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| ==2010 Wikimedia Chapters Meeting, Berlin== | | ==2010 Wikimedia Chapters Meeting, Berlin== |
| Andrew and I were very fortunate to attend the 2010 Chapters Meeting in Berlin. We were only able to attend due to the generosity of Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia France (who paid our travel expenses). I think we've both got a huge amount out of the meetings, both in terms of contacts and new ideas and the opportunity to hear different ways other chapters have done things and how it's worked out and hopefully we'll be able to bring back lots of brilliant ideas! | | [[File:2010-04-conference-berlin-by-RalfR-36.jpg|thumb|300px|right|2010 Wikimedia Meeting, Berlin]] |
| | Andrew and I (Sarah) were very fortunate to attend the [[w:Chapters meeting 2010|2010 Chapters Meeting in Berlin]]. We were only able to attend due to the generosity of Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia France (who paid our travel expenses). I think we've both got a huge amount out of the meetings, both in terms of contacts and new ideas and the opportunity to hear different ways other chapters have done things and how it's worked out and hopefully we'll be able to bring back lots of brilliant ideas! |
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| ==Sarah's notes==
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| Pasting my notes below. On the second day I attended the External Communcation working group, which was mostly about public relations and working with the press and Andrew attended the Education working group. Notes on the working groups and the last day (today) will come later!
| | *[[/Andrews notes|Andrew's notes]] |
| | *[[/SOA notes|Our briefing to the conference]] |
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| (Please excuse any typos etc!)
| | [[Category:2009–2010 Committee]] |
| ==State of the Chapters.==
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| ===Brazil===
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| 6 workshops
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| Politics
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| ===Swiss===
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| 93 members increase in 63% in last year
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| Income 90,000 franks 62 000 euro
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| 2008 best membership per capita
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| biggest issue language
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| First hire
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| ===Czech Republic===
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| Founded 2008
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| Currently 30 members; 7-10 active
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| last general assembly April, 2010
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| first conf in Prague (70 participants)
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| Exhibitions:
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| -Two exhibitions in Prague
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| - Camera - 646 photos since Jan 010
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| -Specialised pics - 165 photos and publicly inaccessible facilities
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| Prizes for improvement of poorly covered topics on cs wki
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| -Magazine
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| Active core of ~7 burning out. view to first hire.
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| ===Germany===
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| kompas 2020
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| Starting point
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| -continuous growth in resources (funding and staff)
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| -increasing significance of Wikipedia in public perception
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| -lack of clear direction, goals, objectives
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| -focus on short-term activities, tech, events, etc
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| -Stakeholder analysis
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| -Who cares about WM de
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| -who influences us
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| -Common vision
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| -based on 12 statements
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| -Strategic goals
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| Vision
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| -traditional Medias to publish free content
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| Free knowledge present in the media
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| -Media to contact us as first source
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| See Meta
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| ===Denmark===
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| Founded 13 months ago
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| 17 members, little outreach to members,
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| -outreach to museums
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| -based Copenhagen
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| ===Estonia===
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| 20 people, just starting, some foundation members not editors
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| Focus on improving Estonia content on Wp
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| Outreach to schools, editing, using WP etc
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| ===Hong Kong===
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| Goal: improve transparency of governors, establish council
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| Help WM Macau to establish chapter and organise conference
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| University of Hong Kong, radio tv, to use CC license
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| Future plans - improve school outreach
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| ===Hungry===
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| founded 2008, ~30 members
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| Amended the National Bank of Hungary’s copyright
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| Merchandise
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| Plans-
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| Hungarian toolserver
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| Wikicamp
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| Wikimusum - GLAM cooperation
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| ===Austria===
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| reached 2 goals last year-
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| book scholarship for Austria topics
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| program collaborative wachlist, implemented as a sppecial: page on wikipedia so multiple users can watch the same watchlist and tag edits
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| ===France===
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| Created 2004
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| 9 board members
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| Just hired first perm staff member
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| Hosted in co-working space in Paris
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| 2 in-person meetings per year
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| focus:
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| 1 Promotion of Wikimedia projects
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| 2 Communication and visibility - new website and blog, created by outside org
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| 3 Supporting the projects - organisation of multimedia project
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| 4 Relationships with museums -
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| finances- donations in 09 230 euros
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| ===Indonesia===
