Dear friends,
Here is the Wikimedia España (Spain, ES) Report of Activities for the
months of July, August and September 2013. It is also avaliable, as all the
precedent, in Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C…<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3…>
Best regards,
--
Jorge A. Sierra
Presidente
Wikimedia España
http://www.wikimedia.org.es
July
- 4.07.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, profesor of UJI. Evaluation of
the 3rd year of using Wikipedia in a subject of Translation degree.
- 8-31.07.2013: Courses on "Wikis in education: an introduction" in
Universidad de Cádiz (4 sessions). It includes a lesson on "Wikipedia
edition" (Free resources updated for the course: slides and
exercises<https://github.com/DrPantera/wikis4education/tree/master/uca-2012_07>
).
- 11.07.2013: Presentation of a paper about UCAC2/wikiArS
project<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:UCAC2>in "X
Jornadas Internacionales de Innovación Universitaria" conference
about educational innovation in Madrid.
Proceedings<http://www.uem.es/myfiles/pageposts/jiu/jiu2013/pdf/x_jiiu_2013.pdf?#page=9…>(pages
917-924)
- 15.07.2013: Meeting with Fundació Isonomia to explain the gender gap
in Wikimedia, show activities done by other chapters and talk about doing
activities next year.
- 19.07.2013: Collaboration in newspaper article about Wikipedia
conflicts for El Confidencial Opus Dei y Athletic de Bilbao, entre los
artículos más controvertidos de
Wikipedia<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-07-19/opus-dei-y-athletic-de-…>
- 27.07.2013: Photographic coverage of music festival *Músicos en la
naturaleza 2013*. Pictures of Deep Purple, Loquillo and Bebe.
[1]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M%C3%BAsicos_en_la_naturaleza_2…>
August
- 08-11.08.2013: Participation of 7 members of the chapter in Wikimania
with intensive exchange with members of other chapters, along with an
extensive summary of everything that happened there in order to keep all
chapters members informed.
- 09-10.08.2013: Co-organisation of a photowikimeetup on-site in Hong
Kong<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photowikimeetup_in_Hong_Kong_duri…>by
"Poco a poco" (WMES member) to take pictures of the city, as well as
of
monuments for WLM13.
- 11.08.2013: Attendance to the Iberocoop meeting on-site in Hong Kong.
- 11.08.2013: Talk by David Gómez about wikiArS in
Edu-III<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/wikiArS,_involving_art_…>(Wikimania)
- 11.08.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España,
for El Confidencial (newspaper) "Hay empresas que pagan por hablar bien
de ellas, pero siempre se
detecta"<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-08-11/hay-empresas-que-pagan-…>
- 16.08.2013:
Agreement<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Colaboraci%C3%B3n_con_la_UPM_sobr…>between
the departament of applied physics of the Telecommunications ETSI
of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Wikimedia España. The first
agreement comprises the improvement of the 10 most visited articles about
physics in the Wikipedia in Spanish that need to be expanded or improved
(wording or references). Discussion is going on to expand and formalize the
collaboration.
- 28.08.2013: We were able to register the Internet domain
wikimedia.esafter several years
- 01-30.08.2013: Organization of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Spain
- Collaboration with Quo (magazine) in a report about conflicts in
Wikipedia <http://www.quo.es/tecnologia/errores-wikipedia>
September
- 09.09.2013: Meeting with Eugenio Monesma, film producer and director,
and owner of the largest ethnographic archive in Spain.
- 10.09.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España,
for La Vanguardia (newspaper) "Mis alumnos me han entregado a veces
trabajos copiados de Wikipedia escritos por
mí"<http://www.lavanguardia.com/internet/20130910/54380178639/entrevista-jorge-…>
- 13.09.2013: Meeting with Fundació Globalis
- 13.09.2013: Photographic coverage of a stage of Vuelta a España 2013.
[2]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a_2013_-_Sup…>
- 14.09.2013: Photographic coverage of the football match between
Atlético de Madrid and UD Almería, of the Liga (Spanish Premier League).
[3]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atl%C3%A9tico_de_Madrid_vs_UD_A…>
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, professor of "Traducción e
interpretación" to prepare the new year of Wikipedia project *Aprendices
de traducción con la Wikipedia*
[4]<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/Aprendices_de_tr…>
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with Vila-real Town council to organize Wikimedia
Conference and GM of WMES in Vila-real.
