Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Polska/January-July 2010
Wikimedia Polska report: January-July 2010:
Membership and authorities
[edit]- General Assembly
- Traditionally, during Wikimedia Polska Conference 2010 we had general assembly of WMPL on March 27. 31 members of WMPL attended the assembly. Due to the end of the term of WMPL authorities’ election for the new ones were performed. Also, official reports (general and financial) of the WMPL Board were approved. Before assembly there was a long discussion about general directions and goals for WMPL for next 2 years.
- Membership
- At the end of 2009 there was: 110 members
- Currently we have: 118 members
Financial matters
[edit]- Balance
- At the end of 2009: 293 600.30 PLN (103 000 USD, 71 000 EUR)[1]
- Current (08-08-2010): 334 695.67 PLN (111 400 USD 83 850 EUR)[2]
- Income[2]
- Tax deducible donations: 144 178.87 PLN (36 120 EUR, 47 970 USD)
- Others: 7 645.76 PLN (1 916 EUR, 2 544 USD)
- Together: 151 824.63 PLN (50 510 USD, 38 040 EUR)
- Outcome[2]
- 110 106.26 PLN (27 590 EUR, 36 630 USD)
Meetings
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- Wikimedia Polska Conference 2010
- Wikimedia Polska Conference 2010 [1] was the fifth such an event organised by Wikimedia Polska Association. The Conference took place on March 27th and 28th in Warsaw at Zachęta - the National Art Gallery. There were around 110 participants of whom there were 2 Russians, 2 Ukrainians and 2 Americans. 11 lectures and 4 workshops were provided, related not only to Wikimedia Projects but also open education and open geo-maps projects.
- Photo-Wiki Workshop
- Photo-Wiki Workshop [2] - a workshop devoted to the improving quality of pictures uploaded by Polish Wikimedians took place in Lodz, on 1-3 May 2010. 19 participants shared their experience during two in-door workshops and had opportunity to test their skill during two outdoor and museums photo-sessions.. The participants uploaded 332 pictures see category on Commons from which 3 were awarded.
- Warsaw meeting [3]
- WMPL supported financially a meeting of wikimedians from Warsaw. The meeting took place on May 21 2010, 24 people participated.
- Wikimania 2010
- Although Wikimedia Polska was not directly involved in organizing Wikimania in Gdansk, we have covered costs of 17 scholarships for people from Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Czech Republic. We have also organized and paid for healthcare service during Wikimania.
Promotion
[edit]- Bulletin
- [4] 7 issues of Wikimedia Polska bulletins were published; The Bulletin contains news from Polish and Silesian Wikimedia Projects, Wikimedia Foundation; cartoon and nostalgia sections as well as news from outside world .
- Book Fair "Svět knihy 2010"
- Two members of WMPL participated in Book Fair "Svět knihy 2010" in Prague together with colleagues from WMCZ. One corner of WMCZ book fair booth was used for promoting Polish Wikimedia projects and Polish free licensed books.
- Vikunia support in Zoo
- WMPL donated food for a family of vicunas living in Zoo in Lodz. The plate near the vicunas run informs about Wikipedia.
- Cooperation with Wnet Radio
- In regular cooperation with "Open Studio" of Wnet Radio several interviews and Wikipedia/Wikinews tutorials were broadcasted.
Outreach activities
[edit]- Pro-Wikimedia Award [5]
- Pro-Wikimedia Award is devoted to both individual non-Wikimedians, companies and institutions who donated content to Wikimedia Projects. The winners received special statues and took place in a celebration during the Wikimedia Polska 2010 annual meeting.
- Wikiworkshops
- 3 wikiworkshops were organized: in Gniezno for secondary school pupils [6], in Warsaw [7] for Polish Ethnographic Association and in [8] Sulejowek for Polish Librarian Association
- Lectures
- 11 lectures were given by members of WMPL during various conferences, meetings etc. both in Poland and abroad.
