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2021

December

Meet Sweden Results

During the month long editing challenge „Meet Sweden“ there were a total of 670 new articles made from 56 Wiki Club members.
The full results can be seen with the following link, the 5 winners of the challenge are as follows:

Марко К.: 921 поени (95 статии)
Petar Barsa: 816 поени (175 статии)
Viktor Borojevic: 394 поени (61 статија)
Kostovska: 369 поени (104 статии)
Irena Milojevik 261 поени (11 статии)

The winners were invited to the Macedonian National Opera and Ballet House on Saint Lucy's Day, which the Swedish Embassy in Skopje regularly celebrates. Many politicians and ambassadors, Swedish, or otherwise were present at this celebration. The prizes for the winners were also given there by the ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden. The full gallery of photos can be found in this category.

Women in Climate Change

On the 10th of December 2021, there was an edit-a-thon with the theme "Women in Climate Change". The edit-a-thon had 15 participants which made a total of 33 new articles.

The full list of edits can be seen with the following link

This one was the last edit-a-thon held in 2021. A total of 4 edit-a-thons were made, with 105 new articles created altogether.

Seminar for teachers

On 24 December 2021, there was a Seminar for teachers in Skopje. Ten teachers were part of this seminar as a participants. The main theme of the seminar was "Media literacy and Wikipedia". The keynote speaker on media literacy and culture was Tatjana Gogoska, Master of Communication Sciences.

Wiki Clubs

This month we held in person meeting with new Wiki Clubs members in the Secondary school Lazo Trpovski, in order to train newcomers on how to edit Wikipedia.

Introducing newcomers with editing
Introducing newcomers with editing

Wiki Senior

Wiki Senior is the new project that started this year. The goal is to educate seniors to edit Wikipedia and create new articles, by involving senior people in the GLAM Macedonia's activities in a similar manner as the youth population is covered by the user group's activities. Actively involved seniors into activities and editing Wikipedia, resulted with enriching, improving and referencing Macedonian-language articles. At the initial stage the number of this club is low (as expected, since generally the youth population is more familiar with Wikipedia), resulting with a number of newly created articles and improved Wikipedia contents. In numbers, in 2021 we had 27 senior editors, who edited more than 706 articles.

GLAM Macedonia's goal is to further enlarge the number of trained senior people, keep them active in the future, and achieve even higher results in terms of new and improved contents created by seniors.