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Editorial
Dear members, another year is gone and our association enters in 2009
with a lot of important events. The WMI Members' Meeting is nearer and
nearer, and we urge all members to attend it. In February we will also
host "wikimangia", an event which, like in the past years, wants to
gather at the same banquet table people from the various wiki projects
to stay together, laugh, eat and generally enjoy ourselves.
Future events
* *January 9*, Reggio Emilia: at Gabella, a meeting about Wikipedia
and Wikimedia; Paginazero will attend it.
* *February 14/15*, Monte Amiata: we'll have the fourth edition of
"wikimangia". All members and non-members are invited; keep in
mind that the event is focused on eno-gastronomy, so /no more
wikitalks and go eat and drink/. If you want to confirm your
attending, go to the page on wikipedia
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Amiata_2009_-_Wikimangia_4>.
* *March 22*, Milano: Ordinary and Extraordinary WMI Members'
Meeting, at Domus Academy, via Giacomo Watt 37.
News from our projects
News from Italian WMF projects
* *Wikiquote*: added a new parameter
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/q:it:Template:Interprogetto/man#Wikipedia_int…>
to the template Interproject to connect to Wikipedia articles in
other languages (here
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/q:it:Pierre_V%C3%A9ron> an
example); BimBot
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/q:it:Utente:BimBot> created 4129
redirects ftom the same number of works' titles to the
corresponding paragraphs of 1767 articles; all sysops were given
bureaucrat flag, as per consensus
<http://it.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Bar&oldid=227881#Burocr…>.
* *Wikisource*: reached 20.000 texts.
* *Wikizionario*: two new policies are adopted. One to recategorize
all flexed forms
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikt:it:Wikizionario:Bar/Archivio/2008-13#una…>,
so that categories may be more effective; another to recategorize
specialized terminology
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikt:it:Wikizionario:discussione_policy#Termi…>.
These policies will lead to the deletion and creation of hundreds
of categories.
News from Musica
Musica completely renewed its home page, adding an area showing new
uploads. During the last month, two operas of Giuseppe Verdi and some
new punk albums were added.
News from the Association
As per our charter, the Board called an *Ordinary and Extraordinary
Wikimedia Italia Members' Meeting*, which will be held in *Milano* on
*March 22, 2009*.
This meeting is really important for our Association; besides usual
management issues (budget and resolutions' approval) and the usual talks
among members and wikipedias, we are aiming to *change the charter* of
the Association. Among the changes proposed there is the lowering of the
quorum needed to make further changes to the charter itself (now it is
set at three quarters of the members, and we risk to have the
Association locked up), and the modifications needed to become an
*Associazione di promozione sociale* (APS: see it.wiki
<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associazione_di_promozione_sociale>).
Becoming an APS allows us to have several facilitations: the most
important one is the deducibility (or partial deductivity) of the
donations to the Association.
Board Deliberations
* Virtual Skiz asked for and was appointed coordinator of the
Association for Campania. Nomination lasts three months since
deliberation.
* Board approved unanimously transfer of €3.500,00 to Wikimedia
Foundation. This is the whole amount of donations to Wikimedia
Italia in 2008 (€1.700,00), and 30% of proceeds of gadgets' sell.
This montly activity report covers october, november, and december 2008
==Program activities==
* WM-Fr rewarded the winners of the Wikiconcours "Cross project"
category with 100€ gift checks for books.
*Funded the numerization of pictures of Gandhi.
== Public activities and interventions ==
*Workshops given
**Le Cube, Greater Paris Area, Oct 11th.
**Bibliothèque Marguerite Yourcenar, Paris, Dec 14th and Nov 9th.
**La Cantine (dedicated to senior citizens), Paris, Nov 21st.
**Nanterre, Nov 29th.
*Conferences attended
**Creative Commons France, Paris, Oct 15th.
**JDLL (free software meeting), Lyon, October 17 & 18th.
**Salon de l'éducation/Educatice, Paris, Nov, 27 to 29th.
**Open World Forum, Paris, Dec 1st and 2nd.
*Talks given
** 21 October: talk about "Free knowledge and Wikimedia" to students
from "IEP Toulouse" (policital sciences school,
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_d%27%C3%A9tudes_politiques_de_Toulouse
)
** 17 October: presentation to Auvergne librarian association (Brioude)
==Fundraising==
*Partner of Wikimedia Foundation for the annual fundraiser.