- 17.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Intereconomía.
- 18.09.2013: Participation in the *UPM: Convocatoria ETSI de
Telecomunicación: Edición Wikipedia 2013_14*, an event to give students
of the Politecnic University of Madrid a introduction to the edition in
Wikimedia.
- 24.09.2013: Press conference at Vila-real city hall about Wikimedia
Conference in Vila-real
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Vila-real
[5]<http://www.radiovila-real.es/protagonistes-del-24-de-septiembre-de-2013/>
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Onda Cero
- 27.09.2013: Workshop about Wikimedia projects in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Photo hunting in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Wikimedia and education Conference in Vila-real, with two
talks and one debate, in Vila-real
- 29.09.2013: III General Assembly of WMES in Vila-real
- 30.09.2013: Finishing upload campaign for WLM 2013.
- During the month; wikiArS online work. David Gómez. Adaptation of
UploadWizard for wikiArS using Campaign:
Campaign:wikiArS<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wikiArS>,
creation of mechanisms to create
assignments<http://wiki.wikimedia.org.es/priv/index.php?title=Outreach:WikiArS/assignme…>,
and other improvements of templates, categories and documentation in
Commons, and Outreach.
The Chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige has now been published on our
wiki:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-09
*HIGHLIGHTS:*
- The Gothenburg Book fair, which featured a community driven project
taking pictures and making interviews conducted by 11 volunteers, as well
as presentations on Wikipedia in Education and Copyright.
- The final delivery of the brochure Free public information to each of
the Members of Parliament.
- The chapter and Wikipedia were mentioned five times in the
Governmental budget proposition for 2014.
- Our board member Ylva Pettersson was awarded second prize in The
Innovative Teacher Award for her and her students' work with creating
articles, videos, music and photos for Wikipedia in a project on local
history.
*GROWTH:*
- Editors involved in chapter activities: 26
- Media uploaded helped by chapter resources:
555<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cm…>
- Media viewed:
1,824,524<http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?group=Media+created+by+techn…>
- Persons engaged in workshops and seminars: 118
- Persons reached in presentations: >425
- Number of events held (edit-a-thons, workshops, seminars,
presentations, other): 18
- New chapter members: 5
- Facebook page likes: +20 (756 in total)
*Best regards,
Jan Ainali*
CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
+46 729 67 29 48
This release is also available online at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Airtel_joins_Wikipedia_…
Airtel Partners With Wikimedia Foundation to Bring Free Access to Wikipedia
to 70 Million People in 17 Countries
Partnership will introduce innovative ways to access Wikipedia on mobile
devices in Sub-Saharan Africa
* Airtel customers to access multilingual content on Wikipedia mobile site
free of data charges
* First-of-its-kind pilot initiative in Africa will provide free access to
Wikipedia via text messages (SMS and USSD)
Nairobi, Kenya and San Francisco, California, October 24, 2013 -- Airtel,
and the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, today
announced a strategic partnership to provide Airtel's customers access to
the knowledge and information available on Wikipedia through their mobile
phones free of data charges.
This partnership is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Zero
program, which focuses on reaching the billions of people around the world
whose primary opportunity to access the internet is via a mobile device.
The partnership between Airtel and the Wikimedia Foundation will help
provide Wikipedia to 70 million new users in the region, starting in Kenya.
Airtel customers with Internet-enabled handsets can now access the
Wikipedia mobile site on their mobile browsers without incurring data
charges by going to m.wikipedia.org
For customers who do not have Internet-enabled handsets, Airtel will offer
Wikipedia by text message as a pilot program in Kenya. This unique service
will allow customers to search Wikipedia using a plain text menu, without
the need for a mobile browser. The service, available for GSM subscribers,
utilizes USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) technology and
allows users to dial *515# to search Wikipedia and receive article
summaries via SMS.
