Hi all!
the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#70) is available. This time we
wrote about our forthcoming Members' Meeting, "Adopt a Wikipedia article at
Degasperi" and "Wikipedia goes to school" educational initiatives,
Museums
and the Web conference, and future appointments
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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== Members' Meeting: the date is set ==
It is again time for the members of Wikimedia Italia to come together! The
event is scheduled for '''Saturday, April 5, in Florence''' at [
http://florence.impacthub.net/about-us/faq/ The Hub].
It is particularly important to participate in this assembly, given the
weight that the items on the agenda will have on the future of Wikimedia
Italia: the participants will renew part of the Board, approve the budgets,
screen the positions of members who do not comply with the fee payments (
all those members whose membership has expired in December 2012 will be
considered forfeited). We invite you to regularize as soon as possible your
membership status by paying the annual membership fee, in order to
participate actively in the meeting: as usual, only members in good
standing with the payment may vote.
Do not miss the forthcoming communications: full agenda, logistical details
and the link to the list of on-line registration are coming!
== Adopt a Wikipedia article at Degasperi ==
About 400 students of the [
http://www.istalcidedegasperi.it/ Istituto di
Istruzione Alcide Degasperi] at Borgo Valsugana in Trentino are
participating in the project
[[Adotta_una_voce_di_Wikipedia_al_Degasperi|Adopt a Wikipedia article at
Degasperi]]. Guided by a series of lectures by expert Wikipedians
[[Utente:Jaqen|Jaqen]] and [[:it:Utente:CristianNX|CristianNX]], students
had the opportunity to learn how to contribute to the world's most popular
online encyclopedia. The workshops were completed in December 2013, but the
project has yet to live its most intense phase: each class has adopted a
set of articles, and will have until April 5, 2014 to publish them on
Wikipedia. The stakes are high: every boy of the working group judged best
will receive as gift an iPad mini 16GB Wi-Fi. For the number of students
and for the great synergistic work which involved the Institute, Wikimedia
Italia and the local community, the initiative has had a strong echo: [
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Adotta_una_voce_di_Wikipedia_al_Degasperiseve…
newspaper articles] were published and RAI had a [
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=390882157723176 television service] in
their local news. That the best ones win!
== Museums and the Web: Archeowiki, present! ==
[
http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/ Museum and the Web] is the largest
international conference devoted to the relationship between museums and
cultural venues on one side and digital culture (social media, mobile tour,
augmented reality) on the other side. This year the event takes place in
Italy, '''in Florence, from February 19 to 21''' at Palazzo
Vecchio. The
title of the 2014 edition is '''Open Museums and Smartcities: Storytelling
and Connected Culture''': at the heart of the debate there will be tools
and best practices that enable one to link the cultural heritage with the
communities of the ''smart-cities'' of the future.
Among the proposed projects that have passed the selection which ended on
December 31, there is also our [
http://www.archeowiki.it/ Archeowiki - New
"archaeologists" in Lombardy. Real and virtual paths], a project by
Wikimedia Italia together with other partners (Association MiMondo - Gruppo
Archeologico Ambrosiano (G.A.Am.) - Non-European collections of the
Castello Sforzesco - Fondazione Passaré) and supported by Cariplo
Foundation.
To recount the [
http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/proposals/archeowiki-when-open-source-s…
of Archeowiki], arrived in recent weeks in its peak stage, Anna
Antonini and Sara Chiesa (Non-European collections of the Castello
Sforzesco) will be present in Florence. To participate in the conference it
is necessary to [
http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/attending/ register on
the site].
Archeowiki is a project that is giving us great satisfaction and makes us
really proud: it approaches young students, elderly and disabled people to
the less known cultural heritage of Lombardy and makes young guides and
Wikipedians protagonist in this journey to discover the collections of
archaeological finds. You can browse through photos of the project
activities [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Archeowiki here], or
support it by going to
[
http://www.sostienilacultura.it/chi-siamo/progetti/this page].
== Wikipedia goes to school @ Asti ==
The '''educational potential of Wikipedia''' seems to be more and
more
evident, together with the importance of educating young students on how to
make good use of it. The associations [
http://www.we-land.com/ weLand] and [
http://www.creativeasti.com/design/ CRE[AT]IVE], already partners
of Wikimedia Italia in the realization of Wiki Loves Monuments, are
launching [
http://www.we-land.com/wikipedia-va-a-scuola/ a pilot project]
to bring Wikipedia in the high schools of Asti. Teachers of the territory
are offered the opportunity to attend a training course taught by expert
Wikipedians; to apply and participate, teachers need to download the
appropriate [
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/File:Modulo-adesione-Wikipedia-va-a-scuola-As…],
fill it and send it to the address [mailto:
info(a)we-land.com info(a)we-land.com] before the end of February 2014. At that
same e-mail address, the promoters of the project will also respond to any
other questions and inquiries related to the initiative. The best
invitation to join may be read in the letter signed by the board of Weland:
''We look forward to jointly open a new chapter in the history of education
and the sharing of culture!''
== Appointments ==
* February 22: [
http://wiki.opendataday.org/Matera2014 Open Data Day Matera
2014] will be held at Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera, from 10.00 to 19.00,
with a meeting entitled "Cultural population and transparency: for a
culture of all people." On the occasion of the
[
http://opendataday.org/International Day of OpenData], Matera
organizes an event in which a
mapping of public goods will be started, also thanks to the decision of the
Municipality of Matera to adopt the [
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/partecipa/amministrazioni-pubbliche-enti-e…
Loves Monuments resolution] and release some cultural heritage under a
[
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licenze_Creative_Commons CC-BY-SA license].
All maps will be put on [
http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap], while
the collected data will be published on the OpenData portal of the
Municipality of Matera. The hashtag chosen to communicate the initiative on
social networks is
[
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23openmatera2014&src=hash#OpenMatera2014]014].
* February 27: [
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Virginia_GentiliniVirginia
Gentilini] will give a presentation on Wikipedia at the
headquarters of the [
http://www.fmach.it/ Fondazione Edmund Mach] in San
Michele all'Adige, as part of a collaboration between Wikimedia Italia and
the Institute of Agriculture belonging to the Foundation.
* February 27-28, Rome:
L[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita Luca
Martinelli], member of Wikimedia Italia, will speak about Wikidata on the
occasion of the international conference [
http://www.aib.it/attivita/congressi/c2014/fsr2014/ Faster, smarter and
richer. Reshaping the library catalogue], promoted by the [
http://www.aib.it/ Italian Libraries' Association].
* March 1, Perugia: The [
http://www.comune.perugia.it/approfondimenti/augusta Augusta Library of
Perugia], in collaboration with the municipal administration, organizes the
first edition of
[
http://www.comune.perugia.it/notizie/wiki-loves-perugia'''Wiki Loves
Perugia''']. The meeting will be held at the Colle di Porta
Sole Library from 9.30 to 13.30, and it is designed to improve Wikipedia
entries related to Perugia and its cultural heritage. This first edition
has gone so well that the entries are all booked already, so follow the
progress of the initiative to take part in the next round!
* March 14, Milan: Pierfranco Minsenti, digital librarian, will participate
in the [
http://www.convegnostelline.it/relatori1.php?IdUnivoco=69 Convegno
delle Stelline] with a speech entitled ''Wikipedia as a collaborative work
environment for a cross-community of libraries''. The aim is to define the
impact on librarians of the collaboration of to Wikipedia.