Wikimedia Italia
Wikimedia Italia - Associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera is the Italian Chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation.
It was formed on Friday 17th June 2005, in Canino.
The bylaws were prepared and approved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
During an IRC meeting with Jimbo, Angela and Anthere the bylaws were amended and the Foundation was given permission to proceed.
Additional info can be found on that page and contact information at Contatti. General e-mails to Wikimedia Italia can be sent to info
wikimedia.it.
The Wikimedia Italia official website is www.wikimedia.it.
[edit] Current Board
Elected on December 3rd, 2011.
- Frieda Brioschi, president
- Cristian Consonni, vicepresident
- Lorenzo Losa, secretary
- Alessio Guidetti, treasurer
- Andrea Zanni, projects director
Ombudspersons:
- Maurizio Codogno
- Gianluigi Gamba
- Marina Milella
- Marco Chemello (stand-in)
- Luca Martinelli (stand-in)
[edit] Info
As of 31 March 2010, the association counts 183 members. The 2009 budget ranged around 67 k€, raised by subscription fees and gadget selling but mostly donations (thanks to the WMF fundraising).
- What has been done so far (most links in Italian, sorry)
- we participate round-the-year to local and national events and fairs, seminars, lectures in classrooms, etc. for promoting WMF projects in Italy [1]
- we support and collaborate in nation-wide petitions and campaigns [2]
- we organized some on-line and off-line initiatives [3] (Wiki@home (English), WikiAfrica, BWM, Biblioteca, Musica)
- 3rd part publishers released a DVD-version of it:wp (more than 20,000 copies sold) and a handbook about Wikipedia and the Wikis
- we have obtained the status of "associazione di promozione sociale" (social promotion association, a "charity" status in Italy); this grants tax deductibility on donations for the donors and other facilitations: we have the joined WMF 2009 fundraising and 2010 "cinque per mille" campaign (sort of en:Eight per thousand for charities)
- Plans for the future
- to get a stable homebase, sooner or later
- a new release of the DVD-version of it:wp
- printed books/monographies
- Best successes
- a few national awards [4] (English)
- a national event in Southern Italy [5], at last!
- the digital freedoms festival (2009 (English) and 2010)
- Worst headache
- the squatted domains www.wiki***.it
- some legal complaints about the content of some Wikipedia articles (mainly bios of politicians), passed through to OTRS, as WMI is not the proper recipient, except the last one (English)
