Hi all,
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#65) is available. This time we
wrote about the award ceremony for Wiki Loves Monuments Italia, the results
of Fashion Editathon, the contest for the first ten years of Wikisource.
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. 65 - November 28, 2013 =
{{titolo errato|titolo=Wikimedia news no. 65}}{{WMNpubblico|65|November 28,
2013}}
[[File:1024px-Più_in_alto_di_tutti.JPG|400px|thumb|center| Winning photo
for Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2013 by Alexis.courthoud (own
work),[CC-BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
== Award ceremony for Wiki Loves Monuments Italia ==
Saturday, November 23, at the Hoepli Bookshop in Milan, the awarding
ceremony of the Italian edition of the contest Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
was held. Starting with over 600 photographs selected by the organizing
committee, the jury has ranked the top ten. The jury was composed by George
Tatge (Chairman), former technical and photographic executive of the
Fratelli Alinari Museum in Florence, together with other experts in the
field (Marianna Santoni and Samuele Pellecchia) and two Wikipedians,
Niccolò Caranti e Giovanni Dall'Orto.
The main winners are:
;1° - Alexis Courthoud: [
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pi%C3%B9_in_alto_di_tutti.JPG Mount
Castore seen from above] (Valle d'Aosta).
;2° - Maria Lucia Lusetti and Paolo Tedeschi: [
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Cataldo_4.jpg San Cataldo cemetery]
(Modena) – Monumental Area for Aldo Rossi.
;3° - Cristina Meneguzzo: [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capannone_bramme_-_area_ex_Falck_Uni…
Bramme] (Sesto San Giovanni) in ex-Falck Unione area.
In addition, the Foundation Grand Paradis awarded a special prize for the
photography [[
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0540521008_Tempio_della_Consolazion…
with temple of Consolation (Todi)] by Luca Balducci. But it's not
all over! Some special prizes have to be announced yet.
We thank all the volunteers who participated, the Organizing Committee, the
jury, the 527 photographers who uploaded their pictures on Wikimedia
Commons. A special thanks to Hoepli Bookshop for hosting the ceremony. Wiki
Loves Monuments is already preparing for 2014: we will soon notify all the
news for next year.
== Fashion Editathon ==
[[File:Europeana_Fashion_Editathon_2013_Stra.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Fashion
editathon by Niccolò Caranti (own work), [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
Thursday, November 14th, a Fashion Editathon was held at the headquarters
of the Rossimoda Footwear Museum, at Villa Foscarini Rossi in Stra. Thanks
to the initiative of Europeana Fashion, the museum has agreed to upload to
Wikimedia Commons [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Museo_Rossimoda_del…
of some objects] from its own collection, releasing them under a
free license. In addition, other institutions were involved, such as the
University of Padua and IUAV of Venice; the event, directed by
[[:it:Utente:Virginia Gentilini|Virginia Gentilini]] who was joined by some
members of Wikimedia Italia, was indeed primarily thought for students of
fashion design and marketing. After an initial presentation of Wikipedia
and a guided tour of the museum, the students were divided into groups and
worked for more than two hours in the drafting of some items of the
encyclopedia.
The institutions involved were really satisfied with the outcome of the
editathon and the participation of the young people was enthusiastic. We
hope that this initiative will be just the first of a long series and that
other cultural institutions and museums will allow the use of their images
to enrich the articles of Wikipedia about them.
== Wikisource celebrates its first ten years with a contest ==
On 24 November 2013 [
https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Decimo_compleanno_di_Wikisource#W…
Wikisource became ten years old]. To celebrate the birthday, each
linguistic community has launched a special contest. The founders of the
large digital library launched the idea of a fun competition that, in
Italy, will be entirely centered on a reading contest, with three prizes
for online bookstores offered by Wikimedia Italia. To participate in the
race, which opened November 24 at 00:00 aqnd ends on December 1 at 23:59,
you must be a [
https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Speciale:Entra/signupregistered
user], and re-read and correct pages already transcribed and
formatted. Re-reading means to check, word for word, a text of a page at
75% quality level against its scan. Before you begin, please read [
https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Decimo_compleanno_di_Wikisource#R…
complete rules] of the contest. Happy reading!
== Future appointments ==
* November 29, Rome: [
http://www.iccu.sbn.it/opencms/opencms/it/archivionovita/2013/novita_0046.h…
open data (LOD) Workshop] "un’opportunità per il patrimonio
culturale digitale" (an opportunity for the digital cultural heritage),
sponsored by ICCU . Among the teachers [[:it:Utente:Sannita|Luca
Martinelli]] of Wikimedia Italia. [
http://www.otebac.it/index.php?it/22/archivio-eventi/245/linked-open-data-l…
there is] the program. You will need to [
http://www.otebac.it/index.php?it/358/cedola-di-registrazione-roma-29-novem…
online].
* December 4, Florence: BTO2013 (Buy Tourism Online).
[[:it:Utente:Frieda|Frieda Brioschi]] (''President of Wikimedia Italia'')
will discuss the experience of Wiki Loves Monuments within the panel [
http://www.buytourismonline.com/eventi/liberta-partecipazione/ "Libertà e
partecipazione"] (Freedom and participation).
