Translator: Peggy Berthier Auditor: Michele Gianella
I would like to talk about the ‘change’ button.
You all know Wikipedia?
I thought, maybe Wikipedia is quite known.
In fact, it is the most used and most discussed encyclopedia in the world,
truly the source of information for all.
But perhaps it is difficult to realize
the power that has an encyclopedia like Wikipedia.
I like to compare it to a territory,
because, in fact, with its 30 million items
It gives a representation of the world.
We’re talking about 280 language versions of 500 million readers.
Wikipedia is not only accessible on our computer,
but also through the mobile phone – in most countries for free –
distributed or offline, that is, without internet,
even with sticks or DVDs.
Wikipedia is really extremely powerful,
Extremely read,
but the really interesting thing to Wikipedia
It is the ‘Edit’ button.
How many of you have tried the ‘Edit’ button?
Here, far fewer people:
but, in fact, the extraordinary thing about Wikipedia
It is that it was the first,
the largest encyclopedia with the ‘Edit’ button,
that is, the encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute,
one that allows anyone, from an article,
correct a mistake for example, or put a text, an image:
that is, to transform the encyclopedia.
And it is the magical thing about Wikipedia, so,
the ability to create a shared knowledge,
the ability to build, participate in creating new knowledge,
but it would be nice if other things had the ‘Edit’ button,
would be very nice
if other places, other realities and worldwide
They had this key
and it was possible to crush it to change things;
Perhaps we are also called to responsibility
to crush the ‘Edit’ button and change things.
It’s a little ‘what we tried to do with Wikimania in Esino Lario:
the world gathering of Wikipedia
arrived in a small provincial town,
in the province of Lecco, a town of 760 inhabitants,
12 kilometers of curves from Lake Como
and this country has hosted the world gathering of Wikipedia.
Normally, the worldwide gathering of Wikipedia
It is carried out, is organized in major cities and universities in the world.
It was at Harvard, at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society;
He was in Washington DC; Hong Kong; at the Barbican Center in London;
the previous edition in Esino Lario was at the Hilton Mexico City,
the next, so that this year, will be in Montreal in Canada at the Sheraton.
I like to think as Esino is between the Hilton and the Sheraton.
In fact, a collocation say a little ‘different
than those who are usually the places that host conferences.
But perhaps Esino is also in itself a somewhat ‘atypical,
a very, very popular tourist place in the 60 and 70,
is a site that uses the free licenses since 2006,
has been a pioneer in the loading of materials, photographs,
use Open Street Map, participation in the free knowledge,
also a place that has businesses and thus entrepreneurship,
but also a place that has won the award for the free knowledge in 2009,
and it is also very active in cultural projects
and commissioning of works of art.
For Wikimania,
what it did Esino Lario has been accommodating this event
and he did it right in the village.
We did not want to use a large meadow outside the village,
and create a marquee and accommodate the people there.
We wanted to really integrate the event within the City,
and we did it by using the country’s infrastructure,
then the cinema, the theater,
the primary school and kindergarten,
all available public places, bars and restaurants,
who all became home to this great conference.
And the conference actually took place,
was a success everything went very well,
It took place in June 2016 with her on Track,
then with its parallel events in many halls in the country
and all spaces have been used.
What you see is the elementary school,
but also to open-air spaces were used.
Here you see in the picture Jimmy Wales who is working on the computer,
who is the founder of Wikipedia
and that clearly uses the country’s playground
as one of the event locations.
We also organized the evening events
to entertain the audience,
They here esinesi danced to country music
in this evening with “Texas Line Dances”
or is this a performance
realized with a theremin of 6 meters played by a hawk.
My experience is that at this point usually the audience is divided into two:
those who say, wow, a theremin 6m played by a hawk;
and those who say “what a theremin?”
Tend if you are of those who wonder what a theremin,
you are not a computer than just hard-core.
A theremin is a musical instrument,
to give you an idea is what you use for the Star Trek theme song.
He’s always very lively imagination a little ‘fantasy and futuristic
because it plays without touching it
and then generates this type sounds “neon”.
A Esino we have one 6 meters high
we did play as a hawk
in a performance of a group of artists called Invernut.
It gives an idea of how to Esino there are maybe things
that one does not expect to find in a small mountain village.
But I’d like a moment to try to lead
for those who have been preparing for this event,
a moment to understand what it meant in the transformation of the country.
The first interventions, ones perhaps easier to see,
They are those on infrastructure.
A Esino Lario, what you see is the gym, which hosted the keynote,
They have been made of the safety interventions
to bring the audience from 100 to 600 people,
have been made to adapt interventions for the elementary school,
thus creating external steps for wheelchairs,
then to increase the accessibility of the building.
a new museum hall is closed to turn it into a media room,
then create a new classroom,
which it is now used for cultural conferences.