"We are thrilled that Airtel has joined us in removing two major barriers
to accessing Wikipedia on mobile phones. Not only are we making it freely
available on the mobile web but we are are also launching our first
Wikipedia via text service that will allow people without data enabled
phones to access Wikipedia," said Kul Takanao Wadhwa, Head of Mobile,
Wikimedia Foundation. "Improving access to the Wikimedia projects in
Sub-Saharan Africa is a strategic priority for the Wikimedia Foundation and
this partnership is another step forward in our mission to enable everyone
on the planet to access free knowledge."
Andre Beyers, Chief Marketing Officer, Airtel Africa said "Airtel is
committed to using its infrastructure to expand knowledge across the
countries that it operates in. Due to the fact that most of the population
has access to a cell phone, it is the best way to reach out and educate our
communities. We will offer this service free of charge to our customers to
enable access to all."
About Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with
operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New
Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 4 mobile service providers
globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings
include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line
services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services
including national & international long distance services to carriers. In
the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless services and mobile
commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 276 million customers across its
operations at the end of August 2013. To learn more, please visit:
www.airtel.com.
Airtel Africa media contact
Michael Okwiri
Vice President
Corporate Communications
Airtel Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
Email: michael.okwiri(a)airtel.com
About the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.orghttp://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most
popular web property world-wide (comScore, August 2013). Available in 287
languages, Wikipedia contains more than 29 million articles contributed by
a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San
Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
Wikimedia Foundation media contact
Matthew Roth
Communications
+1 415-839-6885 ext 6635 (San Francisco, California)
mroth(a)wikimedia.org
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This statement is also available online:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Sue_Gardner_statement_p…
Statement from Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation,
in response to paid advocacy editing and sockpuppetry
Editors on the English Wikipedia are currently investigating allegations of
suspicious edits and sockpuppetry (i.e. using online identities for
purposes of deception). At this point, as reported, it looks like a number
of user accounts -- perhaps as many as several hundred -- may have been
paid to write articles on Wikipedia promoting organizations or products,
and have been violating numerous site policies and guidelines, including
prohibitions against sockpuppetry and undisclosed conflicts of interest. As
a result, Wikipedians aiming to protect the projects against non-neutral
editing have blocked or banned more than 250 user accounts.
The Wikimedia Foundation takes this issue seriously and has been following
it closely.
With a half a billion readers, Wikipedia is an important informational
resource for people all over the world. Our readers know Wikipedia's not
perfect, but they also know that it has their best interests at heart, and
is never trying to sell them a product or propagandize them in any way. Our
goal is to provide neutral, reliable information for our readers, and
anything that threatens that is a serious problem. We are actively
examining this situation and exploring our options.
In the wake of the investigation, editors have expressed shock and dismay.
We understand their reaction and share their concerns. We are grateful to
the editors who've been doing the difficult, painstaking work of trying to
figure out what's happening here.
Editing-for-pay has been a divisive topic inside Wikipedia for many years,
particularly when the edits to articles are promotional in nature. Unlike a
university professor editing Wikipedia articles in their area of expertise,
paid editing for promotional purposes, or paid advocacy editing as we call
it, is extremely problematic. We consider it a "black hat" practice. Paid
advocacy editing violates the core principles that have made Wikipedia so
valuable for so many people.
What is clear to everyone is that all material on Wikipedia needs to adhere
to Wikipedia's editorial policies, including those on neutrality and
verifiability. It is also clear that companies that engage in unethical
practices on Wikipedia risk seriously damaging their own reputations. In
general, companies engaging in self-promotional activities on Wikipedia
have come under heavy criticism from the press and the general public, with
their actions widely viewed as inconsistent with Wikipedia's educational
mission.
Being deceptive in your editing by using sockpuppets or misrepresenting
your affiliation with a company is against Wikipedia policy and is
prohibited by our Terms of Use. We urge companies to conduct themselves
ethically, to be transparent about what they're doing on Wikipedia, and to
adhere to all site policies and practices.
The Wikimedia Foundation is closely monitoring this ongoing investigation
and we are currently assessing all the options at our disposal. We will
have more to say in the coming weeks.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org<br/>
http://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most
popular web property world-wide (comScore, August 2013). Available in 287
languages, Wikipedia contains more than 29 million articles contributed by
a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San
Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
Press contact
Matthew Roth
Global Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel. +1 415-839-6885 x6635
mroth{{at}}wikimedia.org
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"unsubscribe" to this email.
