Hi all,
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#41) is available.
This time we write about Wiki Loves Monument aftermath, the preparation of
third Open Data Day and the forthcoming celebrations for 10 years of CC
licenses.
As usual a link has been added to meta, at
Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; raw text of the bulletin
follows below.
ciao, .mau.
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*WikimediaNews* - no. 41 - December 12, 2012
Official bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.
Wiki Loves Monuments Italy in the world
Wiki Loves Monuments Italy has been a wonderful journey and still is: we
started with a handful of "freed" monuments and we ended up with two
pictures classified in the international contest! The image of the Teatro
Comunale di Ferrara by Andrea Parisi came fifth, while the photo of the
Baptistery of San Pietro di Asti was ranked fifteenth. More info on the blog
of Wiki Loves Monuments
Italy<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2012/12/litalia-nel-contest-internazionale/>.
The great satisfaction of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 motivates us to design
a competition even more exciting for next year. But we still need your
support! This time you can help us without spending a dime, but simply by
voting: we have passed the first stage of the contest "Che fare" ("What To
Do"), and now we are trying to pass at the third stage. The winner of the
contest will receive a prize of €100,000. Go to Che fare!
site<http://www.che-fare.com/>and vote for the project no. 31!
Wikimedia Italia at Open Data Day
Wednesday, December 5, the first preparatory meeting for the third Open
Data Day <http://opendataday.it/> was held in Bologna. The Open Data Day
which be February 23, 2013; Italy will participate for the first time. It
is a public discussion, with the aim of involving all those who have so far
worked on open data in Italy in support of the activities of Italy Digital
Agency. Many events will be organized throughout the country, and the main
one will take place in Rome.
lettera27 for tenth birthday of Creative Commons
lettera27 Foundation celebrates 10 years since the creation of Creative
Commons licenses, used by Wikipedia and all the other Wikimedia projects,
with an event which will be held in Milan on December 14. lettera27 is a
foundation that supports the right to literacy, education and more
generally access to knowledge and information in every part of the world
and particularly in its most deprived areas. Thanks to the collaboration
between the Foundation and Wikimedia Italy, in 2006 project
WikiAfrica<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:WikiAfrica#Contribuire_…
born, that this year has reached the goal of contributing to Wikipedia
with 30,000 images and texts about Africa, released under a free license.
This is a good reason to give thanks and celebrate Creative Commons.
News in brief
(Note: in this translated version only the news regarding Italy are shown)
- Wiki Loves Monuments Italy blog is hosting a tour of the best pictures
in the world edition of the contest. See the WLM Tours in Spain and
Andorra<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2012/11/wlm-tour-spagna-e-andorra/>and
France
and
Switzerland<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2012/12/wlm-tour-francia-e-svizzera/>.