Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/General report 2020

This is an annual overview of the activities and achievements set out by Shared Knowledge in the annual plan for 2020, spanning from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. The report uniformly concludes the activities conducted in 2020.

Financial overview

You can also see our General financial report for 2020 (standard wiki-way) or simplified version on Google Sheets.

Aims set for the 2020 grant in general

Area	Measures of success
General	to increase the quantity and improve the quality of free content; to raise awareness of the Wikimedia movement; to extend cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation and other affiliated organisations; to extend cooperation with external institutions; to raise awareness about knowledge in general; to release a substantial amount of knowledge held by the Macedonian GLAM institutions; to promote free knowledge in the country's educational system; to increase the presence of the Wikimedia projects in the country's educational system; to encourage participation on Wikimedia projects.
Administration	to implement the assumption of going concern; to promote the work done within the organisation; to establish efficient and effective organisational governance; to establish efficient and effective volunteer management; to establish efficient and effective process of reporting; to reduce the gender gap in the organisation; to extend cooperation with institutions and organisations.
Education	to introduce and increase the presence of the Wikimedia projects in the educational institutions; to extend cooperation with educational institutions; to promote the Wikimedia projects as useful educational tool; to raise awareness about the benefits that the editing offers to the students; to increase and improve the content on different topics; to get access to materials that can be used for referencing.
Community	to increase activity on the Wikimedia projects; to improve the quality of content; to reach out to new potential editors.
Partnerships	to introduce and increase the presence of the Wikimedia projects in the GLAM institutions, other organizations and interest groups; to extend cooperation with GLAM institutions, other organizations and interest groups; to document country's natural and cultural heritage; to document specific, valuable and unique knowledge and data; to release and digitise materials from the libraries;

2020 activities

See: Annual plan 2020

Education Program
Editing contest for students
Wikiexpeditions
Veloexpeditions
Wiki Tours
Editing contests
Editing days
Editing weekends
Edit-a-thons
Week-a-thons
Photohunts
Wikisketch Lessons

Global metrics table

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. # Total participants	218 of 546 (40%) Not achieved	When we plan this metric for 2020 in late 2019 we cannot possibly think about pandemic situation whole 2020. Switching to online events and reaching new participants, or engage existing one was very hard at first.
2. # Number of newly registered users	111 of 546 (37%) Not achieved	When we plan this metric for 2020 in late 2019 we cannot possibly think about pandemic situation whole 2020. Switching to online events and reaching new participants was in particular hard. This metric was especially affected through countless quarantine days and curfews conducted from the Government. Online events gives only slight improvement, but this metric was not set to be done via online channels.
3. # Number of content pages created or improved, across all Wikimedia projects	10.553 of 8.627 (122%) Over achieved	Thanks to initiative #StayHome on main page of the Macedonian Wikipedia, which was umbrella for our editing challenges with various themes, we actually overachieved this metric. This metric will be much better with all of the expected articles from visited areas with expeditionary projects, which will be published in this period due late organizing of this kind of project due Global policy of Foundation.
4. # Uploaded photographs used in articles	1.315 of 3.368 (39%) Not achieved	On closing date of the report (30.01.2021) we have only 1.315 distinct image used in the articles, but that number increases on daily basis as we expect volunteers to write all articles connected with expeditionary projects conducted on the end of 2020, after removing of the global ban. Additionally, photographic competition does not have expected number of uploaded photographs, and projects in the area of Partnerships, which were cancelled or delayed.
5. # Number of volunteer hours	13.759 of 11.619 (118%) Over achieved	The number of hours spent by volunteers to support the organisational work.