The Wikimedia Nederland report for September is available:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederl…
It is also included as text in this message.
COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors
-
Our two-weekly Wiki-Saturdays remain successful: on a Wiki-Saturday the
WMNL office is open for members of the community as a venue for meetings, a
quiet place to work on projects or just to have a coffee and a chat with
fellow Wikimedians. In September, the office was open twice, hosting
volunteers and board members working on our annual conference, wiki loves
monuments and the annual work plan 2014.
-
Preparations for the Wikimedia Nederland Conference (November 2,
Utrecht) are in full swing. WMF chair of the Board Jan Bart de Vreede has
agreed to give the keynote speech. See for conference programme:
http://www.wikimediaconferentie.nl/
-
There was a Wikipedia Café in Amsterdam on September 6. Four community
members attended.
WORK: content, collaboration and activity development
-
Wiki Loves Monuments. September is Wiki Loves
Monuments<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.nl/>month. There were
photo-safari’s (Wiki Takes) in Groningen, Nijmegen and
The Hague. One of our volunteers arranged a special tour of Kasteel de Haar
so that photographs could be taken inside the castle.
-
World War II. A group of active community members has decided to focus
on World War II. We cooperated with the National Committee for the
Commemoration of World War II earlier this year in a small pilot-project to
gather photographs of war monuments for Wikimedia Commons. We are looking
to expand this cooperation.
-
Fashion edit-a-thon Antwerpen. The MoMu fashion museum hosted an Europeana
Fashion Edit-a-thon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/MoMu_Fashion_edit-a-thon_20…>in
Antwerp. Around 25
participants<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/MoMu_Fashion_edit-a-thon_20…>worked
on
articles<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/MoMu_Fashion_edit-a-thon_20…>and
a special tour through the museum was given.
-
Public Libraries. BiSC Utrecht <http://www.biscutrecht.nl/>, the service
organisation for libraries in the province of Utrecht, and Wikimedia
Nederland organised a workshop for libraries. The goal of the workshop was
to generate ideas for cooperation. The workshop was inspired by the
earlier Wiki
Loves Bieb <http://www.wikilovesbieb.nl/> project.
-
25/9 Creative Commons Conference. Wikimedia Nederland attended the
celebration of 10 years of Creative Commons in the Netherlands. The future
of the licenses and their use was being discussed at the event.
-
ECNC. Volunteers of Wikimedia Nederland supported the ECNC photo
competition <http://www.ecnc.org/photo-competition/> by setting up
the upload
wizard<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard%3Fcampaign%3DECNC-B…>.
One of the goals for Wikimedia Nederland to support this competition is to
see if and how we can support initiatives by other organisations that lead
to more content on commons and/or other Wikimedia projects.
-
Tropenmuseum. The
Tropenmuseum<http://www.tropenmuseum.com/smartsite.shtml?ch=TMU&id=5853>is
looking for the fourth Dutch Wikipedian in Residence (job
description in
Dutch<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vacature_Wikipedian-in-Residence_op_expeditie>)
for their project about
expeditions<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/De_grote_Wikipedia_Expeditie>
.
Money
-
WMNL submitted its application for FDC
funding<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2013-2014_round1/Wikim…>in
time of the October 1 deadline. We are requesting € 356,068, a 20%
increase on the 2013 FDC allocation.
GLOBAL: International collaboration
-
Board member international affairs Ziko van Dijk visited the
Wikipedia-Stammtisch in Bochum (DE)
-
Wiki Loves Monuments International: WMNL is acting as fiscal sponsor to
the Wiki Loves Monuments International team, taking care of accounting and
payments.
-
Kira Kraemer (WMDE) visited the WMNL offices as part of the Chapters
Dialogue programme. She interviewed representatives of board, community and
staff.
ORGANISATION: board, management and support
-
The board met in Utrecht on September 5.
-
The Algemene Ledenvergadering (General Assembly) took place on September
21 (the second in 2013). Main points on the agenda were the Annual Workplan
and Budget 2014. Both were approved by the members.
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
tel. (+31) (0)6 31786379
*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
Dear fellows,
The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities
developed in September by Amical Wikimedia.