- Free licenses brochure [9]
- A brochure explaining how to properly use freely licensed content from Wikimedia projects. The brochure will be sent to those entities who violates free licenses or they ask how to use Wikimedia projects' content.
Others
[edit]- Wikiexpedtion [10]
- Wikiexpedtion is an expedition to selected places, which are not well covered in Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia Commons. Last year's Expedition covered Podlasie region and resulted in more than 2500 pictures uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. This year the expedition was split into 4 regular 7 days long journeys and 3 shorter ones. 17 people participated in the event including two people from WMCZ and one Amercian. Till now more than 2600 pictures were uploaded, and the uploading is still continuing.[11]
- Toolserver
- Our toolserver [12] is operating well. Several bots and other tools are working on it. It is also used as a listserver (lists of Polish Wikipedia admins, ArbCom list, Wikiexpedition list and several others) and it host Polish Coalition for Open Education website, internal wiki for Polish ArbCom, fundraising website, search engine placed under http://www.wikipedia.pl domain, etc.)
- Coalition for Open Education (KOED) [13]
- WMPL actively contributes in Coalition for Open Education; among others we helped to organize a workshop for OER trainers, supported publishing KOED's OER handbook and our server hosts KOED website and two mailing lists.
Press and media
[edit]Mainstream media
[edit]Papers and journals
[edit]- 2010-07-31: Edwin Bendyk: Not so maniacs, "Polityka" (about Wikipedia in context of Wikimania) link
- 2010-07-12: Izabela Jopkiewicz: Who makes Wikipedia, "Gazeta Wyborcza" (mainly about Wikimania)
- 2010-06-06: Marcin Szymaniak, The end of block of Bush and Cameron biographies, "Rzeczpospolita", str. A11 (about checked versions introduction in English Wikipedia).
- 2010-05-20: Jakub Chełmiński, About the sourcing of Wikipedia entries, "Gazeta Wyborcza. Stołeczna", link.
- 2010-03-22: Usefull Internet - how to properly cite Wikipedia in school theses, "Nowości".
- 2010-03-20: Agnieszka Niewińska, Matylda Młocka, Master degree thanks to Wikipedia (about plagiarisms from Wikipedia in master theses), "Rzeczpospolita", link.
- 2010-01-24: Grzegorz Gajewski, Encyclopedia of entire human civilization, "Przegląd" nr 3 (525) link (long, 3 pages article about Wikipedia).
- 2010-01-05: 77 things, for which is worth living in 2010, "Przekrój" (under number 44., Wikimania in Gdansk)
TV and Radio
[edit]- 2010-08-02 Radio dla Ciebie - Wieczór z RDC - long interview (1 hour) about Wikipedia and education resources in internet with Polimerek and Rekrutacja.
- 2010-07-09 TVP3 – Minęła dwudziesta – one of the themes of the day: Wikipedia editors visited Gdansk, who they are?. [14]
- 2010-03-31 tv.bielsko.biala.pl - "Musuem who won triple award" - about Pro Wikimedia for Museum in Bielsko-Biała
- 2010-01-15 Radio Merkury Active wikipedians debated in Poznan - about local wikipedians meeting in Poznan
- 2010-01-15 TVP Opole - 9-th birthday of Wikipedia
- 2010-01-15 TVP1 - Kawa czy herbata? - General talk with Masti, Polimerek and Sp5uhe about 9-th birthday of Wikipedia
Internet portals
[edit]- 2010-08-04 chip.pl - "FBI żąda usunięcia wzoru swojej pieczęci z Wikipedii"
- 2010-08-04 heise-online.pl - "Potyczka Wikipedii z FBI"
- 2010-08-04 tvn24.pl - "Wikipedia ukradła logo FBI?"
- 2010-08-04 di.com.pl - "FBI vs Wikipedia - poszło o pieczęć"
- 2010-08-03 osnews.pl - "Czytnik Wikipedii za 20 dolarów"
- 2010-08-03 linuxnews.pl - "Czytnik Wikipedii za 20 dolarów"
- 2010-08-03 Gazeta.pl – "FBI do Wikipedii: Ukradliście nasze logo"
- 2010-07-31 Historia i media - "Wiki – model współpracy i stan umysłu?"
