Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report for April 2011

2011-08-26 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Asaf,

At this point it is mostly a declaration of intent to cooperate.
Arcanum digitises content under various copyright regimes (some are already
under public domain, some they only digitise without any rights in the work,
for some they receive a fixed duration permission to use), and they agreed
to give us stuff that is under PD if/when we ask for it (some of it might
have made its way already to Wikipedia/Wikisource randomly, especially as
some of the content digitised by Arcanum is available through the Hungarian
Electronic Library or their own website, and some can be bought in the
(book)shops). So far we haven't asked for any specific content, but the
possibility is still open.

Arcanum (http://arcanum.hu/idegennyelvu/iny_index.html) has a fascinating
wealth of content, some of it available on the internet (not all of it in
Hungarian), so I hope we can find the pieces in there that would be most
useful for a 21st century encyclopedia and request the data. If you have any
wishlist, you might help us in making this partnership more successful.

Best regards,
Bence


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi, Bence.

 Could you say a little more about the partnership with Arcanum?

 Thanks,

   Asaf

 On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Bence Damokos
 bence.damo...@wiki.media.huwrote:

  Dear all,
 
  Please find below the report on Wikimedia Hungary's activities in April
  2011. It is available online at:
 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/April_2011
  .
 
  Best regards,
  --
  Bence Damokos
  Executive Vice President,
  Wikimedia Hungary
  http://wikimedia.hu http://wiki.media.hu
 
 
  *Wikimedia Hungary Report*
  *Vol 4 Issue 4*
  *April 2011*
  *Prepared by: Bence Damokos*
 
  This is an update on Wikimédia Magyarország's activities covering April
  2011. For more recent updates, you can follow our blog (in Hungarian) at
  http://blog.wikimedia.hu
   Presentations
 
  In the month of April, we have held presentations about Wikipedia on the
  following occasions:
 
 - 8: A presentation at the the Apáczai High School in Budapest
 - 13: A presentation at the Humanities Faculty of the St Stephen
 University in Jászberény. The audience included students of library
 studies.
 - 26: A presentation at the Budapest University of Technology and
 Economics
 
  Partnerships
 
 - We have discussed collaboration opportunities with Arcanum, a
 publisher of digitised versions of out-of-copyright books,
 encyclopedias,
 maps and similar. In this spirit we have signed a partnership
 agreement with
 the publisher at the XVIII. International Book Fair of Budapest.
 (Press
 release:
 
 http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Egy%C3%BCttm%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9si_meg%C3%A1llapod%C3%A1s_az_Arcanum_Adatb%C3%A1zis_Kiad%C3%B3val
  )
 - We have also had a meeting with the researchers at the Hungarian
 Academy of Science (MTA-SZTAKI institute) about the possibility of
 using
 their anti-plagiarism software to detect copyright violations on
 Wikipedia.
 
  Grants
 
 - We have submitted a report (
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_HU/Wikiconference/Report )
 on
 our 10th anniversary conference held in January. Videos of the event
 are
 available on our YouTube channel at: http://youtube.com/WikimediaHU.
 - Also, we have submitted a report on the 4.3 million forint ($22000)
 grant we have received from the Hungarian Council of Internet
 Providers to
 buy a server (see previous coverage in August 2010:
 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/August_2010#Council_of_Hungarian_Internet_Providers
 )
 - In April we have received notification that our 0.25 million forint
 ($1250) grant request for the National Civil Fund was approved. The
 grant,
 covering June to September 2011 is intended to cover the costs of the
 development of a CiviCRM credit card gateway and the printing of
 outreach
 publications.
 
  Wikisprint
 
  
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg
 
  
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg
  Marshall McLuhan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
 
  A group called Kitchen Budapest has organized a Wikipedia editing sprint
 at
  Műcsarnok, one of the biggest art exhibition halls in Budapest to
 celebrate
  the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's birthday. As part of the
 sprint,
  they created and improved the McLuhan article in the Hungarian Wikipedia.
 
  A short video and a description of the event is available in English at:
  http://mcluhan100.kibu.hu/wikisprint/?lang=en
   Meetings
 
  On 4th April we held a board meeting in a Budapest café to discuss
 pending
  projects, approve new members, the transfer of our share of the Wikimedia
  Fundraiser (see previous report) and similar. The 

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report for April 2011

2011-08-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hi, Bence.