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/September_2013
GLAM-WIKI
- Current Wikipedians-in-Residence: ESM at Museu d'Art Jaume Morera,
Galazan at Museu d'Història de Catalunya, Marionaaragay at Museu de la
Música de Barcelona, Glòria Guirao at Fundació Suñol and David Parreño Mont
at Network of Public Libraries of the Government of Catalonia.
- September 3rd. Meeting with the cultural dept of the Town council of
Barcelona. Kippelboy
- September 9th. Meeting with Catalan Women Institute (Institut Català
de la Dona) for drafting our 2014 partenrship program. Kippelboy
- September 10th. Promotional video recording for our project WikiLoves
Libraries. (presenting it on the Basque Country in October). Kippelboy
- September 16th. Wikimedia Commons 4h course to Barcelona Town Council
Museum Proffessional. 7 attendees. Kippelboy
- September 16th. Meeting with Barcelona Town Council members: Drafting
a WikiLovesMonuments exhibit in Barcelona. Kippelboy
- September 17th. Meeting with Política Lingüística (Linguistic Council
of Government). Barcelona
- September 18th. GLAMWiki introduction to the Fundació Bosch i
Cardellach in Sabadell. Kippelboy
- September 19th. Follow up meeting with leaders librarians of the Wiki
Loves Biblioteques CAT (Wiki Loves Catalan Libraries) project. Kippelboy
- September 26th. Meeting with Victor Balaguer Museum. Looking for a
Wikipedian in Residence and a Content Donation. Agreement done. Kippelboy
- September 26th. Wiki Loves Libraries meeting. Agreement for new
Wikipedian in Residence. Will be Davidpar. Kippelboy
Wiki Loves Monuments
- Organization of the photo contest on cultural heritage Wiki Loves
Monuments at the Catalan-speaking territories.
Further activitites:
- September, 15th. Andorran Photowalk[1]
- September, 21th. Wiki Takes Mollerussa[2], driven by the Mascançà
Research Center. ESM
- September, 24th. Wiki Takes Olesa, driven by Santa Oliva Library.
Kippelboy
- September, 28th. Wiki Takes Sant Feliu de Guíxols, driven by Sant
Feliu de Guíxols Library. Kippelboy
Open Data
- September, 17th. Presentation of the project: "Corporate social
responsibility and Wikipedia" Where workers of the Natural environment dept
of the Government of Catalonia are invited to edit Wikipedia on their Spare
time. Kippelboy
- September 28th. Conference: "Wikipedia and Open Data. The
democratization of knowledge" during Catosfera[3] (Catalan internet users
conference) in Granollers. Arnaugir
Education
- September, 12 th. First meeting among Amical volunteers for drafting
the new wikiclassics project. Kippelboy Barcelona Marionaaragay
- September, 23rd. WikiClassics meeting with a Latin language teacher of
the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Kippelboy Marionaaragay
- September, 25th. Drafting a new Fungus Wikiproejct with a Fungus
doctorate of the University of Barcelona. Kippelboy Vàngelis Villar
- September 26th: Beginning of work with philology students from UB
(University of Barcelona), they will analyze the linguistic quality of
several articles during their career project. Barcelona
Organization
- Amical Wikimedia publishes the 2014-2018 strategy plan and the 2014
roadmap.
- September 25th: Monthly IRC meeting with Amical members. Discussion of
the roadmap.
- Drafting of Amical's FDC proposal for 2014.[4] Arnaugir, Kippelboy,
Josepnogue
Media
- Wiki Loves Monuments media coverage: Ràdio Televisió Andorra,
Barcelona TV, El Periòdic d'Andorra, Bondia.ad, Agència de Notícies
Andorrana, El Economista, Europa Press, Llibertat.cat, Nació Digital,
Xarxanet, Agència Catalana de Notícies, VilaWeb Mollerussa, Andorra TV.
Davidpar
- Reports on Catalan Wikipedia: Xarxanet ("Catalan Wikipedia, a great
example of voluntary and collaborative"), Regió 7 ("Wikipedia with V").
- Interview with Quim Gil at *El Periódico de Catalunya*.
