Hi all!
I forgot that since last week new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#76) was
available. Summary:
- 1.1
Wikiconcessions<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_76/en#Wikiconcessions>
- 1.2
OpenStreetMap<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_76/en#OpenStreetMap>
- 1.3 WikiOscar
2014<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_76/en#WikiOscar_2014>
- 1.4 Dates for your
diary<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_76/en#Dates_for_your_diary>
- 1.5 News from the
wikiworld<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_76/en#News_from_the_wikiworld>
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 n. 76, May 15th, 2014 =
[[File:Opening_the_past_2014.jpg|thumb|200px|center| ''Logo of the event
Opening the past 2014'', from the website
http://mappaproject.arch.unipi.it/released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0
license]]
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<font size="5">Opening the past so to tell it</font>
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How can archaeologists and cultural heritage operators tell the community
about their work? Answering to this question is the aim of the meeting [
http://mappaproject.arch.unipi.it/?page_id=2667 Opening the past 2014 -
Immersive Archaeology] which will be held '''Friday, May 23rd, in
Pisa'''.
The promoters hope to focus the attention on contemporary tools, such as
new media, virtual reality and open data, and to their ability to let us
build an effective and involving story. For this reason, our Emma
Tracanella has been invited to talk about
[
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/Wiki Loves Monuments], a project
co-ordinated and directed by her, and [
http://www.archeowiki.it/ Archeowiki]. Registration is free and may be made
on the website, until May 18th.
[[File:mapgive.jpg|thumb|300px|center| ''Screenshot of the homepage of
MapGive'', a project belonging to the U.S. Department of State’s
Humanitarian Information Unit]]
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<font size="5">MapGive: mapping the world for emergencies</font>
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The Italian OpenStreetMap community never sleeps: thanks to their effort,
the website [
http://mapgive.openstreetmap.it/ MapGive] is now speaking our
language too. Simone Cortesi (''Vice president of Wikimedia Italia'')
explains the project: he, together with Cristian Consonni (''treasurer of
Wikimedia Italia and researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler''), worked on
the translation: "In practice, it is like a Wikipedia for geography. The
idea is to promote the formation of volunteers able to map areas prone to
natural calamities, intervening in the earliest hours following the
disaster, when standard maps are no longer useful, and what used to be a
motorway is now a hard-to-transit-on bridleway". If you're interested in
knowing the activities of the Italian OpenStreetMap community, and signing
up as volunteers, please visit their [
http://openstreetmap.it/ official
website].
== Wikiconcessions ==
[[File:Tessera Socio WMI 2014 FRONTE-page-001(1).jpg|thumb|150px|left|<p
align=center>WMI2014 membership card]]
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Wikimedia Italia is working so that members can benefit from concessions by
showing their membership card.
The interest is particularly directed to those museums which already offer
discounted (or free) entry to members of no profit or social promotion
associations, such as Wikimedia Italia is.
We are currently working on a deal with the museum network of the City of
Milan, which comprises the Museum of Science and Technology.
Do you know or want to suggest other museums? Email us at segreteria[at]
wikimedia.it and we'll try to contact them!
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== OpenStreetMap ==
[[File:Transit_Visualization_Client.png|thumb|150px|left|Public transport
on OpenStreetMap]]
When companies decide to change drastically the solutions on which they're
based, we always wonder what has motivated them and what their experience
has been like; Doublemap, a company supplying real-time positioning systems
to public transport companies in Indiana - USA, has told [
http://doublemap.github.io/blog/2014/04/29/porting-600k-map-views-to-openst…
story] on its blog. With hundreds of thousands or visits every months,
and with the necessity of accessing maps even off-line (e.g. at bus stops)
the only available choice was getting away from commercial suppliers of
cartography and adopting OpenStreetMap.
Speaking of public transport, [
http://tracker.geops.ch/?z=12&s=1&lat=45.08236949749697&lon…]
is a system to visualize feeds supplied by cities like Turin or
Trento (not real-time). In Italy, there have been attempts to build these
systems [
http://cortesi.com/2013/10/gfts-primi-passi-con-le-linee-lineservizi/ from
the bottom in Pavia] (with [
http://www.apposta.biz/prove/pavia/mappapavia.php an app similar to
Travic]).
Further news is available on the website [
http://openstreetmap.it/2014/05/osm-riassunto-settimanale-94/
openstreetmap.it].
