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<big>'''This is a [[wmpl:|Wikimedia Polska]] report for 2016'''</big>
= Summary =
According to our plans for 2015 from December 2015 till December 2016<ref name="plans">[[Wikimedia_Polska/Plans_for_2016]]</ref>, we managed to:
;In terms of our support for content creation:
*We organized successfully as planned 2 wikiexpeditions (2400 pictures uploaded), 
*We organized successfully oWikiphoto contest "Wakacje z Wikipedią" (over 4000 pictures uploaded)
*We continued Wikigrants program (53 microgrants donated resulting over 6300 pictures uploaded and 1050 articles written or expanded)
*We finished 2 (instead of one planned) audio-recording projects (46 audio-files uploaded)
*Our GLAM project expanded this year enormously. The cooperation with 15 GLAM organizations resulted in 16545 uploaded pictures of which 11097 are reused in various Wikimedia projects. The uploaded pictures were visited over 15 millions times.

;In terms of outreach/promotion
*As planed we continued organizing wikiworkshops and edithathons. There were 17 of them till the end of November 2016 (out of planned 25) - but several of them were series of regular meetings giving better chance for better retention. The exact number of trained persons as well as retention of new users is however unknown. As it was decided not to hire workshops coordinator, vast majority of workshops were organized by our press officer and hired by him volunteers.
*As  planned we continued of work of our PR team consisting of press officer and communication officer responsible for maintaining social media profiles, official Wikimedia Polska blog, publishing newsletter and maintaining contacts with mainstream media, especially during crisis situations.
*The contests: Thematic Weeks (around 40 participants, 19 winners) and CEE Spring (around 40 participants) were performed as planned. Additionally we also played a role of international coordinator and back-office supporter of CEE Spring for other CEE Chapters and usergroups.
*As we had supplies from previous years, we produced smaller amount of promotional materials than in 2015. The were used in our other activities as needed.
*ProWikimedia award ceremony was not organized, due to lack of new volunteers to be awarded.
*POTY/WLM exhibition was presented in 2 cities.
*The budget for external, non-wikimedia meetings was not used, as no-one applied for this.

;In terms of meetings and conferences
*Winter retreat meeting was organized as planned. It was attended by 39 wikimedians who provided 6 workshops, 3 panel discussions and 3 lectures.
*Polish Wikimedia Annual Conference was organized as planned. It was attended by 72 participants who provided 18 lectures and workshops.
*We organized 4 local meetings -  2 as a part of celebration of Wikipedia 15th anniversary, and 2 informal wikigrils, one in Poznan and in Warsaw.
*Additionally it was organized Wikipedia 15 celebration in Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, just before Winter retreat meeting.
*The Public Domain Day was organized as planned in Solec 44 Club in Warsaw and it was attended by aorund 100 participants.
*We organized Outreach Workshop for exchange experiences and to create a better way of conducting Wikiworkshops. It was attended by 6 people - 2 employees of Wikimedia Polska and 4 volunteers.
*We were not engaged financially in organizing Coalition for Open Educations summer meeting this year, as it was enough money for this purpose from external sources.

;In terms of International support and collaboration
*As planned Wikimedia Polska funded 4 scholarhips for Polish Wikimedians and 2 for foreign ones for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario. 
*As planned Wikimedia Polska supported financially Free Knowledge Advocacy Group (FKAGEU).
*Wikimedia Polska funded scholarships or reimbursed travels for: Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin (4 people),  Wikimedia CEE 2016 meeting in Armenia (4 people), Wikimedia Russia Conference (2 people), Wikimedia Ukraine Conference (2 people) and  Partnership Workshop in Berlin (1 person).
*Wikimedia Polska invited and financially supported 6 guests from abroad to our Wikimedia Polska Conference in Lublin
*Wikimedia Polska  co-organized a tri-lateral Polish-Czech-Slovak meeting in Ostrava.   

;In terms of overall budget and operational costs
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=Detailed report=

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== Financial Report ==

=== Structure of income ===
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! Source !! Amount (PLN) !! Amount (USD) !! %
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| 1% tax deductible ||  ||  || 
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| other donations ||  ||   || 
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| WMF grants ||  || ||  
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| membership fees ||  ||  || 
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| other || ||  || 
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| '''Total''' ||  || || 
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=== Structure of expenses ===
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!     !! PLANED !! !! !!  SPENT !! !! 
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!  Name !! Amount (PLN) !! Amount (USD) !! % !! Amount (PLN) !! Amount (USD) !! %
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| Projects || 200 000 || 50000 || 31 || || || 
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| Promotion/outreach || 150 000 || 37 500 || 23.25  || || || 
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| Conferences/meetings || 80 000 || 20 000 || 12.4  || || || 
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| International support || 65 000 || 16 250 || 10.1  || || || 
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| Operational || 150 000 || 37 500 || 23.25  || || || 
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| '''Total''' || '''645 000''' || '''161 250''' || '''100'''  || || || 
|}

== General infrastructure ==
Wikimedia Polska is a registered association run under Polish law and having a legal personality. It was established on November 15, 2005 in Łódź and obtained its tax deductible status on March 28, 2007.