- STIC Award coverage: Imatica.org, GironaNotícies.cat, Agència Catalana
de Notícies, Racó Català, NacióGranollers, Nació Granollers, Ara, El
Periódico de Catalunya, Núvol.com, Nació Digital, VOTV. Davidpar
Research
- Writing of the reseach: *Joan Miró in Wikipedia: a comparative analysis
*, by Kippelboy and ESM.
Other
- Amical Wikimedia organizes the summer WikiChallenge in order to
improve the grammar and spelling of 2000 wikipedia articles. 31
participants. Finished on September 15th
- Attendance to Open Knowledge Conference about Open Data in Geneva,
Switzerland. Arnaugir
- September 28th. Stic.cat association gives its annual Special prize to
Amical Wikimedia during the Premis Blocs Catalunya 2013. Arnaugir collects
the prize and gives a short talk.
[1] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Photowalk_Andorr%C3%A0
[2] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Wiki_Takes_Mollerussa
[3] http://2013.catosfera.cat/
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2013-2014_round1/Amica…
We have great News to announce today: The Swiss National Library and Wikimedia CH are looking for a germanspeaking (mother tongue not mandatory) Project Leader to establish a strong and sustainable relationship between the Wikipedia Community and the National Library.
To get more information, please se the Job-Advertisement on our WMCH website or on the Website of the Swiss Confederation.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us on info(a)wikimedia.ch
Charles
___________________________________________________________
I use this email for mailing list only.
Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch
Hi all,
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#62) is available. This time
we write about upcoming Members' Meeting, Bibliohackathon Florence,
EMMIT 2013 and future appointments.
As 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. 62 - October 16, 2013 =
{{titolo errato|titolo=Wikimedia news}}{{WMNpubblico|62|October 16, 2013}}
[[File:Biblioteca Salaborsa Bologna.jpg|thumb|450px|center|
''"Biblioteca Salaborsa"'' By Ilario - Cassinam (Own work) [CC-BY
2.5], via Wikimedia Commons]]
== Members' Meeting - October 2013 ==
'''Saturday, October 19,''' will be a busy and important day for
Wikimedia Italia! At the [http://www.bibliotecasalaborsa.it/home.php
Biblioteca Salaborsa] in Bologna there will be a public meeting in the
morning led by some of the members of the association joined by guest
friends, while in the afternoon there will be the semiannual members'
meeting.
The appointment of the morning will be at the Auditorium Enzo Biagi,
'''from 10:00 to 13:00'''. It is open to all, so we invite everyone to
attend. The underlying theme of the presentation will be ''Libraries
and Wikipedia: meetings and possibilities''. The objective is to
discuss values, aims and perspectives that bind Wikipedia and other
wiki projects to libraries.
Speakers : '''Luca De Biase''' (Journalist); '''Frieda Brioschi'''
(President of Wikimedia Italia); '''Andrea Zanni''' (Head of the
Wikimedia Italia projects); '''Virginia Gentilini''' (Biblioteca
Salaborsa); '''Piero Grandesso''' (Wikipedian).
The official Members' Meeting of Wikimedia Italia will start '''at
14:00''' (second call), at the '''Atelier of the Urban Center'''.
Among the topics we will discuss the events for the next year and the
organization of Wikimania 2015, we will ratify the resolutions of the
Board of Directors; but mainly this is an opportunity to meet in
person and exchange ideas freely.
Some practical notes:
* only those who have paid the
[http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Iscrizioni registration fee] for 2013
will be entitled to vote;
* in case you can not be present, you can delegate another member (see
[http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Associazione:Assemblea_WMI_ottobre_2013/delega
this page] for full details);
* you must register by filling out the
[https://assembleaottobre2013.eventbrite.com online form] (by Friday,
18 October, noon);
* or any practical information (including beds and hitches by car) see
[http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Associazione:Assemblea_WMI_ottobre_201
the dedicated page], updated until the last minute.
== Bibliohackathon Florence ==
Bibliohackathon is around the corner: on October 26th in Florence at
the [http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ National Central Library]
Wikipedians, librarians and geeks will gather to kick off this pilot
project, in which representatives of each category will work together
to learn and discuss something useful from each other.
