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WikimediaNews - no. 81 - July 24, 2014
Official bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.

Wikimedia News n. 81, July 24th 2014

A screenshot of @Parlamento_wiki Tritter account, source:Twitter

Wikipedia and Twitter for transparency

Wikipedia and Twitter cooperate in forbidding arbitrary and anonymous edits to articles about corridors of power around the world. Tom Scott, an Englishman, had the idea of creating a series of Twitter profiles to highlight all the edits to Wikipedia pages about powerful entities; then on July 9th Ed Summers, an American, created congress-edits: a profile where all edits to Wikipedia from anonymous users with IP addresses related to the US Congress can be showed. The goal is to preserve the transparency and reliability of Wikipedia. A similar account was just created also for Italy: its name is @Parlamento_Wiki and its stated goal is to “publish Wikipedia edits performed anonymously from the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Senate of Republic”.

A close-up of the flier about "freed" monuments, by Alessandra Gasparini, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]

Wiki Loves Monuments becomes big(ger)

The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it reaches the large public: with the brand new joining of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting the archaeological site with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed” all the monuments and the “emergenze” (protrusions) located in one of the most important sites of the world. Along with that there is a long list of Municipalities and Institutions, accessible in the dedicated page of the contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to take pictures of participating locations: to know where to go, just watch the blog, updated as soon as a new trip is planned. You may also suggest a destination, writing at contatti@wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement is that it must be one of the participating Municipalities.

ANPI frees all its biographies

The ANPI plaque in Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - by Triangle rouge (Own work) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]

The ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Italiani - National Association of Italian Partisans) published all the 3072 biographies of Resistance Women and Men under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IT license: thanks to the choice of a free license, a project started on Wikipedia to facilitate the creation of new articles and the extension of the existing ones using that material. This effort is part of the bigger “Biographies project” of Italian Wikipedia, that gives guidelines for consistent and easy to understand biographies published on Wikipedia.

The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses

File:European Commission logo.svg

Logo of the European Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The European Commission recently invited Member States to use licenses compliant to “open” standards while publishing their documents. The published guidelines aim to support institutions of different countries in complying to the Directive in public sector information re-use. Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible. A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: Conformant Licenses

OpenStreetMap

Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]

OpenGeoFiction is a website based on the same application behind openstreetmap.org (from database to messaginng) with a difference: the represented world is not the real one, but a fictional one. Many users are using it to draw a plausible world set in our time (no orcs or elves: rather power stations, metro lines and so on).

Many newspapers reported about the #agenziauscite initiative (for example on the Corriere della Sera). Now that the attribution on the Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare has eventually been added, it is time for asking about the openness of the Italian land register.

The new portal cycle.travel is devoted to bicycle mobility, with a route planner based on modifications to the famous routing engine OSRM.

OpenStreetMap Foundation announced the first corporate members.

Events and announcments

From July 21th to August the first: during those two weeks, Wikimedia Italia offices will be open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 to 13.30.
Saturday August 2nd 2014, Monastero Bormida: Simone Cortesi, Vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, is going to talk about Monferrato maps: from historic cartography to digital revolution. The panel is part of the exhibit "IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN PICCOLO STATO": open from July 5th to October 26th. Wikimedia Italia members can access at a discount rate of 5 euro, by showing the membership card.

News from the wiki world

From the 15th to the 17 of July, Berlin hosted the Open Knowledge Festival, devoted to the Open Data world. A workshop about the development of OpenStreetMap to support humanitarian issues, followed also by our treasurer Cristian Consonni. Katie Filbert of Wikimedia Deutschland, active member of Wikidata, was the chair.
The Court of Rome, acquitted Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation from the charges moved by Antonio and Giampaolo Angelucci, father and son, businessmen and Italian politicians. The two verdicts, the first on July 9th for Wikimedia Foundation and now the second one in favour of Wikimedia Italia, relieved both the American foundation, as a neutral hosting provider, and the Italian chapter from any responsibility about content published by Wikipedia users.

Notice: this newsletter is exclusively intended for information about Wikimedia Italia, both to its members and to the general public; as per Art. 1, Comma 2, Legge 7 marzo 2001 no. 62, it is not an editorial product

