On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:58 PM, .mau. (maurizio codogno) < wiki.mau@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all! New bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#81) was available. Summary:
- 1.1 ANPI frees all its biographies http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#ANPI_frees_all_its_biographies - 1.2 The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#The_European_Commission_endorses_Creative_Commons_licenses - 1.3 OpenStreetMap http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#OpenStreetMap - 1.4 Events and announcments http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#Events_and_announcments - 1.5 News from the wiki world http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Wikimedia_news/numero_81/en#News_from_the_wiki_world
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. 81, July 24th 2014 =
<div style="max-width: 800px"> <!-- oppure width: 80% --> <center> [[File:Parlamento wiki.png|thumb|450px|center| A screenshot of @Parlamento_wiki Tritter account, source:Twitter]] <BR> <font size="5">Wikipedia and Twitter for transparency</font> </center> <br style="clear: both"> <p align=justify>Wikipedia and Twitter cooperate in '''forbidding arbitrary and anonymous edits''' to articles about corridors of power around the world. Tom Scott, an Englishman, had the idea of creating a series of Twitter profiles to highlight all the edits to Wikipedia pages about powerful entities; then on July 9th Ed Summers, an American, created [ https://twitter.com/congressedits congress-edits]: a profile where all edits to Wikipedia from anonymous users with IP addresses related to the US Congress can be showed. The goal is to preserve the transparency and reliability of Wikipedia. A similar account was just created also for Italy: its name is [https://twitter.com/Parlamento_Wiki '''@Parlamento_Wiki'''] and its stated goal is to “publish Wikipedia edits performed anonymously from the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Senate of Republic”.</p> <BR> <BR> [[File:Locandina WLM dettaglio.png|thumb|450px|center| A close-up of the flier about "freed" monuments, by Alessandra Gasparini, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]] <br style="clear: both"> <center> <font size="5">Wiki Loves Monuments becomes big(ger)</font> </center> <BR> <p align=justify>The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it reaches the large public: with the brand new joining of the [ http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/07/a-pompei-per-fotografare-la-storia/ '''Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia'''] the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting the archaeological site with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed” all the monuments and the “emergenze” (protrusions) located in one of the most important sites of the world. Along with that there is a long list of Municipalities and Institutions, accessible in [ http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/istituzioni/ the dedicated page] of the contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to take pictures of participating locations: to know where to go, just watch the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/blog/ blog], updated as soon as a new trip is planned. You may also suggest a destination, writing at contatti@wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement is that it must be one of the participating Municipalities.</p> <br style="clear: both">
== ANPI frees all its biographies == [[File:ANPI Sesto San Giovanni.jpg|thumb|150px|left| The ANPI plaque in Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - by Triangle rouge (Own work) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]] <p align=justify>The ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Italiani - National Association of Italian Partisans) published all the 3072 biographies of Resistance Women and Men under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IT license: thanks to the choice of a free license, a [ https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie/ANPI project] started on Wikipedia to facilitate the creation of new articles and the extension of the existing ones using that material. This effort is part of the bigger [ https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie “Biographies project”] of Italian Wikipedia, that gives guidelines for consistent and easy to understand biographies published on Wikipedia.</p> <br style="clear: both">
== The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses == [[File:European Commission logo.svg|thumb|150px|left| Logo of the European Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]] <p align=justify>The '''European Commission''' recently invited Member States to '''use licenses compliant to “open” standards''' while publishing their documents. The published [ http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-491_en.htm guidelines] aim to support institutions of different countries in complying to the Directive in public sector information re-use. Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible. A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: [ http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses] <br style="clear: both"></p>
== OpenStreetMap == [[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
* [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/16.489/77.827 OpenGeoFiction] is a website based on the same application behind openstreetmap.org (from database to messaginng) with a difference: the represented world is not the real one, but a fictional one. Many users are using it to draw a plausible world set in our time (no orcs or elves: rather power stations, metro lines and so on).
* Many newspapers reported about the #agenziauscite initiative (for example on the [ http://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/societa/2014/12-luglio-2014/strada-du... Corriere della Sera]). Now that the attribution on the Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare has eventually been added, it is time for [ http://www.chefuturo.it/2014/07/lagenzia-delle-entrate-chiede-scusa-per-le-m... asking about the openness of the Italian land register].
* The new portal [http://cycle.travel/map cycle.travel] is devoted to bicycle mobility, with a route planner based on modifications to the famous routing engine OSRM.