For this purpose, several workshops have been planned, among which we
point out those about Thesaurus, Wikidata, VIAF, Pywikipediabot and
OpenAccess. The beginning of the meeting is fixed at 9 for reception,
while the work will start at 10:00 and end at 18:00. To participate,
you must refer to the
[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/Biblioteche/Bibliohackaton
event page] and get a (free) ticket
[https://bibliohackathon.eventbrite.it/ on Eventbrite]. If you want to
contribute and help the organization,
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fBuisDTIiBAz9u2tr7sgv6GdDLOV_aHbafjqHXS…
in this guide] you will find original suggestions on what to do and
how to structure a Hackathon.
== EMMIT 2013 ==
The ninth edition of the International Meeting
[http://www.msfteh.org/telemed2013/ Euro - Mediterranean Medical
Informatics and Telemedicine] (Emmit 2013) will take place in Nador,
Morocco, From October 21 to 23. The goal of the Meeting is to bring
together experts from academia, industry representatives and global
health institutions, with the aim of stimulating debate on research
and share experiences with health care providers and policy makers.
Tuesday, October 22 , among the speakers our
'''[[Utente:Franciaio|Francesco Tarantini]]''' will present
'''''Nursing and healthcare on Wikipedi''''', a project that wants to
bring the world's most popular online encyclopedia to be a reliable
source of health information. Francesco, along with Wikimedia Italia
and [http://www.istitutotumori.mi.it/ IRCCS-National Cancer Institute
of Milan]], involved three of his nursing students in the preparation
of dissertations that address the issue of the presence of articles
about healthcare on Wikipedia. The students will have to re-edit the
articols on : nurses, nursing, IPASVI (ational Federation of Nurses'
Colleges). Francesco will be accompanied by one of his students. The
project also involves other people, including
[::it:w:Utente:Ilario|Ilario]] (Wikimedia CH) and
[[:w:User:Jmh649|James M Heilman]] (Wiki Project Medicine).
== Past and future appointments ==
* '''October 5''': Wikimedia Italia has participated to Bibliopride in
Florence. The title of the meeting was ''Libraries and Wikipedia:
sharing of open data and skills''. Following the event two speakers
shared online the slides (in Italian) used in the presentation:
Aubrey, [http://www.slideshare.net/AubreyMcFato/bibliopride Libraries
and Wikipedia: suspected allies]; Virginia Gentilini,
[http://www.slideshare.net/virna/la-formazione-ai-progetti-wiki-per-gli-uten…
training projects wiki for users of libraries and librarians].
* '''Wikimedia Switzerland''': recurring meetings for Wikimedians. The
Italian community in Switzerland organizes meetings every two weeks in
the Libri al Centro bookstore (via Vegezzi 4, Lugano). If you are
interested in participating, you can write to Community Liaison,
[mailto:ilario.valdelli@wikimedia.ch Ilario Valdelli]. The start date
and times will be communicated via e-mail to Italian-speaking members.
* '''October 18, Milan'''. On Radio Popolare, in the transmission
''[http://blog.radiopopolare.it/bigfish/ Big Fish]'', a column with
working title "Stories of Wiki" will be broadcasted; a story will be
told starting from an article of Wikipedia. For the first episode, the
narrator will be Maurizio Codogno. The scheduled time is between 13:45
and 14:00.
* '''October 25-26-27, Florence'''. Wikimedia Italy participates to
the [http://www.sicampfirenze.org/ Social Innovation Camp] as a
technical partner; we will be part of the jury and will play the role
of tutor to the winning projects. You can sign up for free
[http://www.sicampfirenze.org/iscriviti-a-sicamp-firenze/ here] .
* '''November 7, Treviso'''. The meeting aimed at librarians ''Nuove
biblioteche per nuovi lettori'' (''New libraries for new readers'')
organized by the province of Treviso for the 2013 edition of
[http://www.venetolettura.it/ Veneto Lettura] (Veneto Reading) will
have a presentation on libraries and Wikipedia that will be held by
Virginia Gentilini.
* '''November 12, Milan'''. Event ''New Media and information''.
Within the project Fuorigeco, the meeting will be held at The Hub
Milan, from 19 to 21. Among the guests, Frieda Brioschi (''President
of Wikimedia Italia''), together with Carlo Freccero and Alessandra
Ghisleri; the meeting is moderated by Jacopo Tondelli.