*Developed a new donation website with online payment system
*Improvement of previous, as well as creation of new promotional
material (leaflets, fundraising buttons...)
*Raised approximately 50 000 euros (last donations not included)
==Press==
*Supported the set up of the Wikiposter project with a
[http://wikimedia.fr/index.php/Communiqués_de_presse/Et_si_vous_pouviez_accr…
press release] (creation and purchase of poster from our images)
== International events/happenings/news ==
*Anything on an international level that touches the chapter/interests
the chapter
** 16 October: presentation to "From illiteracy to computer illiteracy
: an equal form of exclusion ?", European Meeting of Social Press
** 2-3 October: presentation at "3rd Conference on Cultural Economics"
[http://www.jec-culture.org/?id_page=accueil&lang=en&PHPSESSID=b0af206efedd7…]
(UE)
** December: two presentations at the Israel Business Conference in
Tel Aviv. Was the opportunity for chapter (French and Israel) contact
and for a wikimeet in Tel Aviv
**Funding of the Zeus Web Server for the Toolserver.
== Lobbying/Political ==
* Assisted to the announcement of the French "Plan du Numérique 2012"
(action plan of the government)
* First contacts with reporters without borders in november (they
publish a yearly book with pictures to support the press, we presented
them commons).
* The council of Île-de-France, a French region (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France_(region) ) voted to
become a member of Wikimédia France.
* Anthere received her award from the hands of the minister in charge
of digital economy. Was the opportunity to gather French actors of the
open source.
==Tools==
* Monthly IRC meeting for the members and the Board to discuss current issues
* Phone conferences will be tested in January
* WM-Fr new website development ongoing, based on TYPO3.
* Hosting of our tools was migrated in september on a dedicated server.
* Wikimédia France now on Viadeo (French social network) and LinkedIn
(previously on Facebook).
==Planned==
*General Assembly planned mid march in Paris: will feature approval of
financial data and election of new board.
--
Christophe Henner
Membre du Conseil d'Administration de Wikimedia France
http://wikimedia.fr
christophe.henner(a)wikimedia.fr
mob: +33 (0) 629 356 594
tel: +33 (0) 562 891 201
BB PIN: 2565DD8E
Hi all,
please find below the summaries of the activities of WMNL in december. The
activities are somewhat lower, since the end of the year involved a lot of
things that are not worth while reporting (financial statements, annual
report blabla). This will most likely be the last report from this board,
because on January 31 there is a general assemblee with board elections.
The annual chapter report for 2008 can probably be expected around
march/april this year (hopefully before the chapters meetup in Berlin).
Evaluation of the annual national conference will also be concluded this
month, and if interest is there, I can translate the core results in
English.
If you have any question, please let me know.
Yours,
Lodewijk
Content Online Platform
On the suggestion of Angela (and Wikimedia Nederland), Esther Hoorn has been
invited as an expert to the Content Online Platform. Topics include
protection of minors and cultural diversity online.
Legal
Wikimedia Nederland has won the legal case against Sijthoff. This because
the judge agreed with Wikimedia Nederland that Wikimedia Nederland has no
legal or technical influence on the content of the projects.
New year cards
Wikimedia Nederland has sent new year cards to its members and allies.
People who has meant something special to the association received a hand
written note. Besides this, invitations have been sent for the new year
drink on January 17, which is organized in Amsterdam together with Creactive
Commons Nederland and Open Streetmap NL. We have already had quite some
positive feedback on them.
Press
Quite some attention (side news) for the outcome of the legal case. Mostly
positive'ish towards Wikimedia. Also interest for the 10k articles for the
Frysian Wikipedia (including interview on Omrop Fryslan) and some minor
subjects for more foreign issues.
Available on meta at <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…
>
Available on our website at <
http://wiki.media.hu/wiki/Report_November%E2%80%93December_2008>
Wikimedia Hungary Report
Volume I, issue #2
November–December 2008
Prepared by: Tamás Mészöly and Bence Damokos
This is the second report of the Hungarian Wikimedia chapter, Wikimédia
Magyarország about the events covering November and December of 2008.
== Activities ==
=== November 2008 ===
* On 3 November Wikimédia Magyarország has been recognised as an official
chapter of Wikimedia Foundation.
