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= Wikimedia News n. 81, July 24th 2014 =
  
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<p align=justify>Wikipedia and Twitter cooperate in '''forbidding arbitrary and anonymous edits''' to articles about corridors of power around the world. Tom Scott, an Englishman, had the idea of creating a series of Twitter profiles to highlight all the edits to Wikipedia pages about powerful entities; then on July 9th Ed Summers, an American, created [https://twitter.com/congressedits congress-edits]: a profile where all edits to Wikipedia from anonymous users with IP addresses related to the US Congress can be showed. The goal is to preserve the transparency and reliability of Wikipedia. A similar account was just created also for Italy: its name is [https://twitter.com/Parlamento_Wiki '''@Parlamento_Wiki'''] and its stated goal is to “publish Wikipedia edits performed anonymously from the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Senate of Republic”.</p>
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[[File:Locandina WLM dettaglio.png|thumb|450px|center| A close-up of the flier about "freed" monuments, by Alessandra Gasparini, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
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<p align=justify>The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it reaches the large public: with the brand new joining of the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/2014/07/a-pompei-per-fotografare-la-storia/ '''Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia'''] the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting the archaeological site with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed” all the monuments and the “emergenze” (protrusions) located in one of the most important sites of the world. Along with that there is a long list of Municipalities and Institutions, accessible in [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/istituzioni/ the dedicated page] of the contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to take pictures of participating locations: to know where to go, just watch the [http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/blog/ blog], updated as soon as a new trip is planned. You may also suggest a destination, writing at  contatti@wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement is that it must be one of the participating Municipalities.</p>  
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== ANPI frees all its biographies ==
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[[File:ANPI Sesto San Giovanni.jpg|thumb|150px|left| The ANPI plaque in Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - by Triangle rouge (Own work) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
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<p align=justify>The ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Italiani - National Association of Italian Partisans) published all the 3072 biographies of Resistance Women and Men under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IT license: thanks to the choice of a free license, a [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie/ANPI project] started on Wikipedia to facilitate the creation of new articles and the extension of the existing ones using that material. This effort is part of the bigger [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Biografie “Biographies project”] of Italian Wikipedia, that gives guidelines for consistent and easy to understand biographies published on Wikipedia.</p>
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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. <br />
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== The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses ==
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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. <br / >
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[[File:European Commission logo.svg|thumb|150px|left| Logo of the European Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]]
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<p align=justify>The '''European Commission''' recently invited Member States to '''use licenses compliant to “open” standards''' while publishing their documents. The published [http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-491_en.htm guidelines] aim to support institutions of different countries in complying to the Directive in public sector information re-use.
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Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible.
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A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: [http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses]
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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.
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== OpenStreetMap ==
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[[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
  
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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. <br />
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* [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=5/16.489/77.827 OpenGeoFiction] is a website based on the same application behind openstreetmap.org (from database to messaginng) with a difference: the represented world is not the real one, but a fictional one. Many users are using it to draw a plausible world set in our time (no orcs or elves: rather power stations, metro lines and so on).
  
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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. <br />
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* Many newspapers reported about the #agenziauscite initiative (for example on the [http://corriereinnovazione.corriere.it/societa/2014/12-luglio-2014/strada-duomo-gaffe-agenzia-entrate-open-data-223557512452.shtml Corriere della Sera]). Now that the attribution on the Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare has eventually been added, it is time for [http://www.chefuturo.it/2014/07/lagenzia-delle-entrate-chiede-scusa-per-le-mappe-rubate-bene-ma-adesso-liberate-i-vostri-dati/ asking about the openness of the Italian land register].
  
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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! <br />
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* The new portal [http://cycle.travel/map cycle.travel] is devoted to bicycle mobility, with a route planner based on modifications to the famous routing engine OSRM.
  
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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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* OpenStreetMap Foundation [http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members announced] the first corporate members.
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== Events and announcments ==
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* '''From July 21th to August the first''': during those two weeks, Wikimedia Italia offices will be open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 to 13.30.
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* '''Saturday August 2nd 2014''', Monastero Bormida: Simone Cortesi, Vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, is going to talk about [http://www.arteneidintorni.it/incontri-mappe-monferrato/ '''Monferrato maps: from historic cartography to digital revolution''']. The panel is part of the exhibit "IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN PICCOLO STATO": open from July 5th to October 26th. Wikimedia Italia members can access at a discount rate of 5 euro, by showing the membership card.
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* From the 15th to the 17 of July, Berlin hosted the [http://2014.okfestival.org/ Open Knowledge Festival], devoted to the Open Data world. A [http://sched.co/1kuEQ3B workshop] about the development of OpenStreetMap to support humanitarian issues, followed also by our treasurer Cristian Consonni. Katie Filbert of Wikimedia Deutschland, active member of Wikidata, was the chair.
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* The Court of Rome, [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Angelucci-WMI acquitted] Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation from the charges moved by Antonio and Giampaolo Angelucci, father and son, businessmen and Italian politicians. The two verdicts, the first on July 9th for Wikimedia Foundation and now the second one in favour of Wikimedia Italia, relieved both the American foundation, as a neutral hosting provider, and the Italian chapter from any responsibility about content published by Wikipedia users.
  
