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Please find the last installment of Wikimedia CH's newsletter 2015. We take this opportunity to wish you all the best for the year end festivities.
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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Our new website is online
We're glad to announce that we finally launched our new [http//:www.wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH] website. We want to thank Martin Sauter and the agency [http//:www.yr-group.ch/ Young & Rubicam] for their commitment as well as all their efforts and hard work invested in building it. We are especially grateful as Young & Rubicam took on this project as a pro bono mandate.


Fundraising
As you probably have noticed from the Wikipedia banners, the yearly fundraising campaign is currently undergoing until December 31st.


Wikimedia CH New Year's Brunch on January 17
Join us in Geneva, Lugano and Zurich on January17 for the traditional Wikimedia CH New Year's Brunch! It is also an opportunity to celebrate Wikipedia's 15th birthday. If you wish to attend, thank you for sending an email to your respective community liaison to register a spot. Each one of them will soon be sending information out with regards to this event.

  • Community Liaison for the German-speaking part of Switzerland: muriel.staub@wikimedia.ch
  • Community Liaison for the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland: ilario.valdelli@wikimedia.ch
  • Community Liaison for the French-speaking part of Switzerland: gabrielle.marie@wikimedia.ch
 
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Wikidata training in Berlin
On November 22nd, a team from Wikimedia CH visited Wikimedia Germany to meet the Wikidata team and to have a training session with Lydia Pintscher.

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Let's fill the gender gap in Geneva
For this workshop's last meet-up for 2015, we are actively looking for Wikimedians to provide constructive feedback on the participant's Wikipedia articles and exchange with them around a buffet. Feel free to show up Tuesday 15th December from 12 to 2 pm, at the Uni Dufour in Geneva, in the salle informatique 0119 located in the basement. We're looking forward to see you there.

Swiss cheese project
With the year end festivities coming up, talking about food seems appropriate. Indeed, we would like to inform you that a Swiss cheese project is currently undergoing with the User:Softenpoche who has been busy photographing local varieties, especially from the canton of Fribourg. You may find his contributions here. If you are inspired and wish to use them to illustrate articles on cheeses on Wikipedia, here is the list of all the existing articles and categories on the WP:FR, on the WP:DE and on the WP:IT.

Wikipedia atelier in the Cantonal Library of Thurgau

 
Cantonal Library Thurgau

On November 28, the fourth Wikipedia writing atelier took place in the Cantonal Library of Thurgau. Many people participated and put their efforts in the creation of a "Portal Thurgau" in the german-speaking Wikipedia. Check it out here.

Congratulations to Klexikon: 1000 Articles
Congratulations to the entire team of Klexikon, the online encyclopedia for children, for reaching the rewarding milestone of 1000 articles, you may access their project here.

Wikimania Esino Lario

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Will we have an alphorn in Esino Lario?

On November 25th, the working group of Esino Lario met in Milan to define the program of the conferences. Several novelties are to be expected in comparison to previous editions as to what Wikimania will focus on:

  • An accent on the Wikimedia community and specifically on volunteering time
  • Further integration between Wikimedia's staff and volunteers
  • Enabling an open air village for projects and chapters in a public square like the old bazaars

The next step resides in defining speakers for the different topics to be addressed during the conference.

Wikipedia Offline

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GLAM

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Rhaeto-romance languages


Rhaeto-romance Wikisource project
Wikimedia CH helped the user Gian Francesco Esposito, aka Mizardellorsa, to build a Rhaeto-Romance digital library in Wikisource. Currently the library has 173 new texts in Ladin language and 241 new texts in Romansh language. This initiative is part of a wider project that aims to improve the presence of endangered alpine languages within Wikimedia projects.

Events

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Date Event Location
15.12.2015 Wikipedia atelier "Let's fill the gender gap" University Geneva
15.01.2016 Happy 15th Birthday Wikipedia Online
17.01.2016 Wikimedia CH New Year's Brunch Zurich, Geneva, Lugano
19.01.2016 Wikipedia atelier "Let's fill the gender gap" Uni Mail in Geneva, IT room Baud-bovy
25.01.2016 Wikipedia-Atelier (1): Wikipedia's backstage Volkshochschule Bern
15.02.2016 Wikipedia-Atelier (2): How to edit an article Volkshochschule Bern
20.02.2016 Anniversary 50iest Wikipedia Stammtisch Zurich Zürich
25.02.2016 Wikipedia-Atelier (2): How to upload an image Volkshochschule Bern

Open Data

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Press

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