Hi all,
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#39) is available.
This time we write about the (re-)starting of Authors in Wikipedia and
The adventure of growing up; the (new) start of ArcheoWiki; and our
participation to the Genoa Science Festival.
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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=== Authors in Wikipedia ===
The award ceremony for the the "Authors in Wikipedia" contest will be
held in Milan on November 26 at the headquarters of AICA (Piazzale
Rodolfo Morandi, 2). Purpose of the project is to enable secondary
school students to learn the use of Wikipedia for sharing knowledge.
Each student, followed by a teacher, creates an article; these
articles enter the competition (it is also possible that a group of
students creates an article for the contest). In this way, Wikipedia
is enriched with new content created by the pupils, forming at the
same time new Wikipedians and improving the awareness of young people
for the use of new technologies.
=== ArcheoWiki ===
ArcheoWiki is starting! The new project is particularly addressed to
less favoured audiences (such as the elderly and the disabled), and
wants to raise awareness for the less known archaeological heritage in
Lombardy, making it available through the technological infrastructure
and the collaborative approach of Wikipedia. The activities will be
focused on different targets: "Wikigita" (an excursion) for the
general public, "Wikigita goes to school" for students of secondary
schools and "Wikigita comes to you" for the elderly and disabled. The
organizations benefiting from the project will be: non-European Civic
Collections of the Castello Sforzesco (Milan); Fondazione Passarè
(Milan); Ethnographic Collection of the Castiglioni Frothers (Varese);
Civic Museum of Asola (Mantova); Civic Archaeological Museum of
Desenzano (Brescia); Civic Archaeological Museum of Varese.
=== The adventure of growing up ===
"The adventure of growing up" starts again! The aim of the project is
to make known memories and historical documents from the Istituto
degli Innocenti in Florence, involving students, families, groups of
young people, associations of migrant people. It offers workshops
where history is combined with education, to reflect on the past and
to write with the language of the present. The cultural heritage made
thus accessible gives children new ideas for participation and
citizenship. Wikimedia Italy contributes to the project with learning
activities on the theme of knowledge sharing and collaborative
writing, directly targeted at boys, which complement and enrich the
training. More insights may be found on the site of the project,
http://crescerecheavventura.it
=== Wikimedia at Festival della Scienza ===
One of the events of the Genoa Science Festival 2012 has been a
meeting
"[http://www.festivalscienza.it/site/home/programma/giorno-per-giorno/1-novembre/wikipedia-e-la-scienza-immaginaria.html
Wikipedia and the imaginary science]", where a delegation of Wikimedia
Italia talked about how Wikipedia, being an encyclopedia, also
collects information about the theories rejected by the majority of
the scientific community: this does not mean that these theories are
considered at the same level as the standard ones, of course! In the
meeting, we also told about people ("plotters") seeking at all costs
to promote their vision on famous events, like the 9/11 attacks and
the (non-)landing on the moon, and how the Wikipedia community
approaches these discussions.
=== News from Wiki World ===
* The first phase of Wikidata project officially started last October
30. There are already 30,000 elements and more than 16,000 registgered
users.
* Wikisource in Italian language reached 50,000 pages proofed.
* MediaWiki software now supports a
[
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/08/introducing-wikipedias-new-html5-video…
HTML5 video player].
* The free touristic world guide
[
http://it.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Pagina_principale Wikivoyage] is being
added to the Wikimedia projects, merging the previous community.