Could you say a little more about the partnership with Arcanum?

Thanks,

   Asaf

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Bence Damokos
bence.damo...@wiki.media.huwrote:

 Dear all,

 Please find below the report on Wikimedia Hungary's activities in April
 2011. It is available online at:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/April_2011
 .

 Best regards,
 --
 Bence Damokos
 Executive Vice President,
 Wikimedia Hungary
 http://wikimedia.hu http://wiki.media.hu


 *Wikimedia Hungary Report*
 *Vol 4 Issue 4*
 *April 2011*
 *Prepared by: Bence Damokos*

 This is an update on Wikimédia Magyarország's activities covering April
 2011. For more recent updates, you can follow our blog (in Hungarian) at
 http://blog.wikimedia.hu
  Presentations

 In the month of April, we have held presentations about Wikipedia on the
 following occasions:

- 8: A presentation at the the Apáczai High School in Budapest
- 13: A presentation at the Humanities Faculty of the St Stephen
University in Jászberény. The audience included students of library 
 studies.
- 26: A presentation at the Budapest University of Technology and
Economics

 Partnerships

- We have discussed collaboration opportunities with Arcanum, a
publisher of digitised versions of out-of-copyright books, encyclopedias,
maps and similar. In this spirit we have signed a partnership agreement 
 with
the publisher at the XVIII. International Book Fair of Budapest. (Press
release:

 http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Egy%C3%BCttm%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9si_meg%C3%A1llapod%C3%A1s_az_Arcanum_Adatb%C3%A1zis_Kiad%C3%B3val
 )
- We have also had a meeting with the researchers at the Hungarian
Academy of Science (MTA-SZTAKI institute) about the possibility of using
their anti-plagiarism software to detect copyright violations on Wikipedia.

 Grants

- We have submitted a report (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_HU/Wikiconference/Report ) on
our 10th anniversary conference held in January. Videos of the event are
available on our YouTube channel at: http://youtube.com/WikimediaHU.
- Also, we have submitted a report on the 4.3 million forint ($22000)
grant we have received from the Hungarian Council of Internet Providers to
buy a server (see previous coverage in August 2010:

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/August_2010#Council_of_Hungarian_Internet_Providers
)
- In April we have received notification that our 0.25 million forint
($1250) grant request for the National Civil Fund was approved. The grant,
covering June to September 2011 is intended to cover the costs of the
development of a CiviCRM credit card gateway and the printing of outreach
publications.

 Wikisprint

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan_drawing.jpg
 Marshall McLuhan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

 A group called Kitchen Budapest has organized a Wikipedia editing sprint at
 Műcsarnok, one of the biggest art exhibition halls in Budapest to celebrate
 the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan's birthday. As part of the sprint,
 they created and improved the McLuhan article in the Hungarian Wikipedia.

 A short video and a description of the event is available in English at:
 http://mcluhan100.kibu.hu/wikisprint/?lang=en
  Meetings

 On 4th April we held a board meeting in a Budapest café to discuss pending
 projects, approve new members, the transfer of our share of the Wikimedia
 Fundraiser (see previous report) and similar. The minutes are available (in
 Hungarian) at:
 http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Eln%C3%B6ks%C3%A9gi_%C3%BCl%C3%A9s_%E2%80%93_2011._%C3%A1prilis_4
 .
 While the meeting was convened as a board meeting, it was public, and
 therefore we had quite a few of our members present.
 PR

 We have issued a press release and a blog post to mark the 10 millionth
 media file on Commons:
 http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/T%C3%ADzmilli%C3%B3_szabad_k%C3%A9p_a_Wikip%C3%A9dia_testv%C3%A9roldal%C3%A1n
 ,
 http://huwiki.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-millio-szabadon-hasznalhato-kep.html
  Fundraising

 Wikimedia Hungary participated in the 2009/2010 fundraiser as a partner of
 the Wikimedia Foundation. The amount of donations raised in Hungary in April
 was 15 000 forints ($75) by Wikimedia Hungary, and $17.8 by the Wikimedia
 Foundation.

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