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+<p align=justify>Wikipedia and Twitter cooperate in '''forbidding arbitrary and anonymous edits''' to articles about corridors of power around the world. Tom Scott, an Englishman, had the idea of creating a series of Twitter profiles to highlight all the edits to Wikipedia pages about powerful entities; then on July 9th Ed Summers, an American, created [https://twitter.com/congressedits congress-edits]: a profile where all edits to Wikipedia from anonymous users with IP addresses related to the US Congress can be showed. The goal is to preserve the transparency and reliability of Wikipedia. A similar account was just created also for Italy: its name is [https://twitter.com/Parlamento_Wiki '''@Parlamento_Wiki'''] and its stated goal is to “publish Wikipedia edits performed anonymously from the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Senate of Republic”.</p>
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-<p align=justify>The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it reached the public: with the brand new joining of the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/07/a-pompei-per-fotografare-la-storia/ '''Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia'''] the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting the archaeological digs with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed” all the monuments and the “emergenze” located in one of the most important sites of the world. Along with that, a long list of Monicipalities and Institutions, accessible in [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/istituzioni/ the dedicated page] of the contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to take pictures of participating locations: to know where, just watch the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/blog/ blog], updated as soon as a new trip is planned, or you can suggest a destination by writing at  contatti@wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement, it must be one of the participating Municipalities.</p>
+<p align=justify>The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it reaches the large public: with the brand new joining of the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/07/a-pompei-per-fotografare-la-storia/ '''Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia'''] the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting the archaeological site with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed” all the monuments and the “emergenze” (protrusions) located in one of the most important sites of the world. Along with that there is a long list of Municipalities and Institutions, accessible in [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/istituzioni/ the dedicated page] of the contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to take pictures of participating locations: to know where to go, just watch the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/blog/ blog], updated as soon as a new trip is planned. You may also suggest a destination, writing at  contatti@wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement is that it must be one of the participating Municipalities.</p>
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-== ANPI frees all the biographies ==
+== ANPI frees all its biographies ==
 [[File:ANPI Sesto San Giovanni.jpg|thumb|150px|left| The ANPI plaque in Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - by Triangle rouge (Own work) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
 <p align=justify>The ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Italiani - National Association of Italian Partisans) published all the 3072 biographies of Resistance Women and Men under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IT license: thanks to the choice of a free license, a [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie/ANPI project] started on Wikipedia to facilitate the creation of new articles and the extension of the existing ones using that material. This effort is part of the bigger [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie “Biographies project”] of Italian Wikipedia, that gives guidelines for consistent and easy to understand biographies published on Wikipedia.</p>
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 == The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses ==
 [[File:European Commission logo.svg|thumb|150px|left| Logo of the European Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]]
-<p align=justify>La '''Commissione Europea''' ha recentemente invitato gli Stati Membri a '''utilizzare licenze conformi agli standard “open”''' per la pubblicazione dei propri documenti. Le [http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-491_en.htm linee guida] divulgate hanno lo scopo di supportare le istituzioni dei vari Paesi nelle fasi di attuazione della direttiva per l'Informazione del Settore Pubblico, al fine di allineare le loro pratiche e renderle più trasparenti e prevedibili per i potenziali riutilizzatori.
+<p align=justify>The '''European Commission''' recently invited Member States to '''use licenses compliant to “open” standards''' while publishing their documents. The published [http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-491_en.htm guidelines] aim to support institutions of different countries in complying to the Directive in public sector information re-use.
-Una delle esortazioni più importanti specifica che non tutti i documenti devono essere “licenziati”, ma anzi possono essere rilasciati nel pubblico dominio, grazie all'applicazione del relativo marchio Creative Commons. La Commissione fornisce inoltre raccomandazioni chiare per l'uso di licenze aperte, puntando l'attenzione sull'utilità di applicare licenze CC 4.0 che, insieme al rilascio nel pubblico dominio (CC0), garantiscono piena flessibilità agli utenti e riducono le complicazioni associate alla gestione di numerose licenze.
+Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible.
-Un elenco delle licenze conformi ai principi Open Source è disponibile qui: [http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses]
+A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: [http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses]
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 == OpenStreetMap ==
-[[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su OpenStreetMap, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
+[[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
-* [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/16.489/77.827 OpenGeoFiction] è un sito web basato sullo stesso applicativo che dà vita ad openstreetmap.org (dal database alla messaggistica) con una particolarità: il mondo rappresentato non è quello vero, ma uno interamente di fantasia. Diversi utenti si stanno adoperando per disegnare un mondo verosimile ambientato al nostro tempo (niente orchi ed elfi, ma stazioni elettriche, metropolitane, eccetera).
