[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report for April 2011

[Asaf Bartov]

Hi, Bence.

Could you say a little more about the partnership with Arcanum?

Thanks,

   Asaf

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Bence Damokos
<bence.damokos at wiki.media.hu>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Please find below the report on Wikimedia Hungary's activities in April
> 2011. It is available online at:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/April_2011
> .
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Bence Damokos
> Executive Vice President,
> Wikimedia Hungary
> http://wikimedia.hu <http://wiki.media.hu>
>
>
> *Wikimedia Hungary Report*
> *Vol 4 Issue 4*
> *April 2011*
> *Prepared by: Bence Damokos*
>
> This is an update on Wikimédia Magyarország's activities covering April
> 2011. For more recent updates, you can follow our blog (in Hungarian) at
> http://blog.wikimedia.hu
>  Presentations
>
> In the month of April, we have held presentations about Wikipedia on the
> following occasions:
>
>    - 8: A presentation at the the Apáczai High School in Budapest
>    - 13: A presentation at the Humanities Faculty of the St Stephen
>    University in Jászberény. The audience included students of library studies.
>    - 26: A presentation at the Budapest University of Technology and
>    Economics
>
> Partnerships
>
>    - We have discussed collaboration opportunities with Arcanum, a
>    publisher of digitised versions of out-of-copyright books, encyclopedias,
>    maps and similar. In this spirit we have signed a partnership agreement with
>    the publisher at the XVIII. International Book Fair of Budapest. (Press
>    release:
>    http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Egy%C3%BCttm%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9si_meg%C3%A1llapod%C3%A1s_az_Arcanum_Adatb%C3%A1zis_Kiad%C3%B3val
>     )
>    - We have also had a meeting with the researchers at the Hungarian
>    Academy of Science (MTA-SZTAKI institute) about the possibility of using
>    their anti-plagiarism software to detect copyright violations on Wikipedia.
>
> Grants
>
>    - We have submitted a report (
>    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_HU/Wikiconference/Report ) on
>    our 10th anniversary conference held in January. Videos of the event are
>    available on our YouTube channel at: http://youtube.com/WikimediaHU.
>    - Also, we have submitted a report on the 4.3 million forint ($22000)
>    grant we have received from the Hungarian Council of Internet Providers to
>    buy a server (see previous coverage in August 2010:
>    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/August_2010#Council_of_Hungarian_Internet_Providers
>    )
>    - In April we have received notification that our 0.25 million forint
>    ($1250) grant request for the National Civil Fund was approved. The grant,
>    covering June to September 2011 is intended to cover the costs of the
>    development of a CiviCRM credit card gateway and the printing of outreach
>    publications.
>
> Wikisprint
>
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg>
>
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg>
> Marshall McLuhan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan>
>
> A group called Kitchen Budapest has organized a Wikipedia editing sprint at
> Műcsarnok, one of the biggest art exhibition halls in Budapest to celebrate
> the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's birthday. As part of the sprint,
> they created and improved the McLuhan article in the Hungarian Wikipedia.
>
> A short video and a description of the event is available in English at:
> http://mcluhan100.kibu.hu/wikisprint/?lang=en
>  Meetings
>
> On 4th April we held a board meeting in a Budapest café to discuss pending
> projects, approve new members, the transfer of our share of the Wikimedia
> Fundraiser (see previous report) and similar. The minutes are available (in
> Hungarian) at:
> http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Eln%C3%B6ks%C3%A9gi_%C3%BCl%C3%A9s_%E2%80%93_2011._%C3%A1prilis_4
> .
> While the meeting was convened as a board meeting, it was public, and
> therefore we had quite a few of our members present.
> PR
>
> We have issued a press release and a blog post to mark the 10 millionth
> media file on Commons:
> http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/T%C3%ADzmilli%C3%B3_szabad_k%C3%A9p_a_Wikip%C3%A9dia_testv%C3%A9roldal%C3%A1n
> ,
> http://huwiki.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-millio-szabadon-hasznalhato-kep.html
>  Fundraising
>
> Wikimedia Hungary participated in the 2009/2010 fundraiser as a partner of
> the Wikimedia Foundation. The amount of donations raised in Hungary in April
> was 15 000 forints ($75) by Wikimedia Hungary, and $17.8 by the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
>
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