GLAM Macedonia User Group/Reports/2022-05
Wiki Camp Mavrovo edit
Wiki Camp Mavrovo 2022 was a successfully and professionally organized camp for underage students for editing articles on Macedonian Wikipedia. The Wiki Camp lasted for three days, from May 6 to 8, 2022 and took place in the Korab Trnica Complex in the Mavrovo region. 40 students from primary and secondary schools in Macedonia participated, who through mutual acquaintance and socializing had the opportunity to get to know each other and be trained in editing Wikipedia articles in the Macedonian language.
During these three days, they created 353 new articles on topics about flora and fauna on Macedonian Wikipedia. Among other activities of the Wiki Camp, lectures and trainings took place and collaborative workshops on advanced Wikipedia editing. There was lecture about the way of conducting expedition field research in the field of geography, nature, agriculture, cultural heritage, architecture and archaeology. The students also had the opportunity for an organized walk in Sharkova Dupka, a local cave inhabited by bats, as well as a lecture by graduate ecologist Ikmet Ejupi from Mavrovo National Park.
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Editing contest for high school students edit
In the period from April 18 till May 8, we started editing contest for high school students, as a joint project with Shared Knowledge. The contest named "Articles by Year by Area", was divided in three weeks, with awards for the best article each week, plus awards for the best three participants.
Only students aged 15 to 18 had the right to participate in the contest. The participants had to edit articles, which are missing from Wikipedia in the Macedonian language, and these were reviewed and scored by a three-member jury, which made a final decision on the winners.
The best three participants are ranked based on the marks awarded by the members of the jury committee:
| Number | Participant | Result |
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| 1 | Viktor Borjevic | 233 |
| 2 | Kalan Wiki2 | 168 |
| 3 | Petar Barsa | 129 |
In the first and the third week, there was no best article, only in the second week the jury members proclaimed the best article of the week. It was LGBT rights in the 19th century created by the participant Kalan Wiki2.
In the three weeks of the editing contest, 5 students took part, and they created 42 new articles.
Awarding statuettes for permanent contribution edit
On May 25, 2022, the first statuettes of Wikipedians for permanent contribution were awarded, which is the highest recognition given to the editors of the Macedonian language Wikipedia as a sign of gratitude for their long-term contribution to the project. Each of the award-winning editors received an award-winning statuette with the Wikipedia logo. The plan is to award this kind of statuettes also in the years to come, and the awards will go to those Wikipedians who will meet the conditions:
- at least 10 years from the first to the last editing;
- at least 10 consecutive years with editing done;
- at least 10,000 edits (without undo and automatic edits); and
- the editor has not been blocked for more than a week
Wiki Live 2022 edit
On May 28 and 29, 2022, the sixth Wikilive was held in Belgrade, a conference where Serbian Wikipedians and Wikipedians from the region come together to exchange experiences, share technical solutions and agree on new collaborations. The conference was held at the SKIP Center and during the two days, three round tables were held, as well as parallel sessions for education, GLAM program and diversity. This year, GLAM Macedonia sent its representatives: Natasha Stardelova, who participated in the educational round table with her speech, and Snezana Strkovska, who had her lecture on cooperation with the embassies. In the photo: all WikiLive participants from day one.
GLAM activities edit
This month we started a new collaboration with the Association of mushroom growers, in order to have materials for new articles about mushrooms. After this task was finished, flora and fauna articles started back in 2020, are more than 1,000 on Macedonian Wikipedia.