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The members of Wikimedia Italia at the general assembly on June 23, 2019.

Wikimedia Italia – Associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera – APS-ETS is the Italian chapter of the Wikimedia movement.

Contact information at Contatti (in Italian). General e-mails to Wikimedia Italia can be sent to infowikimediait.

The Wikimedia Italia official website is www.wikimedia.it, there is also a wiki for members located at wiki.wikimedia.it.Information for volunteers (in Italian): it:Wikipedia:Wikimedia Italia

Since May 10, 2025.

Ferdinando Traversa, president
Daniele Santini, vicepresident
Elena Marangoni, secretary
Marco Montanari, treasurer
Mattia Luigi Nappi, councillor

Ombudspersons:

Marta Cecilia Pigazzini
Fabio Brambilla
Fabio Rinnone
Ilaria Diterlizzi (stand-in)
Alessandra Di Francesco (stand-in)
Francesca Pinto, Executive Director
Marta Arosio, GLAMs
Anisa Kuci, OpenStreetMap, Support for Volunteers
Marco Chemello, Training and Technical Consultancy
Francesca Lissoni, Fundraising
Simona Cannataro, Communication, Advocacy
Dario Crespi, National Projects, Support for Volunteers and Members Secretariat
Chiara Verrone, Administration

via Bergognone 34, c/o BASE Milano 20144 Milano (MI) Italy

Phone: +390256569662 email: segreteriawikimediait

As of December 2024, the association counts 282 members. The 2024 budget comprised around 620,000 €, raised from donations, "Cinque per mille" tax donations and contributions to institutional activities.

Who we are

What has been done so far

We participate round-the-year in local and national events and fairs, seminars, lectures in classrooms, etc. for promoting WMF projects in Italy (logbook)
We support and collaborate in nationwide petitions and campaigns
We organised some online and offline initiatives
We have obtained the status of "associazione di promozione sociale" (social promotion association, a "charity" status in Italy); this grants tax deductibility on donations for the donors and other facilitations: we have also joined the WMF 2009 fundraising and 2009 "cinque per mille" campaign (sort of Eight per thousand for charities)
Since 2015 we are the Italian chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation
We have an office in Milan.

What we do

We have several projects and activities to support communities and the spread of free content. Some examples:

Wiki Loves Monuments Italia (and the webapp app.wikilovesmonuments.it)
Tutta la cultura su Wikipedia (for activities with GLAMs)
Bando musei archivi biblioteche (GLAM Project Call, for 2,000-8,000 EUR grants)
Sportello per progetti dei volontari (Volunteer Project Desk, for 1,000-10,000 EUR grants)
Microgrant (for 100-1,000 EUR grants)
We support the organisation of itWikiCon
We provide scholarships for events (Wikimania, itWikiCon, State of the Map, etc.)

See dedicated page.

2026-2030 Strategy (in Italian)

Financial statements

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The most recent financial statements are:

Wikimedia Italia also publishes a newsletter (Wikimedia News) monthly.

Wikimedia Italia was formed on Friday June 17, 2005, in Canino.

The bylaws were prepared and approved by the Wikimedia Foundation.

We amended the bylaws during an IRC meeting with Jimbo, Angela and Anthere, and the Foundation was permitted to proceed.

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