This is about the previous City Council to the current one
and Mayor John Dellera.
He was transferred to the old museum,
which has now become a place of associations,
and it was obviously made the electrical adjustment
and a restructuring of space,
and then the film has been fully settled.
The cinema was in complete disuse, – it was a warehouse, before Wikimania –
and currently it serves as a multipurpose room.
I would also add that I,
despite sometimes the ideas a bit ‘original,
I am a very cautious person
and in fact the film I said: do not do it, because you’ll fail miserably,
so the credit goes to the mayor, the deputy mayor in short, to the City,
which it was extremely brave and much braver than me,
because I would not have done this surgery, and yet they managed to do it,
and then to give the community a space that was much desired.
Then other interventions, through Wikimania, was the restructuring of the road.
Imagine: 40 who was not placed a road,
and thanks to the involvement of the province and of the Lombardy Region
It was arranged.
[The] road course reminds event logistics:
were 1368 people
He had to carry from Varenna and from the airports,
and of course also manage all the logistics.
440 on 738 beds available in Esino,
were sleeping in houses, then record bed to bed,
make duplicate keys, bring people in their building,
manage security,
have emergency crews to the plumber.
All of which is normally easily handles
with a hotel and a conference room
we was just built.
Thus it is built the upgrade of the power line,
in all locations it has been improved electricity
to get to host three devices,
each person was expected to arrive with phones, tablets and computers
but the pictures sometimes you see a pair of upside computer.
Distribution of the optical fiber in all locations and connectivity,
has led to Esino an Internet giga upload and download,
– I do not know about you, but in my house if we get 100 megs is so.
Now it is clear that an event, a conference [like this] in a city like London,
8 million and a half inhabitants,
is almost invisible a conference like this,
but in Esino Lario it has meant the whole community involved,
It meant that an event came a bit ‘exception,
because Wikipedia is not a conference like any other:
were volunteers who came to work in Esino Lario
and they have been volunteers, including me,
we welcomed and organized this event
and we were all involved,
hard to find anyone in the country
It was not in any way
to accommodate people in one of the houses for rent,
rather than deal with the voluntary and bring them to the various locations of the events,
rather [that] give information: in short, a real collaborative event,
because it’s an event
that in a small place so it was complex,
and only complex things create a true collaboration.
Let me conclude on the most hidden issues of the ‘Edit’ button.
In a small place like Esino, bringing the worldwide gathering of Wikipedia,
what he did is sabotaging the concept of center and periphery,
what he does is a bit ‘to show
that are not only centers to produce knowledge,
but anyone anywhere in the world can also produce knowledge.
And we’re talking about a universal knowledge, not a local or small to know,
as this event allowed participants to change perspective,
to look like a small mountain place
It does not necessarily produce little things, but it can also produce great things.
Guido Barindelli, you see in this photograph,
He is a volunteer, was one of the volunteers
National Alpini Association and Civil Defense during the event,
and is talking in this picture, you see,
with a Palestinian volunteer Wikipedia
that teaches you how to upload images to Wikimedia Commons.
I like this example
because the pictures then charge Guido Barindelli Esino Lario,
physio-therapist,
are images of the Himalayas,
because it is a person who is from the labor point of view, traveling,
both his passion for the mountains and for voluntary,
his knowledge of the world
It is one with which contributes to Wikipedia and the free projects.
Participate in Wikipedia I think it should be a bit ‘
The message that I would like to end this presentation.
It’s Italy? It is not putting very well.
When we organized Wikimania,
we decided that we would talk not of Esino, not Wikimania,
but of how Italy can be on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia arrived in Italy:
how to make
that our heritage is of this encyclopedia?
In particular Italy,
the issue of monuments is particularly complex:
in Italy there is freedom of views
and put pictures of monuments on Wikipedia is extremely complicated.
One can imagine that takes a picture of a church,
to the industrial archeology,
– and then the monument means anything that has more than 30 years –
It has a beautiful villa in a country or in a city center
and then the charge on Wikipedia.
In fact the process is much more complex.
They need the owner’s permission, the superintendent,
sometimes they need the rights
the architect who built the building,
if not dead for at least 70 years.
So this issue of permits is really key,
so if you have a beautiful home that has at least 30 years,
if you are active in a common, if you work for the FAI,
given the authorization,
because this is the way, really,
to allow the volunteers, to the public,
to document their heritage
and make shared and accessible on Wikipedia,
that, in fact, is the most powerful source of information.
Maybe you could do something more, and change the legislation directly.
And this, perhaps, is another thing that you can do with the ‘Edit’ button.
