Amical Wikimedia/April 2015
Welcome to Amical Wikimedia monthly report of April 2015
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Highlights
edit2 online writing challenges on literature and comics
From Amical Wikimedia we want that the sum of all human knowledge is freely available online and in Catalan, and all that all knowledge about Catalan culture is available to everybody in any language. Sant Jordi (Catalan naming from Saint George) is the festival of books and roses in Catalonia. Sant Jordi is also the name of a wide known Catalan literature award. This we wanted to celebrate and share the literary spirit of April 23 so we organized a contest where volunteers had to translate articles on biographies of the recent 14 winners of this award. We choose 14 as the years of Catalan Wikipedia. People coud translate into any language. The three winners received a set of 10 books, five books and 3 respectively. We think it is an exciting way to discover and disseminate the authors publishing their articles in Wikipedia and then enjoying their books.
On the occasion of the 33rd edition of the Barcelona International Comics Convention, which took place between the 16th and 19th of April, Amical Wikimedia organized its second comic contest, aimed to repeat the success of the previous year, in which several new articles about comics were created and pictures of the fair uploaded in Commons. The three winners received a set of comics in Catalan. Besides the goal of increasing the number of articles about comics in the Catalan wikipedia, it is also very important for the future to keep contact with Ficomic in order to assure the presence of Amical Wikimedia at the fair. More than 100.000 people yearly visit the Barcelona Comic Con, mainly young public. To assure our presence in the fair will give us a huge potential of getting new users.
First Ever editathon in Andorra
On April 11th the first ever edit-a-thon in Andorra was held in the National Library of the country. It was co-organized by Amical Wikimedia, the Public Library of the Andorra Government, and the National Library of Andorra. The goal of the event was to expand and improve the article on Esteve Albert, a writer, historian and culture promoter who has a strong relationship with the country; also, other related articles were created or improved, and the article was translated into Spanish. It is also worth mentioning that Albert's heirs provided Wikimedia Commons with two pictures of their father which have been added to the article.
The local newspaper Diari d'Andorra published a news item the next day covering the event.
Our Libraries project shared in L'Alguero, a catalan-speaking village of Italy.
A conference onf the future of public libraries took place on April 18 at Alguero's Mediterranian Library Mediterranean. Espai Llull convened a series of professionals to present their ideas about the present and the future of library facilities and on strategies to promote better understanding. Carme Fenoll, head of Catalan public library network, explained the success story of the Catalan library system, which this year celebrates its centenary celebrating the Year of the libraries. Àlex Hinojo, from Amical, presented Wikipedia as an excellent tool for disseminating knowledge from a collaborative basis. Watching Alghero Wikipedia entry, Hinojo exposed the impact of Wikipedia and encouraged the participants of the conference to join as volunteers in this worldwide project, highlighting the existing oportunity to minority languages. Finally, he presented the ongoing collaborative project with Catalan public libraries. The large audience that filled the auditorium also had some time to address questions to the guests and to offer their thoughts, all aimed at strengthening the role of libraries in society.
We started with museums, we moved to libraries...and now is Archives time!
Amical Wikimedia has reached an agreement with the Catalan Association of Archivists to schedule some GLAMwiki workshops in all Catalonia's 4 provinces (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida & Tarragona). The idea is to reproduce the success story that we are experiencing with public libraries but with Archivists sector, doing 4 hours workshops where we explain What is Wikipedia, how to edit, how to get information from it (stats), how to use it to disseminate the knowledge of a cultural institution and how to organize events. We also talk about Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. We are really looking forward to this new collaboration project, as the A is one of the smallests letters of our GLAMwiki programme.
Ongoing programmes & projects
editHere you have a list of all the ongoing programs/projects that Amical is promoting during 2015.
