*W i K i M e D i A N e W s* - n. 21, 4th November 2008
Official monthly information bulletin of Wikimedia Italia.
*Editorial*
This issue of Wikimedia News opens with a few important events for our
association, such as the launch of a new WMI project (the *Music* project)
and the decision to call for an extraordinary AGM in March 2009. Indeed,
that AGM will mark a crucial step for the future of the association, since
it will allow, hopefully, to change our Bylaws; this is an essential
condition to engage the long route to obtain ONLUS (charity) status. I
sincerely hope all our members will do their best to be present to this
important time for our association's life.
Senpai
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*Last month's events
*
· 10 October, Milan: we participated to the conference *Forme e
paradossi della democrazia digitale: protesi cognitive, social networking,
blogosfera e wikiscenza* (Forms and paradoxes of e-democracy: cognitive
protheses, social networking, blogosphere and wikiscience) organized by
Università di Milano Bicocca with a talk titled "Wikipedia is not
democratic!". The conference was interesting for its format (the public was
involved via blogs, Facebook and live online stereaming) and for the
contributions (very philosophical in the first part, very concrete in the
second). Our talk has been particularly and can be viewed online on
YouTube<http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=3u72-0uPfSs>
· 16 October, Perugia: because of our invited speaker's health
problems we took part to the conference *Ma che vuoi sapere tu.. Verso la
rete dei servizi culturali, bibliotecari e informativi per i giovani* (What
do you think you know... Towards the network of cultural, library and
information services for young people) organized by AIB-Umbria in digital
form, by sending a video talk. the contribution is available
here<http://www.frieda.it/def.avi>
· 18 October, Milano: we took part to Forum Umanista Europeo
2008<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Forum_Umanista_Europeo_2008>,
which was a good success, since around 1,000 people were present to the
event at Bicocca, thanks to the huge organisation machine and to the ample
range of proposals such as workshops, round tables, conferences and
associations' tables. For us it was a "contamination" experience we
initially had some doubt on, but that turned out fruitful; indeed, beyond
explaining Wikimedia projects to a few tens of people (either chatting or
giving away information leaflets) we contacted people we may collaborate
with in the near future. (See also the full
report<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Forum_Umanista_Europeo_2008#Resoconto>.)
· 25 October: as usual we took
part<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/it:Wikipedia:Raduni/Linux_Day_2008>…
Linux
Day <http://www.linuxday.it/> in 10 Italian cities and a few other events.
The Milan event was the occcasion to get to know key people, particularly to
improve the administrative management of the association and to produce
videoguides about Wikipedia; Crotone's LD was staged in a school and a lot
of teachers were interested (full reports can be found
here<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Linux_Day_2008>).
· 23-26 October: we participated to Festival della
Creatività<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Firenze_-_Festi…08>.
Here's Senpai's report:
For the second year in a row our association took part to the Festival of
Creativity in Florence, and this year as well, as was the case last year,
the festival has probably represented the most important event (definitely
for attendance) WMI participated in 2008.
Together with the classical sale of gadgets and Q&A activity we do at every
fair, we managed to initiate a new way of participating to important events,
integrating in our traditional activities a project of reportage and
interviews. Thanks to the guys of Wiki@Home and some of our members (in
particular Kaspo), we managed to collect some exclusive interviews to
publish in wikinews.
An activity of this kind highlights more than ever the importance W@H has
towards Wikinews exactly because, at the moment, it is one of the few
projects that manges to realize interview specific to WMF's news website and
that, as a consequence, allows the latter to have contents other news media
cannot have.
Monday morning we also participated to a round table (*Verso il web 3.0:
l'evoluzione di
internet*<http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Verso_il_web_3.0:_l%27evoluzione_d…
Towards Web 3.0: the evolution of internet) organized by Firenze
Tecnologia.
To sum up, this festival as well concludes on a more than positive balance,
both as a mediatic and promotion event, and on the merely economic side.