Thank you.
(Applause)
I would like to talk about the ‘change’ button.
You all know Wikipedia?
I thought, maybe Wikipedia is quite known.
In fact, it is the most used and most discussed encyclopedia in the world,
truly the source of information for all.
But perhaps it is difficult to realize
the power that has an encyclopedia like Wikipedia.
I like to compare it to a territory,
because, in fact, with its 30 million items
It gives a representation of the world.
We’re talking about 280 language versions of 500 million readers.
Wikipedia is not only accessible on our computer,
but also through the mobile phone – in most countries for free –
distributed or offline, that is, without internet,
even with sticks or DVDs.
Wikipedia is really extremely powerful,
Extremely read,
but the really interesting thing to Wikipedia
It is the ‘Edit’ button.
How many of you have tried the ‘Edit’ button?
Here, far fewer people:
but, in fact, the extraordinary thing about Wikipedia
It is that it was the first,
the largest encyclopedia with the ‘Edit’ button,
that is, the encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute,
one that allows anyone, from an article,
correct a mistake for example, or put a text, an image:
that is, to transform the encyclopedia.
And it is the magical thing about Wikipedia, so,
the ability to create a shared knowledge,
the ability to build, participate in creating new knowledge,
but it would be nice if other things had the ‘Edit’ button,
would be very nice
if other places, other realities and worldwide
They had this key
and it was possible to crush it to change things;
Perhaps we are also called to responsibility
to crush the ‘Edit’ button and change things.
It’s a little ‘what we tried to do with Wikimania in Esino Lario:
the world gathering of Wikipedia
arrived in a small provincial town,
in the province of Lecco, a town of 760 inhabitants,
12 kilometers of curves from Lake Como
and this country has hosted the world gathering of Wikipedia.
Normally, the worldwide gathering of Wikipedia
It is carried out, is organized in major cities and universities in the world.
It was at Harvard, at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society;
He was in Washington DC; Hong Kong; at the Barbican Center in London;
the previous edition in Esino Lario was at the Hilton Mexico City,
the next, so that this year, will be in Montreal in Canada at the Sheraton.
I like to think as Esino is between the Hilton and the Sheraton.
In fact, a collocation say a little ‘different
than those who are usually the places that host conferences.
But perhaps Esino is also in itself a somewhat ‘atypical,
a very, very popular tourist place in the 60 and 70,
is a site that uses the free licenses since 2006,
has been a pioneer in the loading of materials, photographs,
use Open Street Map, participation in the free knowledge,
also a place that has businesses and thus entrepreneurship,
but also a place that has won the award for the free knowledge in 2009,
and it is also very active in cultural projects
and commissioning of works of art.
For Wikimania,
what it did Esino Lario has been accommodating this event
and he did it right in the village.
We did not want to use a large meadow outside the village,
and create a marquee and accommodate the people there.
We wanted to really integrate the event within the City,
and we did it by using the country’s infrastructure,
then the cinema, the theater,
the primary school and kindergarten,
all available public places, bars and restaurants,
who all became home to this great conference.
And the conference actually took place,
was a success everything went very well,
It took place in June 2016 with her on Track,
then with its parallel events in many halls in the country
and all spaces have been used.
What you see is the elementary school,
but also to open-air spaces were used.
Here you see in the picture Jimmy Wales who is working on the computer,
who is the founder of Wikipedia
and that clearly uses the country’s playground
as one of the event locations.
We also organized the evening events
to entertain the audience,
They here esinesi danced to country music
in this evening with “Texas Line Dances”
or is this a performance
realized with a theremin of 6 meters played by a hawk.
My experience is that at this point usually the audience is divided into two:
those who say, wow, a theremin 6m played by a hawk;
and those who say “what a theremin?”
Tend if you are of those who wonder what a theremin,
you are not a computer than just hard-core.
A theremin is a musical instrument,
to give you an idea is what you use for the Star Trek theme song.
He’s always very lively imagination a little ‘fantasy and futuristic
because it plays without touching it
and then generates this type sounds “neon”.
A Esino we have one 6 meters high
we did play as a hawk
in a performance of a group of artists called Invernut.
It gives an idea of how to Esino there are maybe things
that one does not expect to find in a small mountain village.
But I’d like a moment to try to lead
for those who have been preparing for this event,
a moment to understand what it meant in the transformation of the country.
The first interventions, ones perhaps easier to see,
They are those on infrastructure.
A Esino Lario, what you see is the gym, which hosted the keynote,
They have been made of the safety interventions
to bring the audience from 100 to 600 people,
have been made to adapt interventions for the elementary school,
thus creating external steps for wheelchairs,
then to increase the accessibility of the building.
a new museum hall is closed to turn it into a media room,
then create a new classroom,
which it is now used for cultural conferences.
