Dear all,
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have posted the first of a
new series of monthly blog posts to the Wikimedia blog. The first post,
from Vice Chair Phoebe Ayers, is an introduction to the Board, its mandate,
and its work within the community.
You can find that post at
https://<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/13/introduction-to-the-board-of-trustees/>
blog.wikimedia.org<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/13/introduction-to-the-board-of-trustees/>
/2014/01/13/introduction-to-the-board-of-trustees/<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/13/introduction-to-the-board-of-trustees/>
Board members will take turns publishing one or two new posts every month,
where they will explore ongoing initiatives of the Board and discuss
topics relevant to the movement and the Wikimedia community.
We hope you'll enjoy these posts, and also that you'll take time
to comment, offer suggestions, and get involved in a dialog with the Board
of Trustees.
Regards,
Jay Walsh (for communications)
Bonjour,
Je m'excuse pour le dérangement, je voudrais faire votre connaissance et liée une amitié sincère avec vous, prière de me répondre. Je promets d'être honnête et de garder une bonne relation avec vous.
baisers
Macoral Marriet
Dear Wikimedians,
Here is the monthly report of Wikimedia Argentina for December 2013.
You can read the full report (in Spanish and English) here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2013-12
Also, the full reports of past months are available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes
1. New publication: «¿Cómo educar con Wikipedia?»
2. Virtual training for teachers
3. Content digitization
=== New publication: «¿Cómo educar con Wikipedia?» ===
With a clear objective of widening the resources aimed at teachers, to use
Wikipedia in the classroom, Wikimedia Argentina has translated the document
«Case studies: How professors are teaching with Wikipedia», originally
produced by Wikimedia Foundation. The document goes through successful
cases and different exercises that have given good results to teachers of
different levels, especially in tertiary education. These cases are proof
of how versatile Wikipedia is as an education tool.
With this brochure, we hope to increase the references available for
teachers interested to work with Wikipedia. «¿Cómo educar con Wikipedia?»
joins our collection of documents, formed by «Wikipedia en el aula»,
«Manual de bolsillo del Wikipedista» and the compliation of articles
«Bicentenario de la Revolución de Mayo».
The document is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Programa_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_Wikipedia_-…
=== Virtual training for teachers ===
The Centre of Innovation in Technology and Pedagogics, in the department of
Innovation and Academic Quality of Universidad de Buenos Aires, organized a
massive virtual course focused on training teachers in new technologies,
and learning new teachers' practices related with those. The course
«Escenarios con tecnología: entre lo real y lo posible» began at the end of
November and lasted till mid-December. Close to 2.500 Spanish-speaking
teachers all over the world (counting amongst these, professionals from
Albania and China), of which 200 took part of all the practical exercises
suggested during the course.
The last week of November the course was dedicated to collaborative
learning contexts, with an important emphasis on Wikipedia. We presented a
video with Patricio Lorente and held a videoconference amongst Wikipedians
and participants of the course. We opened a special forum so the people
involved could revise articles on Wikipedia, suggest changes and talk with
Wikipedia collaborators. The Wikipedia volunteers acted as tutors, teaching
diverse aspects of Wikipedia, guiding through different editing stages and
motivating the participants of the course to join the community. Through
this real-editing experience, many people who had never edited the free
encyclopedia before were able to do it for the first time, and other
participants who did not edit actively were able anyway to know more about
the encyclopedia.
After two weeks experience, 49 topics were created in the forum, which
received 325 messages. New articles were created, like «Resignificar» and
«Vito Campanella», while other articles were substantially improved, like
«Wikinomía» or «Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas (UNMSM)», aside from a
dozen other articles with minor changes.
=== Content digitization ===
All throughout the year, several institutions received a do-it-yourself
scanner to digitize books. This has allowed different organizations to
share their books on Wikimedia Commons. The library and documentary center
«Feminaria», part of the Tierra Violeta Cultural Center, uploaded 43 books
of its collection to Wikimedia repositories. This works greatly cover the
feminist ideology books published in our country during the XX century.
