Wikimedia Italia/Ringkasan
As of Desember 2024, the association counts 282 members. The 2024 budget comprised around 620.000 €, raised from donations, "Cinque per mille" tax donations and contributions to institutional activities.
- What has been done so far
- We participate round-the-year in local and national events and fairs, seminars, lectures in classrooms, etc. for promoting WMF projects in Italy (logbook)
- We support and collaborate in nationwide petitions and campaigns
- We organised some online and offline initiatives
- 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 also joined the WMF 2009 fundraising and 2009 "cinque per mille" campaign (sort of Eight per thousand for charities)
- Since 2015 we are the Italian chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation
- We have an office in Milan.
- What we do
We have several projects and activities to support communities and the spread of free content. Some examples:
- Wiki Loves Monuments Italia (and the webapp app.wikilovesmonuments.it)
- Tutta la cultura su Wikipedia (for activities with GLAMs)
- Bando musei archivi biblioteche (GLAM Project Call, for 2.000-8.000 EUR grants)
- Sportello per progetti dei volontari (Volunteer Project Desk, for 1.000-10.000 EUR grants)
- Microgrant (for 100-1.000 EUR grants)
- We support the organisation of itWikiCon
- We provide scholarships for events (Wikimania, itWikiCon, State of the Map, etc.)