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Wikimedia Suomi

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  • 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

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  • 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

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WM Hong Kong

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  • 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

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  • Community is active in Macau, have meetups (e.g. WP 10 meetups)

WM Hungary

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • (lost text)
  • Had successful regional conference
  • Portals (e.g. Wikimedia.in)
  • Live search for Indic languages

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WM Italia

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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
  • 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

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  • 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.)
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