Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/November 2020

Municipality of Debar photohunt

At November 1, the second photohunt was made, this time in the westernmost municipality of Republic of Macedonia. The participants were again the the first photohunt this year. The participants visited six villages and the town of Debar. The photograph managed to upload 35 images and to create one and to improve nine articles related to locations he visited.

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Editing weekends

Logo of the "Macedonian Folk Songs" editing weekend

The first editing weekend (October 31 & November 1) covered the topic "Sculpturing". That weekend got the attention of four users that made 15 creations of articles. Next was nation themed "Czech Republic" and that weekend attracted three men who contributed with nine new articles and six improved ones. The third weekend this month was about "Macedonian folk songs" consisted of three Wikipedians who created twelve articles. "Persian Culture" was next on our agenda and twelve new articles came to existence, combined by two participants. To pay some respect towards the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 (and Junior Eurovision Song Contest in general) that was organised on 29th, this weekend was titled "Junior Eurovision Song Contest". This editing weekend was comprised of two Wikipedians who created seven and improved one articles about all-time participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Editing days

This subdivision was opened on the topic "Moons of Jupiter" on November 3. Two people participated and edited six new articles. Two days later, returning to an art subject, "Paintings of Sandro Botticelli" was scheduled and in total 14 articles got created. The third edition was "UTC time offsets" which was answered by two users who created 14 articles. The first editing day themed at archaeology was on 12th, named "Archaeological sites in Skopje region". This day was attended by three people and they made 23 new articles. On 17, there was "Paintings of Francisco de Goya" which was joined by three Wikipedians who made ten brand new articles. Two days later, "Subdivisions of Crimea" was on and gathered two men who edited seven new articles. Again in archaeology, 24th was dedicated for "Archaeological sites in Kavadarci region" that was highly productive with 40 new articles out of three men. The final editing day, at 26th, was for "Political Ideologies" that bring two Wikipedians to produce three newly established articles and one being improved.

Wikitours Kavadarci and Gevgelija 2020

This was the third installment of the project "Education through Wikipedia" by the grant of the Macedonian Government. On November 6, it was held an online editing event where the participants would create of improve articles related to the town of Kavadarci, it's institutions and attractions. Three people were part of this and created 20 articles and improved two articles. The next day Saturday with the help of our fourth participant, we headed to Kavadarci and we photographed it's notable sites. The images covered (35 in total) elementary and high schools, the town court, museums and memorial buildings, churches and mosques, etc.

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An exactly week later we headed to the town of Gevgelija, with the same goal as the tour in Kavadarci. On Friday (13), three users edited articles about Gevgelija and the outcome was 22 new articles and 1 one improved articles about people from Gevgelija, archaeological sites of it's region and cultural institutions. The next day was the visit of Gevgelija where we photographed it's notable sites. 36 images got uploaded, portraying monuments, cultural institutions, city infrastructure, churches and various education centers.

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Edit-a-thon on topic Digitalization and Youth

On October 12, the third editing marathon was held with a full online presence, via ZOOM, on the topic "Digitalization and Youth". The event was organized in collaboration with "MLADIHUB". A total of 20 people participated the event and 12 of them edited and created 35 articles, mostly related about mass digitalization, digital preservation and youth.

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Ovče Pole Wikiexpedition

Map of the visited villages (in yellow).

The Wikiexpeditions are on 'full throtle' since September and the fourth one was held in mid November. This time the destination was the region of Ovče Pole located eastwards of our capital Skopje. In this tour, 14 villages got explored in the Sveti Nikole Municipality, only five villages being left out due to remoteness and bad road connections. This experidion completed 275 kilometers.

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MacPortrait Photo Contest

MacPortrait's logo

From October 15 to November 15 we organised a photo contest named "MacPortrait Photo Contest". Because there was 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, taken from near distance, so they can be afterwards used in documentary and informative character. These images later could be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons under free licence. Five people have contested and they covered in total 328 people and 593 images. Out of these total results, 283 people did not have any image of them and 502 images got uploaded specially for these characters. The other numbers were the 91 images that already have an image of some people (45 of them) on Commons.

In media

Denar.mk published about the contest.

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  Best photography co-winner

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Wikipedian Asian Month 2020 editing contest

Competition's logo

From November 1 to 30, we organized the editing contest titled "Wikipedian Asian Month 2020" which was reserved about articles related to Asia. On our last editing competition in 2020, ten contesters were part of this, and they created 169 articles and improved 17 articles, followed by one created and improved template each. Traditionally, the top three participants got awarded, and alongside special prizes were given.