Number of members: 124 (as of November 30, 2016)

* '''Number of regular employees:''' 5 (secretary running an office, accountant, GLAM coordinator, Head of Press Office, Press Officer)
* '''Number of irregular paid staff:''' 2 time-contractors (Wikiwakacje coordinator, and WiR in National Museum in Warsaw)

=== Structure and governance ===
* The Executive Board consists of seven active Members: the President, Vice-president, Treasurer, Secretary and three regular Members. 
* The Audit Committee consists of three active Members including its Head.
* The Arbitration Committee consists of three active Members including its Head.
Present members of the Executive Board, Audit and Arbitration Committees were elected in June 2016 for a period of two years. See: [http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Władze Władze]

=== Office and maintained infrastructure ===
Wikimedia Polska runs one physical office. The '''headquarters''' is located in Łódź, 15 Tuwima Street. Rented facility of approx. 20 m² is equipped with 3 computers and an MFP.

The Chapter has been maintaining one dedicated server and 2 virtual:
;Dedicated server rented from OVH ([http://tools.wikimedia.pl]):
:The server is being used by 40 people (40 shell accounts), mainly for the operation of bots and for holding source photographs and scans. The server holds 3 wikis (Polish Wikipedia ArbCom wiki, internal wiki of WMPL Board and an open test wiki for checking if Polish Wikipedia templates and scripts are compatible with new versions of MediaWiki), 1 Wordpress-based service: the main blog of Wikimedia Polska, and 6 static html-5 based pages: official page of Wiki Loves Monuments [http://http://wikizabytki.pl/], official page of Wiki Loves Earth [http://wikiprzyroda.pl/], official page of E-textbooks contest [http://wikiepodreczniki.pl/], official page of WikiWakacje contest [http://wikiwakacje.pl/], offical page of CEE Spring blog: [http://ceespring.eu], landing page for wikipedia.pl domain [http://wikipedia.pl/] and landing page for our 1% action [http://opp.wikimedia.pl]. The server also holds a dozen of mailing lists [http://tools.wikimedia.pl/mailman/listinfo] (see also: [http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Listy_dyskusyjne Listy dyskusyjne]). 
;Virtual server on az.pl and transfer to nazwa.pl E-mail service
:Virtual server on az.pl  was mainly used as a mailbox for holding official E-mail accounts of WMPL (for employees, members of the Board, press officer and leaders of WMPL projects). It was closed and the E-mail accounts were transferred to nazwa.pl paid E-mail service. It was done due to high increase of costs of virtual server on az.pl. See [http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Adresy_e-mail Adresy e-mail].

=== Operated Internet domains ===
WMPL pays for holding 24 domains - (see [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/UZ_2016-6 UZ 2016-6]). Most of the domains are simply redirected to the relevant Wikimedia projects and are mainly held in order to avoid squatting. http://www.wikipedia.pl points to the search engine in order to avoid direct legal responsibility for Polish Wikipedia content. Several domains http://wikizabytki.pl,  http://wikiprzyroda.pl/ and http://ceespring.eu point to official pages of the contest we were organizing.  http://www.koed.org.pl points to the official page of Coalition for Open Education. ''See detailed list of domains: [http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Domeny Domeny]''

== Activities ==
=== Content creation ===
==== Wikiexpeditions 2016 ====
'''Budget - 1175,22 PLN  for the Opolska Wikiexpedition and 2500 PLN for the Automotive Wikiexpedition '''

Wikiexpeditions are trips aimed to gather photographic documentations and sources about a selected area or related to a selected topic. Different Wikiexpeditions are being organized by Wikimedia Polska every year since the first Wikiexpedition in 2008.  