This collection has works by María Saez de Vernet, Rafael Barreda, Paulette
Pax, Alfonsina Storni, and many others, and also has documents like «Civil
rights of women», by Eduardo Padró and the International Feminine Congress
transcripts, amongst others.
Some months ago, the Library of the School of Humanities and Educational
Sciences of the National University of La Plata shared part of its archive
on Wikimedia Commons. Thanks to the home-made scanner they received as a
loan, they were able to upload 42 books to Wikimedia Commons. These cover
very varied topics, such as agricultural sciences, rural history studies,
books about Julio Cortázar, Borges and many other publications.
With this program, we not only promote the aperture of publications for
their free spreading, but we also promote wiki culture within local
institutions. The aim of bringing together these successful cases is, as
well, to make an open call for volunteers that wish to collaborate in any
of these projects. In some cases, the process of translating these scans to
text has been started on Wikisource, but there are still many documents to
transcribe. During 2014, these scanners will be moved to new institutions,
thus we can bring the process of digitization further, and continue to
promote Argentina's written heritage.
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Kind regards,
*Osmar Valdebenito G.*
Director Ejecutivo
A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
Hi, all-
The Foundation's legal team is happy to announce that the first draft
of the new data retention guidelines are now available for your
translation, review, and feedback. This draft is the result of a
collaboration between many teams within the Foundation, including
Analytics, Operations, Platform, Product, and Legal.
The guidelines are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines
The talk page is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Data_retention_guidelines
As with the other privacy documents, this draft is just that: a draft.
We want to hear from you about how we can make it better. We plan to
hold the community consultation period for this draft open until 14
February 2014.
Once the consultation period is over, the document will continue to be
updated to reflect current retention practices.
Thanks-
Luis & Michelle
--
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Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
415.839.6885 ext. 6810
NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you
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lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their
personal capacity.
Dear fellows,
The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities
developed in December by Amical Wikimedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/December_2013
Kind regards,
David Parreño Mont
User:Davidpar
(As a member of Amical Wikimedia)
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*Source:* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/December_2013
GLAM-WIKI
- Current Wikipedians-in-Residence: ESM at Jaume Morera Art Museum,
Lleida and Joan Miró Foundation, Galazan at Catalonia History Museum,
Marionaaragay at Barcelona Music Museum and Davidpar at Network of Public
Libraries of the Government of Catalonia.
- December 5th — GLAMwiki workshop for Fine Arts students at Universitat
de Barcelona. ESM
- December 2nd & 9th — GLAMwiki workshop for Visual Arts Technic Teams
of Municipalities. barcelona, Kippelboy
- December 10th — Meeting with the National Library of Catalonia to plan
2014 projects. KRLS, Kippelboy
- December 11th — Wikipedia workshop at Roquetes Library. Kippelboy
- December 11th — Wikipedia monthly strategy meeting at Biblioteca Museu
Víctor Balaguer. Kippelboy
- December 16th — Wikipedia workshop at Blanes Library. Kippelboy
- December 18h — Meeting with Centre of Contemporary Culture of
Barcelona for planning 2014 projects[1]. Kippelboy
- December 18h — Meeting with Intropia Media about a cultural project
related with women from 27 generation "Las Sin Sombrero"[2]. Dvdgmz
- December 18th — Wikipedia workshop for workers of the Catalan Network
of Public Libraries. Davidpar
- December 19th — GLAMwiki workshop for librarians from the Network of
Libraries of Barcelona. Davidpar
- December 19th — Meeting with the Art Museum of Cerdanyola for planning
2014 projects[3]. Kippelboy
Wiki Loves Monuments
- December 11th — Wiki Loves Monuments CAT awards ceremony (several
Wikimedians). See here the winning photos[4].
