Dear colleagues,
As usual, we are sharing our experiences with you. This time we are sending a
summary of our activities throughout the months of August and September. Sorry
for the delay and we hope you like them.
Kind regards,
J. Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff (User:Góngora)
Courses and conferences
*We organized a workshop on bots for Wikipedia. It combined distance learning
with a conference, which was on 18 September at the Centre Cultural Can Fabra
in Barcelona as part of Software Freedom Day. This initiative is the result of
the creation of the Coordinator for the knowledge and free software. Joancreus,
Puigalder.
*On 22 September began the period of registration for Viquibalear.
Release of contents
*We have started to use released contents from Termcat. Our colleague Simonjoan
has imported a Drug List.
*The Torrents Ibern Foundation agrees to release the thematic dictionaries that
has already released. The next ones will be made under the condition that the
license be free. It is scheduled to go next year and they are dictionaries of
physics and chemistry. As for the dictionaries that have already been released,
we will talk to the authors and publishers asking them to be released. We will
keep you informed. User:Gomà.
*On September 13 we met Salvador Giner, president of the Institute of Catalan
Studies. Amongst other things we asked for the release of thematic dictionaries
and if possible the Dictionary of the Catalan language of the ISC. We need to
study the details but the president is in favor of releasing all whenever
possible. We will continue reporting. User:Barcelona.
Media
*We issued a press release announcing the awards given by the British Museum,
two of which were to articles from Catalan Wikipedia. This was published by
Racó Català, Directe, La tafanera, Tribuna, L'observador. User:Ssola.
*After having overcome the Norwegian Wikipedia in number of articles, on August
21 we had an email interview for TV3 from which they made an entry in the news.
They were echoed by the media. Crònica, Racó Català.
*After coming back from holidays, we have resumed the project with TV3
"Internet Space" (Espai Internet). The articles we have worked on are 'The
Seven Wonders of the World' and the biography of Rafael Casanova, which has
received 1,400 visits just in one day (September 11), twice last year on the
same date.
Relationship with entities
*On September 21 we attended the assembly of the Coordinator for the knowledge
and free software. We agreed to share among all entities: Value provider
merchandasing products, contacts for local activities to do, Relationship of
contacts with the media. The data will be kept private at the site but if you
need something please just ask Wikipedia access. User:Toniher
*On September 27 we met Francesc Vallverdú from the Institute of Catalan
Studies. We asked the experts from the subsidiaries if they could make a
periodic review of the quality of Wikipedia articles concerning both language
and content. We also discussed how we can encourage members from the Institute
to contribute to Wikipedia. They have over 5,000 active members and he will
talk to the presidents of the various subsidiaries to promote these initiatives.
Miscellaneous
*On August 13 we were touched by the news of the death of our colleague Jordi
Coll Costa. Master of many wikipedians, we always showed our respect and
gratefulness for his support and care to everyone. With more than 130,000
editions on Catalan Wikipedia, he was the one who had done more editions. The
association awarded him with a silver plate from Wikipedia in April 2010. A
delegation attended the funeral in Figueres.
*On October 23 we will celebrate the Wikipedians annual meeting. Following the
tradition, we do it in the Capital of Catalan Culture this year, which
corresponds to Badalona. (Next year the capital of Catalan culture will be
Escaldes-Engordany in Andorra, the city where the first article of the Catalan
Wikipedia was written about 10 years ago). The association has prepared all the
documentation to book the place for the meeting. It has also contributed with €
300 to funds in order to help reduce travel costs of Wikipedians who come from
far away.
*A student of Telecommunication Engineering and Humanities has begun, with the
support of the association, a Degree-final project to study the motivations of
editing on Wikipedia. We expect to have very interesting results in a few
months.
*The association has decided to award a scholarship to User:Kippelboy to travel
and attend GLAM Wiki 2010, organized by Wikimedia UK and the British Museum.
Kippelboy is already in contact with a number of museums here in order to adapt
the experience of the British Museum, he has also started with a project to try
to collaborate with the CCCB.
*We have contributed to the preparation of the Free Culture Forum to be held in
Barcelona from 28 to 31 October. This year it will focus on economic
sustainability of free knowledge. Saturday evening we will prepare a post for
reflection on the experience of Wikipedia. Lilaroja.
*The Mozilla Drumbeat Festival organization to be held in November is
progressing well and it is expected to be a success. There will be plenty of
activities related to Wikipedia and its sister projects. Esenabre, Toniher,
Barcelona, Sj.
*Throughout August two requests for aid and support were presented at the
PuntCAT Foundation. One of them was presented for 3 activities: Financing
participation in the 'Viquiescoles' project (enlargement of the Viquibalear
project) outside schools from Balearic Islands, creating a network of contact
points in different counties and developing bots and software to allow
maintenance and editing. The other one was presented by the Center for Regional
Studies of Baix Llobregat; the aim is to develop a local wiki that is not a
fork of Wikipedia; the encyclopedic articles will remain on Wikipedia while
local articles that do not have enough relevance to be on Wikipedia will be
placed in a complementary database. Within the project, the content creation
will be favored and we will also provide material for the Center. We expect a
resolution in late October. User:Gomà
*In late August we reached a consensus in the community to activate the
'Amical-bot' for the creation of articles on U.S. towns. The bot has collected
the experiences from the projects in English, Portuguese and Dutch and has
added some improvements. The results can easily be seen in articles such as
Hill 'n Dale.
*Our colleague Lilaroja was one of the participants on a video about usernames.
For further information, see the original version in Catalan.
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