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=== Fundraising for WMF projects ===
 
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For the second year Wikimedia Italia took part in the annual fundraiser organized by Wikimedia Foundation, which closed a few days ago.
 
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This year the Foundation decided to focus more on local chapters and, unlike previous collections, the donor was not given the choice of either to choose to donate to the Foundation or to the chapter; everybody, according to the country from which they connected, were addressed directly to the relevant chapter. This choice, combined with the fact that the collection as a whole has been a great success and [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics has achieved the goal of '''16 millions of dollars'''] ahead of its scheduled deadline, meant that the collection for Wikimedia Italia has fared quite well, and frankly beyond any prevision.
 
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The Board decided to advertise the fundraising, and the association and the Wikimedia projects, non only on the web but also through alternative channels. We had so an ad in the journal "Internazionale", and for several weeks posters were placed posters on the sides of public transport in the city of Milan.
 
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In order to achieve the final result we would like to thank all those who have given their help to make banners, translate texts, create page layouts, design drawings and posters.
 
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Overall, the association has received over '''15,000 individual donations''' for a total of about '''€ 310,000'''. Supporters are not only Italian citizens: donations have come from all parts of the world (Europe, United States, but also Argentina, Australia and the Philippines) and many foreign people resident in our country decided to help us, witnessing that our projects and WMF know no borders or language barriers. Furthermore, although the collection officially ended on January 6, other donations continue to flow, almost as if, in fact, was not closed at all.
 
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Half the money raised, according to the agreements drawn up between WMI and the Foundation, will be turned to it to support its projects. The budget of the association for next year will be obviously quite different from that of years past, and allow us to better develop new projects that will be discussed with all members who will attend the next members' meeting, scheduled for March.
 
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Besides this, we want to point out a perhaps even betterresult, namely the significant increase of members of our association. In fact, about '''230 people decided to join us by joining Wikimedia Italia'''. A heartily welcome from us to the new members!
 
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=== GLAMWIKI in Paris - 3 and 4 December 2010 ===
 
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On 3 and 4 December in Paris there was the (second) [http://rencontres.wikimedia.fr/ GLAM-WIKI conference], organized by Wikimedia France in the gorgeous halls of the Assembleè National. The theme of the event, like in the first GLAM-WIKI organized a week before at the British Museum in London by Wikimedia UK, was the relationship between Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, [http://commons.wikimedia.org Commons], [http://it.wikisource.org Wikisource]) and GLAM institutions (i.e. ''museums, libraries and archives'').<br />
 
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The French people have pulled together various members both of the wikiverse and of cultural world and institutions, organizing together with the Britons an event that certainly opens the door to conversations between these two seemingly opposing worlds. Some of the speakers had already presented their projects at Wikimania, but it was nice and helpful to listen them again.<br />
 
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Liam Wyatt, omnipresent, and just returned from two months of conferences (he also opened Europeana conference in Amsterdam) told again the experience of five weeks as "Wikimedia Foundation volunteer" at the British Museum. It was very useful to listen to him again to better understand the subprojects carried out by Liam as mediator between the museum and the community of Wikipedians. Each of them is actually a small stroke of genius, and technically very simple.
 
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Osmar Valdebenito, which brought Enciclopedía Cilena to Wikisource, now is involved in a huge new project with the Library of Congress for the [http://www.slideshare.net/Wikimedia_France/historical-heritage-of-chile-in-wikisource transcript on Wikisource] of all 70 volumes of Chilean law.  <br/>
 
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Beatrix updated us on the status of cooperation with the Argentinian television and radio archives, by which they managed to carry on Wikipedia several videos of historical and political importance, even very recent ones, contextualized in a broader discussion. These videos become historical documents and valuable sources, giving to a Wikipedia article a strength and an authority which are not possible on any other medium. The economic speeches of ministers before the Argentine collapse, with transcription and explanation by side, offer a near unquestionable mirror of facts (and a not so hidden political condemnation, among other things). <br/>
 
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The Frenchmen have then told us about their collaboration with the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Projet_Phoebus museum pf the city of Toulouse] and the Bibliothèque nationale de France and about the project between the BnF and Wikisource (a project of which [http://aubreymcfato.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/wikisource-incontra-la-bnf/ I had already reported], but that can be discussed further with [http://www.slideshare.net/Wikimedia_France/mathis-vigneron-wm-fr-partenariat-bnf the slides] of the interventions). It was very interesting to see how BnF has approached the subject, bringing into play its skills. In particular I understood that in this sense, it considers Wikisource a decidedly amateur project without professional skills - for example about the metadata. On the other hand, it could be very comfortable to BnF, aside from the transcript itself, to judge the quality of its OCR, comparing the readings with the "human" ones made by the guys at Wikisource.<br />
 
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Wikimedia Foundation has opened a wiki dedicated to collect all the events around the wayL [http://ten.wikimedia.org ten.wikimedia.org]
 
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WikimediaNews - no. 81 - July 24, 2014
Official bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.

