We are part of a European contest that takes place in September in 17 European countries. People are invited to take pictures of heritage sites in Romania and then upload them to Wikimedia Commons or Flickr under the CC-BY-SA-RO license. The 10 winners from Romania will get some prizes, then will go on to fight for the European jackpot (which is still to be unveiled).

So, whether you’re a Wikipedia contributor, a photographer or a monument aficionado, take the picture (or make a movie!) about a monument and upload it!

Update: I also made a presentation about this at the August RLUG meeting. Here are the slides: odp | pdf.

Fig. 1: The Add Security window in GNUCash

After the Bucharest Stock Exchage Module for Finance::Quote, I made another module, to retrieve the values of the Romanian Mutual Funds. The data is extracted from the Kmarket website which prooved to be a useful resource.

Here is how you can add this package to your own system:

1. Install Perl. If you’re using Linux, you probably already have it. Write perl -v to find out the version you have. If you’re using Windows, ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl should do the trick.
2. Install Finance::Quote. GNUCash offers an automated program to do that.
   1. Make sure GNUCash is not running.
   2. In Linux, open a root shell and write update-finance-quote. In Windows, go to the start menu and you will find a shortcut to a BAT file called “Install Online Price Retreival”.
3. For now, the script is not yet included in Finance::Quote and must be installed separately.
   1. Download the provided archive and extract it along with the rest of the Perl scripts for Finance::Quote (you will see the download path during the installation). Make sure the Finance folder overwrites the current folder.
   2. In the Finance folder you will find 2 files named Quotes.pm and Quotes.pm.patch. You can apply the patch by using the command
      patch Quotes.pm Quotes.pm.patch

      On Windows, just open the Quotes.pm file in Notepad, search for a line that begins with @modules = and add ROFunds to the list of modules.

4. Start GNUCash and go the the Tools->Security Editor menu. You will see a window similar to the one on the left side of Fig. 1.
5. Click on the Add button. A new window, just like the one on the right side of Fig. 1 will appear. Let’s say that you want to get the stock price for BT Index (a fund from Banca Transilvania Asset Management). You add the following information in that window:
   1. Full Name: BT Index
      
   2. Symbol: BT Index (this is very important, as this is the search criteria – you need to put the full name of the fund, without diacritics, as there are no symbols)
   3. Type: Funds (or whatever you want)
   4. Check the Get Online Quotes checkbox. Three new options will be activated.

   5. 

      Fig.2: Automatic price retreival

      Choose Type of quote source: Unknown

   6. From the drop-down choose rofunds.
   7. Click OK twice and you’re ready to test it.
6. Go to the Tools->Price Editor menu. You will see the dialog in Fig. 2. Click the Get Quotes button and you should see a new price appearing. You can notice the source is “Finance::Quote” and the price is the correct one for that date. If you wish, you can check it on the K-market website.

Hopefully, pretty soon this extension will be activated on the Romanian Wikipedia.

Pentru a realiza acest lucru, mergeți în pagina de preferinţe, tabul Gadgeturi și bifați opțiunea numită “Diacritice corecte”. Trebuie să aveți activat și Javascript.

Scriptul are și unele limitări, cauzate de performanța sistemului. Pentru a reduce durata de încărcare a paginii, nu sunt transformate decât diacriticele din articol, nu și din interfață. De asemenea, sunt ignorate literele din formulare (formularul de editare a paginilor, inclusiv legăturile de sub el şi formularul de căutare), paginile conținând javascript și paginile speciale.

Pentru cuvintele în turcă, care TREBUIE să conţină litera Ş (S cu sedilă), am pus la punct un mecanism de ignorare a acestor cuvinte. Pentru amănunte, vizitați pagina aceasta.

Sursa programului este disponibilă la diacritice.js.

I think it would be a shame to just abandon this map, so here is the link to it: the map of all the public libraries in Bucharest / harta sucursalelor bibliotecii metropolitane Bucureşti.