GLAM
edit- General — GLAM portal
- Wikipedians in Residence — Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, Filmoteca de Catalunya, MACBA
- Libraries — Libraries Wikiproject (spin off projects:Andorra, Castellar del Vallès, Moià, Navarcles, Tarragona)
- Museums — Fundació Miró, MACBA, MNAC, Museu Morera, Museu del Disseny, Museu de la Música, Museu d'Art de Cerdanyola, Museu de les Arts Escèniques, Museu d'Art de Girona, Museus de Sitges
- Archives — Arxiu Nacional
- Another Cultural Organizations — Arqueopèdia, CCCB, Cultura Popular BCN, ICUB, Medicina,
- Science and research centers: Termcat (Catalan Terminology Agency), ICIQ (Institute of Catalan Chemistry Institute)
Educational
editUniversities
editHere you have a list of all the educational projects Amical is actually promoting, sorted by University
- UAB — Archistic science, IFMuC (Musicology), Viquiclàssics (literature classics)
- UB — Gracmon (Art history), History of Maths, Catalan Philology intern students, Biochemistry, Linguistics, Viquiclàssics (literature classics)
- UdG — Latine literature, Cultural projects management, IT Engineering
- UdL — Art History
- UIC — UIC
- UJI — Quality Management, Quality Management in Tourisme sector, Org behaviour, Quality management and Human resources
- UOC — UOC, Digital preservation, wikiArS
- UPC — IT arquitecture, Data centers, Sostenibility and socail economy, Audiovisual telcoms
- UPF — Museums-MNAC, UPF-Art
- URL — Teacher's studies, Digital journalism
- URV — Teler de Llum (art)
- UVIC — Traductology, History of Communication
Other educational centers
edit- EASD Llotja - wikiArS - ViquiLlotja240 (art)
- EAD Tarragona - wikiArS (art)
- EA Serra i Abella - wikiArS (art)
- EASD Pau Gargallo - wikiArS
- EA La Industrial - wikiArS
- ESMUC - ESMUC (music)
- Institut Cendrassos - Institut Cendrassos (secondary school)*
- Institut L'Arboç - Literature
Other
edit- Esperanto Wikiproject on Catalan Wikimedia
Agenda
editGLAMwiki
edit- Outreach
- April 7: Wikipedia workshop for Esparreguera local librarians. Kippelboy
- April 7: Wikipedia workshop for Cervelló local librarians. Kippelboy
- April 10-12: Attendance to GLAMwiki Netherlands, Den Haag. Kippelboy
- April 11: Andorra First Ever edit-a-thon. ArnaugirLaura.Girona
- April 13: La Selva county librarians editathons. (managed directly by local librarians) Laura.Girona Jordi.Gran
- April 15: Wikipedia workshop for La Vall de Boí cultural agents. Kippelboy
- April 15: Edit-a-thon dedicated to Ovidi Montllor in Barcelona and Alcoi (Valencia). Pacopac, Coentor, Martorell, Jove
- April 17: Kick off of the local-GLAM wikiproject Xavier Badia graphical fund with citizens sqKm-itinerarium. Activity at Salvador Espriu High School (Poblenou, Barcelona). Dvdgmz&Mònica Garriga
- April 18: Conference on Wikipedia and Catalan Libraries case study at Alguero (Italy). Kippelboy
- April 24: Esparraguera local content edit-a-thon (managed directly by local librarians)
- April 26: Opening of the new literature Qrpedia Route at Castellar del Vallès
- April 29: Wikipedia workshop for Tarragona local librarians. Lluis_tgn
- Meetings
- April 17: Meeting with CSIC, CORE-UAB and Museu de Gavà to valuate and analize six first months of Arqueopèdia project and organize next steps. Vàngelis Villar Alibey
- April 29: Meeting with Tarragona Public Library director and more staff to talk about on-going wikiproject. Lluis_tgn
Education
edit- Outreach
- April 8: Wikipedia and free knwoledge talk in Pons d'Icart secondary school. Lluis_tgn
- April 13: Viquiclàssics new edition of the course kick off at Autonomous University of Barcelona. Kippelboy
- From April 7 to 21: exhibition "wikiArS, the contribution of art&design schools to Wikipedia" at Esparraguera Library
- From April 17 to May 10: exhibition "wikiArS, the contribution of art&design schools to Wikipedia" at Vilassar de Mar Library
- From April 30 to May 24: exhibition "wikiArS, the contribution of art&design schools to Wikipedia" at Olesa de Montserrat Library
- Meetings
- Follow-up of wikiArS internship students from Llotja, La Industrial, Pau Gargallo and Tarragona. Dvdgmz, Mercè Piqueras, Vàngelis_Villar, Lepticidium, Lluis_tgn
- April 7: 7th tupperwiki pedagogy edition group meeting at Premià de Mar Library. Dvdgmz, Annagfont, Nurianau & mselga
- April 20th: meeting at Llotja with students working on ancient Egypt strike, teacher Clara Garrigosa and the adviser Joan Montserrat. Dvdgmz
Other
edit- Outreach
- April 8: Wikipedia workshop in Barcelona. Davidpar
- April 17: participation in a panel about Catalan language & youth, organized by CNL Esparraguera. Arnaugir
- Meetings
- April XX: Wiki Loves Earth 2015 preparation meeting with Catalan Government. Kippelboy
- Projects
- April 13-19: Online writing contest on Barcelona Comic Con.
