Hi all, the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#46) is available.
Members of the association talked a lot in these weeks, and our official Members' Meeting is due in ten days! We also remember a Wikipedian friend who passed away.
As usual a link has been added to meta, at Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; raw text of the bulletin follows below.
ciao, .mau.
=-=-=-=-=-=-= == Twice25 ==
We open this newsletter with a sad news. Some days ago Tullio Arecco, known on Wikipedia with the nickname '''Twice25''', passed away. He joined the encyclopedia back in 2003.
Twice has never been a member of Wikimedia Italia or sysop of it.wikipedia (except for a temporary assignment a few years ago to help in the clean-up of contributions in violation of copyright) because it was not the type who loved this kind of commitment, but he has always been an expert contributor and a pillar for the community.
Twice always had in mind that Wikipedia is made up of people before articles: it was not a chance that the first meeting of Italian Wikipedians was held in Genoa, where he lived; Twice helped organizing and was the perfect guest. Our condolences go out to the family and Rina, his partner.
== Recent events == In the last few days, Wikimedia Italia took part to several events.
* The International Tourism Exchange (BIT, Borsa Internazionale del Turismo), held at Fiera Milano from 14 to 17 February 2013, saw two speeches in which Wikimedia Italia partecipated. Friday 15, at the stand of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, there was the Show X Conference, with a format similar to TED that addressed the issues related to new technologies, especially digital communication and open access, and their application to tourism. Maurizio Codogno ([[Utente:.mau.|.mau.]]), ''spokesperson for Wikimedia Italia'', talked about sharing, Wiki world and Open Content, with particular focus on the newborn project Wikivoyage and on Wiki Loves Monuments. He also indicated that the work of Wikipedian volunteers would be facilitated if the local authorities gave permission to take photographs of the monuments they manage as per Italian law, so that they may be used in a commercial environment.
* Also at the International Tourism Exchange, on Saturday 16 [[Utente:Frieda|Frieda]] (''chair of Wikimedia Italy'') took part in a debate on "Reputation Online, Direct and Indirect Network Presence"], describing the project "Adopt a word" dedicated to Wikipedia and developed by Emilia Romagna Tourism Office, describing the new opportunities that start with Wikivoyage and finally signaling Wiki Loves Monuments and their photos freely reusable also for tourism ventures.
* On February 19, [[Utente:Cotton|Cotton]], board member of Wikimedia Italy, attended the presentation of [ http://www.veneto.beniculturali.it/gli-studenti-scrivono-wikipedia%22Progett... Veneto in Wikipedia"], which was held in Padua, at the Einaudi-Gramsci Institute. Also members [[Utente:Conrad|Conrad]] and [[Utente:LCM|LCM]] took part in the meeting, together with Wikipedia sysop Aplasia as well as representatives of the regional branch of the Ministry for Heritage and Culture.
== Wikipedia and women ==
On February 21, initiative [ http://caffeculturale.ch/wikimedia/79-wikipedia-e-le-donne Wikipedia and women] will be held in Lugano, organized by Wikimedia Switzerland and Associazione Caffè Culturale Lugano. Frieda (''chair of Wikimedia Italy'') and Emma Tracanella (''project manager for Wiki Loves Monuments'') are among the guests for the initiative.
== Members' meeting ==
Saturday, March 2, 2013, in the press room of Telecom Italy (Piazza Affari 2, 20123 Milano) the Ordinary Members' Meeting of Wikimedia Italy will be held. The meeting is open to everyone, but to participate you must register for free [http://assembleawmi2013.eventbrite.it on Eventbrite], where you will also find the program of the day. It takes just a minute!
Hi all, the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#47) is available. You may find a report of our Assembly held last week, some request for help of different types, and a wiki-curiosity about fact-checking.
As usual a link has been added to meta, at Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; raw text of the bulletin follows below. (This time it is really raw text, at least if Gmail is behaving well )
ciao, .mau.
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== March, time for our assembly! ==
The assembly of the Wikimedia Italia took place on March 2 in the press room of the headquarters of Telecom Italia, in Milano. In the morning we attended the presentation of the "Wikimedia Italia - Telecom Italia - Università Cattolica Project" (a synopsis of the project will soon be added on our website) by Federico Ascari (Telecom Italia), Nicoletta Vittadini (Università Cattolica), Chiara Ottaviano (Telecom Italia Historic Archivers) and the six graduating students involved in the project. Then we had the presentation of the other ongoing projects which will characterize 2013 (Veneto in Wikipedia, Archeowiki, Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2013); we hosted Matteo Ruffoni (http://wiildos.wikispaces.com/Pagina+iniziale) who proposed a partnership with schools on several topics: Wikipedia in the classroom, an Italian equivalent of Wikipedia in "Simple English" and textbooks released under Creative Commons.
In the afternoon the actual assembly took place, with the renewal of the Board (http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Direttivo : all members of the previous one were re-elected) and of the Board of Trustees (http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Collegio_dei_garanti: one new member), the approval of the final budget 2012 and of the provisional budget 2013, preceded by a presentation of the fundraising actions we intend to undertake during the year and by a vote on a small change to the Internal Regulations (we added the paragraph "Status of a member") to clarify the "life cycle" of a member for the association. In closing, there was also time to exchange a few words about Wikimedia Conference (to be held in Milan from April 18 to 21, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2013).
== We want you! ==
* The timeframe for presentation of the curricula for our future collaborators for the project Archeowiki ended. The Board is now evaluating the nominations. Good luck to all applicants!
* Giulia Sepe, the organizer of the Wikimedia Conference, is looking for volunteers who can be present during the days of the conference to lend a hand (solving small logistical problems, responding to requests from participants, writing the minutes of meetings, etc..). If you want to help, write to Giulia: giulia.sepe (at) wikimedia .it.
== The Giannino affair: when fact-checking means a lot ==
Oscar Giannino, a business journalist at the head of the list To Act to Stop the Decline, resigned from President of the movement a few days before Italian general elections, after it was discovered that the master in economics that he had claimed to have achieved the Chicago Booth University was nonexistent. The news was discussed for a long time, but the trigger was in all probability a post written by Wikipedians Jaqen and Toob]. Read the analysis on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/27/when-fact-checking-means-a-lot/ ; another report may be found on the Italian blog Voices, http://voices.telecomitaliahub.it/2013/02/oscar-giannino-mycroft-holmes-e-fa... .
== Your "cinque per mille" to Wikimedia Italia ==
Italian law allows people to select a non-profit association to which devolve 0.5% ("cinque per mille") of the tax to be payed. By donating to Wikimedia Italia, you can support your projects without spending anything. If you do not have to file your tax module, request the module for the choice of the association to your employer or the entity paying your pension, and compile it indicating the tax code of the association: '''94039910156'''. More information on http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Cinque_per_mille. Thank you for supporting us!
== News from Wiki world ==
* Saturday 2 March in Ivrea Radio Abawalla (http://www.radioabawalla.net/ ) was born! It is a new non-commercial webradio, broadcasting music and content under a Creative Commons license. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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