In 2016 two Wikiexpeditions were held:
* Wikiekspedycja Opolska was a joint Wikiexpedition held by Wikimedia Polska and Wikimedia Ceska Republika as a part of their Wikiexpedice Slezsko. The goal of the expedition was to gather photographic documentation of the villages and towns of the Silesian region, near the Polish and Czech border which have no or very little pictures on Wikimedia Commons. The expedition lasted a week. During that time a team consisting out of Polish and Czech Wikipedians traveled and photographed notable objects in the region. The project resulted in more than 1800 photographs uploaded in Wikimedia Commons. See:<ref>[[:commons:Category:Mediagrant III:Wikiexpedice Slezsko|Category on Commons]]</ref>. 
* Automotive Wikiexpedition (Wikiekspedycja Motoryzacyjna) was an expedition aimed to gather photographic documentation related to cars and other vehicles and objects held in Polish automotive and technical museums. The team of 3 Wikimdians traveled for a week all through Poland and visiting more than 20 museums, factories and other places related to the subject. The project resulted in almost 600 photos on Wikimedia Commons. See:<ref> [[:commons:Category:Wikiekspedycja motoryzacyjna 2016]]</ref>

==== Audio-recordings ====
[[File:Adrian Wiśniewski, Gabriela Oberbek i Kamil Dominiak w studiu nagraniowym.JPG|250px|thumb|Actors preparing for recording poems of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński]]
'''Budget: 6000 PLN for Ovid, 5700 PLN for Baczyński'''
:We are continuing the project of creating open-licensed audio recordings of important works of literature. The recordings are made by professional actors in a recording studio and put on Wikimedia Commons. 
:In 2016 we have continued with recording the poetry of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński - one of the most important Polish writers who had died during the World War II. While in 2015 we recorded his war poems this year we created recordings of his love poems. We recorded 21 poems which are now on Wikimedia Commons. See: <ref>[[:commons:Category:Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński audio recordings|Category on Wikimedia Commons]]</ref>
:We have also recorded Polish translation by ''Ars Amatoria'' by Ovid. The book to be recorded was chosen by the Polish Wikisource Community as a part of a campaign of popularizing important but not so well known literary works of art. Audio recordings of all three books of ''Art Amatoria'' are on Wikimedia Commons. See:<ref>[[:commons:Category:Uchwała Zarządu WMPL UZ 2016-15|Category on Wikimedia Commons]]</ref>

==== Wakacje z Wikipedią ====
[[File:Jezioro Mietkowskie ze Ślężą w tle.jpg|Mietkowski Lake - the winning picture of the WikiVacation contest|250px|right|thumb]]
'''Budget 21 000 PLN''' 
:WikiVacation (''Wakacje z Wikipedią'') is a photographic contest aimed to gather photos of monuments, nature, and art located in public space, along with small urban architecture of historical value. Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society—one of the oldest tourist societies in Europe, was the contest partner, helping in promoting the project. 243 users participated and uploaded more than 4000 photos.<ref>w kategorii jest więcej, ale użytkowniczka się wycofała, więc nie wiem jak to traktować. help. </ref> See: <ref> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/18/poland-wikivacations/</ref><ref>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikiwakacje</ref>
*Pages: [[Wakacje z Wikipedią]], [http://wikiwakacje.pl/] i [[:w:pl:Wikipedia:Wikiwakacje]]

==== Wikigrants ====
;Budget - 13 957,41 PLN
:As in previous years we continued our micro-grant project with similar success as during 2015. There were 56 applications in 2015 till November 2016 of which 3 were rejected. 53 of them are already accepted and successfully finished or being in progress, which resulted in 1050 articles written or expanded in Polish Wikipedia, 6300 pictures uploaded to Wikimedia Commons + scans of 50 public domain books, 300 new entries in Polish Wictionary as well as 3 photo reports in Wikinews.
:'''Further reading:''' [http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigranty Wikigranty on Polish Chapter wiki]

=== GLAM initiatives ===
;Budget 51 900 PLN
Wikimedia Polska's GLAM activities included successful continued collaborations with the National Museum of Warsaw, the National Museum of Ethnography and other institutions. The WMPL GLAM coordinator supported the submission, application and reporting of an IEG Grant for the creation of a new upload tool for Wikimedia Commons – Pattypan. For the first time, WMPL was awarded a Project and Event Grant for a GLAM project – ''Ethnography of the Carpathians'', a project running from mid-2016 till late 2017. Around 6000 new files from cultural partnerships were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and over 23000 files were uploaded by Commons users of Pattypan uploader.
* Out of the total 16600 files from GLAM partnerships, roughly 6000 were uploaded in 2016;
* The overall number of GLAM files is used 11097 times in Wikimedia projects;
* The overall number of GLAM files has on average 15,663,000 monthly views.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ GLAM file statistics
|-
|''Institution''
|''Files in Wikimedia Commons''
|''Reuse in WM projects''
|''Views in WM projects''
|-
|AMU Burszta Archive
|7830
|308
|355307
|-
|Central Archives of Historical Records
|1612
|234
|1445386
|-
|European Solidarity Centre
|80
|109
|395547
|-
|National Museum in Warsaw
|738
|4367
|3517975
|-
|National Museum of Ethnography
|1340
|250
|216113
|-
|Małopolska Institute of Culture
|1600
|31
|102557
|-
|Museum of Art, Lodz
|35
|29
|26101
|-
|Museum of Motor Vehicles, Nieborów
|127
|16
|45672
|-
|National Maritime Museum
|100
|20
|3455
|-
|Pijarowski collection
|300
|458
|924355
|-
|Senate of Poland
|1632
|4645
|6793218
|-
|State Archive in Poznań
|671
|345
|1405916
|-
|State Archive in Lodz
|137
|82 
|107770
|-
|Tatra Museum
|40
|10
|5451
|-
|Zachęta National Gallery of Art
|312
|196
|318609
|-
|'''''Overall'''''
|'''16545'''
|'''11097'''
|'''15,663,432'''
|}

