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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).

Many newspapers reported about the #agenziauscite initiative (for example on the Corriere della Sera). Now that the attribution on the Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare has eventually been added, it is time for asking about the openness of the Italian land register.

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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+= Wikimedia News n. 81, July 24th 2014 =
-<br /><small><center>Official bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.</center></small>
-==Editorial==
+<div style="max-width: 800px"> <!-- oppure width: 80% -->
-Wikimedia Italia has entered its 4 year on the 17th of June.
+<center>
-As you may know WMI is a piece of my life: I worked for a year with
+[[File:Parlamento wiki.png|thumb|450px|center| A screenshot of @Parlamento_wiki Tritter account, source:Twitter]]
-about thirty people to bring it founded, then for 3 years, as chair, I
+<BR>
-took care of it, and during the year I spent in WMF I was an advisor
+<font size="5">Wikipedia and Twitter for transparency</font>
-of WMI too.
+</center>
-I did not become richer, I lost hours of sleep, I had to plan very
+<br style="clear: both">
-carefully my work/family/events to participate in, to gain a kind of
+<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>
-balance, lawyers emails and telecommunication police phone calls are
+<BR>
-normal routine; on the other side I met many people, I was lucky
+<BR>
-enough to tell what we do to many people and in many occasions,
+[[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]]]
-humanly I'm a much richer person than 4 years ago.
+<br style="clear: both">
+<center>
+<font size="5">Wiki Loves Monuments becomes big(ger)</font>
+</center>
+<BR>
+<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>
+<br style="clear: both">
-I do not intend to provide links or lists, but also WMI, thanks to
+== ANPI frees all its biographies ==
-many of its members and the constant engagement of all the boards who
+[[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]]]
-have led the association, has come a long way. The 17 founders are now
+<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>
-members, still (slowly) growing.
+<br style="clear: both">
-None of us was born wikimedian or member of an association. We tested,
-tried, made errors, restarted, we set ambitious goals.
-The year ahead will be very hard:
+== The European Commission endorses Creative Commons licenses ==
-* We are awaiting response to our application form to the register of associations of social promotion for the province of Monza and Brianza. If the answer is positive, we must work for 5x1000 (which means: we asked to gain a tax-exempt donation status and we're waiting for the response; besides, we might apply for obtaing a direct donation from income tax return)
+[[File:European Commission logo.svg|thumb|150px|left| Logo of the European Commission, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]]
-* "bureaucratic" stuffs (as tons of emails) are overloading the board,  when they could often be managed by a group of members
+<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.
-* The legal entity is a major goal, even for protection of next presidents
+Documents may be licensed, but the Commission urged the Member states to put them in the public domain (CC0 license) as much as possible.
-* we are pursuing many projects, but we can improve them: wiki@home is languishing since almost a year awaiting fresh vigour, both Musica and Biblioteca need to be more known and visible..
+A list of licenses compliant to Open Source principles can be found here: [http://opendefinition.org/licenses/ Conformant Licenses]
-* The commitment of the members does not increase and old associates are beginning to be tired
+<br style="clear: both"></p>
-Perhaps it is the last point that worries me much. I was able to find
+== OpenStreetMap ==
-just 2 reasons to explain to me why the commitment of the members is
+[[File:Visualizzazione della densità dei nodi su OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|150px|left| Density of OpenStreetMap nodes, by Martin Raifer, [CC-BY-SA 3.0]]]
-not increasing any more: either the people sign up to give us
-financial support or they do not agree with what WMI makes.
-That's why this year during the assembly, I'd like to meet more
-members as possible, and people who do not know or don't like
-Wikimedia Italia as well; I'd like to talk and discuss, and define
-together the objectives of this year.
-Finally, the hardest part. At the moment there is only one candidate
+* [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).
-to the board, who applied many months ago. (update: right now there're
-candidates)
-Now that on the WMI (and thus in some way on the past board, and
-myself too as legal representative) hangs the sword of a 20 million
-euros lawsuit (so much we were asked by Mr. Antonio and Giampaolo
-Angelucci, for wrong contents appeared on Wikipedia), I do not see too
-much interest in running for the board.
-Let me remind you, to the boredom, if necessary, that Wikimedia Italia:
+* 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].
-* Does not own the domain wikipedia.org
-* Does not own the servers on which Wikipedia is hosted
-* Does not have access to the servers
-* Is neither the head nor responsible for Wikipedia
-* Has no control over the content of Wikipedia (neither through privileged access nor for statutory purposes)
-* Has an agreement with Wikimedia Foundation (the foundation which operates Wikipedia) that clarifies all these points
-I'm almost tired to repeat always the same stuffs to everybody .. but
+* 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.
-you know, in Italy it is easier to file a lawsuit against the first
-person you meet (in the hope of involving and accusing him), rather
-than to inform and embark on an international cause whose jurisdiction
-is San Francisco.
-Actually what upset me more in this affair is that there has been no
-prior contact with the association neither with OTRS nor with
-Wikimedia Foundation, only and solely the summons.
-I hope to meet you in Rome on 19 September. There is much to discuss,
+* OpenStreetMap Foundation [http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members announced] the first corporate members.
-much to do, and much need of you.
+<BR>
+<br style="clear: both">
-Frieda
+== 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 [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.
+<br style="clear: both">
-==What happened last month==
+== News from the wiki world ==
+* 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.
-==What will happen next month==
+* 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.
-==News from WMF projects==
-==Featured Wikimedian/Picture of the month==
-==Strip of the month==
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+'''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'''
-Editorial staff:
-*Luca Sileni;
-*Frieda Brioschi;
-*Marco Chemello;
-*Nemo (section "News from our projects")
-*Aubrey (section "News from Biblioteca")
-*DracoRoboter (section "News from W@H")
-*.mau. (English version)
-To contact the staff, write at: redazione@wikimedia.it or directly to the editor:
-*Luca Sileni - wikisenpai{{@}}gmail.com
-*Frieda Brioschi - ubifrieda{{@}}gmail.com
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+[[Categoria:Wikimedia news soci]]
-'''Notice. This newsletter is exclusively intended for information about Wikimedia Italia, both to the 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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