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= Wikimedia News n. 85, September 18th 2014 =
= Wikimedia News n. 84, September 4th 2014 =
 
  
 
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[[File:Wlm uploadsperday2014.png|thumb|500px|center| The stream of uploaded images every day in the World, during WLM editions]]
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<font size="5">Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 started</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.
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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.
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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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<p align=justify>Italy boldly joins Wiki Loves Monuments. The third edition of the picture contest started September 1st and it will go on up until the end of the month. This year there is an unprecedented participation in Italy, thanks to more than 220 institutions that freed [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/monumenti/lista-monumenti/ '''3500 monuments''']. Those numbers are going to increase even more, showing that Italian public administrations are more receptive in spreading free knowledge and sharing of cultural heritage. This year we are pleased by the joining of the '''MiBACT, il Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo''', that supports the contest and invited national ''Soprintendenze'' to do the same and free their monuments.  
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<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).
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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.
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Both parties hope that this partnership, even if limited at the beginning, will strengthen and grow.</p>
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The 2014 edition, so rich in content, is going to acknowledge the ability of many photographers: besides the usual ten winners, who are going to get smartphones and cameras supplied by Euronics in cooperation with Sony, there will be additional '''special prizes''', as ''Euronics'', ''WWF'', ''Spazi Medievali'', ''Wiki Loves Busto Arsizio'' and ''Fondazione Gran Paradiso''.
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== Archeowiki: the big final event ==
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[[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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this is a big challenge for users, participating in a contest that spans over [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014/Participating_countries 36 nations], all committed to prize the cultural richness of their territories.
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== Macchianera Awards ==
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[[File:Macchianera.jpg|thumb|150px|left| Macchianera Award]]
 
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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>
[[File:Flag of Tuscany.svg|thumb|400px|center| Flag of Tuscany, by Angelo Romano [CC-BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
 
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Cooperation on Open Knowledge between institutions and WMI is increasing. We recently signed an agreement with '''Regione Toscana''' (Tuscany region administration), that commited to increasingly release its geographical assets as Open Data.
 
This was possible thanks to the choice by Tuscany to facilitate the re-use of its documents containing public data, promoting also the development of open source softwares. Wikimedia Italia along with Tuscany region will foster a series of activities aimed to dissemination and use of the regional geographical assets, promoting the integration of open content released by both parties.
 
The agreements has a 3 years duration, tacitly renewable, while Wikimedia Italia and Regione Toscana will evaluate the chances of starting joint projects with other institutions and public entities of Tuscany, to "refine and enrich the geographic, environmental and historical knowledge aiming to improve, make available and spread free knowledge" (translating the [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Associazione:Delibere/2014/Accordo_di_collaborazione_con_la_Regione_Toscana resolution] ratifying the agreement).
 
 
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== Events ==  
 
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[[File:Genova.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Old port, by Alessio Sbarbaro (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]]
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[[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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* '''Friday September 5th'': at Salone di Rappresentanza of Palazzo Tursi, in Genoa, there was the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/08/genova-si-presenta/ presentazione official presentation] of the contest '''[http://www.opengenova.org/wikilovesmonuments/ Wiki Loves Monuments Genova]''' by Carla Sibilla (council member for culture), Emma Tracanella (coordinator for Wiki Loves Monuments Italia) and representatives of OpenGenova association.
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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.  
* '''Sunday September 21th''': the association '''Gruppo Archeologico Ambrosiano''' (GAAm), partner of Wikimedia Italia for the Archeowiki project, prepared a tour to '''Desenzano'''. The track contains two stops: the roman villa, with its Antiquarium, and the archaelogical museum. The tour will be hosted by one of the young guides that participated to Archeowiki during last year. More information on the official '''flyier''' ([http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/File:Volantino_visita_guidata_Desenzano.pdf downloadable in .pdf]).  
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* '''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.
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* '''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 ==
 
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[[File:OSM.png|thumb|200px|left| OpenStreetMap with a [https://cquest.hackpad.com/OpenStreetMap-goes-in-the-4th-dimension--ju3XWhj2qAV "fourth dimension" in time], rendering by Christian Quest]]
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[[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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* Mapillary, the crowdsourced "Street View" is compatible with OpenStreetMap (the images can be re-used for non commercial purposes and for extracting data for OpenStreetMap), [http://blog.mapillary.com/news%2C/update/2014/08/19/id.html it is integrated with iD editor] thanks to an extension showing the images of the surroundings.
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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).
* Newspaper La Stampa uses OpenStreetMap as cartographic source for the visualization on [http://www.lastampa.it/2014/08/20/esteri/da-pearl-a-foley-la-mappa-dellorrore-delle-videoesecuzioni-Ynk9EfNZlCWEamAurhUogJ/pagina.html a news article].
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* OSM is used as background in the webgis of MiBACT: [http://sitap.beniculturali.it/ the SITAP]
* Stamen Design [http://content.stamen.com/new_knight_grant_new_toner_new_infrastructure got a new grant] from Knight Foundation to continue and update the work that, a couple of years ago, produced its Toner, Terrain e Watercolor maps.
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* 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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WikimediaNews - no. 85 - September 18, 2014
Official bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.

Wikimedia News n. 85, September 18th 2014

OpenStreetMap Italy Logo, di Aury88 [CC-BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons


OSMit in Matera

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



Logo Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura


Wikipedian in residence at Fondazione BEIC

The 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 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.


Archeowiki: the big final event

Logo Archeowiki


After two years of training volunteers, meetings at schools, senior centres and with disabled youngs, the 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.


Macchianera Awards

Macchianera Award



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 video the award ceremony, with a funny moment.


Events

"Il Pertini" library in Cinisello B.mo, by Giulio.fortunio (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons



News from OpenStreetMap

Visualization fo the first 200 places for Points of Interest density in Europe (by baditaflorin)


  • 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: 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!