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| established 2008
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| projects - WP training through Indonesia
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| Free Your Knowledge writing contest for Indonesian language Wikipedia
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| Online dictionary project
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| finances - 245 euros
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| ===Israel===
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| Founded 2007, registered sate of Israel
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| 2010 budget 20,000 euros
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| Wiki Academy 2009 at Tel Aviv University, 250 attended
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| Large reader survey in HE Wp, 75% think it is reliable, 69% prefer it to any other encyclopedia, 3394 responded
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| physiWiki writing contest
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| Israeli parliamentary committee for Science and Culture committee held special session honoring HE WP for reaching 100k entries
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| Crown copyrights legislation reform in progress
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| Offline He WP on One Computer per Child
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| Collaboration with WM CH – nearing deployment
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| Sponsoring and promoting the Elef milim image gathering project; thousands of images contributed to commons already
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| ===India===
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| -monthy meetups
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| -wikipedia day
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| -chapter formation
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| Tamil and Malayalam working with the Indian govt
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| Tamil world conference
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| Goals- get chapter approved. Make the meetups work in 6 metro areas, bid for 2012 Wikimania
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| ===Italy===
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| 5 years old
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| From 18 founding members to 183 members at March 2010
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| Physical office in Rome shared with another organisation
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| 2009 budget was 67k euros
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| Outreach initiatives include labs through Italy
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| Wiki @ home – interviews re technology, WP, free knowledge with famous people
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| Biblioteca e usica – locally managed wikiproject for hosting material considered free by Italy copyright law but not by commons policy
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| WikiAfrica – collecting free material from and about Africa
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| 20 million euro lawsuit against Wikimedia Italia
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| ===Nederlands===
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| -Wiki loves Srt
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| Tropenmuseum - >37K image donations
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| Priorities – technology, community, outreach, content, organisation – local and worldwide
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| Needs – money, people
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| Improve donation methods for fundraiser
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| Grant applications
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| Working with volunteers – Wiki loves monuments (60k monuments on WP)
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| Smart partnerships – Wiki loves libraries, media literacy, local cultural heritage
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| Professionalisation GLAM/WIKI conference fall 2010
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| Political lobby
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| Wikiportrait
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| ===Norway===
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| Founded 2007
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| 55 members, including 2 corporate members
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| Wikipedia Academy 2009, about 30 mentions in the Norwegian media
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| Round table conference with politicians, media, Jimbo,
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| Problems – institutional knowledge when board members are replaced, continuity
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| ===Philippines===
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| Incorporated 2010 as a non-profit, non-stock organisation.
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| ===Poland===
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| Created 2005
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| 108 members, fees 1 PLN
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| 5 board members, 3 member revision committee, 3 member internal court, 5 member wikigrants commission
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| Small rented office
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| -meetings, meetups, conferences, coalition of open education. Public Domain Day
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| Wikiexpeditions, wikiworkshops, wikigrants, Wikimania
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| ===Portugese===
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| Created 2010
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| 10 members, 5 active
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| Using social networks, blog to increase visibility
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| ===Serbia===
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| Founded 2005
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| Problem – most Serbian contributors are overseas and not able to participate in local chapter activities
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| ===Russia===
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| Established 2008
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| 12 members
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| 3 persons do 95% of the world
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| Mailing list about 30 persons
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| No hired staff
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| Budget – about $US25,k
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| Founders fee - $US2k
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| Donations - $US22K
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| Sponsorship - $US1 K
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| Spending - $2500
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| Activities-
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| Wikiconference in St Petersburg
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| In cooperation with State University of Information Technologies Mechanics and Optics
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| -About 80 attendees
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| One participant from Poland
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| Cooperation with Chastnyj Korresondents newspaper
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| Press accreditation to for wikimedians
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| ===Sweden===
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| Founded 2007
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| Events – book fair, conferences, Wiki Academy
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| Mostly orientated on outreach
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| Incorporated as association, 200 members paying membership fee of 10 euros per year.
