GLAM Macedonia User Group/Reports/2018-03

2018
March

International and other cooperation edit

On 17 March 2018, the members of the Mixed choir "Artizan" together with members of GLAM Macedonia, and the members of Wiki Clubs in Macedonia lead by GLAM Macedonia, created 20 new articles about music, 15 existing articles were improved and two photos regarding performance of the Macedonian choirs were uploaded on Commons. This collaboration on the theme music come after we received an invitation by several musicians in order to improve the music articles on mkwiki. The main editing together event took part at the evening hours in Public Room in Skopje.

Wiki Club Ohrid workshop edit

On 30 and 31 March 2018, the Chair of GLAM Macedonia visited Wiki Club Ohrid and held two days workshop with the members. Four new members enrolled in Wiki Club, who were introduced with the basics of editing Wikipedia. To the other members of this Wiki Club, who already create and edit articles on Macedonian Wikipedia, were shown tips and tricks, which will improve their editing skills. During the workshop 17 new articles were created and 6 existing articles were improved.

GLAM edit

New agreement was signed with the City Library "Braka Miladinovci" in Skopje. This agreement is to continue the previous successful collaboration with the Library. GLAM Macedonia has four signed Agreements with GLAM institutions in Macedonia in 2018. Beside the one mentioned new agreement, we have signed agreements with the State Archives in the Republic of Macedonia and with the Museum of Macedonian struggle in Skopje, and with the Institute of National History, for collaboration this year.

Three months in numbers (January, February and March) edit

  • 206 new articles
  • 60 existing articles edited
  • 10 new users