Stringwiki - Who we are

Who we are

Stringwiki is a non-profit organization based in the European Union that looks after the expert wiki project  in the field of string instruments, violin wiki - Violinwiki.org.

The aim of the project is to support pupils and violin students and their teachers in the learning process by providing online teaching materials that are free of charge.

Stringwiki also publishes the forgotten violin works of the past, sheet music in the public domain and available recordings. In this direction, the goal is to provide students, teachers and researchers a complete bibliography of violin spanning five centuries (from the beginning of violin literature around 1530 to the present day) and related sheet music and recordings.

To achieve these goals there are individual projects for various areas of wiki prepared

History

The Violinwiki web server project has existed since 2016 and was developed as a private initiative of one of the founders of Stringwiki. From the beginning of the project it was clear that Violinwiki is not a one-man show and that the business model corresponds to a non-profit organization. Gradually, as the project grew, other supporters were recruited and they together founded the non-profit organization supporting the project. The project gained legal existence and possibilities for further development that would not have been possible without legal existence.

Our Mission

Stringwiki's mission is to make information available and contribute to the raising of the education and cultural level of the population by making available general and specialist information in the field of string instruments, especially violin, but also other string instruments, in particular by supporting the Violinwiki.org web server and possibly other servers dedicated to strings or other instruments.

Our  Vision

Violinwiki is a knowledge base with a single topic - acoustic violin, in other words a violin “wiki”. It is intended to serve as the first and most complete source of information for those interested in learning the violin, violin students, music and violin teachers, musicologists, music historians, luthiers, music researchers, luthiers, archetiers or for those interested in music containing the violin. Violinwiki is available worldwide and is and will forever be available free of charge, in the spirit of wiki.

Our Values

• transparency

• trustworthiness

• expertize

Transparency

Stringwiki keeps accounting books in accordance with the Accounting Act No. 563/1991 Sb. and other regulations, especially decree 504/2002 Sb. and Czech accounting standards for legal entities whose main activity is not commercial business. Stringwiki issues annual reports and publishes its financial results. It has a transparent account available and its fundraising is ethical.

Trustworthiness

User data from both the Violinwiki and Stringwiki servers, as well as collected donor data, are not provided to third parties. The only exception to when user information would be disclosed is when it would be enforced by a court or law enforcement authorities. The user would be notified of such requests if allowed by the authorities. The Violinwiki web server (and Stringwiki) does not collect data about users other than the data strictly necessary for the operation of the web server.  When processing the user data the legal norms for data protection (GDPR) are adhered to.  Stringwiki fulfills its obligations to vendors, donors, government and employees.

Expertize

All information published on Violinwiki is verified and referenced, the facts supported by references are published. Further education is provided to employees.

Legal base

Violinwiki's servers are located in the EU jurisdiction (Czech Republic) and are subject to Czech Copyright law and corresponding EU copyright directives. Violinwiki content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, a license compatible with Wikipedia. Content that is in the public domain in the EU (simplified, at least 70 years have passed since the author's death) can be published (with the attribution of the source) on Violinwiki. Because Violinwiki is available worldwide, it publishes content that is in the public domain worldwide.