Education
- December 5th — Kick of of the 3rd edition of Wikiproject with the
School of Archivists[5] of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Wikipedia workshop and homeworks schedule. Kippelboy
- December 18h — Meeting with Turism of Barcelona board and the
University of Tourisme Studies (UPF) for planning a 2014 Eduwiki project.
Kippelboy
- *WikiArS:*
- December 3th — Meeting with Yolando Oreiro (Pau Gargallo
illustration student) and David Amblàs (geologist from University of
Barcelona) to start advising for Submarine Canyons assignment[6]. Dvdgmz
- December 10th — Meeting at Nacional Arqueological Museum of
Tarragona with Museum director and curators, teacher from School
of Art and
four students that are in intership with Amical. Review of the first
drawings. See the assignments here[7]. Lluis_tgn and Dvdgmz
- December 16th — Presentation of the IEG *Consolidate wikiArS to
involve art schools* final report[8]; publication of wikiArS case
studies[9]. Dvdgmz.
- During the month: monitoring students working on assignments;
contacts with potential advisers and teachers, incorporation of new
students from Pau Gargallo School of Art. Dvdgmz, Luna92, Lluis_tgn.
Organization
- December 29th — Obra Cultural Balear gives its *Francesc de Borja
Moll*Prize to Catalan Wikipedia; the prize is picked up by Arnau
Duran,
president of Amical Wikimedia, during the celebration in Teatre Principal
of Palma de Mallorca.
- December 29th — on the same day, a small wikimeeting of Catalan
Wikimedia users who live in the Balearic Islands is celebrated.
Media
- All the month — Recording of a 30minutes[10] documentary that will be
broadcasted on Catalan National TV at the end of February (Prime Time,
Sunday). Personal interview to a group of Wikimedians.
- December 13th — Report on Víctor Balaguer Museum GLAM-WIKI
collaboration with Amical Wikimedia at *Diari de Vilonova*[11].
- December 17th — ¿Sobre qué lugares de España y en qué idiomas se
publica en Wikipedia?[12], El Economista. Davidpar
- December 31th — *Directe 4.0* radio program interviews Arnau Duran,
president of Amical, to look over 2013 events and talk about Wikipedia.
minute 37[13].
- Wiki Loves Libraries coverage — Ajuntament de Mollerussa, VilaWeb.
Davidpar
- Wiki Loves Monuments coverage — Nació Digital, La Torre del Palau,
Llibertat.cat, Ajuntament de Matadepera, Terrassa Informa, La Vanguardia,
Llibertat.cat, La torre de Palau. Davidpar
- *Francesc de Borja Moll* Prize coverage — 324.cat, Diario de Mallorca,
Ara, VilaWeb, Llibertat.cat, Ara Balears, Nació Digital,
mallorcadiario.com, Diario de Mallorca, VilaWeb, dBalears.cat, El Punt
Avui, Llibertat.cat, dBalears.cat, Ara Balears, VilaWeb. Davidpar
[1] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:CCCB
[2] https://intropiamedia.jux.com/985140#
[3] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Museu_d%27Art_de_Cerdanyola
[4] http://www.wikilovesmonuments.cat/2013/12/29/guanyadors-de-ledicio-2013/
[5]
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Arxiv%C3%ADstica_i_TIC_2013-2014
[6]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArS/assignments/Il%C2%B7lustraci%C3…
[7]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiArS_assignments_with_EADT
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_a…
[9] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArS/Case_studies
[10] http://www.tv3.cat/30minuts
[11]
http://wiki.wikimedia.cat/v/images/2/2e/Premsa_viquiprojecte_museu_victor_b…
[12]
http://www.eleconomista.es/CanalPDA/2013/45247/sobre-que-lugares-de-espana-…
[13]
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/directe-40/directe-40-missatge-rebut-amb…
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 =
{{titolo errato|titolo=Wikimedia news no. 67}}{{WMNpubblico|67|January 9,
2014}}
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<p align=center> Two infographics talking about Wikimedia Italia in ideas
and numbers </p>
== 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'''
[[Categoria:Wikimedia news soci]]
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
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