Wikimedia news/numero 81/en
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Editorial
On 6 January, we closed the best fundraising campaign ever for Wikimedia Italy: we raised over € 300,000 (including the portion that will be transfered to WMF) and more than 200 people have applied to join the Association.
The result was beyond our most optimistic hope: the 2009 campaign brought us about € 60,000 net worth and our conservative estimate in the budget for this year was € 85,000; by the end of the year this amount will probably be doubled.
The confidence the supporters gave us load us with a great responsibility: to make good use of this fortune. On the mailing list of the association we had a couple of threads with some ideas and in September we picked others within the project Ideas from Wiki*, but I urge you to continue the discussion and share it with us, especially in view of drafting the 2011 budget, to be approved by the Assembly in March.
Last fundraising campaign took the Board by surprise (it was the first time that we formally participated as a partner at a Wikimedia Foundation fundraising campaign) and the work of the treasurer and secretary was paralyzed for two months. This year we tried to plan it a bit more in advance: the treasurer asked to have a support person and the secretarial staff expanded to three people. Nevertheless, the workload was very high: in this issue we welcome an intervention by Cotton, our treasurer, who gives us all the details of the campaign, I will just anticipate that the donation page only has been visited over 100,000 times between November and December.
For the first time we committed ourselves to a communication campaign - offline! - to reach a target more diversified and a bit more distant from us: our invitation to support Wikimedia was published in the Italian magazine Internazionale (twice, in December and January), was carried about the city by the tramways in Milan (for a month, from 15 December to 11 January) and will be out for the last time in February in the monthly magazine Valori (who has generously donated us some of its space to support Wikipedia). During the campaign we acquired the domain sostienilacultura.it, in order to disclose an address that was easy to remember and evocative; that address redirects to the Donations page of the site of the association.
The campaign was possible thanks to: Stefano Tartarotti (the cartoonist who created the graphics - the Wikipedia bulb - which we used and that he generously donated us), Cristian Consonni (who invented the slogan Keep Wikipedia lit) and Federico Cantoni who has been busy writing texts and making layouts. Thanks, guys!
Finally, I remind you that our next efforts are the celebrations for the ten years of Wikipedia, which will be held Jan. 15 in Milan, Rome and Vicenza and again Jan. 21 in Rome.
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Editorial staff:
- Luca Sileni (editor-in-chief)
- Frieda Brioschi;
- Marco Chemello;
- Nemo (section "News from WMF projects")
- Aubrey (section "News from Biblioteca" and GLAM)
- Christian Cantoro (section "News from W@H" )
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To contact the staff, write at: redazione@wikimedia.it or directly to the editors:
- Luca Sileni - wikisenpai
gmail.com - Frieda Brioschi - ubifriedagmail.com
- CristianCantoro - kikkocristiangmail.com
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