Grants:Project/Rapid/UG GLAM Macedonia/Lectures, Edith-a-thons and awards for students/Report
- Report accepted
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Goals edit
Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
Yes. We established and maintain two Wiki Clubs and one Wiki section. The first Wiki Club in Macedonia was establish in the Museum of Macedonian struggle in Skopje. First day of Wiki Club was 19th October 2016. The opening day for the second Wiki Club was at 1 March 2017, in the local school in Staro Nagoričane. In the meantime, we were asked to send Wikipedian in the school in Dracevo, to teach students about Wikipedia, who were already signed as members of the Wiki Club in the Museum. This group of students live far away from the Museum, and they were unable to participate in ther egular meetings of the Wiki Club. We consider this group as a Wiki department of the Museum Wiki Club, or Wiki section.
We have students coming from more than 7 schools from Skopje, all coming from different part of the city, most of them by bus, using their free time.
We hold a lot of events with the students. 96 students and two adults have been trained in Wikipedia, 7 edit-a-thons have been held, one editing contest, we participated two meetings with the Municipality officials (Karposh Municipality and Staro Nagorichane Municipality), more than 240 new articles were created in the first year by the members of Wiki Clubs, and more than 530 existing articles were improved with text and photos, by 1 October 2017. We are asked to established new Wiki Clubs in several other Museums and schools in Macedonia.
The Wiki Club took a part in celebrating Wikipedia 16. The Club organized an event on 17 January 2017. The event was fully covered by the media. There were announcements before the event, and after the event itself in the local news. Wikipedians gave interview to the reporters, and were excited to hear that their efforts supporting the Wiki Club are valued.
The biggest success of the Wiki Clubs was an award which we received at the international day of the Museums, 18 May 2017. ICOM Macedonia awarded the Club the award for best project in the Museums in Macedonia.
Outcome edit
Please report on your original project targets.
| Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
| Number of events - 6 | 9 | We held 6 edit-a-thons with the Wiki Clubs members; 2 meetings with Municipalities officials; one celebration of Wikipedia 16 |
| Number of new editors - 30 | 96 | As of 1 October 2017 the number of Wiki Clubs members was 96. The number is growing after the summer holiday |
| Number of articles created or improved - 50 | more than 240 created and more than 530 improved articles | This is the number of articles edited and created by Wiki Club members |
| Number of established Wiki Clubs or Wiki sections - 3 | 2 Wiki Clubs and 1 Wiki section | Members of one Wiki Club asked us to send a Wikipedian to work with them in their own school because they live far away to come once in a week, we called them Wiki section of the Wiki Club in the Museum of Macedonian Struggle |
Learning edit
Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:
- What worked well?
- In order to have a larger number of students, we needed someone who can involved them. We appointed a secondary school teacher as the coordinator for education in the User Group. She was delighted to join the group, and we were very lucky to have her.
- What did not work so well?
- Our first attempt to start a Wiki Club was via a collaboration with the Ministry of Information Society. After several months, and after many e-mails sent to the schools in Skopje by the officials of the Ministry, there was no answer from any of the schools. At that point, we concluded that this attempt had failed, probably because schools officials get too many requests from the Ministry to join in many different project, so they didn't want to join in yet another project.
- What would you do differently next time?
- Wiki Clubs are still running well.
Finances edit
Grant funds spent edit
Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
- Food and drink - $50 x 6 events = $300
- Reimbursement for volunteers for local travel, and meals - $11,25 x 12 travels = $135
- Mugs - 4.6 EUR x 30 = $156
- Notes - 0.70 EUR x 50 = $40
- Certificates - 0.25 EUR x 100 = $28
- Other small awards - 1.6 EUR x 20 = $36
- Flyers - 1000 = $136
- Food and refreshment for monthly meetings of the jury and organizers - 30 EUR x 12 months = $402
- Bank fees and incidentals - $43
- Total:$1,276
*Note: In-kind donations from the institutions and schools, include this:
- Conference hall for giving lecture about Wikipedia
- Space to host the workshops (hands-on)
- Internet conection
- Computers
Also, Coordinator of education and Wikipedians involved are volunteers.
Remaining funds edit
Do you have any remaining grant funds?
No
Anything else edit
Anything else you want to share about your project?
here are several useful links which show GLAM Macedonia activities in a previous period: