This is the chapter report for Wikimedia Nederland for June 2011.
Maarten Brinkerink gave a talk at the annual conference of the Dutch Association of Archivarians, and visited the GLAMcamp in New York.
The board discussed the possibility of hosting a GLAMcamp in the Netherlands at the end of 2011.
For Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), Wikimedia Nederland has arranged together with Heemschut that someone can work for WLM part time on the costs of Heemschut.
Lodewijk en MaartenB talked to people of a Delft cultural heritage wiki about a joint event with regard to WLM.
There is a fund for small-scale activities of the Dutch Wikimedia projects communities. Unfortunately, the community does not seem to take much advantage from it. The board decided to promote the fund better.
On June 18th we celebrated the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia in Dutch. Some 60-70 Wikipedians came to the Talent Factory in Den Bosch. In the afternoon, a photo scavenger hunt followed several routes through the old town with its many monuments. In the evening we met in the Talent Factory and had two short speeches, of the Dutch chapter president and the president of the Wikimedia Foundation. At midnight we commemorated the real birthday, June 19th. Photos see here.
Marjon Bakker, our communications employee, visited the office of Wikimedia Deutschland and came back with a lot of advice.
Board members Paul Becherer and Siebrand Mazeland attended the Fundrasing Summit in Vienna, Austria, where chapters and WMF were together to coordinate efforts for the yearly fundraising campaign, focusing mainly on messages, technical aspects and fundraising outside the yearly campaign.
The Dutch press, also the most important newspapers, reported extensively about the tenth anniversary. See here.
This is the chapter report for Wikimedia Nederland for July 2011.
Maarten Brinkerink talked with the Tropenmuseum, and reported that a Wikipedian in Residence might be useful with regard of the Tropenmuseum's activities around its vast and various collections.
The only local Wikimeet ("stamtafel", like the German "Stammtisch") that takes place on a regular basis is the one in Utrecht, the most central city of the Netherlands. On July 9th a Wikimeet happened in the Flemish city of Gent. One of the Dutch participants was Lodewijk. Some 10 people were attending, six of them "Wikimedians". They discussed about WLM and the possibility of founding a Belgian Wikimedia chapter. The Belgians may need more input from outside, Lodewijk said.
The board discussed about hiring a person for the fundraiser and gives highest priority to this.
The new Wikimedia Nederland website left its beta phase, thanks to Hay Kranen. It is meant to inform the Dutch public about Wikimedia and its activities: http://wmnederland.nl/
For active members, the old wiki (verenigingswiki) will remain the most important tool for planning of and collaborating on Wikimedia activities in the Netherlands: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hoofdpagina
This is the chapter report for Wikimedia Nederland for August 2011.
A large group of members of Wikimedia Nederland attended Wikimania 2011 in Haifa. Among them several members of the board: Ziko van Dijk, Austin Hair, Siebrand Mazeland and Marco Swart. Some of the Wikimedia Nederland members gave presentations:
The preparation of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) went on. On August 20th there was a meeting in the Utrecht office.
The board has decided on a "WikiSaturday" every second saturday, for an experimental time of two months. Those saturdays volunteers can come together at the WMNL office and collaborate on Wikimedia related subjects.
Begin August, there was a little wave of "Wikipedia loses authors" stories in the Dutch media.