Amical Wikimedia/March 2013

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February 2013 (català)

GLAM-WIKI

Edit-a-thon at Drassanes

WikiWomen's History Month: Edit-a-thon at Palafrugell Archive

Catalan Wikipedia cake celebrating its 12th anniversary

• March 1st. GLAM-WIKI workshop at Basque Contry Cultural Institutions. Kippelboy
• March 5th. Museu d'Història de Catalunya (Catalan Museum of History) announces its Wikipedian in Residence, user Galazan.
• March 6th. Meeting with Fundació Joan Miró to preparate the 35-hour-long edit-a-thon to be held in April. Kippelboy
• March 8th. Meeting to organize wiki workshop in Tarragona. Kippelboy
• March 8th. Meeting to find a possible Wikipedian in Residence at Museu de la Música (Music Museum). Kippelboy
• March 9th. Edit-a-thon in Palafrugell about women who have a street dedicated. During WikiWomen's History Month. Davidpar
• March 16th. Edit-a-thon at Drassanes, in Barcelona (Commons category)
• March 18th. Meeting with people in charge of education section at Catalan Museum of History. Galazan and Barcelona
• March 18th. Wikipedia workshop at Puigcerdà library. Kippelboy
• March 19th. Presentation of a new Wikipedian in Residence at Museu Morera, Lleida. ESM
• March 22th. Meeting with Barcelona City Council to design Wikiproject 1714. Kippelboy
• Weekly. Wikipedia editing meetings at Girona's Museum of art.

Education

• Whole month. Second phase of project Viquimodernisme (Modernism). Kippelboy and ESM collaborating with GRACMON-University of Barcelona.
• Whole month. Wikiproject about Preservation of digital information resources. 11 articles were started or expanded. Wikiproject coordinated by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya with Amical's support.

• wikiArS
  • March 18th. The image set Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean sea created by Pau Bahí (Llotja School) advised by D. Garcia-Castellanos (I. Jaume Almera CSIC) is considered as “Valued Image Set” in Wikimedia Commons.
  • Whole month. Peer review of Llotja and EDRA student’s works. Preparation of assignments for Manresa students. Contacts with new schools.
  • Help page for posting to Commons specific for students linked to wikiArS.

Open Data

• March 4th. Meeting with Grup Catalunya Dades to prepare Big Data Week Barcelona.

Media

• Amical's Twitter surpasses 2000 followers.
• Barcelona TV, TV3, Descobrir.cat talk about edit-a-thon at Drassanes. Davidpar
• La Vanguardia, Europa Press, Catalunya Ràdio (interview to Galazan), VilaWeb, Bonart, ABC/EFE talk about Wikipedian in Residence at Museu d'Història de Catalunya. Davidpar
• Agència Catalana de Notícies, La Vanguardia 1, 2, TV3 (minut 6:45), 324.cat 1, 2, Catalunya Ràdio (minut 3:38), VilaWeb 1, 2 VilaWeb Mollerussa, La Mañana, Segre 1, 2, Nació Digital, El Punt Avui, La Paeria, Bondia.cat, Bonart, IntocableDigital.Cat talk about new Wikipedian in Residence at Museu Morera, Lleida.
• "Viquimodernisme, not just another GLAMwiki project", article by ESM on Wikimedia Blog about Viquimodernisme.

Other

• March 8th. Meeting with Direcció General d'Atenció Ciutadana of Catalan Government.
• March 16th. 12th anniverary of Catalan Wikipedia. We had a good cake during Drassanes edit-a-thon :-)
• March 20-21th. Coorganizated Sharing Commons Sprint, with IGOP-UAB, OKFN and Ourshare. Lilaroja, Dvdgmz
• March 25th. Meeting-workshop at Centre d'Estudis Vilassarencs. Dvdgmz