HONG KONG – The Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2009 is being held successfully during 26 December – 27 December in The Institute For Tourism Studies of Macau . As being one of the participant of the conference, we would like to express our thankfulness towards those supporters, volunteers and guests who have make their participation to the conference. especially towards Wikimedia Macau, whereas they have provide a high degree of commitment to organize and maintain the conference since the beginning.

The conference and its activity gains a good reaction and participation from both participant and general public, especially receiving well feedback from participant during the workshop. Interviews also taken place from several journalist within Macau include newspaper and television and their coverage to this event may also be seen.

As the new year of 2010 is oncoming soon, we would like to also wish you have a happy new year. ####

第二屆中文維基年會於12月26至27日間於澳門旅遊學院舉行並且圓滿完成。
本會作為其中一個有成員出席是次會議且同為協辦單位之維基協會分會，謹此感謝所有到場出席之嘉賓，義工及講者，
並且特別對於作為主辦單位之澳門維基協會成員致予謝意，
以感謝其於是次年會中從申辦籌備起以至實際營辦和完成之間一直的付出和優秀表現。

是次年會活動反應熱烈，舉辦之工作坊得到不少出席是次會議之維基用戶支持，同時是次活動亦得到幾份澳門有名之報刊和電視台進行採訪及報導。

最後，新年將近，本會亦藉此謹祝各位新年快樂。

香港維基媒體協會傳訊署
2009年12月29日

維基百科創辦人 吉米·威爾斯的呼籲

For Release: 20 Dec 2009

Today, I am asking you to make a donation to support Wikipedia.

I started Wikipedia in 2001, and over the past eight years, I’ve been amazed and humbled to see hundreds of thousands of volunteers join with me to build the largest encyclopedia in human history.

Wikipedia isn’t a commercial website. It’s a community creation, entirely written and funded by people like you. More than 340 million people use Wikipedia every month – almost a third of the Internet-connected world. You are part of our community.

I believe in us. I believe that Wikipedia keeps getting better. That’s the whole idea. One person writes something, somebody improves it a little, and it keeps getting better, over time. If you find it useful today, imagine how much we can achieve together in 5, 10, 20 years.

Wikipedia is about the power of people like us to do extraordinary things. People like us write Wikipedia, one word at a time. People like us fund it. It’s proof of our collective potential to change the world.

We need to protect the space where this important work happens. We need to protect Wikipedia. We want to keep it free of charge and free of advertising. We want to keep it open – you can use the information in Wikipedia any way you want. We want to keep it growing – spreading knowledge everywhere, and inviting participation from everyone.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization I created in 2003 to operate, grow, nurture, and protect Wikipedia. For ten million US dollars a year and with a staff of fewer than 35 people, it runs the fifth most-read website in the entire world. I’m asking for your help so we can continue our work.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s where we’re headed. And with your help, we will get there.

Thank you for using Wikipedia. You’re part of this story: please make a donation today.

Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia

今日，我謹此請求閣下捐款支持維基百科。

我在2001年創立維基百科，並感到非常驚訝，在過去八年有成千上萬的義工加入了我們的團隊，一同建立人類歷史上最豐富和大型的百科全書。

維基百科並非商業網站，它是一個團隊創作，一個完全由像大家一樣的網絡使用者去撰寫和建立的網尋。每月平均有超過三億四千萬的網民在使用維基百科，該數字是接近全球網絡使用者當中的三分之一。大家就是我們團隊的一部份。

我相信我們的團隊，能夠不斷完善維基百科。某人寫下第一筆，另一人改善一點，我們的內容就這樣點點滴滴地進步，集腋成裘，這就是我們的信念。如果你今天已經覺得有用，那麼可以想像到五年，十年，二十年後，我們可以到達哪一層次。

維基百科是一個例證，顯示像我們一般的人，如何創造出驚人成就。大家希望我們有字出字，有錢出錢，進而證明我們可以改變世界的潛力。

然而我們需要保護承載這些驚人成就的舞台，也即是我們需要保護維基百科。我們希望維基百科繼續保持免費，並不會出現任何廣告。我們希望將它保持開放－－你可以任意使用維基百科的內容。我們希望讓它繼續成長－－將知識傳播到世界各地，邀請任何人來貢獻。