Wikimedia News n. 81, July 24th 2014

A screenshot of @Parlamento_wiki Tritter account, source:Twitter


Wikipedia and Twitter for transparency


Wikipedia and Twitter cooperate in forbidding arbitrary and anonymous edits to articles about corridors of power around the world. Tom Scott, an Englishman, had the idea of creating a series of Twitter profiles to highlight all the edits to Wikipedia pages about powerful entities; then on July 9th Ed Summers, an American, created congress-edits: a profile where all edits to Wikipedia from anonymous users with IP addresses related to the US Congress can be showed. The goal is to preserve the transparency and reliability of Wikipedia. A similar account was just created also for Italy: its name is @Parlamento_Wiki and its stated goal is to “publish Wikipedia edits performed anonymously from the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Senate of Republic”.



A close-up of the flier about "freed" monuments, by Alessandra Gasparini, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]


Wiki Loves Monuments becomes big(ger)


The new edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is growing and it reaches the large public: with the brand new joining of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia the contest is now richer in possibilities for people visiting the archaeological site with their camera. The Soprintendenza has “freed” all the monuments and the “emergenze” (protrusions) located in one of the most important sites of the world. Along with that there is a long list of Municipalities and Institutions, accessible in the dedicated page of the contest website. There are also planned trips in August and September to take pictures of participating locations: to know where to go, just watch the blog, updated as soon as a new trip is planned. You may also suggest a destination, writing at contatti@wikilovesmonuments.it. The only requirement is that it must be one of the participating Municipalities.


ANPI frees all its biographies

The ANPI plaque in Sesto San Giovanni (MI) - by Triangle rouge (Own work) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]

The ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani Italiani - National Association of Italian Partisans) published all the 3072 biographies of Resistance Women and Men under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IT license: thanks to the choice of a free license, a project started on Wikipedia to facilitate the creation of new articles and the extension of the existing ones using that material. This effort is part of the bigger “Biographies project” of Italian Wikipedia, that gives guidelines for consistent and easy to understand biographies published on Wikipedia.


The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses

File:European Commission logo.svg
Logo of the European Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The European Commission recently invited Member States to use licenses compliant to “open” standards while publishing their documents. The published guidelines aim to support institutions of different countries in complying to the Directive in public sector information re-use. Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible. A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: Conformant Licenses

OpenStreetMap

Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]
  • OpenGeoFiction is a website based on the same application behind openstreetmap.org (from database to messaginng) with a difference: the represented world is not the real one, but a fictional one. Many users are using it to draw a plausible world set in our time (no orcs or elves: rather power stations, metro lines and so on).
  • The new portal cycle.travel is devoted to bicycle mobility, with a route planner based on modifications to the famous routing engine OSRM.
  • OpenStreetMap Foundation announced the first corporate members.



Events and announcments

  • From July 21th to August the first: during those two weeks, Wikimedia Italia offices will be open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 to 13.30.
  • Saturday August 2nd 2014, Monastero Bormida: Simone Cortesi, Vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, is going to talk about Monferrato maps: from historic cartography to digital revolution. The panel is part of the exhibit "IL MONFERRATO, 500 ANNI DI ARTE, GRANDI ARTISTI IN UN PICCOLO STATO": open from July 5th to October 26th. Wikimedia Italia members can access at a discount rate of 5 euro, by showing the membership card.


News from the wiki world

  • From the 15th to the 17 of July, Berlin hosted the Open Knowledge Festival, devoted to the Open Data world. A workshop about the development of OpenStreetMap to support humanitarian issues, followed also by our treasurer Cristian Consonni. Katie Filbert of Wikimedia Deutschland, active member of Wikidata, was the chair.
  • The Court of Rome, acquitted Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia Foundation from the charges moved by Antonio and Giampaolo Angelucci, father and son, businessmen and Italian politicians. The two verdicts, the first on July 9th for Wikimedia Foundation and now the second one in favour of Wikimedia Italia, relieved both the American foundation, as a neutral hosting provider, and the Italian chapter from any responsibility about content published by Wikipedia users.


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

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