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== WikiOscar 2014 ==
[[File:Special Gold Barnstar.png|thumb|150px|left| Special Prize - Author:
Antonu - Derivative work: RanZag - [CC-BY-SA 2.5] via Wikimedia Commons]]
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<BR>Wikipedia has its own Oscar Awards too! Every year, after a week-long
poll, the most active Wikipedians are awarded prizes for merits gained on
the field. The Wikioscars, created for the first time in 2004 inspired by
the barnstars used in the English language Wikipedia, are a virtual event
particularly loved by users, also since they do not follow precise rules:
everyone can be nominated, and everyone can win the most diverse awards.
<br> The 2014 edition has just concluded: a number of categories and prizes
are awarded, from the most serious such as the election of the [
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scherzi_e_STUBidaggini/Sondaggi/Wiki…
of the year] to the funniest ones, without forgetting the "classics":
Miss Wikipedia and Mister Wikipedia.
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== Dates for your diary ==
* Wednesday, May 7th, [[Utente:Frieda|Frieda Brioschi]], former President
of Wikimedia Italia, participated to the [
http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/radio3/programmi/puntata/ContentItem-fd921ca1-9…]
of Radio3 Scienza to talk about women and technology.
* Friday, May 16th, Rome: Emma Tracanella (''Coordinator of Wiki Loves
Monuments'') and [[Utente:Sannita|Luca Martinelli]] (''Secretary of
Wikimedia Italia'') will participate in the event [
http://www.eagle-network.eu/about/events/eagle-wiki-loves-monuments/'&#…
pratiche e progetti innovativi per la promozione dei beni
culturali: EAGLE & Wiki Loves Monuments'''] promoted by EAGLE (Europeana
network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy) and Wikimedia Italia, with
the support of Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma. In
that occasion the winners of the special prize EAGLE for Wiki Loves
Monuments Italia 2013 will be announced.
*Saturday, May 17th, Padua: [[Utente: Marcok|Marcok]] and other community
members will participate in [
http://www.padovando.com/incontri-convegni/maddalene-restart-open-content/#…],
organized together with Tam Teatromusica, presenting
the projects by Wikimedia and Open Street Map; if you want to take part,
please indicate it in the [
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Padova_17_maggio_2014 meetup
page] in Wikipedia.
* May 16th-18th, 2014, Rome: [[Utente:Sannita|Luca Martinelli]],
[[Utente:CristianCantoro|Cristian Consonni]] e [[Utente:cortesi|Simone
Cortesi]], Secretary, Treasurer and Vicepresident of Wikimedia Italia,
respectively, will participate in the event [
http://dati.camera.it/it/hackathon/ Hackathon
Code4Italy@Montecitorio2014]. The marathon, with a duration of 30
hours, and destined to IT
experts, will take place in the new Aula del Palazzo dei Gruppi
parlamentari of the Camera dei deputati (Via di Campo Marzio, 78). The goal
of the project is raising awareness about the open data produced by the
works of the Camera, so that software and applications can be developed.
Hashtag: #code4italy.
* May 19th, Asti: the courses about Wikipedia begin for the teachers who
have signed up to the project [
http://www.we-land.com/progetti/progetti-in-corso/wiki-va-a-scuola-asti/Wik…
va a scuola @ Asti] promoted by the associations We-Land and
Cre[AT]ive, with the collaboration of Wikimedia Italia. The goal of the
initiative is introducing the free online encyclopedia as a teaching tool
in the secondary schools of Asti and the nearby territory.
== News from the wikiworld ==
[[File:Lila_Tretikov.jpg|thumb|150px|left| Lila Tretikov, by Lane Hartwell
[CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
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* The website [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principaleWikimedia
Commons], the multimedia database of Wikimedia, has passed the
milestone of 21 millions images and videos . The media are all available on
the platform and available under a free license.
* Wikimedia Foundation has appointed its [
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/01/wmf_announces_new_ed_lila_tretikov/new
Executive Director]. After searching for one year, the name of the
person that will take over the duties of Sue Gardner, who has been in
charge for the last 6 years, has been announced. The chosen person is
another woman, called Lila Tretikov. Lila is a 36 years old engineer,
originally from Soviet Union, who moved to the US for studies during her
teenage years.
* [
http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pagina_principale Wikizionario] doubled up
its entries, reaching the 250.000 milestone. The result has been obtained
thanks also to semi-automatic editing.
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