Hi all!
The new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#85) is available. Summary:
- Archeowiki: the big final event
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_85/en&action=submit#Archeowiki:_the_big_final_event>
- Macchianera Awards
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_85/en&action=submit#Macchianera_Awards>
- Events
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_85/en&action=submit#Events>
- News from OpenStreetMap
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_news/numero_85/en&action=submit#News_from_OpenStreetMap>
A link has been added to meta, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia…
; more-or-less raw text of the bulletin follows below.
ciao, .mau.
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= Wikimedia News n. 85, September 18th 2014 =
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[[File:loghiOSMit.png|thumb|500px|center| OpenStreetMap Italy Logo, di
Aury88 [CC-BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
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<font size="5">OSMit in Matera</font>
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<p align=justify>The national gathering of OpenStreetMap supporters
(OSMit14) will be held in Matera from ''October the 3rd to the 5th
2014'''-
Mapping places in an open format, allowing the contribution by everyone to
complete the maps is their core goal.
Why having OSMit14 in Matera? Because '''Matera is candidated to European
Capital of Culture''' for 2019. The open mapping was a key element in
involving the city and its citizens in a voluntary mobilization that had a
big impact on the access to candidacy “semi-finals“, in 2013. '''Open
Future''' has become Matera 2019 motto.
80 to 100 mappers and supporters from all over Italy will be in OSMit14, to
share experiences of open mapping in both Italy and Europe. All information
about registration and attendance are available on the website
http://conf.openstreetmap.it</p>
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[[File:BEIC.jpg|thumb|400px|center| Logo ''Biblioteca Europea di
Informazione e Cultura'']]
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<font size="5">Wikipedian in residence at Fondazione BEIC</font>
</center>
<p align=justify>The '''[http://www.beic.it/it Biblioteca Europea di
Informazione e Cultura (BEIC)]''' (European Library of Information and
Culture) was born in Milan with ''the goal of offering to the community a
state of the art structure for universal access to information and
knowledge in all their forms, thanks to an on-line repository of
bibliographic resources and documents from Milan metropolitan area using
the most advanced digital techniques'' (translating from their website).
This statement shows how BEIC and Wikimedia Italia share a purpose that
pushed towards an agreement: our association will be a bridge between the
Library and Wikipedia community. To this goal, the Board identified a
member, known as [[Utente:Nemo|Nemo]], that will act as consultant, as
experienced with the "Wikipedian in residence". In four months (September
15th - January 15th), the wikipedian will teach to and help BEIC employees
in mastering Wikipedia and understanding its philosophy and the inner
working of Wikimedia projects.
Both parties hope that this partnership, even if limited at the beginning,
will strengthen and grow.</p>
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== Archeowiki: the big final event ==
[[File:AW_logo.jpg|thumb|200px|left| Logo Archeowiki]]
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<p align=justify>After two years of training volunteers, meetings at
schools, senior centres and with disabled youngs, the '''[
http://www.archeowiki.it/ Archeowiki - New ''archaeologists'' in
Lombardia.
Real and virtual trails]''' project ends. Wikimedia Italia, along with its
project partners, organizes a closing event aimed to students that in the
past year participated in the ectivities. The event will be held '''Friday
September 26th''', from 10AM to 2PM, at '''La Fabbrica del
Vapore''' in
Milano. Thanks to the support of a group of volunteers, the classes will be
involved in a big archaeological and wikipedian game.</p>
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== Macchianera Awards ==
[[File:Macchianera.jpg|thumb|150px|left| Macchianera Award]]
<br>
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<p align=justify>Saturday September 13th the '''Macchianera Italian
Awards
2014''', the best in the Web reqards, have been assigned at "Festa della
Rete" ("Net party") in Rimini. Italian Wikipedia received the prize for
'''best educational website'''; the award was collected by two
members of
Wikimedia Italia: DracoRoboter and Kaspo, as representatives of all the
contributors. Wikipedia is for everyone and so is the award! In this [
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZbK1CrknE&t=32m40s video] the award
ceremony, with a funny moment.</p>
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== Events ==
[[File:Il Pertini, Cinisello Balsamo Italia.jpg|thumb|200px|left|"Il
Pertini" library in Cinisello B.mo, by Giulio.fortunio (Own work)
[CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
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* '''September 29-30th and October 1st, Paris''': the board
members of
Wikimedia Italy and some volunteers will be at the [
http://www.eagle-network.eu/about/events/eagle2014/ EAGLE 2014
International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and
Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World]. Specifically, Andrea Zanni
(''President''), Luca Martinelli (''Secretary''), Lorenzo
Losa, Pietro
Liuzzo and Pietro De Nicolao for the '''EAGLE MediaWiki'''
project; while
Cristian Consonni (''Treasurer'') and some representatives of partner
associations will share the '''Archeowiki''' experience.
Attendance is
free, but due to the limited number of seat [
http://www.eagle-network.eu/about/events/eagle2014/registration/
registration] is required.
* '''October 15th and 22th, Cinisello (MI)''': [
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Utente:Laurentius Laurentius] will host two
meetings at the [
http://www.comune.cinisello-balsamo.mi.it/spip.php?rubrique107 Il Pertini
library], presenting Wikipedia and the projects to the audience, in the
context of a partnership being defined.
* '''WLM events''': an always up-to-date
'''calendar'' about all the
photographic tours and the meetings is available on [
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/ Wiki Loves Monuments website].
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== News from OpenStreetMap ==
[[File:OSM.png|thumb|250px|left| Visualization fo the first 200 places for
Points of Interest density in Europe (by [
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/baditaflorin/diary/23729 baditaflorin])]]
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* In the past days the transparency portal about the Expo 2015 was
launched, from where it is possible to check the status of contacts and
download their data. The background maps are from one of the OpenStreetMap
renderings (OpenCycleMap).
* OSM is used as background in the webgis of MiBACT: [
http://sitap.beniculturali.it/ the SITAP]
* While wandering for Wiki Loves Monuments, please check if the Wikipedia
article about the monument contains its coordinates: if missing, take them
from OpenStreetMap!
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