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Please find the 10th installment of the Wikimedia newsletter 2015.
If you wish to share an event or activity through this newsletter, please feel free to send us a message at info@wikimedia.ch.
Happy reading!
Association
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Save the date for the "New Year Brunch" on January 17, 2016
The local Wikimedian community will be simultaneously gathering in Zurich, Geneva and Lugano in order to celebrate Wikipedia's 15th Birthday and kick off the upcoming year! More details will follow in our next Newsletter!
Community
edit- Get a Micro-Grant to realize your project!
Take the chance to realize your project, to purchase a book to help you write an article, to expense an entrance ticket to a museum to upload photographs on Wikimedia Commons. The sky is the limit, as long as your project has an impact on Wikimedia projects and that you are a recurrent contributor, you are eligible. Get in touch with your community liaison in case you have a question or want to talk about your idea.
You can submit your micro-grant request in your respective language on the Micro-Grant on Meta.
- Alemannic meetup in Einsiedeln
The most recent activity financed with a micro-grant was the meet up of contributors of the Alemannic Wikipedia on October, 24. A week ago, this middle-sized language edition reached 20.000 articles! Five Wikipedians and one companion met in Einsiedeln (canton of Schwyz) to take a guided tour of the local museum. The exhibition there was dedicated to the 150th birthday of Meinrad Lienert, a writer from Einsiedeln who has published novels, poems or songs both in standard German and in his Swiss German dialect. In the afternoon the group also visited the Einsiedeln Abbey and the cozy gingerbread museum, before tasting the local wine in a restaurant.
- Let's fill the gender gap atelier in Geneva
Mid way within the first session of the Wikipedia atelier in Geneva, we are glad to see that several new contributors have joined in the Wikimedia movement. The press has caught a great interest on the topic and has covered the initiative via tv and radio interviews as well as the written press. You may consult those articles in the section below. Click here to visit the project page.
Wikipedia Offline
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Kiwix won the Swiss Open Source Award 2015
We are delighted to inform you that KIWIX - Wikipedia offline was awarded the Swiss Open Source Software Award.
Moreover Kiwix1.2 for iOS is out! Enjoy an improved user experience for your iPad. Install or update it here.
Events
edit| Date | Event | Location |
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| 11.11.2015 | Schlussveranstaltung Edit-a-thon "Biografien Schreiben" | Swiss Federal Archives. |
| 17.11.2015 | Wikipedia Workshop "Let's fill the gender gap" | University of Geneva |
| 20/22.11.2015 | Wikisource conference | Vienna, Austria |
| 21.11.2015 | Stammtisch Zürich | Zürich |
| 24.11.2015 | Wikipedia Writing Worskshop at noon | Biel/Bienne |
| 28.11.2015 | Wikipedia Edit-a-lier | Frauenfeld |
| 01.12.2015 | Wikipedia Workshop "Let's fill the gender gap" | University of Geneva |
Press
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- (de) 30 October 2015, Tages-Anzeiger, Der Schwarm bei Wikipedia schrumpft
- (fr) 26 Octobre 2015, La Tribune de Genève, Wikipédia se tourne vers les femmes
- (fr) 24 Octobre 2015, Les Visionnautes au SIGEF, Projet "Mind the gap"
- (de) 23 Oktober 2015, Bieler Tagblatt, Aus der Bibliothek in die weite Welt von WIkipedia (Anmerkung Muriel: Korrektur -> Grossteil der Wikipedia-Autoren stammen aus den USA und Europa.)
- (fr) 22 Octobre 2015, Journal du Jura, La biblio à la conquête de Wikipédia(Anmerkung Muriel: Korrektur der Zahl 40'000 auf 17'000 Edits bzgl. Beatles Artikel)
- (de) 20 Oktober 2015, 20 Minuten, Google ist die stärkste Marke der Schweiz
- (fr) 18 Octobre 2015, RTS Journal du 19h30, Wikipédia compte très peu de collaboratrices
- (fr) 12 octobre 2015, RTS la 1ere, Tribu,11:00, La construction participative du savoir