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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 tries to schedule a meeting). The interviewer is not a professional journalist but a member of WMI, a volunteer, who is personally interested with the person to be interviewed.

These are the already published 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 had already had contacts with Wikipedia communities; Maurizio Codogno is a current WMI board member but also a member of GCN and Naming Authorities in Italy; Antonio Serra is an important comics writer, who also accepted to put in Wikipedia some comics produced by him.

We are looking to improve this kind of contacts, i.e. we had the presence of Margherita Hack, an important astrophysicist, at an event attended by WMI in Bologna, where she corrected her own biography in Wikipedia and accepted to be interviewed by Wiki@Home.