==== Wikipedian-in-Residence at the National Museum in Warsaw ====
[[w:pl:Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Kolekcja Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie/Faras|Faras project page]] | [[w:pl:Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie/Faras/English|Faras Wikiproject]] | [[c:Category:Media contributed by the National Museum in Warsaw|NMW in Wikimedia Commons]]
[[File:Otwarte projekty cyfrowe. Zbiory MNW w Wikipedii.pdf|thumb|page=6|NMW GLAM-WIKI open publication]]

The W-i-R program, initiated in late 2015, was carried out throughout 2016 in two stages: firstly, during the 3-month 'pilot' the WiR worked with a group of volunteers on the theme of pastel artworks from the NMW collection. Following that, the Museum decided to employ the WiR for a 6-month themed project entitled ''[[w:pl:Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Kolekcja Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie/Faras|Faras on Wikipedia]]'' (the WiR receives a small salary from the Museum and is in charge of staff trainings, training new volunteer editors, helping them online with articles and generally overseeing the progress of article writing and upload process). The project aimed to create and improve Wikipedia and Commons content concerning the Faras archaeological discoveries, the Faras Cathedral, and the Faras Gallery – a collection unique on a European scale.  

Participants wrote a total of around 60 articles on this subject in several languages including Polish, English, Russian, Belarussian and others (see [[w:pl:Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Kolekcja Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie/Faras|article list]]). Articles were illustrated by photographs contributed to Wikimedia Commons by the National Museum in Warsaw. The NMW also hosted an editing meeting for the [[w:pl:Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie/Europeana Art History Challenge|Europeana Art History Challenge]]. Throughout the competition, 32 articles were written and around 200 statements added to Wikidata. NMW collaboration in 2016 resulted in overall: 
* A total of approximately 100 new articles;
* Over 600 files in Wikimedia Commons, highly reused and viewed in Wikimedia projects – 4367 usages across Wikimedia projects and [https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/index.html#gid=253&month=201610 3.5 million image views] per month
* An open publication about the projects and good practices for open sharing of heritage; 
* Continuing collaboration with plans for a new themed project in 2017, and ongoing upload of the collections.

==== ''Digital Museum'' GLAM conference ====
[[outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/October 2016/Contents/Poland report|Short report]] | [[c:Category:Muzeum Cyfrowe 2016|Photos and presentations]] 
[[File:Konferencja 'Muzeum Cyfrowe' MNW 10.jpg|thumb|'Digital museum' conference, October 2016]]
On 19th October the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) hosted the [[wmpl:GLAM/Konferencja Muzeum Cyfrowe|Digital Museum conference]], co-organised by Wikimedia Polska. The meeting was attended by almost 130 representatives of large to small Polish GLAM sector institutions.

The conference marked the first anniversary of our Wikipedian-in-Residence program and also a second anniversary of the opening of the refurbished Faras Gallery. Our Wikipedian-in-Residence program and the collaboration between the museum and Polish Wikimedia community served as an inspiration towards discussion on more general topics: best practices in digitisation of cultural heritage, cooperation between GLAM institutions and the wider public, or the role museum visitors (both real-life and digital) can play in creating and disseminating knowledge.

==== Carpathian Ethnography Project ====
[[w:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/Carpathian Ethnography Project|Project page]] | [[c:Category:Carpathian Ethnography Project|Category on Wikimedia Commons]] 
[[File:Żywiecki strój mieszczański 01.jpg|thumb|Żywiec bourgeoisie ladies' outfit, XIXth century]]
This project, ran in partnership with the National Museum of Ethnography, began in August 2016 and will be in progress until October 2017. The aim of the project is a substantial improvement of the coverage of European folklore on English-language Wikipedia and local-language Wikipedia versions. The majority of the regional museums are at the moment unable to share their own images, archives or collections online or in Wikimedia projects. Ethnographic museums frequently lack funds or training to share open images. Expertise of Museum staff allows participants to identify the valuable material, which would not be obtained by generic wikiexpeditions or photo competitions. Using the collected [[w:Wikipedia:GLAM/Ethnographic Museum Warsaw/Sources|bibliography]], the team has predefined main article subjects for each country – together, these will form a valuable resource on European ethnography. 