維基媒體基金會是一個於2003年創立之非牟利機構，以用作營運、發展、和維護維基百科。在每年募得一千萬美元的捐款，和少於35名職員的情況下，它營運了全球瀏覽數排名第五位的網頁－－維基百科。我謹此請求你的協助，以作維持著我們的工作。

「試想像世界上每一個人，都能自由存取全人類知識的總資料庫。」這是我們一直全力以赴的目標。而且，加上你的幫忙，我們一定可以達到。

多謝大家使用維基百科。你是這個傳奇的一部份：我們需要你的捐款。

維基百科　創辦人
吉米·威爾斯

HONG KONG –The Directory had its monthly meeting earlier today, and accepted Director Johnny Cheung’s resign, & elected Rover Wong as his successor.

Director Cheung had announced his resignation from his Directorship & the post of Commissioner for Outreach, due to his own personal career planing on Monday. The resignation was effective immediately after the approval. Cheung was subsequently invited as advisor for the Outreach Commission.

After the election, Wong, who was the Administrative Assistant for the Outreach Commission, has sworn in as the Director soon after.###

Communications Commission
Wikimedia Hong Kong

香港維基媒體協會理事會今日召開例會，會議上批准張智峯理事的辭職，並選出黃挺峯接替其職務。

張理事在週一因私人理由提出辭去理事兼外展署長的職務，辭職在今日例會批准後生效。張理事獲理事會邀請轉任外展署顧問。

黃理事原為外展署行政助理，當選後隨即宣誓就任理事。

香港維基媒體協會傳訊署
2009年12月5日

Dear Friends

We are actually writing to present a new way of donating to Wikipedia via Wikimedia Hong Kong (WMHK).

As you might hear or even donated before, in the last three months of every year, the Wikimedia Foundation will have an annual fundraising.

From last year, Wikimedia Foundation had invites chapters to involve with such annual process, and dividing the received donation from the particular jurisdiction 50/50 with the regional chapter there.

As the Hong Kong Chapter of Wikimedia, we are excited to join the program this year.

Under such program, you have two choices when you decide to donate to Wikimedia, either go to the Foundation directly or come through us.

We are obviously suggesting the second way to you, because WMHK is one of the Charitable Institutions of a Public Character exempt from tax under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance.

So if you are chargeable to salaries tax, personal assessment or profits tax, you can claim deduction for the aggregate of approved charitable donation up to 35% of the assessable income or profits, with your donation to us is less than $100.

However, the Wikimedia Foundation has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States, so your direct donation to the Foundation may not enjoy such favourable refund, unless you have some business in the States.

As Wikimedia Hong Kong taking part in the chapter fundraising program, the donation to us is the same to donation Foundation, as we will share our donation 50/50 to Foundation too.

As all of you might know that, Wikipedia’s survival & daily operation rely heavily on the donations to Wikimedia Foundation. We actually need quite a lot of funding for various purposes & initiatives, from basic ones like maintaining the servers to coup with larger & larger database, to the global ones like supporting chapter building movements in different countries.

Wikimedia Hong Kong a local non-profit making NGO, whose work aims to help collecting & spreading free knowledge and to support the Wikimedia projects, for example Wikipedia. Promoting free culture along with local counterparts is another important mission. In other words, our major task is helping the Foundation to deal the local press, and other local PR & outreach work. Such work though are mostly done by volunteers, some administrative costs is expected, as well as administrative cost to maintain the chapter as a non-profit making company.

As we are still scrambling for an online donation platform, we suggest you to donate directly to our bank account, either to the account listed below in Chong Hing Bank:

• Name: Wikimedia Hong Kong Ltd
• A/C No. : 041-258-20-900305-8

or make your cheque payable to Wikimedia Hong Kong Limited,
and send it to P.O. Box 73859, KOWLOON CENTRAL POST OFFICE, HONG KONG.

If you require further information, please feel free to contact with Morgan Chan, our Administrative Assistant for Outreach Commission, at +852 6623-0937.

We are looking forward to your coming generous support to us!

Jeromy-Yu Chan, President
Rover Wong, Acting Commissioner for Outreach
Wikimedia Hong Kong

_______________________________________________

HONG KONG – As Director Johnny Cheung had announced his resignation from his post of Commissioner for Outreach & Directorship, due to his own personal career planing today, the President of Directory announced the following appointments in this morning, which were all effective immediately:

a. Rover Wong  was appointed the Acting Commissioner for Outreach, until any other resolution pass by the Directory. Rover was the Administrative Assistant of the Commission.

b. Morgan Chan was appointed the Administrative Assistant in the Outreach Commission, who was the AA in Secretariat.  He should also remain to be the Press contact of the chapter.

