This is an update on Wikimédia Magyarország's activities covering March 2011.

International

• 2: Board members participated in an online IRC meeting with their colleagues from Poland and the Czech Republic, facilitated by Moushira from the Wikimedia Foundation.
• 25-28: Gábor and Bence, our board members participated in the annual chapters meeting in Berlin. The meeting was organized by Wikimedia Deutschland, Bence participated in the organization by putting together the programme and inviting the attendees.
  As part of the conference, Gábor presented on Wikimedia Hungary's activities in the preceding year. The state of the chapter presentation is available at: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcd7gw76_35gdmrfzgs .

Toolserver

We arranged for hosting for our new server. (See February coverage at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/February_2011#Toolserver)

Sztakipedia

One of our members has been working on a project called Sztakipedia that would enhance the editing experience on Wikipedia by providing category, internal link and reference suggestions.

As part of this work, a user survey was conducted in March. A demo and further information on the project is available at: http://pedia.sztaki.hu (in English and Hungarian), results of the survey (in Hungarian) at: http://pedia.sztaki.hu/survey_result_hu.html

Meetings

• 7: We held a small meeting to discuss the marketing needs and possibilities of the Wikimedia projects and Wikimedia Hungary's possible role in that.
• Our president met with a local stock photo agency to discuss their policy with regard to public domain images that are present both in their database as well as Wikimedia Commons.

Fundraising

Wikimedia Hungary participated in the 2009/10 Fundraising, and as part of the agreement agreed to transfer half of the revenue collected to the Wikimedia Foundation.

In the Fundraiser Wikimedia Hungary collected 5.7 million forints, and out of that transferred $11 210.66 to the Wikimedia Foundation. Following the end of the fundraiser, our donation revenue for March was 8521 forints.

Small grants programme

Wikimedia Hungary has approved a small grant to purchase an orthographic dictionary and detailed Hungarian grammar to help one bot programmer in his work on the Hungarian Wikipedia.

A report on the effect of the grant (in Hungarian) is available in our blog: http://huwiki.blogspot.com/2011/07/koltsegteritesi-palyazat-wikipedia.html

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

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.

This is an update on Wikimédia Magyarország's activities covering May 2011. For more recent updates, you can like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/WikimediaHU

Strategy consultation

Wikimedia Hungary is participating in the Chapter Development Pilot Programme, a joint initiative between four chapters, facilitated by Sebastian Moleski.

As part of the programme we held a meeting for our members to discuss the self-assesment portion of the strategy process. A workshop with our facilitator was scheduled for May as well, but has been postponed.

Fundraising

Wikimedia Hungary is a partner in the 2010/2011 fundraiser, the amount of donations raised in Hungary was as follows:

• Wikimedia Hungary: 13 000 HUF ($65)
• Wikimedia Foundation: $43.11

As an organization of public benefit with two years of operations and no public debts, Wikimedia Hungary was eligible as a target for 1% income tax allocation, where taxpayers could direct one percent of their income tax to a charitable organization or church of their choice. To facilitate choice, we ran a short banner campaign advising donors of the possibility.

Wikipedia Libray

Wikimedia Hungary had donated a number of books on Wikipedia and free knowledge to the library of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, to make them accessible in Hungary in general, and in particular to to our members (who are eligible for a free library membership as part of the partnership).

In May, our shelf in the library was expanded with three new books and a number of Wikimedia publications (e.g. annual reports, Bookshelf material). For a list of the books on the shelf, see:http://wikimedia.hu/wiki/Egy%C3%BCttm%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9si_meg%C3%A1llapod%C3%A1s_a_BME_OMIKK-kal.

Project news

The Hungarian Wikinews project was closed on 15 May.