* 2 of the 5 expeditions were carried out as planned with images taken and film clips recorded;
* Article creation is in progress ([[w:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/Carpathian Ethnography Project/Articles|article table]] across 6 languages)
* Image upload is in progress – 300 images uploaded, 300+ more pending upload – [[c:Category:Carpathian Ethnography Project|view files on Wikimedia Commons]];
* 1 training locally (in Poland, at the Tatra Museum in Zakopane)
* Wikimedians from Czech Republic and Slovakia have joined the project and will continue participating in 2017.

==== National Maritime Museum ==== 
[[w:pl:Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Narodowe Muzeum Morskie|Project page]] | [[c:Commons:Media contributed by the National Maritime Museum|Wikimedia Commons]]

The National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk has contributed 100 files so far and mass upload of a further 1000 files is planned for the end of December. 
A Wikipedian-in-Residence has begun working and is writing new articles in Polish and English; a group of local high-school students is to be trained in editing and will write articles under the W-i-R's supervision on related topics in early 2027.

==== Private collections ====
* Art collector and photographer Jarosław Pijarowski donated CC BY-SA photographs and reproductions of artworks – [[c:Category:Photographs by Jarosław Pijarowski|300 images]], reused in projects 456 times.
* A photo-safari at the privately-run Museum of Motor Vehicles in Nieborów resulted in documentation on Wikimedia Commons [[c:Category:Museum of Motor Vehicles in Nieborów|of 130 images from this museum]].

==== Continued collaborations ====
*Collaboration with the [[c:Category:Files provided by Senate of Poland|Senate of Poland]] is ongoing. 120 new images were uploaded in 2016; the images, uploaded by a Wikimedian volunteer, have a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Files+provided+by+Senate+of+Poland&use_globalusage=1&ns0=1&depth=4&show_details=1&projects%5Bwikipedia%5D=1&projects%5Bwikimedia%5D=1&projects%5Bwikisource%5D=1&projects%5Bwikibooks%5D=1&projects%5Bwikiquote%5D=1&projects%5Bwiktionary%5D=1&projects%5Bwikinews%5D=1&projects%5Bwikivoyage%5D=1&projects%5Bwikispecies%5D=1&projects%5Bmediawiki%5D=1&projects%5Bwikidata%5D=1&projects%5Bwikiversity%5D=1 high rate of reuse across many Wikimedia projects] – 4632 usages in projects, 6.5 million monthly image views. 
* The [[c:Category:Media contributed by Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych|Central Archives of Historical Records]] have also donated 120 new images to Wikimedia Commons.
* The Małopolska Institute of Culture donated 100 images;
* The European Solidarity Centre donated 50 new images.

==== Emerging collaborations ====
Wikimedia Polska is a partner in two projects due to begin in 2017 pending the financial support for museum projects from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage:
*POLIN Museum
*KARTA Centre

==== Pattypan uploader ====
[[c:Commons:Pattypan|Uploader page]] | [[meta:Grants:IEG/Batch uploader for small GLAM projects|Grant page]] | [[c:Category:Uploaded with pattypan|Files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons]]
* The GLAM coordinator facilitated the grant reporting, testing and community dissemination of the [[c:Commons:Pattypan|Pattypan uploader]] tool created by Yarl thanks to a successful Project and Event Grant submission. Instruction leaflet, manual and other materials were created for the tool. The [[meta:Grants:IEG/Batch uploader for small GLAM projects/Final|final report can be found here]]. 
* As of December 2016, [[c:Category:Uploaded with pattypan|over 23 000 files were uploaded]] to Wikimedia Commons using Pattypan, most of them originating from GLAM institutions in various countries.

== Outreach and promotion ==

=== Workshops and edithathons ===
Since December 2015 we carried out or supported over 17 wiki workshops and lectures on editing Wikipedia and her sister projects (full list in Polish [[:wmpl:Szablon:Wikiwarsztaty - lista|is available here]]). In [[Wmpl:Warsztat warsztatowy 2016|March we met for a working session]] in order to establish the best practices for organising wiki workshops in Poland. The results were [[Outreach:Education/Warsztat idealny|published in Polish]] [[Outreach:Education/Ideal workshop|and English]] on Outreach Wiki, and popularised among the Central European wiki community during the [[Konferencja Wikimedia Polska 2016|2016 conference in Lublin]] as well as during the [[Meta:Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016|Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016]] and a working meeting in Ostrava in November this year. A by-product of the work on improving our workshops is a [[Outreach:Education/Class activities database|database of classroom activities]], also available on Outreach Wiki. 

