CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/GLAM Macedonia and Shared Knowledge together found Wikimedia MKD
2023 proved to be very successful for the Macedonian Wiki-community and its, at that time, two organizations. The end of the year, besides the holidays and the magic that the holidays bring in, the Macedonian Wiki-community had one more reason for joy and celebration - formation of the unified organization.
Within the territory of Macedonia until the end of 2023 two organizations were operating: GLAM Macedonia and Shared Knowledge. However, both organizations came up with a mutual agreement in 2023 to merge into one organization that will be the sole unifying cap for all Wikimedians in Macedonia - Wikimedia MKD.
2023 proved to be very successful for the Macedonian Wiki-community and its, at that time, two organizations. The end of the year, besides the holidays and the magic that the holidays bring in, the Macedonian Wiki-community had one more reason for joy and celebration - formation of the unified organization. Within the territory of Macedonia until the end of 2023 two organizations were operating: GLAM Macedonia and Shared Knowledge. However, both organizations came up with a mutual agreement in 2023 to merge into one organization that will be the sole unifying cap for all Wikimedians in Macedonia - Wikimedia MKD.
The beginning of 2024 proved to be quite busy for Wikimedia MKD. The year started with activities regarding consolidating projects and programmes, combining different energies and activities and focusing them toward cooperation as a single functioning team. Moreover, the rebranding of the social network sites occurred as well. Social media pages were launched under the new name, the webpages were also rebranded and a new structural organization was established. At the same time, Wikimedia MKD is in process of legal formalization of the merging process within the Macedonian legal framework.
Even though the organization's main focus in this period is the merging process, the activities and programmes' execution were of utmost importance. Therefore, editing days and editing weekends continued to be implemented with quite good success. In addition to that, Wikipedia's birthday celebration was also organized. The birthday event took place on 15 January 2024 in Skopje, where the Macedonian Wiki-community celebrated the birthday with a delicious Wiki-cake.
Wikimedia MKD's main goal in 2024 is to continue and improve even more the success of both previous organizations as a single user group that represents the Macedonian community. Now united and with a bigger volunteers' community, Wikimedia MKD is ready for bigger challenges and accomplishments.