Wikimedia Conference 2012/Documentation/Day 3/StoC
- Norwegian encyclopedia has been uploaded to web. Poor quality, but University sector support it instead of WP.
- Need to learn how to win over universities!
- Libraries etc. - GLAM camp
- Great American Wiknic launched (food & frizbee) in 18 cities!
- Agenda: Get Wikipedians to do things in the real world.
- December: WP loves libraries, including editathons, in 13 cities.
- Plays, musicals, etc.
- Ambassador program with 10 courses per semester (context?)
- Walrus
- WP takes Manhattan at Wikimania - build your stand at the world fair style exhibition.
- (A very fast presentation ;-) )
- 52 members
- Tambyan talk
- language policy work
- Software freedom day stall, position paper on OSS
- Asaf visit in Nov - helped WM Phillipines to talk to govt organisations
- GLAMcamp participation
- Going to do GLAM projects
- WLM (doing what?)
- SOPA: gave press release, got interviewed on TV
- Open Web Day - working with Mozilla foundation
- Gave a Jeepny to WMDE :-]
- 120 active members
- Activites:
- Wikiexpeditions: Take photos etc.
- WLM was cooperation with ministry of culture, got 17k pictures
- Wikigrants to buy cameras etc.
- Getting free samples of books to help with sourcing
- Getting phtos of lab equipment?
- International conference of WIkimedia Polska
- 10th anniversary of WM Polska (200 people at event)
- WM Commons exhibition Different city each month
- WLM was the biggest project in the last year --
- WLM goals: low budget, want more new people into project
- Started early in year!
- 6 sponsors, 15 media partners
- Spent 0 € of our own!
- Highest rate of new users
- Jury was a challenge - each member had to choose 100 nomination pictures which was a lot of work.
- 5 photos uploaded on day 1
- 2 Wiki-takes
- Finally had thousands of pictures, needed to be validated
- Had over 15,000 pictures at the end, over 2000 monuments phtographed.
- Amendments to Russian laws
- 2 objectives ??
- New version of international cooperation??
- VisualRIAN project: project with Russian news org: released over 1000 images under freee license
- One of the oldest chapters
- Started as Serbia & Montenegro, -> Serbia
- Core of active members
- >230 meetups, over 2.2k participants
- Media appearances
- Appearances abroad (e.g. in Russian newspaper)
- Small country: working on localized CC licenses, in cooperation with TEDX conferences and Creative Commons
- Gotten BedVest (spelling?) award twice
- Awarded WikiReader to reader who removed the most bad stuff?
- Cooperation with many organisations (govt etc)
- Lectures at TELFOR, Belgrade Book Fair, 200year celebration of Uni Belgrade, etc.
- Reorganization: new bylaws, starting secretariat, new policies: "new problems and projects"
- Running Glam conf this year.
- All kinds of projects…
- Projects:
- Inet in sweden support by TLD people
- rating of articles
- Photo competition
- Supporting with photo equipment?
- WLM
- GLAM
- opened office, hired secretary, will hire proj mgrs
- Europeana awareness?
- School projects
- Nordic cooperation
- Aerial photgraphy
- Literature projects
- Questions from researchers to answer
- Interviews with Nobel laureates (e.g. Brian Schmidt)
- Very positive comments!
- Didn't run a Miss Wikimedia contest this year ;-]
- 3 years old ; 30 membeers
- Had meetings and strategy stuff...
- Bought LCD projector and 2 banners.
- Total income: about 11k USD.
- WMF grant, WM France grant, Ukraine sources.
- Wikicontests:
- Write articles about French topics in Ukr WP - 450+ participants
- Write about philantthropy, in cooperation with philanthropic association
- Collaboration with universities
- Stand at book fair - master classes - TV coverage
- Authors in the jury of the book fair
- Education stuff?
- Wikiexpeditions
- Working on getting intellectual property rights released
- Good media coverage
- 2nd in world in growth of pupularity
- 50m pages per month new?
- released translation from french of Opera libretto
- presentation on the laptop (literally - magic marker!)
- QRpedia: 50k people read about a picture from Derbyshire Museum in Russian! Originally written in French
- Been told twice by OK govt that they could never be charity, but now registered after huge legal fees.
- Got an office with spare desks for visitors,
- Staff
- Raised 1M pounds in fundraiser, and also got commitments for following years!
- Recognized in 2011 by ChapCom
- Radio appearances
- Have their own website
- Registered on Feb 14th
- Got newspaper articles
- Got on regional television via skpye
- Going to work on one laptop per child - offline WP
- Fostering better Iberocoop relations
- Minority language projects - many native speakers who don't speak Spanish.
- Just launched
- Going to do WLM with local govt
- Participating in Software Freedom Day
- Working on improving minority language representation
- Going to be working on educating educators on Wikipedia use
