GLAM Macedonia User Group/Reports/2018-04

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2018

April

GLAM activities

In the first four months of 2018, we have four new agreements signed with GLAM institutions in the Republic of Macedonia: with the City Library "Braka Miladinovci" in Skopje, with the State Archives in the Republic of Macedonia, with the Museum of Macedonian struggle in Skopje, and with the Institute of National History, for collaboration this year. As a result of GLAM Macedonia members according to those agreements, 250 new articles were created, 104 existing articles were improved, 200 references were added and 25 files were uploaded.

The focus of interest in the first four months were the themes of the World War I and World War II, special the activities of the partisans in Macedonia.

Wiki Club Museum of Macedonian struggle in Skopje workshop

On 2 April 2018, the Chair of GLAM Macedonia, Violetova visited Wiki Club members in their school in Dracevo and held one day workshop with the members. Fifteen new members enrolled in Wiki Club, who were introduced with the basics of editing Wikipedia. To the other members of this Wiki Club, who already create and edit articles on Macedonian Wikipedia, were shown tips and tricks, which will improve their editing skills. During the workshop 7 new articles were created and 1 existing articles was improved.

Workshop: NATO

In collaboration with the Military Museum of the Republic of Macedonia, on 17 April 2018 we held one day workshop with the members of Wiki Club Museum of Macedonian struggle in Skopje. A short documentary film about NATO was presented to the participants, and they had opportunity to visit the exhibition in the Military Museum. During the three hours of the editing workshop, eight new articles on Wikipedia were created, all biographies of people who were the General Secretaries of NATO. The selection and contents of the texts were selected by Viki Taseva from the Military Museum in cooperation with the two educators from the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, Anna Višinova and Daniela Mitevska.

Weekend workshop: First world war

During the weekend of 21st and 22nd April 2018 weekend workshop on topics from the First World War was realized, organized by the Wikipedian in Residence in the City Library "Braka Miladinovci" in Skopje, Gordana Jovic-Stojkovska. Twelve Wikipedians and 8 members of the Wiki Club Staro Nagorichane participated, and two new Wikipedians were trained. During the weekend, 15 new articles were created, and six existing articles were improved.

Wiki Live 2018, Belgrade

Snezana Strkovska, Chair of GLAM Macedonia, took part in the Wiki Live 2018 conference in Belgrade, introducing the participants with the work of Wiki Clubs in Macedonia.

WikiClubs statistics for March and April 2018

	Members (1)	Active users (2)	New users (3)	Articles (4)
Wiki Club Museum of Macedonian struggle	131	x	27	136 new / 11 edited
Wiki Club Staro Nagoricane	18	x	1	90 new / 9 edited
Wiki Club Ohrid	14	x	6	111 new / 7 edited

1 - All members in the Wiki Club
2 - Users who has done 1 edit during the month.
3 - New users enrolled
4 - New created articles / edited existing articles
5 - Bytes added.