- 2010-07-27 tvn24.p – "Palikot też podpiera się Wikipedią"
- 2010-07-26 sport.pl – "Piłkarz z Wikipedii chciał oszukać Zagłębie"
- 2010-07-23 gazeta.pl – "Wikipedianin Ency: to rzeczywiście szalony pomysł"
- 2010-07-21 gazeta.pl - "Social media: użytkownicy najbardziej zadowoleni z Wikipedii"
- 2010-07-17 di.com.pl – "Wikimania: Gdańsk zrobił piorunujące wrażenie"
- 2010-07-16 gdansk.pl – "Wikipedia u Lecha Wałęsy"
- 2010-07-12 wp.pl - "Gdańska konferencja Wikipedii"
- 2010-07-11 polskieradio.pl - "Wikipedia ma problem z wolontariuszami"
- 2010-07-10 di.com.pl – "Oglądaj Wikimanię w Gdańsku (transmisja na żywo)"
- 2010-07-10 tvp.info – "Wikimania zawitała do Gdańska"
- 2010-07-09 polskieradio.pl – "Wikipedyści z całego świata na Wikimanii w Gdańsku"
- 2010-07-09 radiozet.pl – Wikipedyści zjeżdzają do Gdańska"
- 2010-07-08 wiadomosci.onet.pl – "Wikimania 2010 - konferencja twórców wersji językowych Wikipedii"
- 2010-07-08 wyborcza.pl - "Gdańsk. Rusza światowy zjazd Wikipedystów"
- 2010-07-08 onet.pl - "Seks czy już pornografia?"
- 2010-07-06 man.poznan.pl – "WIKIMANIA 2010 w Polsce!"
- 2010-07-04 interia.pl Oszustwo pod szyldem Wikipedii
- 2010-06-30 media2.pl - "Mapy pkt.pl z Wikipedią"
- 2010-06-25 heise-online.pl - "Wikimedia angażuje strażnika moralności"
- 2010-06-11 benchmark.pl – "Odnowione Google i Wikipedia już w Polsce"
- 2010-06-08 dobreprogramy.pl - "Polska Wikipedia wkrótce w nowej szacie graficznej"
- 2010-06-08 wp.pl - "Wikipedia na wakacje zmienia skórę"
- 2010-06-08 heise-online.pl - "Wikipedia na wakacje zmienia skórę"
- 2010-06-08 Dziennik Internautów - "Polska Wikipedia jutro się zmienia"
- 2010-05-26 pardon.pl - "WikiBronek znowu w akcji: Czego nie wiedział tym razem?"
- 2010-05-26 onet.pl - "Muzułmanie: Wikipedia kłamie. Tworzymy własną"
- 2010-05-24 onet.pl - "Wewnętrzny tajny świat Wikipedii"
- 2010-05-20 gazeta.pl - Jakub Chełmiński "Demotami w Wikipedię, czyli spór o źródła"
- 2010-05-20 onet.pl - "Wojna w Wikipedii przeniosła się do mediów"
- 2010-05-14 Komputer Świat - "Nowa szata graficzna angielskiej Wikipedii"
- 2010-05-13 Wprost24 - Komorowski wiedzę o instytucjach państwowych czerpie z... Wikipedii
- 2010-05-13 onet.pl - Komorowski o Wikipedii: należy sięgać do wszelkich źródeł informacji
- 2010-05-13 onet.pl - Zaskakujący "doradca" marszałka Sejmu
- 2010-05-12 dobreprogramy.pl - Wikipedia w odmłodzonej szacie graficznej
- 2010-05-10 Wirtualna Polska - Pornografia w Wikipedii nabiera rumieńców
- 2010-05-09 Gazeta.pl – Wikipedyści kontra ich guru: spór o erotyczne zdjęcia
- 2010-05-07 money.pl - "Wikipedia będzie drukować książki. Zyska czy straci?"
