Dear fellows,
The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities
developed during the last month by Amical
Viquipèdia<http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/P%C3%A0gina_principal>
. Sorry for delay.
Kind regards,
David Parreño Mont
User:Davidpar
(As a member of Amical Viquipèdia)
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*Source:*
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Education
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Presentation at the Catalonia Railway Museum
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One of the work groups in a train car at the Railway Museum discussing
ideas for introducing Wikipedia at the museum.
- The registration period begins for Viquiescoles (Wikischools)[1],
which aims to bring the Wikipedia to the classroom such that students in
compulsory secondary education (ESO), vocational training programs (Cicles
Formatius) and post-compulsory secondary education (Batxillerat, i.e.
A-levels / senior high) are encouraged to write articles on a variety of
topics through a contest and awards for the best contributions. Some 250
students from a total of 15 schools will participate.
- February 10. Creation of the WikiEducació (WikiEducation)[2] mailing
list on Wikis in the educational sphere. The list is open to anyone
interested. Administrators: Dvdgmz & Paucabot
- February 25. Introductory course to the Wikipedia and its educational
potential at the Garraf Center for Pedagogical Resources (Centre de
Recursos Pedagògics del Garraf), with a total of 125 attendees. The
presentation went over the possibilities and advantages this tool offers
for the schoolroom, i.e. teaching democratic values and a critical spirit,
making students active knowledge builders, lending them motivation or
serving as a tool to work on basic skills, among others. See Note (in
Catalan)[3]. Barcelona & Kippelboy
- February 29. "Local Museums + Wikipedia = Educational Success"[4]:
meeting of Wikipedians, professors and education professionals in the
museum sector at the Catalonia Railway Museum[5]. The aim of the meeting
was to explore ways of collaborating. Two presentations were made in the
morning on different examples of successful GLAM-WIKI projects and the
Wikipedia's educational potential. In the afternoon, groups met in the
train cars on exhibit at the museum to propose activities involving the
Wikipedia that would be suitable for their museums. See Note[3], the photo
gallery[6] and the museum's opinion of the event[7]. Barcelona and Kippelboy
GLAM-WIKI
- February 3. Meeting with the Joan Miró Foundation[8] to discuss
opportunities for collaboration in 2012 and prepare the Mobile World
Congress and QRpedia campaigns. Kippelboy
- February 6. Meeting with the CCCB[9] to discuss the I+C+i symposium on
the influence of the Wikipedia and open knowledge on society, to be held in
April 2012. Kippelboy
- February 9–13. Attended GLAMCAMP Washington DC, explained the Catalan
situation and provided a Catalan point of view at GLAM-WIKI and Wiki Loves
Monuments 2011. See Presentation[10] and photo gallery[11]. Kippelboy
- February 15. Meeting with the Girona Cinema Museum[12] to begin
collaboration on contents through implementation of QRpedia[13]. Arnaugir
- February 16. Meeting with the National Art Museum of Catalonia[14] to
discuss possible GLAM-WIKI collaboration. Kippelboy
- February 23. Meeting with Mozilla to seek synergies for GLAM-WIKI
collaboration and Hackasaurus[15]. Kippelboy
- February 23. Presentation of QRpedia at the Joan Miró Foundation at
the Social Media Point[16] congress in Barcelona. See Note[17]. Kippelboy
- February 27-29. Mobile World Congress. Backstage pass to the Joan Miró
Foundation and meeting with Wikipedia Mobile and QRpedia teams. Kippelboy
Editing Workshops
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Wikipedian Lluis_tgn holding up a "Welcome to Wikipedia" leaflet.
- February 17. Workshop at the Antoni de Martí i Franquès Secondary
School[18] in Tarragona. See Note[19]. Lluis_tgn
- February 6. Editing course for students doing internships with
the Visual Artists Association of Catalonia (Associació d'Artistes Visuals
de Catalunya - AAVC)[20]. Pilot collaboration project between the Barcelona
Museum of Contemporary Art (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona),
universities, the AAVC and the Wikipedia. Kippelboy
Institutional Relations
- February 1. Meeting with the General Directorate for Linguistic Policy
of the Catalan Government[21].
