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Wiki@Home is a project managed by Wikimedia Italia members in collaboration with Italian Wikinews.

The aim is to contact important persons of the culture to have an interview. In this way, we can also explain what Wikipedia and her sister projects really are, and try and find some possible collaboration.

The questions are elaborated generally by the community. The contact with them is "by friendship" (a member knows an important person and try to schedule a meeting). The interviewer is not a professional people but it's a normal member, volunteer, who has some cultural interests with the persons to be interviewed.

These are the collection of interviews.

For example Antonio Spadaro is a Jesuit and the director of "Civilità Cattolica" an official pubblication of Vatican State, we have simply asked to him to have an interview but he has already had contacts with WIkipedia communities, Maurizio Codogno is a current board member but also a member of GCN and Naming Authorities in Italy, Antonio Serra is an important comics writer but the better interview also because he has accepted to put in Wikipedia some comics produced by him.

We are looking to improve these type of contacts, for example we have had the presence of Margherita Hack, an important astrophysics, who has been present in our stand in Bologna and has corrected his own biography in Wikipedia and has accepted to be interviewed by Wiki@home.