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= Wikimedia News n. 81, July 24th 2014 =
  
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<center><big>'''W i K i M e D i A N e W s'''</big> no. 30 - December 06, 2010</center>
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<br /><small><center>Official monthly bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.</center></small>
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[[File:Parlamento wiki.png|thumb|450px|center| A screenshot of @Parlamento_wiki Tritter account, source:Twitter]]
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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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[[File:Locandina WLM dettaglio.png|thumb|450px|center| A close-up of the flier about "freed" monuments, by Alessandra Gasparini, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
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<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 its biographies ==
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[[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]]]
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<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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Autumn. Halloween is celebrated, trips outside the city are organized, maybe people think that Christmas is approaching. This happens in the world out there. <br />
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== The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses ==
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It's the second year that in November the most difficult period of the year for the Board begins: the organization and the daily management of the fundraising.<br />
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[[File:European Commission logo.svg|thumb|150px|left| Logo of the European Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]]
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Organizing the fundraising means to shadow the Wikimedia Foundation and their demands, to study contracts, to subscribe to new mailing lists, to come up with slogans, to spread pages of explanations, to translate FAQs and in the meantime to try and optimize the tools so that we may be prepared for the wave of activity which will begin shortly. <br />
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<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.
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When the fundraising actually begins and banners appear on all projects' pagess, the first thing that happens is that we lose our treasurer and secretary for a few months: Cotton, Aubrey and all their staff (Xaura, Dinwath, Remulazz) are completely absorbed by subscriptions flowing in, questions about donations, registrations of gifts, contacts with WMF which are nevertheless required (every self-respecting fundraising gets technical problems or changes to do on the spot!). At the time of writing, there are 170 mail in the subscription mailbox, 88 in the information mailbox and still others in the general one.<br />
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Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible.
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Install OTRS, enroll people directly from the site and write scripts for importing data are some of the little things we did to simplify the job of secretary and treasurer, but they are only the tip of the iceberg: we were not able to customize our CRM, it's more than six weeks since we tried to open an account at the post office but we have not succeeded yet - despite all our efforts - and the list of problems does not stop there. <br />
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A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: [http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses]
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On 11 December, when the directors shall meet ''visually'', one of the topics on the agenda will be hiring one or more persons during the next year to help us carry out those activities for which we don't have sufficient resources (and sometimes expertise): communication, secretariat, various consultants (fundraising, legal, graphics, non-profit specialists). <br />
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In closing I remind you of the hot topics still open, that we're overlooking because discussion, consensus and interests languish: the celebration for the ten years of Wikipedia and the forthcoming Festival of Digital Freedom.
 
  
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== OpenStreetMap ==
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[[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
  
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==What happened during last months ==
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* [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).
  
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=== Members' meeting in September ===
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* 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].
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[[Immagine:WMI Bologna 2010 9649.JPG|thumb|A break in a hecting day. [[commons:Category:Wikimedia Italia Assembly September 2010|Other photos in Commons]].]]
 
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On September 25 we held our yearly [[w:it:Wikipedia:Raduni/Bologna 2010 Assemblea WMI|ordinary members' meeting]] of Wikimedia Italia, hosted by the Dipartimento di discipline della comunicazione at the University of Bologna.
 
  
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Unfortunately we could not record and transmit a real-time video of the assembly: an [http://www.archive.org/details/WikimediaItaliaAssembleaBolognaSettembre2010 audio recording] is available, although the presence of a single microphone at the chair meant that the questions from the public are barely audible.
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* 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.
  
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The morning began with brief presentations by our guest, Professor Lalli, and Frieda. The presence of a large and involved audience led to an interesting discussion: a useful opportunity for information and comparison.<br />
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* OpenStreetMap Foundation [http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members announced] the first corporate members.
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* '''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.
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* The quality of Wikipedia articles in the medical field and other specific areas;
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* '''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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* The possibility of increasing their quality through collaboration with institutions and experts in the category<ref>Compare [[m:Wikipedia_Academy#Wikipedia_Academy_Bethesda_.28NIH_headquarters.29.2C_United_States_2009|Wikipedia Academy, NIH]].</ref>;
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* The encouragement of participation through certificates or other evidence that can be added to their curriculum vitae <ref>. See also [[m:strategy:Task_force/Recommendations/Community_health_1#Volunteering_should_give_you_something_to_put_on_your_resume.2FCV|one of the recommendations]] for community health emerged from Wikimedia strategic planning process.</ref>;
 
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* Statistics and attention to the confidentiality of the Wikimedia projects;
 
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During the afternoon the actual Members' meeting took place. We renewed the [[direttivo| Board]] and reviewed the main events of the past year (they are discussed in more detail in our [[relazione sulle attività 2009| annual report]]). We also have the opportunity to present and discuss briefly the project "ideas from Wiki" (see [[#Idee da Wiki| below]]) and the new WikiGuide on Wikimedia Commons produced by Christian Biasco (see [[#Nuova_WikiGuida|below]]).<br>
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* 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.
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* 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.
  
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This year the winner was project "[http://www.sanbaradio.it/podcast/ponte-radio Sanbaradio - Ponte Radio]" by Cooperativa Mercurio «For having released with a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0) contents produced in project "Ponte Radio" (Radio Link), "sound contaminations between Trentino and Mozambique" able to bring near two worlds quite far apart».
 
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Special mention to project [http://www.nigrizia.it/sito/copertina.aspx Nigrizia]: «For having released with a free Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA-2.5) a lot of contents about Africa».
 
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I made only a presentation of our association and some background comment. Biani had a very interesting intervention; he boasted of being one of the first cartoonists to adopt Creative Commons licenses on the web, and explained that his choice was dictated essentially by two reasons: one kinda ethical, and another "practical". As regards the second reason, he said that in more than one occasion - when he released its work with traditional copyright - his cartoons have been grabbed from his blog and used without permission. In an occasion a newspaper with regional circulation even changed the dialogue before publishing the cartoon. Since adopting CC licenses, however, he realized that the web morally condemns and prosecutes cases of appropriation of the content released in copyleft, and when a strip of him is stolen many people signal him the fact. <br />
 
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The intervention of the Serpieri showed then the "comics" side of the matter; an established artist as he has, to date, no interest in releasing his works on CC but ethical issues.
 
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Serpieri then talked about his battle for recognition of the cartoonist as a professional artist, especially when his work is commissioned. Working for the publisher, perhaps drawing a character who is owned by the same publisher, in fact, is frankly simplistic for the artist and distorts his role. <br />
 
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His presentation on Wikipedia and its sister projects received positive comments and compliments: being a competent audience, he could fly over on Wikipedia and talk about Wikimedia universe. Participants agreed that it was an interesting event, although it was long and difficult; hopefully we would repeat it next year.
 
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Our intervention was focused on the issue of free licenses and copyleft in general. Public, unfortunately, was not very numerous, but they proved interested in the subject. It persists (even in a pseudo-specialized environment as that of linux gruop) substantial misinformation about what "we can do and not do" under a free license.
 
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During [http://www.luccacomicsandgames.com/ Lucca Comics and games] our Association revamped WikiWall, a project ideated for the Festival of Digital Freedoms.
 
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If you want to participate actively in Wikimedia Italia, what about joining the mailing list? http://mailman.wikimedia.it/mailman/listinfo/associazione <br />
 
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'''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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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

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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).
  • 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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