- February 8. Visit to the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. Report
on
www.digital-commons.net Lilaroja
- February 8. Meeting with the Department of Social and Family Affairs
of the Catalan Government to evaluate the outcome of the workshops for the
elderly carried out in 2011 and set out the program for
2012. Gomà i Pallares
- February 9. Meeting of the Catalan Alliance for Open Knowledge and
Open-Source Software (Aliança Catalana pel Coneixement i el Programari
Lliures), where an initial joint activity is planned regarding Open Data
using the agreement established between Amical Viquipèdia and the Catalan
Government. Attending the meeting were Softcatalà, Mozilla, Caliu and
Amical.
- February 14. Meeting with Angelique Pinon, head of projects for
the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion[22], to present a euroregional
project going beyond Wiki Loves Monuments. Gomà & Àngels
- February 15. Meeting with the Baix Llobregat County Center for Studies
(Centre d'Estudis Comarcals del Baix Llobregat)[23]. Pallares
- February 15. Meeting with the Culture Commission of
the Cardona[24] City Council to develop a project involving Viquiescoles
(Wikischools)[1], Wiki Loves Monuments and QRpedia. Beusson
Other
- Progress made on the Wiki4HE[25] project. We now have a rough draft of
the survey for professors at the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya - UOC) and the Technical University of Catalonia
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) as well as the interview script. In
addition, a form has been created to document experiences in Wikipedia
application and the profile defined for the research assistant to be
contracted for the project. The call for candidates for the position will
soon be announced. The position is a part-time, remunerated job as research
assistant at the UOC for a duration of 18 months or so. Gomà
- The Catalan Cinema WikiWeek (Viquisetmana del Cinema Català)[26] was
held before the 4th Gaudí Cinema Awards[27]. All in all, some thirty-odd
articles on filmmakers and nominated films were created or
improved. Davidpar, Pallares
- Amical Viquipèdia, together with the Wikipedia in Catalan, provides
support for and participates in disseminating the Catalanitzador per a
Windows[28] tool by Softcatalà, which helps users who so wish to get their
computers and programs to be in Catalan. Davidpar
- Wikitexts in Catalan reaches 10,000 revised pages and is now in 9th
position worldwide. See Press Release[29]
- The technology blogs, Paella de Bits.cat[30] and Betes i
Clicks[31] publish articles about the presence of QRpedia at the Mobile
World Congress. Davidpar
- The Facebook page[32] is updated to the new "timeline" design.
[1]
http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:Introducing_Wikischools_2012_%28Viqui…
[2]
http://llistes.softcatala.org/mailman/listinfo/wikieducacio
[3]
http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:Vilanova_i_la_Geltr%C3%BA_s%27est%C3%…
[4]
http://converses2012.eventbrite.com/
[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_Railway_Museum
[6]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_presentation_at_Museu_…
[7]
http://museuvictorbalaguer.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/wikipedia-museus-locals…
[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundaci%C3%B3_Joan_Mir%C3%B3
[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_de_Cultura_Contempor%C3%A0nia_de_Barcel…
[10]
http://www.slideshare.net/Kippelboy/glamcamp-dc-glamwiki-outreach-basics
[11]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAMcamp_DC
[12]
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_del_Cinema-Col%C2%B7lecci%C3%B3_Tom%C3%A…
[13]
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia
[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_Nacional_d%27Art_de_Catalunya
[15]
http://hackasaurus.org/ca/
[16]
http://www.socialmediapoint.es/
[17]
http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:El_projecte_QRpedia,_en_%C3%BAs_a_la_…
[18]
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_Antoni_de_Mart%C3%AD_i_Franqu%C3%A8s
[19]
http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/Apunt:Taller_de_Viquip%C3%A8dia_a_l%27Insti…
[20]
http://www.aavc.net/aavc_net/html/index.php
[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalitat_de_Catalunya
[22]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees-Mediterranean_Euroregion
[23]
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_d%27Estudis_Comarcals_del_Baix_Llobregat
[24]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardona,_Spain
[25]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wiki4HE
[26]
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Cinema
[27]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Gaud%C3%AD_Awards
[28]
http://catalanitzador.softcatala.org/
[29]
http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Viquitexts:Notes_de_premsa/10.000
[30]
http://www.paelladebits.cat/el-projecte-qrpedia-present-al-mwc/
[31]
http://betesiclicks.com/2012/02/25/aquesta-setmana-hem-llegit-sobre-bebes-a…
[32]
https://www.facebook.com/wikimediacat