2020 achievements

Project metrics

Project metrics	Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Education Program at least 15 teachers included in mentorship program; at least 165 participants from the Education program and editing contest students sub-program; to expand the Education program in three schools through the teachers; to increase the number of content provided within the activities in education, creating at least 440 content pages.	1 professor included; Not achieved 30 participants involved; Not achieved Engagement of three schools; Not achieved 400 content pages. Not achieved	Many of the planned activities were frozen due to COVID-19's educational lockout, so we could not make big results with the faculties, especially the elementary schools. The activities that were completed or partly completed were: two editing sessions at the Faculty of Computer Sciences & Engineering, one editing session at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics. Speaking of Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, we managed to film a total of 42 experiments, 19 being chemistry and 23 being physics experiments, with the help and cooperation of the professors that work at the Faculty.
Editing contest for students 40 participants 10 participants 160 content pages	11 participants Not achieved 1 participant Not achieved 246 content pages Achieved	A competition held exclusively for high school students.
Editing competitions 30 participants 6 newly registered users 840 content pages created or improved	19 participants Not achieved 7 newly registered users Achieved 1,676 content pages Achieved	Four editing competitions were organized trough out February-March, August-September, November.
Edit-a-thons 72 participants 60 newly registered users 268 created or improved content pages	33 participants Not achieved 30 newly registered users Not achieved 210 content pages Not ahieved	Editing events for people that are experts at some field who contribute on Wikipedia at their respective areas.
Editing days 13 participants 3 newly registered users 240 content pages created or improved	19 participants Achieved 7 newly registered users Achieved 2,230 content pages new or improved Achieved	80 editing days were held. The successful metrics are especially because of the increased number of installments, but also because of newly registered users.
Editing weekends 13 participants 3 newly registered users 480 content pages created or improved	19 participants Achieved 8 newly registered users Achieved 1,424 content pages new or improved Achieved	46 editing days were held. Same as the weekends, the successful metrics are mostly because of the increased number of installments, but also because of newly registered users.
Photohunts 9 participants 3 newly registered users 294 images uploaded 240 content pages created or improved	4 participants Not achieved 2 newly registered users Not achieved 162 images uploaded (88,36% used in articles; as of 29 January 2021) Not achieved 56 content pages new or improved Not achieved	3 photohunts were approved and conducted, however the first two were conducted by the same two participants, of which one person was nonregistered. The third was conducted by pair of two people, and again, one of them was nonregistered.
Wiki Sketches 51 participants 48 newly registered users 204 content pages created or improved	6 participants Not achieved 3 newly registered users Not achieved 1196 content pages new or improved Achieved	The great number of articles was due to spare time of participants during the COVID-19 lockouts and other restrictions.
Wikiexpeditions conducting 4 Wikiexpeditions 5 participants 1 newly registered user 1,680 created or improved content pages 960 uploaded photographs used in articles	4 Wikiexpeditions conducted Аchieved 5 participants Аchieved 1 newly registered user Аchieved 1,986 new or improved content pages Аchieved 698 images uploaded Not achieved	All four wikiexpeditions were held after the end of the Wikipedian lockout i.e. September.
Geoexpeditions conducting 2 Geoexpeditions 672 images uploaded 600 created or improved content pages	0 Geoexpedtions conducted Not achieved 0 images uploaded Not achieved 0 new or improved content pages Not achieved	This activity was mostly frozen due to COVID-19.
Archaeoexpeditions conducting 2 Archaeoexpeditions 240 images uploaded 380 created or improved content pages	0 Archaeoexpeditions conducted Not achieved 0 images uploaded Not achieved 0 new or improved articles Not achieved	The same issue like the geoexpeditions.
MacPortrait Photo Contest 50 participants 40 newly registered users 752 uploaded images	5 participants Not achieved 3 newly registered users Not achieved 593 uploaded images Not achieved	Due to a huge lack in the articles that were missing any kind of image of many famous and notable Macedonian people, the goal of this engagement was to gather photographs of these distinguished people, these images could be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons under free licence. 328 people were covered.
Museum of Tobacco 15 participants 10 newly registered users 180 uploaded images	10 participants Not achieved 0 participants Not achieved 62 images Not achieved	Most of the participants were employees, at their respective sectors, of the wider Museum of Prilep. That's why this project has expanded not just the Museum of Tobacco, but also at it's sister departments. All it's museum departments cooperated and lend their exhibits images and other related media.
Exhibits 50 participants 5 newly registered users 30 images exhibited	0 participants Not Achieved 0 newly registered users Not achieved 0 images exhibited Not achieved	Exhibition themed with another wiki organization from other country and showing to the public the culture of it's nation. Not held due to COVID-19.
WikiStreets 20 participants 15 newly registered users 440 content pages covered	0 visitors and participants 0 content pages	The event was postponed to the future because of his public character.