This is about the previous City Council to the current one
and Mayor John Dellera.
He was transferred to the old museum,
which has now become a place of associations,
and it was obviously made the electrical adjustment
and a restructuring of space,
and then the film has been fully settled.
The cinema was in complete disuse, – it was a warehouse, before Wikimania –
and currently it serves as a multipurpose room.
I would also add that I,
despite sometimes the ideas a bit ‘original,
I am a very cautious person
and in fact the film I said: do not do it, because you’ll fail miserably,
so the credit goes to the mayor, the deputy mayor in short, to the City,
which it was extremely brave and much braver than me,
because I would not have done this surgery, and yet they managed to do it,
and then to give the community a space that was much desired.
Then other interventions, through Wikimania, was the restructuring of the road.
Imagine: 40 who was not placed a road,
and thanks to the involvement of the province and of the Lombardy Region
It was arranged.
[The] road course reminds event logistics:
were 1368 people
He had to carry from Varenna and from the airports,
and of course also manage all the logistics.
440 on 738 beds available in Esino,
were sleeping in houses, then record bed to bed,
make duplicate keys, bring people in their building,
manage security,
have emergency crews to the plumber.
All of which is normally easily handles
with a hotel and a conference room
we was just built.
Thus it is built the upgrade of the power line,
in all locations it has been improved electricity
to get to host three devices,
each person was expected to arrive with phones, tablets and computers
but the pictures sometimes you see a pair of upside computer.
Distribution of the optical fiber in all locations and connectivity,
has led to Esino an Internet giga upload and download,
– I do not know about you, but in my house if we get 100 megs is so.
Now it is clear that an event, a conference [like this] in a city like London,
8 million and a half inhabitants,
is almost invisible a conference like this,
but in Esino Lario it has meant the whole community involved,
It meant that an event came a bit ‘exception,
because Wikipedia is not a conference like any other:
were volunteers who came to work in Esino Lario
and they have been volunteers, including me,
we welcomed and organized this event
and we were all involved,
hard to find anyone in the country
It was not in any way
to accommodate people in one of the houses for rent,
rather than deal with the voluntary and bring them to the various locations of the events,
rather [that] give information: in short, a real collaborative event,
because it’s an event
that in a small place so it was complex,
and only complex things create a true collaboration.
Let me conclude on the most hidden issues of the ‘Edit’ button.
In a small place like Esino, bringing the worldwide gathering of Wikipedia,
what he did is sabotaging the concept of center and periphery,
what he does is a bit ‘to show
that are not only centers to produce knowledge,
but anyone anywhere in the world can also produce knowledge.
And we’re talking about a universal knowledge, not a local or small to know,
as this event allowed participants to change perspective,
to look like a small mountain place
It does not necessarily produce little things, but it can also produce great things.
Guido Barindelli, you see in this photograph,
He is a volunteer, was one of the volunteers
National Alpini Association and Civil Defense during the event,
and is talking in this picture, you see,
with a Palestinian volunteer Wikipedia
that teaches you how to upload images to Wikimedia Commons.
I like this example
because the pictures then charge Guido Barindelli Esino Lario,
physio-therapist,
are images of the Himalayas,
because it is a person who is from the labor point of view, traveling,
both his passion for the mountains and for voluntary,
his knowledge of the world
It is one with which contributes to Wikipedia and the free projects.
Participate in Wikipedia I think it should be a bit ‘
The message that I would like to end this presentation.
It’s Italy? It is not putting very well.
When we organized Wikimania,
we decided that we would talk not of Esino, not Wikimania,
but of how Italy can be on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia arrived in Italy:
how to make
that our heritage is of this encyclopedia?
In particular Italy,
the issue of monuments is particularly complex:
in Italy there is freedom of views
and put pictures of monuments on Wikipedia is extremely complicated.
One can imagine that takes a picture of a church,
to the industrial archeology,
– and then the monument means anything that has more than 30 years –
It has a beautiful villa in a country or in a city center
and then the charge on Wikipedia.
In fact the process is much more complex.
They need the owner’s permission, the superintendent,
sometimes they need the rights
the architect who built the building,
if not dead for at least 70 years.
So this issue of permits is really key,
so if you have a beautiful home that has at least 30 years,
if you are active in a common, if you work for the FAI,
given the authorization,
because this is the way, really,
to allow the volunteers, to the public,
to document their heritage
and make shared and accessible on Wikipedia,
that, in fact, is the most powerful source of information.
Maybe you could do something more, and change the legislation directly.
And this, perhaps, is another thing that you can do with the ‘Edit’ button.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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