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| Want to improve contacts with other chapters especially neighboring chapters
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| ===Ukraine===
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| Focused on Ukrainian language projects
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| 2009 established
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| 2009 state registration
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| Ukranian WP has 200K+ articles
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| Recognised by Science and Education minister of Ukraine,an Academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a Doctor of Sciences, author of Small Mining Encyclopeda
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| ===UK===
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| Incorporated 2008, recognised 09
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| 76 members
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| Fundraiser – 90K pounds
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| Britain Loves WP – 20 museums, 560 photos on Commons
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| GLAM-WIKI UK
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| “Wiki Tales” event
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| Hire staff – office or devs
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| Support toolserver and multimedia usability
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| Microgrants
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| ===US-NYC===
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| Local focused
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| Meetings every 2 months
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| Wiki takes Manhattan 3
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| Wikiconf NY
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| Wikipedia Day
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| Video project – Lights, Camera, Wiki!
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| ==Developers wrap-up==
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| Danny Kintzer, software dev for WM De
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| successful meeting, achieved a lot.
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| Summary of issues discussed at dev meeting:
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| -usability
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| Editor, syntax editing, templates, WYSIWYG.devs will take time.
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| -Accessibility - deaf, blind, how to make content accessible and to facilitate editing - further development.
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| -Accessibility from offline devices, semi-online devices, feedback integrated to talk pages. Development in this direction soon
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| Authentication.
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| New installation, make it easier for people to install mediawiki and streamline setup process, extensions etc.
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| -Structured data - how to best express this data, reuse content in templates, annotate template parameters. Where and how to store - semantic wiki
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| looking at infrastructure for importing external data - sources eg bibliographic data.
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| how to use and search structured data and meta data, licensing information etc.
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| -organizational issues
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| foundation issues -improve coding word flow, integrate testing, quality assurance, etc
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| integrate testing into developer process
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| -Misc
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| session re tool server and open street maps
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| how to integrate maps. Why dev got stuck, rendering on server. hopes for progress by the end of the year.
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| Accessibility statistics, what ages are accessed each hour etc. look at trends etc. valuable to replace external tools and do this on the tool server
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| Flagged Revisions
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| no results on basic impact
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| stats on flagging.
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| multi-lingual searching of commons
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| liquid threads coming "really soon now"
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| ==Wikimedia Foundation - Update on the Wikimedia five-year Strategic Plan==
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| Jan Bart
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| ===Strategy Wiki Overview===
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| Eugene Kim, Blue Oxen Associates
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| Over 2000 content pages (excluding proposals) in 6 months
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| Over 800 proposals
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| Over 50 languages represented
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| Over 950 contributors - 70 active monthly contributors
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| Liquid threads activity - strategy wiki one of first deployments of liquid threads
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| -Over 4,500 total posts (24/day)
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| -415 total participants posting (11/day)
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| ==Wikimedia Foundation - Update on the Wikimedia five-year Strategic Plan==
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| Sue Gardner
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| Strategic plan announced at last year’s meeting.
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| 5th most visited web property in the world. 350 million unique visitors monthly to over 700 projects in 271 different languages, all built and maintained by 100K active contributors
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| Over the last 9 years, significant growth in reach, content, participation. Growth has been organic.
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| Wikimedia has been more successful by every measure in the global north than in the global south. We know that growing the number of editors and therefore readership will be more difficult in the global south. We also see some worrying signs of stagnation in the mature and successful projects.
