Wikimedia Community User Group Greece/Reports/2016

Activities

2016

• 6 February: Glavkos gave a #Wikipedia15 talk in Larissa, organized by the local chapter and the Xoriamvos club

• 11 February: Gender gap: Marios Magioladitis gave a gender gap talk in Athens, organized by the editorial board of female - oriented magazine Telesilla

• 21 March - 31 May: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2016 (see results on blog).

• 15 April - 30 May: Europeana 280 – Art History Challenge

• 12 - 15 May: Presentation about Content Translation and Education Program at the Translation Festival during the 13th Thessaloniki International Book Fair

• 3 - 5 June: Participation in the 5th Festival of Solidarity and Cooperative Economy hosting a talk and an exhibition of winning photos from the 2015 Scientific Photography Competition.

• 5 September: Interview of Konstantinos Stampoulis on the radio show "Athens, Our City" with Nancy Angelopoulou on 9.84 FM, discussing the Wikimedia Community User Group Greece and presenting its initiatives (see recording video)

• 15 October: ThessHack - Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 (see post-event video)

• 15 October - 27 November: Participated in The Africa Destubathon on English Wikipedia.

• 24 - 25 October: Wikipedia workshops on Open Access Week 2016 by Konstantinos Stampoulis

• 20 November: Translathon ( blog entry)

• 17 December: A Saturday for Hybrid Arts & Wikipedia ( blog entry)

National conferences

• 23 October: Presentation of "Wikipedia in Education as a Tool for Mitigating Racial Inequalities" at the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Promoting Educational Innovation by Konstantinos Stampoulis and Marios Magioladitis (see blog announcment, report)

Edit-a-thons

• 29 May: Participation in 2nd She Sharp Edit-a-thon in Thessaloniki

• 21 April: Editathon at the National Gallery Library, coordination by Wikipedia editor Pavlos1988 and support from PostScriptum.

• 10 - 14 December: Editathon on Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Greece

Education programs

• 29 January: Marios Magioladitis gave a #Wikipedia15 talk in Corfu, organized by the local chapter of the Hellenic Mathematical Society (HMS)

• Online Wikipedia courses for Educators (blog entry)

• May: Education Program AUTH, Department of Mathematics.

Photo contests

• 26 February: Award ceremony on European Science Photo Competition 2015 (see blog announcement, winning photos)

• 15 May - 15 June: Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Greece (see grant report, blog announcement, results)
  • 1 October: Award ceremony and editathon on Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Greece

• 1 - 30 September: Wikipedia Loves Monuments 2016 in Greece (see grant report)
  • Photowalks in Athens (25 September), Thessaloniki (25 September) and Corfu (23 September)
  • 17 December: Award ceremony on Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Greece

International meetings

• 22 - 24 April: Participation in Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin (Marios Magioladitis, Report in Greek)

• 21 June - 28 June: Participation on Wikimania 2016, Esino Lario of Marios Magioladitis and Konstantinos Stampoulis (see blog post)

• 27 - 29 August: Participation in Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016 in Dilijan, Armenia (Glavkos, report in Greek)