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Italy report

Antarctic Writing Month and GLAM call

By Marta Arosio

Antarctic Writing Month

The Laura Bassi icebreaker

Francisco, Wikipedian and professor at the University of Genoa, left on January 1st for the 39th Italian Expedition to Antarctica. Directly from the South Pole he organized the first (that soon became a writing month) on climate change, nature and other related phenomena observable from Antarctica. The writing month saw researchers improving and creating various voices directly from the South Pole, with several Wikipedians joining from home. Despite the limited connection and the fast pace of work, Italian and New Zealand researchers worked offline with the sources at their disposal to write the first entries of the contribution week.

At the end of February 2024 155 new entries were created or improved on Wikipedia in Italian and 3 in English; 50 people participated in the initiative.


GLAM call

Wikimedia Italia launched the fourth call for GLAM with a fund of 50k, that closed at the end of February. 62 projects from GLAMs all over Italy were presented and will be selected during March. The funds aim to sustain projects that produce or make contents available online with free licenses. To be admitted proposals must comply with the following requirements:

  • the activities must take place by 31 October 2024;
  • outreach activities must be foreseen;
  • the materials produced in the project and at least a selection of contents produced, owned or preserved by the institution must be made available online to the public in open access and if possible shared directly to the Wikimedia and/or OpenStreetMap platforms;
  • join the Empowering Italian GLAMs project.


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