Wikimedia Community User Group Greece/Reports/2013

Activities

2013

• 13 April: Seminar at the National Hellenic Research Foundation / National Documentation Centre to explore ways to expand Wikipedia (see blog post)

• 20 July: Official recognition of the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece.

Edit-a-thons

• 29 June: An edit-a-thon promoted by Wikimedia Sverige and organized by our team for the first time in Greece had very encouraging results (12 participants from Greece, 19 new articles written, many articles were improved, at least 17 pictures added to articles and the winner of the prize also was from Greece).

Education programs

• School year 2012-13: Engaging the local community in a school project on Commons
• 25 May: MediaWiki Geek Day 2013: A series of presentations about Mediawiki that was held in Technological Institute of Larissa in Greece

• Education Program: AUTH, Department of Mathematics. Assignment to translate mathematical articles. 130 students - 79 articles[1]

• Education Program: AUTH, Medical School. Assignment to translate medical articles. 6 students - 7 articles [2]