Dear colleagues,
As usual, we are sharing our experiences with you. This time we are
sending a summary of our activities throughout the months of October
and November. Sorry for the delay and we hope you like them.
Kind regards, and happy new year.
Courses and conferences
- 2 October–20 November: Specific course for secondary education
teachers<http://www.udg.edu/tabid/6126/Default.aspx?ID=780>given at
the Institut de Ciències de l'Educació (ICE) in Girona.
User:Imartin<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Imartin&action=edit&redlink=1>
- 8 October: Wikipedia workshop-presentation at the Casal Jaume I in
Perpignan. User:Capsot <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Capsot>.
- 21 October: Start of the training course within the
Viquibalear<http://www.viquibalear.cat/>project.
- 21 October: Edit Wikipedia workshop at the Terrassa 6th district
library. User:Gomà <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Gom%C3%A0>.
- 5 November. Conference at the Casa Golferichs: "La Viquipèdia, què és i
com funciona". User:Gomà<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Gom%C3%A0>.
- 18 November. Lecture on Wikipedia in the conference hall of the UAB
Faculty of Humanities.
User:Simonjoan<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Simonjoan>
- 18 November. Edit Wikipedia workshop at the UPC.
User:Gomà<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Gom%C3%A0>
- 20 November. Edit Wikipedia workshop at the Biblioteca Central de
Terrassa. User:Gomà <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Gom%C3%A0>
Content release
- We contacted the President of the Free Knowledge Institute, Wouter
Tebbens, at the Free Culture Forum. He told us they are developing a joint
project with UOC, consisting in a series of courses which use freely
licenced material. At the time of writing, they have Introduction to Free
Software<http://ocw.uoc.edu/informatica-tecnologia-i-multimedia/introduc…s/>,
Advanced Administration of the Linux GNU Operating
System<http://ocw.uoc.edu/informatica-tecnologia-i-multimedia/administra…s/>,
Development of Web
Apps<http://ocw.uoc.edu/informatica-tecnologia-i-multimedia/desenvolupam…s/>,
Introduction to Software
Development<http://ocw.uoc.edu/informatica-tecnologia-i-multimedia/intro…
Implementation
of free-software
systems<http://ocw.uoc.edu/informatica-tecnologia-i-multimedia/implantac…ca>.
- We talked to Miquel Pujol Palol, the author of the book Les Plantes
Cultivades.
CEREALS<http://www.agronoms.org/base-coneixement/publicacions/view.php?I…30>.
He accepted to releasing the book under a free licence. We are processing
his permission to submit it to OTRS and will inform Wikibooks as soon as it
is ready.
- All Wikipedians and members of sister projects can now download the
book *Comunicacions Informàtiques i de
Dades*<http://www.torrens-ibern.cat/?page_id=401>for free. It is a
reference work for subjects on Networks and Data
Transmission in Catalan universities. It is not under a free licence but
having it available for free may help write articles about the subjects it
covers.
- More and more authors of online content in Catalan are releasing their
work under a free licence compatible with Wikipedia. The Catalan website
Cuinetes.cat <http://cuinetes.cat/> is under the CC-BY-SA licence, which
can help fill Wikibooks with recipes if we cite it properly.
Media
- 15 October: Meeting in Barcelona with representatives of the
*Sapiens*magazine to seek possibilities for cooperation between both
associations.
User:Beusson <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Beusson>
- The joint project with TV3 *Espai Internet* has divulged the following
articles over the last few months: ca:Les set meravelles del
món<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Ca:Les_set_meravelles_del_m%C3%B3n&action=edit&redlink=1>,
ca:Les set noves meravelles del
món<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Ca:Les_set_noves_meravelles_del_m%C3%B3n&action=edit&redlink=1>,
ca:Vídeo
viral<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Ca:V%C3%ADdeo_viral&action=edit&redlink=1>,
ca:Arkady
Ostrovsky<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Ca:Arkady_Ostrovsky&action=edit&redlink=1>,
ca:Audiència (mitjans de
comunicació)<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Ca:Audi%C3%A8ncia_%28mitjans_de_comunicaci%C3%B3%29&action=edit&redlink=1>,
ca:Apple
Inc.<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Ca:Apple_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1>i
ca:Beatles<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Ca:Beatles&action=edit&redlink=1>.
