the guests for the initiative.
== Members' meeting ==
Saturday, March 2, 2013, in the press room of Telecom Italy (Piazza Affari
2, 20123 Milano) the Ordinary Members' Meeting of Wikimedia Italy will be
held. The meeting is open to everyone, but to participate you must register
for free [http://assembleawmi2013.eventbrite.it on Eventbrite], where you
will also find the program of the day. It takes just a minute!
