Wikimedia news/numero 70/en
< Wikimedia news | numero 70
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Wikimedia News no. 70 - February 20, 2014
Members' Meeting: the date is set
Adopt a Wikipedia article, at Degasperi school
Museum and the Web: Archeowiki, present!
Wikipedia goes to school @ Asti
Appointments
- February 22: Open Data Day Matera 2014 will be held at Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera, from 10.00 to 19.00, with a meeting entitled "Cultural population and transparency: for a culture of all people." On the occasion of the International Day of OpenData, Matera organizes an event in which a mapping of public goods will be started, also thanks to the decision of the Municipality of Matera to adopt the Wiki Loves Monuments resolution and release some cultural heritage under a CC-BY-SA license. All maps will be put on OpenStreetMap, while the collected data will be published on the OpenData portal of the Municipality of Matera. The hashtag chosen to communicate the initiative on social networks is #OpenMatera2014.
- February 27: Virginia Gentilini will give a presentation on Wikipedia at the headquarters of the Fondazione Edmund Mach in San Michele all'Adige, as part of a collaboration between Wikimedia Italia and the Institute of Agriculture belonging to the Foundation.
- February 27-28, Rome: LLuca Martinelli, member of Wikimedia Italia, will speak about Wikidata on the occasion of the international conference Faster, smarter and richer. Reshaping the library catalogue, promoted by the Italian Libraries' Association.
- March 1, Perugia: The Augusta Library of Perugia, in collaboration with the municipal administration, organizes the first edition of Wiki Loves Perugia. The meeting will be held at the Colle di Porta Sole Library from 9.30 to 13.30, and it is designed to improve Wikipedia entries related to Perugia and its cultural heritage. This first edition has gone so well that the entries are all booked already, so follow the progress of the initiative to take part in the next round!
- March 14, Milan: Pierfranco Minsenti, digital librarian, will participate in the Convegno delle Stelline with a speech entitled Wikipedia as a collaborative work environment for a cross-community of libraries. The aim is to define the impact on librarians of the collaboration of to Wikipedia.
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