Some of our workshops organised in the passing year were intended for participants of our GLAM cooperation projects. Among them the most notable were the workshops for participants of our [[:wmpl:GLAM/Projekty/WiR w Muzeum Narodowym w Warszawie|W-i-R projects at the National Museum in Warsaw]]. The ongoing project resulted in several dozen articles on important pastel paintings and painters, as well as a number of well-referenced articles related to the Faras Gallery of Nubian art. Many of them were translated to English, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and other languages and constitute a large body of knowledge available to all. More information about our W-i-R projects in the GLAM section. 

We also took over a university project started independently by professors at the Faculty of Biology of Warsaw University. In March 2016 we started a [[w:pl:Wikipedia dla zaawansowanych… biologów|more formal cooperation]], with over 120 students lectured and over 55 well-developed articles on taxonomical units created on Polish Wikipedia, and plans for another round in the spring of 2017. Another large project is related to our [[W:pl:Wikiprojekt:Biblioteka|cooperation with the Association of Polish Librarians]], whose volunteers plan to write 100 biographies of notable librarians next year and improve the coverage of bibliology on Polish Wikipedia. We also organised a number of one-time workshops for various groups, ranging from [[:wmpl:Warsztat w ISM UW|students of International relations at Warsaw University]], to [[Wmpl:Warsztat dla uczestników programu EnglishTeaching|teachers of English as a foreign language]] from small towns. Overall, most such workshops provide good results in terms of number of articles created, we strive to improve user retention though.  

=== Communications team ===
;Budget 93 800 PLN
* we managed our profiles in social media channels related to Polish Wikipedia and Wikimedia Polska. Our strategy is to show interesting content on Wikipedia and to promote activities hosted by Wikimedia Polska and interesting GLAM content. We raised the number of our followers on Twitter and Facebook by 15% to 30% (depending on the profile). This year we also started a profile on Instagram
* we [http://blog.wikimedia.pl/ host a blog] where we write about Wikipedia, and projects and activities organized by Wikimedia Polska
* we publish a weekly newsletter dedicated to our members and for Wikimedians in which we inform the readers about interesting events, projects and initiatives. You can find all editions [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Z_%C5%BCycia_Stowarzyszenia here]
* we held an informational campaign about Wikipedia, inviting our users to ask questions about the project, its' community and rules, and then published our answers via social media profiles and/or the blog
* the communications team handled 3 major media crises in 2016. All three of them were related to Wikipedia being accused of censorship by Twitter users and the right-wing media
* we published some information about our projects on the Wikimedia Foundation blog (some separate posts, some information for the Community Digest)
* we promoted some events and projects in the media and issued press releases related to those events (including Wikipedia15, WikiVacation, the milestone of the slWikipedia)
* our team took part in some international meetings (WMCEE2016, WMCON2016 and Polish-Czech meeting in Ostrava) exchanging experiences with other communities

=== Editing Contests ===
;Thematic weeks
:'''Budget: 4793,17 PLN'''
::The "Thematic Weeks" Wikiproject in Polish Wikipedia has been maintained by volunteers for a few years. The idea is to announce this in the Wikipedia Pub and to work together for one week on a specific set of topics - for example: Armenia, historic naval ships, video games,  etc. Wikimedia Polska decided to organize a contest around the Wikiproject, by donating books for the authors who contribute most to the Thematic Weeks. Around 40 participants joined the project in 2016 of which 19 won one or more prizes. See more information: [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt_Tygodnie_Tematyczne]

;CEE Spring
:'''Budget: 3500''' (for Polish part of the Contest)

::In 2016 Wikimedia Polska was greatly engaged in organization of the CEE Spring 2016 contest - an international editing contest about the Central and Eastern Europe. We were a fiscal sponsor of the WMF grant for the contest<ref> [[:meta:Grants:PEG/UG BG/CEE Spring|grant application on Meta</ref>. Our staff helped with administrating the grant. We bought prizes for 6 communities and reimbursed prizes for 9 local communities. We also helped in promoting the contest - we bought and hosted the domain for the contest blog (www.ceespring.eu) and we assigned our communication specialist to be a part of the local organizing team. We also supported one of the contest goals - fighting the contest gender gap - by funding prizes for the international  Woman in Science and Education Week which was organized as a part of the contest.  

