GLAM Macedonia User Group/Reports/2022-06

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2022

Jun

Edit-a-thon

On June 24, 2022, there was an edit-a-thon with the theme World Refugee Day. The activity is part of the global call International Refugee Day Edit-a-thon 2022 which took place from June 20-26, 2022. The edit-a-thon had 19 participants which made a total of 51 new articles.

All articles - on this link.

Seminar for teachers

On the 30th of June, we held a seminar for teachers in Skopje. 34 teachers successfully attended the seminar in "Kuzman Josifovski-Pitu" primary school and received certificates. The main theme of the seminar was "Media literacy and Wikipedia". The keynote speakers on media literacy and culture and Wiki Club in Skopje were Tatjana Gogoska, Master of Communication Sciences, and Ana Vishinova. The keynote speaker on Wikipedia was Snezana Shtrkovska, president of GLAM Macedonia.

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Wiki Clubs

Wiki Clubs are successful education project we held from the year 2016. So far, we established 8 Wiki Clubs, but two of them are not so active. The most actve Wiki Clubs in the first half of the year are Wiki Clubs in Skopje, Veles and Ohrid. According to Outreach Dashboard Wiki Clubs 2022, Wiki Clubs members have more than 5.800 edited articles.

New editors are 19, out of 159 editors, i.e. Wiki Clubs members.

Wiki senior

Wiki senior is one more education activity we continue this year. The project started last year. The idea and purpose of this project is to attract new editors, who will create new articles, as well as to improve the existing ones on Wikipedia in the Macedonian language, through the education of adults and seniors throughout Macedonia. In the first half of the year, we haven't do a big campaign about this project, and we have only 8 new editors so far. They altogether edited more than 110 articles, as we can see on Outreach Dashboard.

Project page on mk.wiki

Other activities

Our members worked hard to start preparations for Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2022, which will be held in-person in Ohrid, at October 14-16, 2022. After the grant proposal was approved, there were activities on the filed: creating the registration form, the meta page for the conference Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2022, contacting the hotel, the CEE communities, working with the program committee, etc.

At the same time, preparations for upcoming Wikimania 2022 were held: we organize to follow Wikimania in three cities: in Skopje, Ohrid and Veles.