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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue II, February 2019

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Italy report

Regional coordinators and Wikidata

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Regional coordinator meeting

Wikimedia Italia Coordinators

On the 16th of February 13 regional coordinators had their first 2019 meeting to share their experiences and feel part of the organization.

Wikidata

Susanna Giaccai, Alessandro Marchetti, Manuela Musco, Camillo Pellizzari organized an edit-a-thon for Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata for cultural heritage in Pontedera (Tuscany) on February, the 19th. tweet and post. It is the first course where an integrated wikidata-commons approach is taught on wikipedia.

Librarians came mostly for the provinces of Lucca and Pisa, and revised and improved items from San Vincenzo and Palaia.

The second session was held at the librsry of the Department of Social science of the University of Florence, 4th March 2019, in Novoli. Librarians were mostly from public and university libraries of the Province of Florence. They improved wikidata items from Palaia, Sesto Fiorentino and San Casciano

The Edmund Mach Foundation

The collaboration between Foundation Edmund Mach and Wikimedia Italia, started in 2013, has reached its third chapter. This year the project "Protagonisti della nostra storia" coordinated by the Foundation's Library involves the students of class 3 VE of Istituto Agrario of San Michele all'Adige (TN). In order to celebrate the 145th anniversary of the foundation they are writing some biographical articles about significant people of their institute. On February 21st the Wikipedian and WMI member Francesco Serra held a practical lesson in the computer lab explaning how to contribute to Wikipedia with a particular focus on writing and organizing the content of an article. We wish the students good luck with their work!

Wikipedian in Residence

BEIC (Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura) and Wikimedia Italia renewed their collaboration for the fifth year in 2019. The GLAM-BEIC project started in 2014 and is the longest-running GLAM-wiki project in Italy. Marco Chemello is the wikipedian in residence in 2019 too.

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