Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Eesti/2011 January - March

Wikimedia Eesti report January-March 2011

Meetings

• February 5. Board meeting in Tallinn (3 board members + auditor)
• February 27, March 6, March 20, March 28. Wiki Loves Monuments team meetings via Skype (4-7 people participating)
• March 13. Wiki Loves Monuments team meeting in Tallinn (5 people)

Cooperation

• March 10. Meeting at Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia concerning article-writing contest about cooperation of Nordic countries.
• March 10. Meeting with official of National Heritage Board about cooperation on Wiki Loves Monuments.
• March 21. Meeting with the metropolitan of Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church about cooperation on Wiki Loves Monuments.

Other

• March 24-27. Teele Vaalma and Raul Veede participated in Wikimedia Chapters Conference 2011 in Berlin.
• March 23 started the article-writing contest in Estonian Wikipedia about cooperation of Nordic countries which will end on April 30. [1]

Press

• January 13. Article in weekly newspaper Eesti Ekspress comparing Wikipedia and other Estonian encyclopedias. [2]
• January 13. About 20-minute talk with a Wikipedian in a radio broadcast Magneet on Radio Kuku.
• January 14. Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary press release. [3]
• January 15. Two articles in daily newspaper Postimees about Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary.
• January 15. Article about Wikipedia and its 10th anniversary in online-version of weekly newspaper Äripäev. [4]
• January 15. News item about 10th anniversary on ERR (Estonian Public Broadcasting) News. [5]
• March 3. Article in online-version of daily newspaper Eesti Päevaleht about low percentage of women editing Wikipedia. [6]