Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Serbia/2011

This is Wikimedia Serbia activity report for the year 2011.

Projects[edit]

March - May: Seminal paper writing project for Wikipedia by students at the Faculty of Organizational sciences, University of Belgrade; March 5 - Lecture about Wikipedia (Filip Maljković, Mihajlo Anđelković)
October 20: Launch of the http://glam.wikimedia.rs website
October - December: Seminal paper writing project for Wikipedia by students at the Faculty of Organizational sciences, University of Belgrade; October 27, November 3 - Lectures about Wikipedia (Goran Obradović, Dragan Satarić); November 12 - Wikipedia Workshop

March 25 - 27: Participation at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (Filip Maljković, Mile Kiš)
"Serbia, society of knowledge": April 2 - The first lecture and debate titled "Is Serbia a society of knowledge?" at the National Library of Serbia (Dragan Satarić, Nevenka Antić); May 5 - The second lecture and debate at the National Library of Serbia (Dragan Satarić, Nevenka Antić)
July 14 - 17: Participation at the Miskolc Wikicamp organized by Wikimedia Hungary (Filip Maljković)
July 23: Lecture "Wikipedia and astronomy" at the astronomy camp "Letenka 2011" (Nikola Smolenski)
August 4 - 6: Participation at Wikimania in Haifa, Israel (Filip Maljković, Miloš Rančić)
September 29: Presentation titled "Creative Commons licences - digitalization of copyright" at the Science conference "Digitalization of Cultural and Science Heritage, University Repositories and Distance Learning" at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (Nevenka Antić)
November 5: Visit to Belgrade by Ting Chen, Wikimedia Foundation Board chair
November 18: Lecture "How does Wikipedia Work" at the B-link festival at the Youth Center of Belgrade (Filip Maljković, Dragan Satarić)
December 2 - 4: Participation at the GLAM camp in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Mile Kiš)

January 6: Re-signed the Legal Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons regarding the development of the national CC project - Creative Commons Serbia
January 18: Re-signed the Public Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons regarding the development of the national CC project - Creative Commons Serbia
March 4: Meeting with the president of Belgrade's Zvezdara Municipality regarding possible future cooperation, including the "Vuk Karadžić cultural establishment" (Miloš Rančić)
March 13: Seventh General Assembly
May 12: Meeting with a representative of the Embassy of Norway in Belgrade regarding possible future cooperation (Mile Kiš, Filip Maljković); Meeting with a representative of the Embassy of Denmark in Belgrade regarding possible future cooperation (Mile Kiš, Filip Maljković)
May 18: Meeting with the ambassador of Spain at the Embassy of Spain in Belgrade regarding possible future cooperation (Mile Kiš, Filip Maljković)
October 4: Statement of support for Italian Wikipedians in denouncing the proposed law in the Italian Senate known as the "Wiretapping Act" and its paragraph 29, which undermines the free speech standards of our civilization
October 13: Registered the domain wikimedia.rs
December 14: Signed the letter of partnership with the Italian Foundation lettera27 for the project "WikiAfrica: Share Your African Knowledge on Wikipedia"
Held 22 public meetups throughout the year

January 15: Interview in the morning program of TV RTS 1 (Nikola Smolenski); Interview in the news program of TV Avala (Miloš Rančić)
January 17: Interview in the "Cult Press" show of Radio Belgrade 2 (Filip Maljković)
January 21: Interview in the "Technopolis" show of TV B92 (Goran Obradović)
January 25: Interview in the "Digital Icons" show of Radio Belgrade 2 (Filip Maljković)
July 25: Interview "The amount of serious content in Serbian language is decreasing" for the paper Politika (Filip Maljković)
November 17: Interview "Serbs donate $3420 to Wikipedia" for the paper Politika (Goran Obradović)
December 11: Interview "Wikipedia: Everything you wanted to know!" for Domino magazine (Filip Maljković, Goran Obradović)