[Wikimedia Announcements] Amical: December-February Report

Tue Mar 8 22:15:17 UTC 2011

Dear fellows, 

The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities developed during the last three months by Amical.

Kind regards, 

J. Gustavo Góngora
(As a member of Amical) 

Courses and conferences

*2nd
December. Conference about Wikipedia at Òmnium cultural. User:Gomà & User:Pallares

*21st
December. Workshop on how to edit Wikipedia at the Carlos III University of
Madrid. [[User:Gomà]]

*11th
February. Talk on Wikipedia at the Civic Centre of Porqueres. [[User:Gomà]]

*18th
February Workshop on how to edit Wikipedia at the Golferichs House of Barcelona.
[[User:Gomà]]

* Wikiproject:Viquifabricació. The test corresponding to the first
semester of the course has successfully come to an end. The following people
have taken part in Catalan: 3 teachers, 23 students that have worked on 41
articles. In Spanish: 3 teachers, 21 students and have edited 23 articles. This
test has been useful to find the list of more common mistakes, in order to
prepare the content of the first courses  and to develop the
wikiprojects and bots of support for the appropriate management of the project.
Many articles still need significative improvements.

*
Wikiproject Viquibalear. The registration period and
that concerning the creation of articles have been completed. The best ones are
being moved to Wikipedia.  9 teachers and
44 students have completed the test. Up to now, 138 articles have been moved to Wikipedia. [[User:Paucabot]]

*
Wikiproject  Viquiescoles. It is based on the
Viquibalear Project but its aim is to work with the richness of the many
educational systems and the diversity of languages in which many students
attend their lessons across the Catalan-speaking territories. The aim of this
year is to test and create the infrastructure which will enable its expansion.
Mediawiki has been installed and some teachers have already joined the
initiative. In total, 16 teachers from all the Catalan-speaking territories are
currently involved.  [[User:Barcelona]]

*
Mediawiki course at the School
ow webcraft [[User:Esenabre|Esenabre]]

* Course
of introduction to the wiki edition corresponding to the subject Bioinformatics
of the UPF [[User:Toniher]]

Release of contents

* It has already
been
processed
by
OTRS
a permission to
publish
the book Les
Plantes Cultivades. Cereals
de Pujol Palol, Miquel
and we
have started
dumping
it
on
Wikisource: Les
Plantes Cultivades. This
book
contains
many
high-quality images on
cereals
that can be used to illustrate
Wikipedia
articles. We are currently uploading them to Commons
with
the
collaboration
of
Joancreus. (Example).

Media

There
has been much
activity
in
the
media
during
the last three months, mainly
around
four
themes:

*
300,000
articles
from
Wikipedia
in
Catalan. On 21
December
the
press
reported
that
the
Catalan Wikipedia had
reached
300,000
articles. They
were
echoed
by several means: racó
català, Bits
catalans, Directe.cat,
La
tafanera. On 24 December Ssola is interviewed by Com radio. 

. * 10th anniversary of Wikipedia. Following
this,
there have been
several
videos
and
interviews on the
radio: Video
done at the Citylab of Cornellà KRLS
& Gomà, TV3
KRLS
& Gomà, L'internauta
Gomà,
L'entrevista
a Vilaweb Gomà, Ona
Mallorca Paucabot.

* Grant of €
20,000
from puntCAT Foundation
to
develop the
strategic
plan of Wikipedia: Rado
4, Endirecte.cat,
Technology911,
Diari
de Girona, Somdigitals.cat,
Tecnonews,
Comunicació21.

* In Alghero,
it has had a
strong
media
impact the
organization of a digital
photography competition to
illustrate
the
Wikipedia
articles: at Alguer.cat
in Catalan and in Italian and on Alghero’s television. 

Relation with entities.

* The IEC
(Institute of Catalan Studies) has
spread
among
the
subsidiaries
a
request of collaboration with
Wikipedia. Up to
now, the Literary Section and the Society for Hebrew Studies have responded
positively.
Barcelona

* We have kept in
touch with entities
of
the
Federation of
Senior
Citizens of
Catalonia. We are also finding ways
to
make some members participate on Wikipedia. Username: Pallares.

* The relations with the
Picasso
Museum have
concluded with the
organization
of
the
1st
Conference between Catalan Museums
and
Wikipedia.
Kippelboy. We
thank
User: Witty
lama for his collaboration.

* On January
24 we had a
meeting with Escola
Massana. We
proposed
that
students
draw
portraits
of
people
whose
images are not copyleft and
make
them
run
under
free
license to
illustrate
Wikipedia
articles. The
first impression
was
good
but
then
it was concluded
that
this
may
not
take
place in the present academic course. Pallares.

* On February
14 we met
the
Torrens-Ibern Foundation Board of
Trustees. We showed
them 30 free-licensed college textbooks
in
English.
The
Foundation
will
contact university
lecturers to
assess the quality
and,
if
adequate,
finance
will
be promoted in
collaboration with the
university
to
translate
them
and
publish
them
on Wikisource. Goma.

Miscellaneous

* kippelboy
attended Glamwiki
2010 at the British Museum.

* On 16 December the puntCat Foundation provided
us with a grant of 20.000€ to develop the strategic plan of Wikipedia.  

* There are two
entities
that
have
agreed
to
provide
public
information on
Wikipedia
and
make
us
a
point of contact: Centre d'estudis
comarcals del Baix Llobregat in Sant Feliu de Llobregat
and the Societat Coral el Micalet of
Valencia. These entities
will
have brochures and books
on
Wikipedia and a person who
knows
how to edit it. They
will provide information to the public and
will
contact
Wikipedia
or
the association just in case any interested person appears. Hopefully,
these
are the first steps
of
a network that
will cover the
entire territory.

* Improvements have been made to
the
Amical-bot. We have
implemented a module
which
offers
categories
and
added
more
templates
and
pages
of
ERS.

* We have developed a bot
that
works
with the statistics
of
some
French towns and villages. From
here
you
can
complement
the
content
of
the articles asking
for it with a template
or
they can otherwise be created
automatically. This
process is currently under discussion. See
examples
of
articles (in Catalan):
Improved
article or created
article.

* In December,
the
third
survey
of
Wikipedia
users took place.
The
results
were
published
in
January.
We
thank
Marc
Miquel for his hard work.

* The association
supports
the
Wiki
Loves
Monuments project. We
bought
the
domain
http://wikilovesmonuments.cat
and
are
making
efforts to
get
sponsors
and
prizes
to
the
contest. (Vriullop and
others, see
project
pages).

* The association
is
deeply
involved
in
organizing
events
for
the 10th anniversary
of the Catalan Wikipedia. More
information will be available next month.

*Free Culture Forum
and
access
to knowledge (http://www.fcforum.net). Participation
with
the launch of
a
handbook
on sustainability in the
digital
era. Gomà & User:Lilaroja.

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