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Here is Wikimedia Israel report for July 2013:

Celebrating Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary 
  • On July 2013, Wikimedia Israel celebrated the 10th Hebrew Wikipedia anniversary. We had a Wikipedia community tribute event and celebrated the event with a joint breakfast and watching an Israeli movie in the movie theater at Cinema City. The event was attended by about 100 Wikipedia volunteers.
    Photos on our Facebook page: 
    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.515872998467361.1073741828.135920589795939&type=1

  • In addition to the Wikipedia editors meet – up, we were looking for a special way to celebrate the Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary - something that has never been done before. The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel 2, the most viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most senior Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our volunteers, wrote or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia. Then, each recorded a one minute video, explaining why they have decided to write on this specific topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast, the video was broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he explained "we wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show that everyone can write an article on Wikipedia”. Happy Birthday Wikipedia!
    Watch The video on our Youtube Channel: 
    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED

Program activities 
  • GLAM
    On July 23, we had a presentation and an editing workshop to the consulting workers in the National Library in Jerusalem, as part of the ongoing collaboration.

  • Africa Center Project
    As part of the cooperation with Wikimedia Israel, on July 28, a delegation of 18 students from Africa Central at Ben - Gurion University (BGU) left to Ghana, to install an offline copy of Wikipedia there. We look forward to the return of the expedition in October and until then, the project was expanded to other networked villages in the region that were not part of the original plan. Also, Wikimedia Israel volunteers were able to connect the students with local Wikipedia volunteers from Ghana, and with their help they continue to expand the project. 


Lectures and Academic Partnerships
  • As a result of the Wikipedia Academy conference held in early June, and dealt with the lack of women writers in Wikipedia, forged a new collaboration between Wikimedia Israel and the gender Department at Tel  Aviv University. With the beginning of the academic year, a lecture and editing workshop is scheduled to the gender Faculty and MA students. The goal is to implement a program in which students will write Wikipedia articles on gender issues (and others) as a mandatory course assignment. 
  • In the past month, there were a number of  “What is Wikipedia” lectures at the Israeli Broadcasting Authority,  at the Ministry of Education convention and in  various cities in Israel. The talk was attended by more than 200  people in total, and was. The lectures were delivered by Wikimedia Israel volunteers as a part of collaborations in various fields.
  • 2 meeting were held recently with members of the Student Association at the Tel Aviv University, in favor of planning educational project with the university faculty and with the. This is a new collaboration and we look forward to promote it soon.

Administrative Updates
  • On July, we finally finished the recruiting process of our new ED. After a series of interviews, we are pleased to announce the joining of a new ED – Michal Lester. We look forward to the beginning her employment in early September and to a productive and successful development of Wikimedia Israel.
  • On July 9, we held a General Assembly to approve few changes in our bylaws.

Press coverage

Media coverage regarding Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary: 

     • 9.7 – "ראיון עם דוד שי, "יש לי ערכים  (Yedioth Achoronot). 
     • 9.7 – ויקיפדיה העברית חוגגת עשור  (Ynet News).
          הכיף שלהם"   ( Ben Kaspit Radio Program, 103 FM)
     • 9.7 - ראיון עם דרור לין בתוכנית הרדיו של יעל דן –  (Galatz Radio st).
          (PC Newa).
     • 9.7 – ויקיפדיה העברית חוגגת עשור  (Computers and Technology Channel 7)
     • 9.7 - ויקיפדיה העברית חוגגת עשור  (Wiki News)
     • 9.7 -  ראיון עם דוד שי  (Channel 10)
          (ICE News).
          (Galatz Radio st). 
     • 25.7 – ויקיפדיה העברית חוגגת 10 (Channel 2 News, Mako).
     • 26.7 – המלחמות על הערכים בויקיפדיה  - A special investigative report on "the Hebrew Wikipedia edit wars" ( Channel 2 weekly main broadcast). 
     • 28.7 -  A unique collaboration with TV Channel 2  - series of 5 videos.
 
                 "בסביבת ירושלים


Wikipedia general:

           (Masa Efshari Blog)


Blog posts this month

     •     July 7 - Celebrating Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary. This post was written by Chen Davidi, Activity Coordinator of Wikimedia Israel, and was published on
           Wikimedia Israel blog.
 
Upcoming activities


August:

     •  1- Editathon at the National Library in Jerusalem.
     • 7- A meeting with the Israeli Broadcasting Authority.
     • 7-10- Wikimania Hong Kong.
     • 16 - A Thousand words tour at the 'City of David'.
     • 19 – Wikicommons Workshop for the Israeli Navy personnel at the University of Haifa.
     • 23 – Board development  day and strategic planning. 
     • 28 – Wikicommons Workshop for the general public.

September:

     • 9 - Guidance meeting with heritage sites managers, towards WLM competition.
     • 12 - Wikimedia booth at the " scientists Night " event at the Haifa University.
     • 15 - The opening of WLM competition.
     • 18, 20, 25, 27 – WLM tours. 


Regards,
Chen Davidi
Activity Coordinator
Wikimedia Israel