On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:58 PM, .mau. (maurizio codogno) <
wiki.mau(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
New bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#81) was available. Summary:
- 1.1 ANPI frees all its biographies
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#ANPI_frees_all_its_biographies>
- 1.2 The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#The_European_Commission_endorses_Creative_Commons_licenses>
- 1.3 OpenStreetMap
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#OpenStreetMap>
- 1.4 Events and announcments
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#Events_and_announcments>
- 1.5 News from the wiki world
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#News_from_the_wiki_world>
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 n. 81, July 24th 2014 =
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[[File:Parlamento wiki.png|thumb|450px|center| A screenshot of
@Parlamento_wiki Tritter account, source:Twitter]]
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<font size="5">Wikipedia and Twitter for transparency</font>
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<p align=justify>Wikipedia and Twitter cooperate in '''forbidding
arbitrary
and anonymous edits''' to articles about corridors of power around the
world. Tom Scott, an Englishman, had the idea of creating a series of
Twitter profiles to highlight all the edits to Wikipedia pages about
powerful entities; then on July 9th Ed Summers, an American, created [
https://twitter.com/congressedits congress-edits]: a profile where all
edits to Wikipedia from anonymous users with IP addresses related to the US
Congress can be showed. The goal is to preserve the transparency and
reliability of Wikipedia. A similar account was just created also for
Italy: its name is [
https://twitter.com/Parlamento_Wiki
'''@Parlamento_Wiki'''] and its stated goal is to “publish
Wikipedia edits
performed anonymously from the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Senate of
Republic”.</p>
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[[File:Locandina WLM dettaglio.png|thumb|450px|center| A close-up of the
flier about "freed" monuments, by Alessandra Gasparini, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
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<font size="5">Wiki Loves Monuments becomes big(ger)</font>
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<p align=justify>The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it
reaches the large public: with the brand new joining of the [
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/07/a-pompei-per-fotografare-la-storia/
'''Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e
Stabia'''] the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting
the archaeological site with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed”
all the monuments and the “emergenze” (protrusions) located in one of the
most important sites of the world. Along with that there is a long list of
Municipalities and Institutions, accessible in [
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/istituzioni/ the dedicated page] of the
contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to
take pictures of participating locations: to know where to go, just watch
the [
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/blog/ blog], updated as soon as a new
trip is planned. You may also suggest a destination, writing at
contatti(a)wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement is that it must be one
of the participating Municipalities.</p>
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== ANPI frees all its biographies ==
[[File:ANPI Sesto San Giovanni.jpg|thumb|150px|left| The ANPI plaque in
Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - by Triangle rouge (Own work) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
<p align=justify>The ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Italiani -
National Association of Italian Partisans) published all the 3072
biographies of Resistance Women and Men under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IT license:
thanks to the choice of a free license, a [
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie/ANPI project] started on
Wikipedia to facilitate the creation of new articles and the extension of
the existing ones using that material. This effort is part of the bigger [
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie “Biographies project”] of
Italian Wikipedia, that gives guidelines for consistent and easy to
understand biographies published on Wikipedia.</p>
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== The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses ==
[[File:European Commission logo.svg|thumb|150px|left| Logo of the European
Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]]
<p align=justify>The '''European Commission''' recently
invited Member
States to '''use licenses compliant to “open” standards''' while
publishing
their documents. The published [
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-491_en.htm guidelines] aim to
support institutions of different countries in complying to the Directive
in public sector information re-use.
Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to
put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible.
A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: [
http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses]
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== OpenStreetMap ==
[[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su
OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by
Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
* [
http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/16.489/77.827 OpenGeoFiction] is a
website based on the same application behind
openstreetmap.org (from
database to messaginng) with a difference: the represented world is not the
real one, but a fictional one. Many users are using it to draw a plausible
world set in our time (no orcs or elves: rather power stations, metro lines
and so on).
* Many newspapers reported about the #agenziauscite initiative (for example
on the [
http://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/societa/2014/12-luglio-2014/strada-d…
Corriere della Sera]). Now that the attribution on the Osservatorio del
Mercato Immobiliare has eventually been added, it is time for [
http://www.chefuturo.it/2014/07/lagenzia-delle-entrate-chiede-scusa-per-le-…
asking about the openness of the Italian land register].
* The new portal [
http://cycle.travel/map cycle.travel] is devoted to
bicycle mobility, with a route planner based on modifications to the famous
routing engine OSRM.
* OpenStreetMap Foundation [
http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members announced] the first
corporate members.
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== Events and announcments ==
* '''From July 21th to August the first''': during those two
weeks,
Wikimedia Italia offices will be open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 to
13.30.
* '''Saturday August 2nd 2014''', Monastero Bormida: Simone
Cortesi,
Vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, is going to talk about [
http://www.arteneidintorni.it/incontri-mappe-monferrato/ '''Monferrato
maps: from historic cartography to digital revolution''']. The panel is
part of the exhibit "IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN
PICCOLO STATO": open from July 5th to October 26th. Wikimedia Italia
members can access at a discount rate of 5 euro, by showing the membership
card.
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== News from the wiki world ==
* From the 15th to the 17 of July, Berlin hosted the [
http://2014.okfestival.org/ Open Knowledge Festival], devoted to the Open
Data world. A [
http://sched.co/1kuEQ3B workshop] about the development of
OpenStreetMap to support humanitarian issues, followed also by our
treasurer Cristian Consonni. Katie Filbert of Wikimedia Deutschland, active
member of Wikidata, was the chair.
* The Court of Rome, [
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Angelucci-WMI acquitted]
Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation from the charges moved by Antonio
and Giampaolo Angelucci, father and son, businessmen and Italian
politicians. The two verdicts, the first on July 9th for Wikimedia
Foundation and now the second one in favour of Wikimedia Italia, relieved
both the American foundation, as a neutral hosting provider, and the
Italian chapter from any responsibility about content published by
Wikipedia users.