::We also organized CEE Spring 2016 in Polish Wikipedia and funded local prizes for Polish users. In result 843 articles were created and 69 were improved in Polish Wikipedia. 40 users participated. It is also worth mentioning that we funded a special prize for the person who creates the most articles about notable women during the contest. In result more than 61% of biographies created during the contest was about women. See more statistics: [[:meta:User:BaseBot/CEES/MMXVI/Wikis]]

=== POTY/WLM exhibition ===
;Budget 5000 PLN (in progress)
:Starting in 2011, Wikimedia Polska has been supporting a mobile exhibition of the best pictures awarded in the [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2011/Results Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year] competition. The printed reproductions (26 of A0 size, 1 of A1) of winning pictures from the years 2006-2013 are presented in publicly accessible places across Poland in order to promote Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia  /Wikipedia, free culture and free licenses. The same idea was applied with Wiki Loves Monuments - a mobile exhibition of the 2012-2014 winners of the Polish edition of WLM (36 A1 size reproductions). As the "market" for the projects seems to be saturated we do not invest in them, but still continue based on the budget granted in 2014. In 2016 both exhibitions were presented for several weeks in 2 cities: Kolno and Łomża.  '''Further details:''' [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wystawa_fotografii_Wiki_Lubi_Zabytki WLM exhibition on Wikimedia Polska wiki]

=== Promotional materials ===
[[File:WMPL Wikiconference 2016 day 2 (1).jpg|thumb|Table with our gadgets]]
;Budget - 6000 PLN
As we had supplies from previous years, we produced smaller ammount of promotional materials than in 2015:
* 1000 magnetic bookmarks with Wikimedia logo and PD pictures from our GLAM project in National Museum in Warsaw
* 500 brochures about Faras project (partially donated by National Museum in Warsaw
* 2000 postcards with 2015 winners of Wiki Loves Earth contest (based on agreement with Wikimedia Ukraine) - vast majority of them were shipped to chapters and usergroups organizing WLE worldwide
* 2000 stickers with Wikimedia projects' logos
* around 200 buttons with Wikimedia project's logos (printed in small quantities, as needed)
* specialized GLAM leaflets in Polish and English were created and printed in small quantities (around 200 copies) as needed by GLAM coordinator and the press office. 
All gadgets were used during various promotional occasions such as wikiworkshops, meetings in GLAM institutions, meetings with journalists, during conferences etc.

== Meetings conferences ==
=== Winter Meeting 2016===
[[File:Zlot Zimowy 2016 - 04.jpg|250 px|thumb|right|The attendees of the Winter Meeting 2016 during a workshop]]
;Budget - 14774,45 PLN
:The Winter Meeting was a meeting aimed to create a space for exchanging ideas, learning and discussing future projects for the Polish community. It took place from January 15th till January 17th in a form of a weekend retreat in Mroga, a small village near Lodz. It was attended by 39 participants. The program included 6 workshops, 3 panel discussions and 3 lectures and a series of informal activities. See more: <ref>https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Zlot_Zimowy_2016</ref>.
:The meeting was proceeded with a celebration of Wikipedia 15 (see below)

=== Wikipedia 15 and other local meetings ===
:We have supported meetings related to the 15th birthday of English and Polish Wikipedia. 
::The main Wikipedia 15 celebration was held in Zachęta National Gallery of Art on January 15th. The event was opened for everyone - Wikimedians, readers, supporters, journalists etc. There were some storytelling from long time Wikipedians, a projection of short videos with writers, journalists and scholars thanking Wikipedia and a panel discussion about the future of Wikipedia. 
::There were also two local meetings related to Wikipedia 15 - one held in Września and the other in Poznań.
:There were also 2 wikigrils in Poznań and 1 in Warsaw - supported partially by Wikimedia Polska.

=== Public Domain Day ===
;Budget - 2500 PLN
We Co-organized Public Domain Day in Poland, which took place in Solec 44 Club in Warsaw on January 2016 during which there was a Wikipedia edithaton and presentation of Wikisources by our press officer. It was attended by around 100 persons.

=== Wikimedia Polska Conference 2016 ===
[[File:Głosowanie (26845530033).jpg|thumb|Voting during WMPL general assembly]]
'''Budget - 45.000 PLN (limit)''' 
:Our annual conference took place  3–5 June 2016 in Lublin. There were 72 participants, of which 6 were from abroad (3 from Ukraine, 2 from Belarus, and 1 from Russia). The conference lasted 3 days, it included 18 lectures and workshops as well as the general assembly of Wikimedia Polska. '''Further details: [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Konferencja_Wikimedia_Polska_2016]'''

=== Outreach Workshop 2016 ===
'''Budget 922 PLN '''
:Outreach Workshop (''Warsztat warsztatowy'') was a meeting of Wikimedia Polska staff and volunteers engaged in outreach activities. The aim of the meeting was to exchange experiences and to create a better way of conducting WikiWorkshops and to find a formula which would made them more efficient in the terms of user retention. There were 6 participants. The meeting resulted in writing a draft of a model workshop and opened space for future work and findings.