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| (global south - developing world, 3rd world etc)
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| Point of the strategic plan is to achieve better outcome than would be possible without intervention. To make specific deliberate investments designed to expand reach, content etc.
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| Canada, UK, Germany, Japan `40% penetration. Australia ~ 30-40% (penetration - percentage of available internet users using Wikipedia, according to comscore statistics). Penetration in Europe is generally very high.
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| Lowest penetration is in China (~1% of internet users) penetration in Asia and Africa is generally low
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| At current growth rates, by 2015 nearly half the world may have access to a Wikipedia in their own language
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| by 2015, nearly half the world will have access to a "mature" encyclopedia in their own language. mature encyclopedia = 120 k articles, based on Encyclopedia Britanica. This is only half the world and it depends on active, healthy editing communities that in some case don’t exist.
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| 12 WPs have >1k active editors
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| 21 WPs have 100-1k active editors
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| all other WPs have below 100 editors and lack stability for ongoing growth
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| Mature projects need to increase participant diversify to avoid decline. Small projects need to rapidly grow articles and participants.
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| Russian WP currently largest growing WP
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| Goal - achieve strong, steady growth
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| By 2015, increase reach to 60 million people
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| reach > participation > content > cycle
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| To achieve this, the WMF has set three main board approved goals -
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| 1 build the tech and op platform that enable Wm to function sustainably as a top global internet property
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| 2 Strengthen, grow and increase diversity of the editing community that is the lifeblood of the projects.
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| -shelter support new editors, provide funding for face-to-face meetups, encourage development of new tools that enable collaboration and support social bonding
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| 3 Accelerate impact by investing in key geographic areas, development and bottom up innovation
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| -continue supporting partnerships that expand mobile and offline reach; deploy staff teams in high-potential geographies to recruit new editors and strengthen the existing community; fund outreach activities and develop tools and kits in support of them
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| WMF believes the chapters are critical to successful global program activities.
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| ===Things the foundation believes the chapters can focus on: ===
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| -Evangelise on behalf of the WM projects to media and general public
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| -stage outreach events designed to recruit new editors, especially subject-matter-experts, social engineers, and women.
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| -develop content partnerships with GLAM organisations and public service media.
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| -Working with experienced editors and other volunteers to support a healthy productive Wikimedia community
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| Supporting volunteers in their efforts to provide good service and accountability to Wikimedia readers
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| -Representing Wikipedia's agenda to policy makers around issues like copyright law, censorship, open access and open standards
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| -fundraising to ensure the sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.
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| ===How the WMF can best help the chapters===
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| -to evangelise
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| -to better understand readers, new editors, experienced editors and donors
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| -to recruit new editors
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| -to support a health productive editing community
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| -to fundraise
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| -to accelerate their organisational development (hiring of staff, developing plans etc)
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| ===Discussion===
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| What's the most important part of the strategy? What are your priorities and what can you contribute? How can the WMF help you?
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| -Support of the global south
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| -stability of growth
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| -relationship between foundation and chapters
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| -being analytical about what’s happening in the projects and use data to respond
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| What surprises you?
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| -alignment between wmf thinking and WM DE process
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| -impact of criticism of Wikimedia
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| -limited focus on the scope
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| -questions of "takeovers" by small but organised groups on smaller communities
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| -Africa - SB faster growth
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| -misalignment between WMF geo focus and role of chapters
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| -partnerships with large/small enterprises
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| What are your chapters priorities/what can you contribute?
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| -increasing participation in the sociological (political, cultural, economic) context of their community. What does it mean to expand participation in a local context?
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| -Context - within the ue many chapters are working to build heir organisations
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| -important to strengthen these for long term
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| Build new chapter in other geographies (within the US)
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| focus on the "child who is not born yet"; what's going to be important in 5 years (next encyclopedia
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| provide a humanistic face to wikimedia, engage people/public and connect to national development, motivate people to join us
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| WMF support for chapters
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| -relationship of equals, more rights, eg merchandise
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| -real communication, dialogue, exchange of best practices.
