Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Sverige/201106-07

This is the Chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige, June and July 2011. As always, summers in Sweden are generally quiet.

Board meeting[edit]

We had two board meetings, minutes available in Swedish. [1],[2]

Wikimania[edit]

Three board members and six other members attended Wikimania. Three of them got a partial scholarship from the chapter. Two talks were given by chapter members. [3],[4]

Upcoming in August[edit]

27, Member meeting [5]

Numbers[edit]

Swedish Wikipedia passed 400 000 articles. [6]
Finnish Wikisource passed 10 000 pages.

Birdie[edit]

On the weekend 3-6 jun we had a booth on the LAN Birdie. [7]

Photohunt[edit]

Sponsored by Cloudberry (a Nordic council funded Creative Commons project) we made a photohunt in Norrtälje municipality.[8] Around 500 images is uploaded to commons as of now. [9]

The Nobel museum[edit]

We have initiated a cooperation with the Nobel museum and tarted with a backstag pass where 6 Wikipedians got access to the research library and curators.

Hack4Europe[edit]

We took part in the Europeana hackathon and integrated search results from Europeana in the Free Image Search Tool (FIST).[10] Videopresentation in English. [11]

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