* OpenStreetMap Foundation [ http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members announced] the first corporate members. <BR> <br style="clear: both">
== Events and announcments == * '''From July 21th to August the first''': during those two weeks, Wikimedia Italia offices will be open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 to 13.30. * '''Saturday August 2nd 2014''', Monastero Bormida: Simone Cortesi, Vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, is going to talk about [ http://www.arteneidintorni.it/incontri-mappe-monferrato/ '''Monferrato maps: from historic cartography to digital revolution''']. The panel is part of the exhibit "IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN PICCOLO STATO": open from July 5th to October 26th. Wikimedia Italia members can access at a discount rate of 5 euro, by showing the membership card. <br style="clear: both">
== News from the wiki world ==
* From the 15th to the 17 of July, Berlin hosted the [ http://2014.okfestival.org/ Open Knowledge Festival], devoted to the Open Data world. A [http://sched.co/1kuEQ3B workshop] about the development of OpenStreetMap to support humanitarian issues, followed also by our treasurer Cristian Consonni. Katie Filbert of Wikimedia Deutschland, active member of Wikidata, was the chair. * The Court of Rome, [ http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Angelucci-WMI acquitted] Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation from the charges moved by Antonio and Giampaolo Angelucci, father and son, businessmen and Italian politicians. The two verdicts, the first on July 9th for Wikimedia Foundation and now the second one in favour of Wikimedia Italia, relieved both the American foundation, as a neutral hosting provider, and the Italian chapter from any responsibility about content published by Wikipedia users.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:34 PM, .mau. (maurizio codogno) < wiki.mau@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:58 PM, .mau. (maurizio codogno) < wiki.mau@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
New bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#84) is available. Summary:
- Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 started - WMI and Tuscany region cooperate on Open Data - Events - OpenStreetMap news
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.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= <p align=justify>Italy boldly joins Wiki Loves Monuments. The third edition of the picture contest started on September 1st and it will go on up until the end of the month. This year there is an unprecedented participation in Italy, thanks to more than 220 institutions that freed [ http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/monumenti/lista-monumenti/ '''3500 monuments''']. Those numbers are going to increase even more, showing that Italian public administrations are more receptive in spreading free knowledge and sharing of cultural heritage. This year we are pleased by the joining of the '''MiBACT''', the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, that supports the contest and has urged local ''Soprintendenze'' to do the same and free the monuments under their patronage.
The 2014 edition, so rich in content, is going to acknowledge the ability of many photographers: besides the usual ten winners, who are going to get smartphones and cameras supplied by Euronics in cooperation with Sony, there will be additional '''special prizes''', offered by ''Euronics'', ''WWF'', ''Spazi Medievali'', ''Wiki Loves Busto Arsizio'' and ''Fondazione Gran Paradiso''.
This is a big challenge for users, participating in a contest that spans over [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014/Particip... 36 nations], all committed to prize the cultural richness of their territories. <br> <br> <center> [[File:Flag of Tuscany.svg|thumb|400px|center| Flag of Tuscany, by Angelo Romano [CC-BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]] <BR> <font size="5">WMI and Tuscany region cooperate on Open Data</font> </center> Cooperation on Open Knowledge between institutions and WMI is increasing. We recently signed an agreement with '''Regione Toscana''' (Tuscany region administration). Tuscany commits to increasingly release its geographical assets as Open Data. This was possible thanks to their choice to facilitate the re-use of its documents containing public data, promoting also the development of open source softwares. Wikimedia Italia along with Tuscany region will foster a series of activities aimed to dissemination and use of the regional geographical assets, promoting the integration of open content released by both parties. The agreements has a 3 years duration, tacitly renewable, while Wikimedia Italia and Regione Toscana will evaluate the chances of starting joint projects with other institutions and public entities of Tuscany, to "refine and enrich the geographic, environmental and historical knowledge aiming to improve, make available and spread free knowledge" (translating the [ http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Associazione:Delibere/2014/Accordo_di_collabor... resolution] ratifying the agreement). <br style="clear: both">
== Events == [[File:Genova.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Old port, by Alessio Sbarbaro (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]] <br> * '''Friday September 5th'': at Salone di Rappresentanza of Palazzo Tursi, in Genoa, there was the [ http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/08/genova-si-presenta/ presentazione official presentation] of the contest '''[ http://www.opengenova.org/wikilovesmonuments/ Wiki Loves Monuments Genova]''' by Carla Sibilla (council member for culture), Emma Tracanella (coordinator for Wiki Loves Monuments Italia) and representatives of OpenGenova association. * '''Sunday September 21th''': the association '''Gruppo Archeologico Ambrosiano''' (GAAm), partner of Wikimedia Italia for the Archeowiki project, prepared a tour to '''Desenzano'''. The track contains two stops: the roman villa, with its Antiquarium, and the archaelogical museum. The tour will be hosted by one of the young guides that participated to Archeowiki during last year. More information on the official '''flyier''' ([http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/File:Volantino_visita_guidata_Desenzano.pdf downloadable in .pdf]). <br style="clear: both">
== News from OpenStreetMap == [[File:OSM.png|thumb|200px|left| OpenStreetMap with a [ https://cquest.hackpad.com/OpenStreetMap-goes-in-the-4th-dimension--ju3XWhj2... "fourth dimension" in time], rendering by Christian Quest]] <br> * Mapillary, the crowdsourced "Street View" compatible with OpenStreetMap (its images can be re-used for non commercial purposes and for extracting data for OpenStreetMap), [ http://blog.mapillary.com/news%2C/update/2014/08/19/id.html is now integrated with iD editor] thanks to an extension showing the images of the surroundings. * Newspaper La Stampa uses OpenStreetMap as cartographic source for the visualization on [ http://www.lastampa.it/2014/08/20/esteri/da-pearl-a-foley-la-mappa-dellorror... a news article]. * Stamen Design [ http://content.stamen.com/new_knight_grant_new_toner_new_infrastructure got a new grant] from Knight Foundation to continue and update the work that, a couple of years ago, produced its Toner, Terrain and Watercolor maps.
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