- Barcelona TV broadcast this report on the Drumbeat
Festival<http://www.btvnoticies.cat/2010/11/05/el-festival-drumbeat-reuneix-al-raval-els-impulsors-de-la-internet-oberta/>focusing
mainly on Wikipedia. It features interviews with
User:Mcapdevila<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Mcapdevila&action=edit&redlink=1>,
User:Gomà <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Gom%C3%A0>,
User:Dvdgmz<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Dvdgmz&action=edit&redlink=1>,
User:Esenabre <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Esenabre> and Alina
Mierlus. At 00:27 you can also see
User:SJ<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:SJ&action=edit&redlink=1>,
but he still doesn't speak Catalan well enough to give an interview.
Institutional relations
- We are taking part in
ViquilletrA<http://lletra.uoc.edu/viquilletra/index.php/P%C3%A0gina_prin…al>,
a joint project by the Open University of Catalonia
[
1]<http://www.uoc.edu/>and the Department of Education
[2] <http://xtec.cat/>, with the support of Amical Viquipèdia
[3]<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/>.
Some of the results can be used on Wikipedia in the future.
User:Barcelona <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Barcelona>.
- We signed a cooperation agreement with SIF (Manufacturing Engineering
Society) <http://www.sif-mes.org/webs/marcos.htm>. The wikiprojects
viquifabricació<http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Viquifabricac…
wikifabricación<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Wikifabricaci%…
as a result of this agreement. At the time of writing, teachers from
five universities had joined the project, but we expect participation to
increase during the second half of the academic year.
User:Gomà<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Gom%C3%A0>.
- Meeting with the UAB Postgraduate School to explain Wikipedia and its
pedagogical potential.
- Documentation for IEC, with the objective to launch a project with its
affiliate organisations.
User:Barcelona<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Barcelona>
- 21 October: meeting with the Department of Citizen Action of the
Catalan Government with the goal to encourage pensioners to participate in
Wikipedia. An agreement was reached, under which they will divulge videos
about editing Wikipedia on their website and in retirement homes.
Usuari:Pallarès<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Pallar%C3%A8s&action=edit&redlink=1>
Miscellaneous
- 23 October. 3rd Wikipedian annual meeting. The Association arranged for
the premises, organised the lunch and contributed €300 to a fund aiming to
cover part of the travel expenses for Wikipedians coming from afar.
User:Mafoso <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Mafoso> and
User:Judesba<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Judesba&action=edit&redlink=1>.
We would like to give a special thank you to those who came from the islands
(User:Paucabot <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Paucabot> from
Majorca and
User:Gusdan<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Gusdan&action=edit&redlink=1>from
Alghero), as well as
User:Willtron<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Willtron&action=edit&redlink=1>from
the Aragonese Wikipedia, who came from Saragossa. Donations from those
present and book sales gave us a surplus of €92.80, which were deposited
into the Association's account.
- On that day we also held the annual meeting of the Amical Viquipèdia
association. The assembly was open to anyone who wished to attend and
everyone was allowed to speak regardless of whether they were members or
not.
- 28–31 October. We took part in the FCF, which this year focused
on the economic
sustainability of free
culture<http://wiki.fcforum.net/index.php?title=Economic_Sustainability_…on>.
A special thank you goes to Alice Wiegand from Wikimedia Deutschland for her
contributions.
User:Lilaroja<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Lilaroja&action=edit&redlink=1>.
- 3–6 November. The Drumbeat festival in
Barcelona<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/sche…
devoted to learning and reserved a place for Wikipedia. Among many
other
things, we talked about the 10th anniversary celebrations and the use of
Wikipedia in educational projects. The local
team<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/Festival/Barcelona#L.27equ…
helped organise the event did an outstanding job. We were an official
partner of the activities held on 6 November to bring the Drumbeat to El
Raval.
- 25 November. Assembly of the Free Knowledge and Software Coordinating
Organisation. It was agreed that other communities and organisations
(Mozilla, Drupal, Ubuntu, Softcatalà, etc.) will take part in some events of
the Wikipedia 10th anniversary.
- Thanks to the efforts of
Leptictidium<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Leptictidium&action=edit&redlink=1>,
Mafoso <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Mafoso>,
Kippelboy<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Kippelboy>,
Joancreus<http://www.viquimedia.cat/v/index.php?title=Usuari:Joancreus&action=edit&redlink=1>and
Martorell <http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Usuari:Martorell>, the
Wikipedia brochure is now available in
Standard<http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Welcome2WP_Catalan_PROD.pdf…
Valencian<http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Welcome2WP_Catalan-Valenci…atalan.
Printed copies will be available soon.