[Wikimedia Chapters Reports] [Non-officially recognised] Wikimedia CAT June 2010 report

[Alistair Spearing]

Dear colleagues;

I am pleased to submit the following Chapter report for the potential Wikimedia CAT chapter:

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Courses and lectures
*Saturday 5 June. "Let's make Wikipedia grow" workshop
in Biblioteca Districte 2, Sant Cosme, 157, Terrassa (User:Gomà)
*End
of the pilot stage of the Viquilletra project, conducted jointly with
the Department of Education and the UOC. The model article is "L'amor
a Ausiàs March". (User:Barcelona).

Content
release

*Wednesday 30 June. Meeting with the Museu
Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, with a cooperation agreement being
signed. Said agreement will draw inspiration from the experience
between the British Museum and Wikimedia UK. They will grant us
access to the museum, content about its works, images, etc. We will
also organise Wikipedia editing courses for the museum personnel. If
you are interested, please contact User:Kippelboy, there will soon be
many opportunities for activities.

Media

*The
Catalan Association of Shire Press has supported our Wikimedia CAT
application. Its members have contributed to spread aroung the news
that we have reached 250,000 articles.
*Our efforts focused on
spreading the news that the Catalan Wikipedia has reached 250,000
articles. (User:Ssola)
**This has been reported by a great deal of
media from all over the Catalan Countries: TV3,
IBdigital,
Vilaweb,
Racó
català, Diariocritico,
bitscatalans,
Tinet,
Segre,
L'Informatiu,
Informatics.cat,
La
veu de Mallorca and many more.

Institutional
relations

*Tuesday 15 June at 11:30 am: meeting with the
"La Caixa" Welfare Project, studying various possibilities
for cooperation, including with the CosmoCaixa museums
(Gomà).
*Thursay 17 June at 9:00 am: cooperation meeting with the
Institute of Catalan Studies. We asked for linguistic advice provided
through regular reviews of a sample of articles. It seems providing
this service may be difficult, they have to consider it, but there
was a good level of understanding and the desire to cooperate.
(Users:Barcelona and Pallares). We also opened contact with
copyediting postgraduate studies.
*Friday 25 June: "Wikipedia
is the most" interview for the Terrassa library network
(Gomà).

Miscellaneous

*Sunday 27 June: meeting
in Sabadell to promote cinema-related content (Pallares).
*Tuesday
29: meeting of the Coordinator of Institutions for Free Knowledge and
Software at the Citilab in Cornellà (Esenabre, Pallares, Toniher and
Gomà).
*Wednesday 30: dinner with Mark Surman, managing director
of the Mozilla Foundation, to take part in the 2010 Drumbeat
Festival, held from 3 to 5 November in Barcelona. We will organise a
Wikipedia workshop and we are really interested in bringing proposals
which may arise at Wikimania in Gdansk. (Toniher, Esenabre and
Gomà).
*Amical-bot is prepared to create articles on USA towns
and cities. See [[Pinckard (Alabama)]] as an example.
*Six travel
grants have been awarded for Wikimania 2010.
*Sales of the
Viquipèdia book continue at a good pace, with a special
mention for an order for 50 copies from the Department of Linguistic
Standardisation of the Government of Catalonia. 



 		 	   		  
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