* On the same day the Metropolitan Court of Budapest in a not yet legally
binding warrant registered the association and assigned it the
classification "organisation of public utility". The warrant came into force
on 24 November. (A Hungarian press statement [1] was prepared for the
occasion, and the news was covered [2] in the Hungarian Wikinews).
* An e-mail account was set up in the OTRS system of Wikimedia: ''wm-hu {at}
wikimedia.org.''
* A server and a new homepage was set up, and made public (21 November). The
design of the official website available at http://wiki.media.hu has been
inspired by the homepages of the Dutch [3] and Italian [4] chapters.
* Wikimedia Hungary, in cooperation with Wikimedia Nederlands prepared and
sent a response [5] to the European Commission green paper entitled
"Copyright in the Knowledge Economy" [6].
=== December 2008 ===
* A board meeting was held on 2 December to decide on financial matters of
the association.
* During the following week we have registered at the Hungarian Tax
Authority (APEH, 4 December) and opened a bank account (8 December).
* We posted an only membership form so that new members could join. For
purposes of membership fee administration we expect new joinees in the new
year.
* The planning of the programs and activities for 2009 continued throughout
the month.
== Contacts ==
* We have participated at a meeting of the Hungarian Association of the
History of Science, Technology and Education at the boardroom of the
library of ELTE [7] University.
* We were also represented at the third annual regional conference of
Wikimedia Srbije in Belgrade (19-21 December). The conference has seen the
presentations of Wikipedians and experts of different educational field, and
it was a good opportunity to meet the invited Wikipedians and chapter
representatives from Srbia, Croatia, Poland, Germany and Bosnia and
Herzegovina. We were invited by and our participation was supported by
Wikimedia Serbia, for which we are most thankful.
== Fundraiser ==
* On 15 December we have accepted the fundraising agreement of the Wikimedia
Foundation (WMF), and after it was signed by them too we have been a
participating chapter in the annual fundraising drive.
* Since 1 July 2008 there have been over 170 donations in Hungarian forints
to the WMF, totalling over $2600. Most of this was received during the
year-end fundraising period, with a noticeable increase after the Hungarian
translation of Jimmy Wales' appeal went live. Our chapter during the same
period has received about $150 worth of donations. Fundraising activities
are ongoing at press time.
== News from the Hungarian Wikimedia projects ==
* The Hungarian Wikisource has reached 6000 articles on 10 November, and a
further milestone of 7500 articles was achieved on 13 December.
* The Hungarian Wikipedia reached 110,000 articles on 12 November, and the
350 featured articles mark on 12 December.
* The Hungarian Wikibooks has reached 5000 articles on 18 November.
* The Hungarian Wikiquote has more than 750 articles since 25 November.
* On 17 November the Flagged Revisions extension was switched on the
Hungarian Wikipedia. (A news release [8] was prepared and the news was
reported [9] in the Hungarian Wikinews.)
== Press and media appearance ==
* Article about the vandalisms in the English Wikipedia articles of John
McCain and Barack Obama after the presidential election [10] (index.hu - one
of the big online news outlets).
* Articles published in connection with a Wikipedian meetup held in Győr on
15 November:
** Kisalföld [11] (regional newspaper);
** nol.hu [12].
* Article about the introduction of the Flagged Revisions extension [13] (
folder.hu).
* Articles about the Lutz Heilmann affair:
** itcafe.hu [14];
** Népszava [15] (national daily).
* Article about the reliability of Wikipedia articles about pharmaceuticals
based on Kevin A. Clauson's (and his team's) study [16] (index.hu).
* Article about the Stanton Foundation grant [17] (Magyar Online).
* Articles about the UK blocking of a Wikipedia article [18]:
** sg.hu [19];
** azta.hu [20];
** origo.hu [21] (one of the big online news outlets).
[1]:
http://wiki.media.hu/wiki/Megalakult_a_Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g_Egy…
[2]:
http://hu.wikinews.org/wiki/Megalakult_a_Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g_E…
[3]: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hoofdpagina
[4]: http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Pagina_principale
[5]:
http://wiki.media.hu/w/images/6/65/Response_to_Green_Paper_on_Copyright_in_…
[6]:
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/copyright-infso/greenpap…
[7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELTE
[8]:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:A_magyar_Wikip%C3%A9dia_bevezet…
[9]:
http://hu.wikinews.org/wiki/Jel%C3%B6lt_lapv%C3%A1ltozatok_a_magyar_Wikip%C…
[10]:
http://index.hu/politika/kulfold/usa/feher_haz/2008/11/05/lenegerszaroztak_…
[11]:
http://www.kisalfold.hu/gyori_hirek/barki_szerkesztheti_a_vilagenciklopedia…
[12]: http://nol.hu/belfold/wikipedia__avagy_a_friss_valtoztatasok_jarorei__
[13]: http://www.folder.hu/hirek.php?id=857
[14]: http://itcafe.hu/hir/wikipedia_nemetorszag_letiltas_heilmann.html
[15]:
http://nepszava.hu/default.asp?cCenter=OnlineCikk.asp&ArticleID=1123920
[16]: http://index.hu/tudomany/wikip1125/
[17]:
http://www.mon.hu/hirek/multimedia/cikk/a-wikipedia-nagy-penzt-kapott-hogy-…
[18]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia
[19]: http://www.sg.hu/cikkek/64469
[20]: http://www.azta.hu/bnt-tettek/41/4232
[21]:
http://www.origo.hu/techbazis/internet/20081208-meztelen-gyerek-kepe-miatt-…
Here is Wikimedia Sverige chapters report for December 2008.
== Seminars and conferences ==
We were invited to speak about Wikipedia at the Christmas conference for
professors at teacher programs. It was a nationwide event held at the
University of Karlstad. The talk was taped and it is available online.[1]
== In media ==
=== Early announcement of Swedish Idol winner ===
Just a few days before the final of the Swedish Idol the page on Wikipedia
gets vandalised by announcing the winner as if the final already took
place. Unfortunately it stays there for 18 hours before being reverted,
long enough for one of the biggest Swedish tabloids to pick up the
news.[2] Although this wasn't a major situation it shows there is still
some education to do since the paper wrote "those responsible for
Wikipedia have now removed the information".
=== Donations / Fundraiser ===
Wikimedia Sverige received a donation from the media company Mindpark. The
donation was 1 per employee (totalling 2000) and 500 from the CEO. It
was also a challenge to other companies to do the same, and so far one CEO
have matched this. This and the fundraiser was noticed in one of Sweden's
biggest newspapers, with a surprisingly accurate article. [3]
The 29th of December one journalist writes in her blog "Why I never will
donate to Wikipedia" about how the article about her blog was being
deleted for the reason it was not notable. Lennart, our chair, gave a very
good reply, which in turn hasn't got a reply from the journalist. The
interesting part is that Wikimedia Sverige noticed a substantial increase
of donations after this.
== Milestones ==
=== Swedish Wikipedia reaches 300 000 articles ===
At 14:23, December, 13 Swedish Wikipedia reached 300 000 articles. The 300
000th article was Arvidsjaurs kyrka [4] a church in the northern Sweden.
Wikimedia Sverige issued a press release [5] that were picked up by
Piteåtidningen.[6] Some tables and graphs are available.[7]
=== Swedish Wikipedia has more than 92 488 users ===
Why is this significant? Because it is more than 1 % of the population of
Sweden. User 92 489 is [[:sv:w:User:Akew]] and signed up on 30 December.
== Wikipedia Academy aftermath ==
Without any involvement from WMSE, one of the participants at WA arranged
his own seminar about Wikipedia and general criticism of sources at the
University of Kalmar.[8] We believe that is a huge step towards a more
broadened and nuanced (or should I say relevant) debate.
== Board meetings ==
During this period we have had one board meeting. One of the most
important outcome was the decision to get an online payment system for
donations. Minutes are only available in Swedish. [9]
== Members newsletter ==
We have sent out one newsletter to our members. It is available in
English.[10]
Jan Ainali [[User:Ainali]] for Wikimedia Sverige
==Links==
[1]
http://video.kau.se/tcs/#page:conferenceList&status:recorded&pageNumber:1
[2] http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/idol2008/article3957304.ab
[3] http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2374&a=868568
[4] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvidsjaurs_kyrka
[5] http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pressmeddelande_2008-12-13
[6] http://www.pitea-tidningen.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?ArticleId=4266413
[7] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediadiskussion:300K
[8]
http://www.newsdesk.se/view/pressrelease/foerelaesning-om-wikipedia-och-kae…
[9] http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6tesprotokoll/Protokoll_2008-12-15
[10] http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nyhetsbrev/Nummer_6,_2008/english