=== Wikimania ===
;Budget  20 188.95 PLN 
:Wikimedia Polska funded 4 scholarhips for Polish Wikimedians and 2 for foreign ones for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario. The extended report from our activities during the conference has been published on our wiki: [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016/sprawozdanie].

=== Wikimedia CEE 2017 ===
:As we won the bid to organize Wikimedia CEE 2017 conference - we formed the organizing team, contacted and signed preliminary contracts with venue (POLIN museum in Warsaw) and hotel (MDM in Warsaw) and submitted grant application. See: [[:meta:Grants:Conference/Wikimedia_Polska/CEE_Meeting_2017]].

=== Conferences attended by our members ===
;Wikimedia Conference 2016 budget 15 000 PLN
:4 representatives of Wikimedia Polska attended the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. 
;Wikimedia CEE 2016 budget 10 000 PLN
:6 representatives of Wikimedia Polska attended Wikimedia CEE Meeting in Armenia. 5 of them presented lectures or were organizing workshops. One representative of Wikimedia Polska (Polimerek) was also a member of program committee of this conference. Extended reports: [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2016/Sprawozdanie]. 
;Meeting with Wikimedia Czech and Wikimedia Slovakia in Ostrava.  Budget 2250 PLN
:Wikimedia CZ-PL-SK Meeting was a three-day meeting of representatives of Czech, Slovak and Polish Wikimedia organisations (chapters/user groups). It took place in the city of Ostrava between 25th and 27th of November 2016. During the meeting we exchanged experiences and plans regarding some of the most pressing matters, including education, GLAM cooperation, PR&Comms strategies, chapter governance and future project. We also discussed Czech involvement in organisation of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2017. Report: [[:meta:Wikimedia CZ-PL-SK Meeting Ostrava]]
;Wikimedia Russia Conference, Budget 7000 PLN
:2 delegates of Wikimedia Polska, Ency and Krokus took part in Wikimedia Russia Conference 2016. Ency provided a lecture about Wikimedia Polska and Krokus about Wikisource. Extended report: [https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Konferencja_Wikimedia_RU_2016]
;Wikimedia Ukraine Conference, Budget 2840 PLN
:2 delegates of Wikimedia Polska, Lantuszka and Julo took part in Wikimedia Ukraine Conference.[uzupełnić - brak raportu]
;Partnerships Workshop Budget 1200 PLN
:Marta Moraczewska, our GLAM coordinator attended a Partnership Workshop in Berlin  28-29 November.

== Advocacy and international support ==
=== Coalition for Open Eduaction ===
Wikimedia Polska continued its activity within Coalition for Open Education - a semi formal platform for cooperation and advocacy of NGO and educational organizations interested in creation and promotion of open licensed educational materials. Among others our GLAM coordinator cooperated with several NGO-s to evaluate and consult a project of "open government" law. Coalition was also active with action against freedom of panorama issue in EU Parliament and consulted new EU copyright harmonisation act.  We also co-organized Public Domain Day in Poland, which took place in Solec 44 Club in Warsaw on January 2016 during which there was a Wikipedia edithaton and presentation of Wikisources by our press officer.

=== Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU (FKAGEU) ===
Tomasz Ganicz is active in FKAGEU mainly by contacting local EU MP's if needed, but also by participating in FKAGEU -driven EU copyright law consultations. Wikimedia Polska donated also 2500 EUR for FKAGEU coordinator office in Brussels.

=== International support ===
*WMPL was a payment agent and back-office supporter for CEE Spring contest for all chapters and usergroups in Central European region.
*WMPL is a payment agent and back-office supporter for Wiki Loves Earth contest globally. We also printed and shipped postcards with 2015 winners of WLE to chapters and usergroups all over the world.
*WMPL donated 2 Wikimania scholarships for foreigners.
*WMPL invited 6 guests from abroad to our Wikimedia Polska Conference in Lublin and paid for their accommodation and food.
*WMPL co-organized a tri-lateral Polish-Czech-Slovak meeting in Ostrava.

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==== Tymczasowo przydatne linki ====
*[[:meta:Wikimedia Polska/Plans for 2016]]
*[[:meta:Wikimedia chapters/Reports/2015]]