Wikimedia Conference 2012/Documentation/Day 2/StoC
Appearance
Wikimedia Suomi
[edit]- Didn't have money, because only just registered as company
- Still did photo trip to Karelia
- Did university course on infographics (economics)
- First GLAM project with museum Athenium
- Created wikiproject for Ateneum project, that's made 30 articles.
Wikimedia France
[edit]- 300 members
- 4 full-time employees
- Audited
- Cabal approved
- Volunteers organise themselves locally, WMFR gives money
- Attend many conferences
- Go to sport & cultural events, e.g. to take pictures for Commons.
WMUK
[edit]WM Hong Kong
[edit]- Focusing on teaching high school students to use WP correctly
- Liberal studies
- Independent enquiry studies
- Giving out leaflets
- Supporting WP for World Heritage campaign
WP for World Heritage
[edit]- Community is active in Macau, have meetups (e.g. WP 10 meetups)
WM Hungary
[edit]- Founded Nov 2008
- 60 members
- Budget around 63k USD
- Many meetups
- Now have 1 employee
- Have 2 servers for chapter web-stuff
Challenges:
- Getting more volunteers
- Strategic development of the organization.
WM Indonesia
[edit]- Founded 2008
- 40k USD grants used for projects
- Increasing editor numbers
- Building capacity for university students: how to run a project start to finish
- 128 meetups in 3 cities
- Working with 3 universities
- Boiler-room editathon: have to edit to be allowed to leave.
Wikimedia Israel and India lost due to bad etherpad connection
Wikimedia India
[edit]- (lost text)
- Had successful regional conference
- Portals (e.g. Wikimedia.in)
- Live search for Indic languages
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WM Italia
[edit]- Asked local community to adopt an article on it.wikipedia
- Cartoon in Creative Commons with Scuola something?
- Lots of contact with ministry of cultural knowledge
- New law makes it very difficult to get photos of cultural heritage. Lobbied unsuccessfuly against it.
- Sponsored Haifa delegates.
- September, "Adopt a Word goes to school"
- October, many events, including Digital Freedom Festival
- Hired a Chaos Manager!
- Workshops for editors in classrooms?
- Hired a fundraising consultancy firm
- Partnership with Instituto di Innocenti (orphanage school)
- Hired a Proj Mgr for WLM - looking for an office.
What's next?
- Working on WLM and some other stuff?
Wikimedia Kenya
[edit]- Home of the Big Five
- 80 members
- WP for School projects: using offline Wikipedia
- Many teachers would prefer a version that is more suited to Kenyan curriculum. Working on this
- Needed to do some computer fixing to make it work.
- Teachers had difficulty re-installing.
- In some schools, have over 700 students, and only about 10 computers.
Outreach:
- Meetups in Nairobi with other like-minded organisations
- Met up with media
- Met up with Google Kenya
- Country tour
- Outreach outside Kenya, e.g. Tanzania & Botswana
- Countrywide meetup with Google Kenya.
- Doing some GLAM stuff soon.
Wikimedia Kasakhstan
[edit]- New chapter,
- Ting Chen visited and helped development.
- Got donation of paper content to WP Kazakh
- Samruk sponsored chapter with 100 laptops
- Nokia donated phones to be used as prizes
- Now Kazakh Wikipedia has 120k articles, partly due to Kazakh Encyclopedia input
- Will host Turkic WM Conference in Amaty
- Accepting more than 50 participants outside Kazakhstan
- Want to get Kazakh language added to Google Translate.
WM Australia
[edit]- Democratizing info
- GLAM
- Partnership with State LIbrary of Queensland
- Partnership with ABC
- Wiki Workshops
- NEXT - "Beyond GLAM" - News Events eXhibitions, Travel
- Came from Recent Changes camp
- GLAM
- Regional WIkiAcademy program
- Bringing Wikipedia to the Bush
- Pilot workshop in Miles
- Outreach to Quilpie and Tambo in Western Queensland.
- Volunteer empowerment
- Grants programmes, designed to be small and flexible
- Kickstart grants for photographers
- Ad-hoc grant programs, e.g. to visit conferences and events.
WM Taiwan
[edit]- Founded in 2007
- Activities in 2011
- Meetups each season.
- Bi-weekly meetups in Taipei and Taichung
- Writing contests (e.g. write an article about Northern Taiwan) and courses
- Quality control discussions
- Want to increase active number of editors, e.g. by writing camps
- Cooperations
- e.g. with Mozilla / Firefox
- Open Data movement to improve quality of info.
- GLAM (challenge - conservative attitude to GLAM.)