For Mr Cheung’s resignation, the President of the Directory had accepted his resignation from his post of Commissioner, which was  effective immediately. However, his resignation from his directorship will be subjected to the final decision of the Directory. The directory will assemble for the final decision as soon as possible. ###

Communications Commission
Wikimedia Hong Kong

香港大學新聞及傳媒研究中心主持的「香港共享創意」(Creative Commons Hong Kong)，今天假香港大學舉行記者會，回應香港教育課程改革，特意啟動「創意通」通識計劃，以資源共用的方法向學界及社會人士貢獻文字及視聽教學資源，方便老師們放心用來創建通識教材，作教育及非牟利用途。香港維基媒體協會是「共享創意」的合作夥伴，將為通識課程的開設「通識課程電子書」的網上平台。出席嘉賓包括香港大學副校長周肇平教授、香港教育局副局長陳維安、香港電台副廣播處長梁松泰、香港知識產權署副署長張錦輝、 香港維基媒體協會外展署長張智峯；香港教育學院跨學科及通識教研中心助理項目經理陳智達博士等。

今年九月開始新高中學制，通識科教材較缺乏，「香港共享創意」記者會上將公佈「創意通」首期材料，包括《香港電台》、《亞洲週刊》、《讀者文摘》所授權以「共享創意」條款合法版權分享的內容。當中，《香港電台》貢獻約50項反映香江情懷的聲音、圖片及視像資料；包括回歸十年 (1997 – 2007) – 聲音檔案片段、「香港文學行腳」地點考察影片、「香港生態遊」導賞影片、「山水傳奇2009」風景片段、香港特別行政區行政長官施政報告、終審法院首席法官李國能「2009法律年度開啟典禮」演詞，及新聞專題等。其他材料包括《亞洲週刊》貢獻的中國歷史文章結集；及《讀者文摘》（中文版）的十篇優美文章等。

維基媒體基金會在近日正式公佈第一個官方供維基百科使用的應用程式，可讓iPhone用戶透過本程式直接於iPhone瀏覽維基百科的條目。此程式現時已可以在 App Store 免費下載。

雖然如此，但本程式和其他既有的可以瀏覽維基百科的程式，例如 Taptu’s Wapedia, Wikiamo 和 Wikipanion 等，在功能和介面上也是相差無幾，而且當這些附加程式可以提供到更容易瀏覽程式內容的列表和直接於頁面進行搜尋，或是儲存頁面以供離線瀏覽的時候，官方的維基百科附加程式仍然未支援這樣的功能。而此程式中唯一「進步」了的功能則是可以記錄曾經瀏覽過的頁面。

當然，對於維基而言，這次是第一次的嘗試，而且維基百科的手機功能研發隊伍亦將本程式以公開原始碼形式發佈，我們亦是感到高興。但事實上，在第一次啟動本程式時，搜查列時上還是充斥著”::Home”的時候，也証明到此程式若要跟其他「非官方」程式作比擬的話，仍需更作改善雕琢。但無論如何，若果你有意用一個較輕便的方法瀏覽維基百科，又不想安裝此程式的話，也可以直接連接官方手機版網址。

原文轉載自：此連結。

HONG KONG – According to the announcement on the official website of Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the Board election of Trustees 2009 is ended in 10th August 2009, and the result of election have been announced in 12th August 2009.
The winner of the election are Tien CHEN, Kat WALSH and Samuel KLEIN. Their position will be effective until July 2011.

In total, 2940 valid ballots were cast. For the detail of the election or viewing the specific result of candidates, please visit this link.

WMHK would also like to express our congratulations towards the elected candidate. ####

據維基媒體基金會官方網站，2009年理事會選舉之結果已於2009年8月12日正式公布。

是次選舉中當選包括陳霆、Kat Walsh和Samuel Klein。是次結果將會於下次基金會理事會會議中被確認為新一屆的理事，任期兩年，至2011年7月。

本次選舉共收到2940份有效選票，欲查看具體的結果及個別候選人之票數，請按此連結

香港維基媒體協會謹此祝賀各位後任理事，成功當選。