Name of the Association: ASOCIACIÓN CIVIL WIKIMEDIA ARGENTINA
Legal Address: Av Díaz Vélez 4140 3rd Floor Apt. 26 - Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
Balance Sheet at December 31, 2010 REPORT OF ACTIVITIES
Dear members of the
Civil Association Wikimedia Argentina,
We are pleased to inform you our activities during 2010:
This year, we have joined the celebration of the Bicentennial of the country,with the implementation of the Bicentennial Project, in which we worked intensively on Spanish Wikipedia articles related to that time in Argentina's history, recorded audio articles for blind people and made the first edition of the Bicentennial book in digital format. As part of this project, we conducted an intense press action that put us on the covers of several national newspapers, such as La Nación.
We began a project with the Argentinean National Broadcasting for the use of archives of the Public Radio and Television (RTA) in Wikimedia projects. In this context, we started working on a cooperation agreement with RTA and the National University of La Plata for strengthening that project by volunteers from our organization.
We participated in the Annual Meeting of the Wikimedia projects, Wikimania 2010 in the city of Gdansk, Poland, where members of our organization gave several talks, including a talk aimed at overcome the gender gap in Wikimedia projects and a presentation about the cooperation with the Public Radio and Television.
We conducted the first edition of Wikipedia en el aula (Wikipedia in the classroom), a booklet intended for disseminate and promote the use of Wikipedia in education. The project, funded with the grant program of the Wikimedia Foundation, also includes the dissemination of the booklet in different schools and events related to the educational area.
In October 2010, with the Vía Libre Foundation, we participated in the Frankfurt Book Fair, where we presented the book "Argentina Copyleft", published by Fundación Vía Libre, which included contributions from Wikimedia Argentina. The book was translated into German and published in Berlin by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We have participated in the International Commons Conference in Berlin, an event organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, headquartered in Germany.
We began a campaign for our legislators to amend the Intellectual Property Law, in order to get an exception to copyright for "freedom of panorama", a very important aspect to audiovisual projects of Wikimedia Commons. In this framework, we sent letters to legislators explaining the impact of these regulations on Wikimedia projects.
Our best wishes,
The Steering Committee.
A. C. Buenos Aires, February 15, 2011
