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

Fri Aug 26 15:36:28 UTC 2011

Hi Asaf,

At this point it is mostly a declaration of intent to cooperate.
Arcanum digitises content under various copyright regimes (some are already
under public domain, some they only digitise without any rights in the work,
for some they receive a fixed duration permission to use), and they agreed
to give us stuff that is under PD if/when we ask for it (some of it might
have made its way already to Wikipedia/Wikisource randomly, especially as
some of the content digitised by Arcanum is available through the Hungarian
Electronic Library or their own website, and some can be bought in the
(book)shops). So far we haven't asked for any specific content, but the
possibility is still open.

Arcanum (http://arcanum.hu/idegennyelvu/iny_index.html) has a fascinating
wealth of content, some of it available on the internet (not all of it in
Hungarian), so I hope we can find the pieces in there that would be most
useful for a 21st century encyclopedia and request the data. If you have any
wishlist, you might help us in making this partnership more successful.

Best regards,
Bence

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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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