Overall assessment

Education Programme

The activities started in January when Wikiexperiments were reactivated, for the first time since 2016. Filming these of videos serves as a way to digitalize and capture the chemical and physics processes for better vusualization and for no or less funds for spending in the education. As said, the January activities were scheduled for chemistry experiments, and from October and December the physics experiments got covered.

Gallery of some moments of the first series of shooting:

Editing about physics at the Institute of Physics.

When it comes to editing activities, we held one editing event at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Skopje. And in the same period, two editing events at the Faculty of Computer Sciences and Engineering. No be noted, according to the plan we should have organized two more event but we were forced to cancel them due to the COVID-19 spread in that March.

Editing contest for students

In collaboration with the users group GLAM Macedonia, we organized this editing competition exclusively for persons from 15 to 18 years old. No certain theme was chosen and the title was "Necessary Articles". This means that participants were guided by a specific article that enlists which articles should and can be created.

Editing competitions

Editing chalenges that last for one month, and at the end, the best competitors deservedly are rewarded by the three-part jury. When it comes to article numbers, this has been a successful year. The titles of these contests were "Settlements of Pirin Macedonia", "CEE Spring 2020", "Macedonian Encyclopedia" and "Wikimedia Asian Month".

Edit-a-thons

A moment of the third edit-a-thon.

This year we collaborated with two organizations: The Institute of Human Rights - Skopje and the national level youth entity called MladiHub. The firstly mentioned gave a typical cooperation by giving their expertise. On the other hand, MladiHub provided us the event-place and human resources to make the last three edit-a-thon and most of them were held entirely online because of precaution of the Pandemic. The titles of the events were: "Human Rights", "Community service", "Digitalization and Youth", "Computer science, mathematics, medicine and culture".

Editing days

An editing event open for 24 hours, held twice a week in Tuesday and Thursday. Because of the COVID-19 restrictions and some interest noted indirectly from the Wikipedians, we multiplied the number of editions. The most common topics were about art/paintings, Macedonian archaeological sites, astronomy, administrative divisions, history.

Editing weekends

The logo for the EW "Macedonian Folk Songs".

An editing event open for 48 hours, at every weekend especially after mid March. The most common topics were about music, literature, history, geography.

Photohunts

A panorama view of the town of Debar.

Project in which certain person can suggest where to go and/or explore in order to photograph some sites or objects. Three photohunts were carried this year. The first two were apllied by the same two participants, when they headed to municipalities of Kratovo and Debar, in September and November respectively. The last made photohunt was in the Municipality of Kavadarci in December, by another two participants.

Wiki Sketches

Printscreen image during the lesson.

In normal situations, the Sketches are held in our office, when generally new participants are given training and mentorship by one of our staff, and they edit on what they please. But after COVID-19 restrictions, we immediately adapted the project online where we communicated safely. Because of the easy reach of contacting, we achieved a hugh number of created and improved articles.

Wikiexpeditions

The group that visited Osogovo region.

All the planned four expeditions got realized in the third and fourth quarters of 2020, done by a group of four people total. The visited regions were Plasnica & Kičevo Municipalities (titled Kičava and Rabetinkol), Osogovo Mountain region, Bregalnica River valley region, Region of Ovče Pole. Around 1,865 kilometers got covered during all four expeditions

MacPortrait Photo Contest

MacPortrait's logo

Annual installment of a photo competition where the participants upload their own authored media. This years topic was about notable Macedonians. It lasted whole month, from October 15 to November 15. The participants achievements were ranked on base of quantity. Then the special prize was given based on a three-part jury that selected the most beautiful/mostnotable photograph. Because there was a tie at the best image, two photographs shared the 'podium' of best photograph.

Museum of Tobacco

The museum staff with us.

On March 10th, we visited the Museum of Tobacco in the town of Prilep, as a part of the Museum of Town of Prilep. We had the chance to tour the museum, browse catalogs, artwork and other unique samples of the earliest beginnings of tobacco production until today. To be noted, we also got images from the other departments of the Museum of Prilep. But most importantly, the museum staff allowed us to take over and upload photos from their collection in order to enrich the Macedonian Wikipedia. The uploads got realized in periods in March, April and May.