- 2010-04-18 Historia i Media - "Encyklopedia dla plagiatorów?"
- 2010-04-09 heise-online.pl - "Francuska Biblioteka Narodowa i Wikimedia nawiązują współpracę partnerską"
- 2010-03-31 di.com.pl - "Kilka linijek z Wikipedii też może być plagiatem"
- 2010-03-29 gazeta.pl - "Prof. Kamela-Sowińska i plagiat z Wikipedii"
- 2010-03-29 heise-online.pl - "Nowy układ strony Wikipedii"
- 2010-03-22 edulandia.pl – "Magister Wikipedii"
- 2010-03-20 rp.pl - "Magister dzięki Wikipedii"
- 2010-02-20 gazetaprawna.pl - "Nowe pomysły dla Wikipedii: zdjęcia z komórki i filmy video"
- 2010-02-18 di.com.pl - "Wikipedia: 2 mln dolarów od Google"
- 2010-02-17 chip.pl - "Dwa miliony dolarów dla Wikipedii od Google'a"
- 2010-02-17 dobreprogramy.pl - "Google przekazuje dwa miliony dolarów fundacji Wikimedia"
- 2010-02-17 heise-online.pl - "Google ofiarowuje Wikimedii dwa miliony dolarów"
- 2010-02-01 webhosting.pl - "Rusza projekt BATUTA - czy da się uzdrowić polską Wikipedię?"
- 2010-02-01 heise-online.pl - "BATUTA podniesie wiarygodność Wikipedii"
- 2010-02-01 dobreprogramy.pl - "BATUTA ma podnieść wiarygodność Wikipedii"
- 2010-02-01 chip.pl - "Batuta podniesie poziom wiarygodności Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-31 osnews.pl - "Batuta podniesie poziom wiarygodności Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-25 heise-online.pl - "Urodziny polskiej wersji Wikibooks"
- 2010-01-24 radiosluzew.pl - "Armia Batuty oczyści Wikipedię"
- 2010-01-24 dobreprogramy.pl - "Szóste urodziny polskich Wikibooks"
- 2010-01-20 przeglad-tygodnik.pl - Grzegorz Gajewski "Encyklopedia cywilizacji"
- 2010-01-15 tvp.pl - "9. urodziny Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-15 Radio Merkury - "Aktywni wikipedyści debatowali w Poznaniu"
- 2010-01-15 wp.pl - "Dziś są urodziny Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-15 komputerswiat.pl - "Wikipedia ma już 9 lat!"
- 2010-01-15 inwestycje.pl - "Wikipedia obchodzi 9 urodziny"
- 2010-01-15 gazeta.pl - "Dziś dzień Wikipedii. Wystartowała 9 lat temu"
- 2010-01-15 di.com.pl - "Wikipedyści świętują – ich dzieło ma 9 lat"
- 2010-01-15 polskieradio.pl - "Dzień Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-15 tvn24.pl "Wikipedia ma dziś urodziny"
- 2010-01-14 suwalki.info – "Suwalszczyzna rozwija się w Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-14 wrotapodlasia.pl – "Podlaskie rozwija się w Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-13 niedoczytania.pl - "Dzieła Zdzisława Beksińskiego na wolnej licencji Creative Commons" (za notką z Facebook i Blog WMPL)
- 2010-01-08 heise-online.pl - "Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska pozyskało 300 tysięcy złotych"
- 2010-01-08 heise-online.pl - "Osiem milionów dolarów dla Wikimedii"
- 2010-01-04 wp.pl - "Gorąca debata na temat jakości Wikipedii"
- 2010-01-03 Webhosting.pl - "Sukces Jimmy'ego Walesa – Wikipedia wciąż będzie wolna od reklam"
- 2010-01-02 Onet.pl - "Wikipedia: fakty i nieporozumienia"