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| -help reach full potential by helping chapters each sustainability and stability enabling them to do the strategically valuable work
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| -kick-starts via grants and financial assistance
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| -chapters helping other chapters, sharing experiences, practices, etc. Foundation can be a best practices hub in a network
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| -regional collaboration with foundation support (eg Pan-Asian Association)
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| -WMF could provide start-up funds for the first steps establishing new/young chapters.
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| ==Workgroup - Organisational==
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| Movement roles task force
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| Strategy report to the board
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| Key stakeholders -
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| 1. WMf
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| 2. Wikimedia chapters
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| 3. Chapters committee
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| 4. unaffiliated volunteers/informal groups (people looking for any organisational participation/recognition that i currently not there)
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| Desired end result -
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| -A document where the roles and responsibilities within the Wikimedia organisation are clearly defined and agreed upon by all key stakeholders
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| -A proposal on how to move forward with the organisational development
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| -our goal would be to get an end result by Summer 2011.
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| timeline
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| April 2010 - communicating our intentions, talking to chapters and chapcom and devising a way to include the unaffiliated volunteers
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| May 2010 - finalising the "organisational development" process proposal (lead: Arne and Jan-Bart)
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| June 2010 - decision by the board and creating of project team
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| July 2010 - Wikimania - Start of the project
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| Late 2010 - progress report
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| Spring 2010 - substantial draft document
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| Wikimania 2011 - Charter signing
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| ==Case Study Working groups==
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| ==Wikimedia Nederlands Case study – Wiki Loves Bieb==
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| Libraries have a similar goal
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| Areas of work-
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| Media Literacy
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| Local cultural heritage
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| Including/linking library expertise and collections in Wikipedia
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| Commissioned b the Dutch Association of Public Libraries
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| Libraries provide the resources: both funding and staff
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| Role of WM NL:
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| Provide information for library staff about Wikimedia and the projects
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| Provide feedback on the materials/formts that are being develoed
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| Attend relevant meeting organised by libraries
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| ===Basic Principle: Scalability===
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| All materials, formats and best practices must be transferable and usable in other libraries and cities
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| All materials and formats will be tested
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| ===Media literacy===
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| Target groups:
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| Teachers
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| Students ages 14-18
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| ===Material and formats===
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| *Brochure “Wikipedia i skolan” by Lennat Guldbrandsson
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| *Guest lesson/workshop format
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| *Video
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| *Teach the teacher workshops
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| *Lesson plans
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| *Evaluation
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| Focus on proper use of Wikipedia as a source of information
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| Editing is not the focus
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| ===Local heritage===
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| *bringing Wikimedia and local heritage institutions together
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| *producing (also printed) information materials for cultural heritage institutions
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| *evaluation
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| ===Linking to the library===
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| *own collections
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| *Linking library collections as references and sources
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| *can library expertise be used for “help desk functions?
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| *Initiatives like German Personendatei?
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| ==Wiki expedition by Wikimedia Poland==
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| A photo-expedition – a group of people in various vehicles traveling around taking photos for WM projects in order to fill gaps in content.
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| 15 people, mostly Wikimedians and people from Open Street Map, Polish Storm Hunters, supported by local guides
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| 10 days, 3 bases (cheap hostels etc)
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| 4 cars, 8 bicycles
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| ===Preparation===
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| Research and route planning – based on WP and Open St maps
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| Contacts with local institutions
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| ===Budget===
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| 16,000 PLN (3800 euros)
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| Spent 10,000 PLN
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| ===Results===
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| 2300 pictures uploaded
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| 500 pictures used on Polish WP
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| 200 articles expanded
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| Cost of each picture averaged around 5PLN or 1.1 euro
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| Several workshops for future editors
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| Contacts with local photographers
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| Lots of press coverage – radio, tv, newspapers
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