Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Serbia/2008
This is Wikimedia Serbia activity report for the year 2008.
Projects
[edit]- February - April
- Seminal paper writing project for Wikipedia by students at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
- February 24 - Lecture about Wikipedia
- April - June
- Seminal paper writing project for Wikipedia by students at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
- April 8 - Lecture about Wikipedia (Đorđe Stakić)
Events
[edit]- March 9
- Presentations "Wikimedia Projects and CC Licenses" and "Lesser Known Wikimedia Projects: Wikimedia Commons" at the Festival of Free Culture 2 (Creative Commons lounge: March 7 - 10), Youth Center of Belgrade
- April 17
- Lecture about Creative Commons licensing and free projects at the 8th conference E-trgovina at Palić
- July 17 - 19
- Participation at Wikimania in Alexandria, Egypt (Filip Maljković, Nikola Smolenski, Nevena Tarlanović)
- July 17 - Lecture "Wikimedia Serbia" (Nikola Smolenski)
- July 18 - Lecture "Wikization of Images" (Nikola Smolenski)
- July 29 - August 1
- Participation at iCommons summit in Sapporo, Japan (Nevenka Antić)
- August 30
- Lecture "Wikipedia and Internet in the Mathematics and Informatics Syllabus" at the 12th Serbian Mathematics Congress in Novi Sad (Đorđe Stakić)
- September 4
- Lecture about Creative Commons licensing and free projects at the E-tvrđava festival in Niš (Nevenka Antić)
- September 13
- Lecture "Wikipedia and Internet in the Mathematics and Informatics Syllabus" at the conference celebrating 200 years of University of Belgrade in Sava Centar (Đorđe Stakić)
- October 8
- Lecture about international and national aspects of Creative Commons licensing at the cultural center REX (Nevenka Antić)
- October 23
- Lecture about language and legal adaptation of Creative Commons licenses for lawyers from Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan at the workshop organized by Eurasia Partnership Foundation in Tbilisi, Georgia (Nevenka Antić)
- October 25
- Lecture "Wikipedia and Internet in the Mathematics and Informatics Syllabus" at the first Fair of Continuous Learning, as a part of the Belgrade Book Fair (Đorđe Stakić)
- December 15
- Lecture and debate "Free licenses - legal basis of free culture, free software and free knowledge" and "Wikipedia and Internet in the Mathematics and Informatics Syllabus" at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade (Nevenka Antić, Đorđe Stakić)
- December 19 - 21
- Third regional conference at the Youth Center of Belgrade (with guests from Poland, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- December
- Lecture about social and legal aspect of free licenses at the Faculty for Media and Communications, University Singidunum, Belgrade (Nevenka Antić)
Organization
[edit]- March 18
- Signed a cooperation agreement with the news agency Beta, making their news licensed under CC-BY 2.5 license
- March 26
- Meeting with representatives of the National Library of Serbia (Dragan Satarić)
- December 1
- Meeting with representatives of Telenor provider regarding possible future cooperation (Miloš Rančić, Filip Maljković)
- Held 18 public meetups throughout the year
Media
[edit]- March 14
- Interview in a show for Fox TV (Miloš Rančić, Goran Obradović)
- March 26
- Interview in a show for Radio Belgrade 202 (Miloš Rančić)
- April 2
- Interview "Knowledge/ignorance on Internet" for paper Večernje novosti (Goran Obradović)
- November 5
- Interview about Wikipedia and free software in the "Klub 2" show for Radio Belgrade 2