- April 08-22: Online writing contest: Translation of 14 famous Catalan Novelists biographies
- April 18: Meeting of young catalan Wikimedians in Barcelona. Davidpar, Lluis_tgn, Mikicat, Unapersona, KRLS, Xavier Dengra, Sorenike, Ssola
Organization
editMedia coverage
edit- 27 d'abril:
- 27 d'abril:
- Una ruta amb codis QR del poeta Joan Arús, L'Actual de Castellar
- 23 d'abril:
- Canviar el sistema amb la Wikipedia, Ara
- El paper de la Viquipèdia a la universitat, Biblioteca Blanquerna
- 21 d'abril:
- 20 d'abril: Gent amb Valors. Amical Wikimedia, La Xarxa, entrevista a Amador Álvarez
- 15 d'abril: Un ebrenc participa en el primer estudi sobre la percepció dels docents universitàris de la Viquipèdia, Aguaita.cat
- 14 d'abril: La biblioteca de Lloret afegeix entrades d’autors i tradicions locals a la Viquipèdia, Nova Ràdio Lloret
- 13 d'abril: Un taller sobre edició de la Viquipèdia se suma als actes de l’Any Ovidi a Alcoi, La Veu del País Valencià
- 8 d'abril: #ViquiOvidi, jornada per millorar articles relacionats amb Ovidi Montllor i País Valencià, Racó Català
- 1 d'abril: La Viquipèdia necessita la teva ajuda a través del micromecenatge, Ycom.cat
Global Metrics
editProgram | Event/project/task | #Active Editors | #New editors | # People involved | Media Used | #Articles improved | #Bytes | Other Comments |
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2 GLAM | Andorra First ever Edit-a-thon | 8 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 23K | English Report |
2 GLAM | WikiLibraries project conference in L'Alguero, Italy | 35 | English Report | |||||
2 GLAM | Archives Wikiproject | 3 | New specific portal page for archivists | |||||
2 GLAM | Wikipedia workshop for Esparreguera local librarians | 12 | 8 | 13 | ||||
2 GLAM | La Selva county librarians editathon | 7 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 17 | ||
2 GLAM | Wikipedia workshop for La Vall de Boí cultural agents | 8 | ||||||
2 GLAM | QRpedia Route in Castellar del Vallès municipality | 9 | 6 | 15 | 25 | 17 | ||
2 GLAM | Wikipedia workshop for Tarragona local librarians | 8 | 2 | 9 | ||||
3 EDU | Wikipedia and free knwoledge talk in Pons d'Icart secondary school | 25 | ||||||
3 EDU | 3 WikiArs Exhibit in different public libraries | |||||||
4 COMM | Saint George Wikiproject | 13 | 0 | 15 | 169 | 181 | English Report | |
4 COMM | Catalan Comic Conference Wikiproject | 8 | 0 | 10 | 35 | 84 | 365K | English Report |
4 COMM | Double Edit-a-thon dedicated to Ovidi Montllor in Barcelona & Alcoi | 9 | 10 | 5 | 5 | |||
Total (estimated) | 74 | 21 | 163 | 246 | 307 | 388K |