+* [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/16.489/77.827 OpenGeoFiction] is a website based on the same application behind openstreetmap.org (from database to messaginng) with a difference: the represented world is not the real one, but a fictional one. Many users are using it to draw a plausible world set in our time (no orcs or elves: rather power stations, metro lines and so on).
-* Sono stati dedicati diversi articoli all'iniziativa #agenziauscite (ad esempio sul [http://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/societa/2014/12-luglio-2014/strada-duomo-gaffe-agenzia-entrate-open-data-223557512452.shtml Corriere della Sera]) ma, dopo l'aggiunta dell'attribuzione sull'Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare, è l'ora di [http://www.chefuturo.it/2014/07/lagenzia-delle-entrate-chiede-scusa-per-le-mappe-rubate-bene-ma-adesso-liberate-i-vostri-dati/ chiedere l'apertura del Catasto Italiano].
+* Many newspapers reported about the #agenziauscite initiative (for example on the [http://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/societa/2014/12-luglio-2014/strada-duomo-gaffe-agenzia-entrate-open-data-223557512452.shtml Corriere della Sera]). Now that the attribution on the Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare has eventually been added, it is time for [http://www.chefuturo.it/2014/07/lagenzia-delle-entrate-chiede-scusa-per-le-mappe-rubate-bene-ma-adesso-liberate-i-vostri-dati/ asking about the openness of the Italian land register].
-* Il nuovo portale [http://cycle.travel/map cycle.travel] dedicato alla mobilità ciclabile, ha un route planner europeo basato su delle modifiche al celeberrimo motore di routing OSRM.
+* The new portal [http://cycle.travel/map cycle.travel] is devoted to bicycle mobility, with a route planner based on modifications to the famous routing engine OSRM.
-* Per concludere, la OpenStreetMap Foundation [http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members ha annunciato] i primi membri corporate.
+* OpenStreetMap Foundation [http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members announced] the first corporate members.
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-== Appuntamenti e comunicazioni ==
+== Events and announcments ==
-* '''Dal 21 luglio al 1° agosto''': nel corso di queste due settimane gli uffici di Wikimedia Italia osserveranno un orario ridotto e saranno aperti dal lunedì al venerdì dalle 9.30 alle 13.30. Grazie per la collaborazione.
+* '''From July 21th to August the first''': during those two weeks, Wikimedia Italia offices will be open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 to 13.30.
-* '''Sabato 2 agosto 2014''', Monastero Bormida: Simone Cortesi, Vicepresidente di Wikimedia Italia, parlerà de [http://www.arteneidintorni.it/incontri-mappe-monferrato/ '''Le mappe del Monferrato: tra cartografia storica e rivoluzione digitale''']. L'intervento fa parte di quelli a supporto della mostra IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN PICCOLO STATO: aperta dal 5 luglio al 26 ottobre, è accessibile ai soci di Wikimedia Italia a soli 5 euro, mostrando la tessera.
+* '''Saturday August 2nd 2014''', Monastero Bormida: Simone Cortesi, Vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, is going to talk about [http://www.arteneidintorni.it/incontri-mappe-monferrato/ '''Monferrato maps: from historic cartography to digital revolution''']. The panel is part of the exhibit "IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN PICCOLO STATO": open from July 5th to October 26th. Wikimedia Italia members can access at a discount rate of 5 euro, by showing the membership card.
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-== Novità dal mondo wiki ==
+== News from the wiki world ==
-[[File:Man being interviewed by Victor Grigas at Wikimania 2013.jpg|thumb|150px|left| Un'intervista durante Wikimania 2013, by Allan Aguilar (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-4.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
+* From the 15th to the 17 of July, Berlin hosted the [http://2014.okfestival.org/ Open Knowledge Festival], devoted to the Open Data world. A [http://sched.co/1kuEQ3B workshop] about the development of OpenStreetMap to support humanitarian issues, followed also by our treasurer Cristian Consonni. Katie Filbert of Wikimedia Deutschland, active member of Wikidata, was the chair.
+* The Court of Rome, [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Angelucci-WMI acquitted] Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation from the charges moved by Antonio and Giampaolo Angelucci, father and son, businessmen and Italian politicians. The two verdicts, the first on July 9th for Wikimedia Foundation and now the second one in favour of Wikimedia Italia, relieved both the American foundation, as a neutral hosting provider, and the Italian chapter from any responsibility about content published by Wikipedia users.
+----
+'''Notice: this newsletter is exclusively intended for information about Wikimedia Italia, both to its members and to the general public; as per Art. 1, Comma 2, Legge 7 marzo 2001 no. 62, it is not an editorial product'''
-* L'appuntamento annuale con [https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page Wikimania] si avvicina e questa volta toccherà a Londra. Ma in cosa consiste Wikimania? Fatevene un'idea guardando il video dedicato all'edizione 2013 a Hong Kong su [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2013_in_Hong_Kong_%28no_subtitles%29.webm Wikimedia Commons], oppure con sottotitoli in inglese su [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq8ZgIeYmow YouTube] o [http://vimeo.com/101369412 Vimeo]
+[[Categoria:Wikimedia news soci]]
-* Dal 15 al 17 luglio si è svolto a Berlino l'[http://2014.okfestival.org/ Open Knowledge Festival], tutto dedicato al mondo Open Data. In calendario, anche un [http://sched.co/1kuEQ3B workshop] sullo sviluppo di OpenStreetMap a supporto di questioni umanitarie, seguito anche dal nostro Tesoriere Cristian Consonni. A fare da moderatore Katie Filbert di Wikimedia Deutschland, membro attivo di Wikidata.
-* Con una storica sentenza il Tribunale di Roma ha [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Angelucci-WMI assolto] Wikimedia Italia e Wikimedia Foundation dalle accuse mosse da Antonio e Giampaolo Angelucci, padre e figlio, imprenditori e politici italiani. Sono state due le sentenze emesse, la prima il 9 luglio (per Wikimedia Foundation) e ora la seconda in favore di Wikimedia Italia, con le quali il Tribunale ha esonerato sia la Fondazione americana, in quanto hosting neutrale, che il capitolo italiano dalla responsabilità sui contenuti pubblicati dagli utenti su Wikipedia.

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