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Activities of Wikimedia Canada from September to December 2012

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Photography

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Wiki Loves Monuments in Canada

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Promotional poster for WLM 2012 in Canada

During the summer of 2012, Wikipedians have prepared lists of historic places in Canada (English) and Liste des lieux patrimoniaux du Canada (French), for the country's participation in the largest photo contest in the world, Wiki Loves Monuments. During the entire month of September, amateur photographers could upload their images of historic sites recognized by the Canadian government and thus enlarge the free licensed image collection on Wikimedia Commons.

Within few weeks, we got over 5,500 photos of Canada related to the country's history, in addition to promoting the free media repertoire, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.

Top 10 finalists
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    Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel - Marguerite-Bourgeoys Museum, Montreal, Quebec.
    First place: 594.5 points. First canadian prize and goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Jazmin Million

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    Québec Bridge National Historic Site of Canada, Quebec City, Quebec.
    Second place: 593.5 points. Second canadian prize and goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Canonnica

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    The bank street bridge over the Rideau Canal, Ottawa, Ontario.
    Third place: 593 points. Third canadian prize and goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Gregvgregv

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    Freeport Bridge, Kitchener, Ontario.
    Fourth place: 569 points. Finalist goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Ian Furst

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    Montreal Clock Tower, Montreal, Quebec.
    Fifth place: 565 points. Finalist goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Michael Vesia

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    Halifax Public Gardens National Historic Site of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
    Sixth place: 557.5 points. Finalist goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Markjt

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    Old Skeena Bridge, Terrace, British Columbia.
    Seventh place: 555 points. Finalist goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Chasehamilton2012

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    Former Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
    Eighth place: 550 points. Finalist goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: Murckraker

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    Cabot Tower, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
    Ninth place: 543.5 points. Finalist goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: William Zimmerly

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    Orpheum Theatre National Historic Site of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia.
    Tenth place: 542.5 points. Finalist goes to the international jury for the 2nd round.
    Photographer: MichaelThoeny

Wikipedians Photo Club of Quebec City

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Under the initiative of Letartean, a photo club called "Club des photographes wikipédiens de Québec" had been created to coordinate the photography efforts in Quebec City. As a first activity, the club went to a Quebec Remparts QMJHL hockey game in Colisée Pepsi on 25 Oct 12.

Collaboration with sports teams

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Wikimedia Canada volunteer at the Bell Center in collaboration with Hamilton Bulldogs, Montreal Canadiens, and Evenko.

During the weekend of November 9 to 11, some Wikipedians gathered together to photograph sporting events in Montreal and Quebec city and upload pictures on Wikimedia Commons under free licence. It happended with the collaboration of Wikimedia Canada, Quebec Committee, Hamilton Bulldogs, Montreal Canadiens, Evenko, Laval Rouge et Or, and Quebec Remparts.

Letartean, from the Quebec Committee of Wikimedia Canada, took the initiative to contact the organizations from three sports teams in Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec city in order to obtain credentials. With these press passes, it was possible to carry photographic equipment in sports amphitheaters, as well as having good places, besides footbridge for journalists, to make high quality photo sessions.

This first collaboration between professional sports teams and Wikimedia Canada opens the door for future nationwide sport events.

School projects

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School project at Cégep de Chicoutimi

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School project at Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe

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In 2011, Simon Villeneuve, active Wikipedian and school teacher, gave couple online presentations in collaboration with the association APOP, to show teachers how to use Wikipedia in class. One of the attendee of these online trainings was MCPearson, teacher in "English Second Language". She did an extra mile, in collaboration with Simon, and start to prepare and develop her ESL course on Simple English Wikipedia. Between October and December 2012, her 60 students will start to work Simple English articles.

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Outreach to medical community

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World Health Organization

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In Sept 2012, James Heilman, meet a couple of times with members of the World Health Organization. One meeting was with the legal team to continue the discussion regarding the WHOs position on copyright which has been ongoing for the last couple of years. A number of issues where discussed including the situation of the WHO being unable to use the current CC BY SA licenses. In collaboration with Creative Commons however the next version of the CC BY SA license 4.0 coming out in the new year will be compatible with the WHOs position of being an International Governmental Body. It was agreed that the WHO would release some content under a CC license when the new licenses become official.

James Heilman, also gave a one hour talk at WHOs headquarters in Geneva Switzerland about the importance of Wikipedia in Medicine hosted by the head of the International Classification of Diseases division. After the talk he meet with this department to discuss possibilities of further collaboration between ICD and Wikipedia / Wikidata. The possibility of a Wikipedian in Residence was also discussed.

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Meeting with Translators Without Borders

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In Oct James Heilman meet with the co founder of Translators Without Borders to discuss in person the ongoing translation efforts. The possibility of hiring some staff to help manage the project was discussed.

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Aboriginal languages

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Cree Wikipedia

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Discussions are on-going with the Cree Aanischaaukamikw Cultural Institute and the Institut linguistique atikamekw (in French) both in Québec; cleaning and sorting of existing articles on the Cree Wikipedia had began as a result of those discussions to make the Wikipedia ready for the viable co-existence of several dialects.

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Wikimedia Indigenous Languages

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Amqui represented Wikimedia Canada at the first meeting of Wikimedia Indigenous Languages, which he also chaired.


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