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*Next month's events
*
· 5 November: Marcok will intervene to a meeting about *Wikipedia,
Palladio e i contenuti liberi della
rete*<http://www.piazzatech.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&Itemid=1>(Wikipedia,
Palladio and the free contents of the net) in the framework of
*I mercoledì della **Piazza Telematica*
<http://www.piazzatech.it/>(Telematic Square Wednesdays) in Schio,
Vicenza, following what started on
September 20 at the Software Freedom Day in Schio as well.
· 28 - 30 November - MEI 2008: For the second year in a row we'll
participate to MEI (Meeting of Independent Labels). This year we'll
officially present our new project dedicated to
music<http://musica.wikimedia.it/wiki/Pagina_principale>;
furthermore, we'll greatly appreciate the presence of the guys from W@H and
of the users of wikinews, above all because of the many important people
that will be there. To confirm your attendance, please refer to the
coordination
page on the association
wiki<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:MEI_2008>and to
the page on
wikipedia <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/M.E.I._2008>.
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*News from WMF projects in Italian
*
· *Wikibooks*: The page
Speciale:Raccolta<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/it:Speciale:Raccolta>w…
activated; it allows to download as a PDF Wikibooks' modules and to
join
them in collections <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/it:Aiuto:Raccolte> for the
press.
· *Wikinews*: 2000 registered users milestone.
· *Wikipedia*: Conclusion of RevertBot cleanup
festival<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Festival_della_qualit%C3…08>,
during which about 1300 possible copyright violations out of
3500<http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=19875428&oldid=1840132…
dealt with.
· *Wikiquote*: 7700 entries milestone.
· *Wikisource*: 2400 registered users milestone.
· *Wikiversità*: 600 pages milestone.
· *Wikizionario*: 4000 registered users milestone.
*News from the association
*
We decided to call for an extraordinary AGM in March 2009. In that occasion
we'll have to modify our Statutes; since we need as many people as possible,
we opened this
page<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Discussioni_associazione:Assemblea_WMI_marzo_2009>for
proposals about location and dates.
*News from WikiAfrica*
In a quick meeting in Milan at Lettera27's office, a few ideas for future
activities of WikiAfrica were generated: a WikiAfrica Academy, the next
Literature Festival in Mantova, the Festival of African Film in Verona,
Capetown Book Fair, Milano Film Festival, an event about to be organised by
the Griot Bookshop in Rome (provisional title *Afrilinks*).
*News from W@H*
· We're about to publish a few videointerviews realised at the
Festival of Creativity we really participated to. We also started a debate
with the community of it.wikinews who expressed the wish to be more involved
in the project's activities, and with that aim two interviews are being
prepared on Wikinews (to
Odifreddi<http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinotizie:Storie_in_preparazione…
Roversi<http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinotizie:Storie_in_preparazione/I…)
we hope to finalize soon.
*News from Musica (the new music project)
*
We officially started the "beta testing" of project *Wikimedia Musica*. All
the members are invited to participate to the activities necessary to
officially launch the website, by discussing, editing and positively
contributing to the birth of this new copyleft project. The project will be
officially presented at MEI 2008 (Faenza end of November).
Homepage<http://musica.wikimedia.it/wiki/Pagina_principale>.
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*Board resolutions
*
· Buying the URL
www.commons.it<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Delibere/A…
· The board followed up on the request of a former member to be
excluded from the
association<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Delibere/Esclusione_socio>
· Buying stickers and business
cards<http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Associazione:Delibere/Ordine_materiale_ottobre_2008>
Editorial committee:
· Luca Sileni;
· Frieda Brioschi;
· Marco Chemello;
· Nemo (section "News from our projects")
· Aubrey (section "News from Biblioteca")
· DracoRoboter and Elitre (section "News from W@H")
to contact the editorial committee please write to:
redazione@<redazione@wikimedia.it>
wikimedia.it or to its members:
· Luca Sileni - wikisenpai(a)gmail.com
· Frieda Brioschi - ubifrieda(a)gmail.com
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