Wikimedia Nederland published it April report :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201404

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==== COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors====

* Small grants programme
WMNL gave a grant of € 200 for the organisation of a writing event on women
and art.

* Wiki-Saturdays
Two Wiki-Saturdays, with 4 resp. 6 participants, were held in April.

==== WORK: content, collaboration and activity development====
* Wiki Loves Earth.
A group of volunteers, supported by office staff, worked hard to prepare
for the launch of Wiki Loves Earth on May 1. They have a developed a full
programme of events in cooperation with the Netherlands' National Parks,
focussing on uploading images and sounds.

* Museum Naturalis cooperation
WMNL will continue to work on the theme of nature, biodiversity and
landscape after the international Wiki Loves Earth competition has
finished. We met with representatives of Naturalis, the Museum of Natural
History, to discuss cooperation.  Already we have planned a editing event
for October 4/5, but we are also discussing content donations. We want to
link these activities to a concerted action to recruit new editors from
(volunteer) organisations working on natural history.

* Education Programme
The consultants engaged to carry out a feasibility study for cooperation
between WMNL and the education sector have started work.  In April and May
they will carry out interviews with representatives of institutes of higher
education and with members of the international Wikimedia community.  Their
interim results will be presented to and discussed with the community on
May 24.

* GLAMwiki Toolset (mass-upload tool)
The Amsterdam Museum hosted a GLAMwiki Toolset workshop on the 4th of
April. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum, University Museum Utrecht, National
Archives of the Netherlands, National Library of the
Netherlands,Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Wikipedians in
Residence and volunteers participated in this workshop. Every step from
choosing suitable content to uploading it was covered during the workshop.
The lessons learned are being collected in the |GLAMwiki Toolset Manual.

* Wiki Loves Bieb
First preparations were made for the monthly Wikipedia courses that will be
hosted by the library in Amersfoort, starting on June the 13th.

* Wikipedians in Residence
The Wikipedians in Residence had a meeting at the WMNL office on the 28th
of April. Two workshops were organized for employees of Sound and Vision in
which they were encouraged to consider the platforms of Wikimedia when
setting up new projects.

* Wikidata Workshop
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision hosted a Wikidata workshop
given bij Gerard Meijssen on April 11th. The workshop was focussed on
explaining what Wikidata is, to show how single and batch edits can be done
and to discuss the different possibilities for GLAMs to use Wikidata. Apart
from a variety of participants from the institute itself also the
Rijksmuseum and Wikipedians in Residence were present.  More workshops will
be organised in 2014.

* World War II - warmonuments
April was war monuments month for WMNL.  In cooperation with the Nationaal
Comité 4 en 5 may, we asked members of the public to make and  upload
photos of warmonuments. More than 2,000 images were uploaded via the
campaign template. WMNL will continue to focus on improving and adding to
content concerning World War II. We are exploring cooperation with NIOD,
the National institute for war, genocide and holocaust studies. More news
in the next report.

====WMNL====
* Newsletter
: An |issue of the newsletter was sent out.

====FUNDING====
* WMNL received a generous donation of €12,500 from a private donor.

====GLOBAL====
* Wikimedia Conference Berlin
 Chair Frans Grijzenhout, Board Member International Affairs Ad Huikeskoven
en Executive Director Sandra Rientjes attended the Wikimedia Conference in
Berlin. .

* Program evaluation and design workshop, Berlin
Sebastiaan ter Burg attended the Program Evaluation and Design workshop in
Berlin to learn how to improve the "program manual" that WMNL already has
developed.

* Wiki Loves Monuments International.
The final report on Wiki Loves Monuments International was submitted to the
WMF. WMNL acted as fiscal sponsor to the project team, taking care of
payments and accounting.

====GOVERNANCE====
* Board retreat
The newly elected Board met for two days to discuss division of tasks and
get acquainted.

* New staff member
Jolanda Adelaar joined the WMNL office team to work on finances and office
management. She replaces Tom Kisters who left on May 1st to finalise his
studies with an internship at an international accountancy firm.

* Q1 report submitted
We submitted our |report on activities in the first quarter to WMF.

====Upcoming====

* May 24: Education Programme -presentation and discussion at the Wikimedia
office in Utrecht
* May 24 Maps and Wikipedia meeting, Amsterdam
* May 25: Wiki Loves Earth eventsin three National Parks



Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland

tel.    (+31) (0)30 3200238
mob. (+31) (0)6  31786379

www.wikimedia.nl

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