No subject

Conference
took place in Denver, Colorado, the conference administration allowed a =
big
space for Wikipedia and funded a whole day of workshop about Wikipedia =
in
the context of museums, in which numerous Wikipedians (such as Phoebe =
Ayers,
Samuel Klein, Erik M=F6ller, Liam Whyatt und Mathias Schindler) took =
part.
Fortunately the workshop itself was well visited, an in-depth report =
will be
published in Wikipedia Signpost as well as other sources. Due to a =
certain
Vulcano, the journey home was a small adventure in its own right, =
analogue
to the stranded Wikimedians in Berlin, Germany.
On the 26. to the 29. of April, organised by the University of Sao Paulo =
und
the Brasillian Ministry of Education, the =93International Symposium of =
Public
Policies for Digital collections=94 took place to which Mathias was =
invited to
report in the panel =93Great Digitization Projects=94 about Cooperation =
with
German State Archives. The participant selection is much in favour of =
free
contents, for example Larry Lessig (Creative Commons, Brewster Kahle
(Internet Archive), Beatriz Busaniche (Wikimedia Argentinien).

=3D=3D Wahlpr=FCfsteine =3D=3D

"Wahlpr=FCfsteine" (election touch-stones) are questions regarding the
advancment of free knowledge, which we send out to the political parties
prior the state-election in  North  Rhine-Westphalia [18]. The responses
will be published consolidated and collected before the date of =
elections.

=3D=3D Softwareprojects =3D=3D

For April we have to announce results for two long term =
software-projects:
First the extension for displaying TIFF-images [19], which was developed =
by
the Hallo Welt Medienwerkstadt, is finished. The extension only needs to =
be
examined by the Server-Admins before it can be activated. Secondly =
WikiPics,
a multilingual search engine for commons: here [20] the (still a bit =
slow)
alpha-version can be tested. Shortly a revised version is planned to go
online, which can be used for the daily use in the commons.
The next office report  will be published on the 31th of May 2010.

Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen,

Pavel Richter
Executive Director
-------------------------------------
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Stra=DFe 2
10777 Berlin

Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0
www.wikimedia.de

Links:

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2010/Schedule
[2] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2010/Documentation
[4] http://www.taz.de/1/berlin/artikel/1/illegal-durch-die-aschewolke/
[5]
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2010/04/13/landgericht-hamburg-entscheidet-fur-w=
iki
media-deutschland/
[6] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pressespiegel#April_2010
[7] http://wikimedia.de/index.php?id=3D85
[8] http://blog.wikimedia.de/2010/04/19/gutes-beispiel/
[9] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mitgliederversammlung_2010
[10]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mitgliederversammlung_2010/Workshops_auf_d=
er_
MV
[11]
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Das_Passionsspiel_in_Schw%C3%A4bisch-Gm%C3%=
BCn
d
[12] http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotthelf_Traugott_Eckarth
[13] http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kinder-_und_Hausm%C3%A4rchen
[14]
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2010/05/04/bericht-aus-der-geschaftsstelle-april=
-20
10/%5C%5Cwww.collaboratory.de
[15] http://sites.google.com/site/igcollaboratory/home/expertenliste
[16]
http://sites.google.com/site/igcollaboratory/home/umfrage-zu-internet-ges=
ell
schaft-und-innovationskultur
[17] http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/
[18]
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2010/04/12/wahlprufsteine-zur-landtagswahl-in-nr=
w/
[19] =
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2010/04/08/tiff-bilder-bald-direkt-im-wiki/
[20] http://toolserver.org/~daniel/wikiword-trunk/search/wikipics.php