Wikimedia news
Official bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.
WikiLibraries
On Thursday, May 30 in Crema the conference "Librarians tell themselves: challenges, opportunities and partnerships" was held. Our member Virginia Gentilini attended it with a talk about Wikipedian Librarians: hardware and software of a collaboration. At this link you can view the slides used by Virginia for his presentation.
By now the voice of the courses and workshops on Wikipedia kept in libraries is spreading and more and more professionals ask about the options available to them, particularly with regard to initiatives aimed at users. Among these, the laboratory for beginners is proving very successful (Saturday, June 8th we held the second edition of the course with P tasso, at the Biblioteca Salaborsa in Bologna). The structure of the meeting is simple: in the space of about three hours, a diverse audience is presented an overview of the operation (behind the scenes) of the Wikimedia projects, with particular emphasis on Wikipedia. They are then invited to try their hand at creating a user and a personal sandbox (on Wikipedia), to try to get their hands dirty and experience firsthand the modifiability of the encyclopedia.
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Next appointments
- Friday 28 June, Bologna: Atropine and Virginia Gentilini will talk about Wikimedia movement at Il Cassero". Il Cassero was created in 1978 in Bologna as "Club of homosexual culture". The structure hosts a Documentation Center about Italian LGBT movement, and organized many cultural and recreational activities. The meeting will show the projects about the LGBT world present on Wikipedia, and discuss the opportunity of collaboration between the two entities.
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