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• Title: The Wikipedia Education Collab: new milestones and goals
• Opening text (35 words): members met in Stockholm this March to brainstorm about the improvements they had implemented since last summer and set the goals for the upcoming eighteen months.
• Intro text (goes before images): The Wikipedia Education Collaborative (or "Collab") members met in Stockholm, Sweden during March 5-6 this year. The event was organized by the Wikipedia Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation in collaboration with Wikimedia Sverige.
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  Activities and goals of Wikipedia Education Collaborative.
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  Program leaders meet in Stockholm

• Descriptive text (250-300 words max): The Collab was formed in 2014 to bring Education Program leaders under one roof to build networks, share experiences and foster collaboration across education programs, organizations, volunteers and geographies throughout the movement. The Stockholm meeting was aimed at defining common goals, priorities and projects for the group to focus on over the next year.

The goals, like establishing best practices for education programs, gathering ideas for educational initiatives, sharing resources between global programs, developing a global recognition system, communicating effectively about experiences, tools and resources, were set earlier. Some of the goals have already been accomplished, like the new recognition system. The creation and translation of many educational resources, like a guide on how to evaluate article quality on Wikipedia, a guide to free licenses, the education program toolkit, and many other resources were also accomplished. Communication and documentation were set as a priority for the collective in the coming year.

This will not just help define a flexible mentoring roadmap as well as for the new phase but will lead a way for the development of resources, improvement of the communication strategy. Two projects the Collab will work on will be testing and translating the Program and Events Dashboard, a new platform which will facilitate the work of educators and the organization of programs using Wikipedia in the classroom, and a global outreach campaign. This new campaign will be targeting educators all around the world to engage them on the Wikipedia Education Program. We are in the process of redesigning the Collab page on Outreach-wiki. We invite you to follow that page for news updates and events.

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• http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/07/wikimedia-education-collaborative/

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Blogs

• Blog 1: What I Learned: Improving the Armenian Wiktionary with the help of students

• Descriptive text (70-80 words): The Armenian Wikimedia community looked beyond Wikipedia to implement their Wikipedia Education Program design. They designed and organized WikiCamps to improve Armenian Wiktionary.The Armenian language, that never saw a complete freely-licensed dictionary, was gifted with 10,000 entries in Wiktionary after end of this activity.

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  Group photo of WikiCamp in the winter of 2016

• http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/01/wikicamp-armenia-student-editors/

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• What I Learned: Improving the Armenian Wiktionary with the help of students

• Blog 2: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

• Descriptive text (70-80 words): Users can search edits with edit summary containing hashtags in Wikipedia's search bar. This new feature can help editors insert hashtag into ongoing edit-a-thons or any kind of editing activity. This blog goes over how hashtags have shown great success already in projects like 1lib1ref campaign, Cyberbot II, and others.

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  The #1lib1ref campaign that saw over 1250 edits and was viewed for 17,918 times in a span of 60 days

• Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

A Program in the Spotlight

• Title: GLAMing Madrid project: starting the collaboration with state museums in Spain
• Tagline: Wikimedia Spain has worked at three state museums in Madrid —the Museum of Romanticism, the Museo del Traje and the National Archaeological Museum— through its first Wikipedian in residence, Rubén Ojeda.
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  Traditional costume from Cantabria
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  Triedit-a-thon at National Archaeological Museum
• Concert at Museum of Romanticism, by Wasei Duo

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I´ve working as Wikipedian in residence at three state museums in Madrid, between September, 2015 and January, 2016. In those four months we carried out various activities to promote the Wikimedia projects, explain how Wikipedia works and create content related to the three museums and their collections. 18 editing workshops for the public, 6 for the staff of the institutions and a triedit-a-thon were organized. All these acts involved a total of 81 people, 61 women (75.30%) and 20 men (24.70%).

In terms of content, were edited 114 articles, 64 of which were new, increasing the textual information in more than 200,000 bytes along three projects: Wikipedia, Wikibooks and Wikidata. In addition, between December 14, 2015 and January 14, 2016 was organized a writing contest, GLAMing Madrid Challenge, in which 30 users edited near 400 articles in ten different languages.

Another highlight was the upload of media under free license to Wikimedia Commons in order to illustrate contained in the various Wikimedia projects. The National Archaeological Museum uploaded 197 files, the Museo del Traje 58 and the Museum of Romanticism 122. We have to add 45 audio and video files, the result of recording classical music concerts at the Museum of Romanticism.

I think that this first experience with state museums has been very positive, and from it we also learned in areas such as working with an institution, organization and development activities, training on Wikimedia projects or recording music. I encourage everyone to share the files that the project made available on Wikimedia projects.

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• GLAMing Madrid final report
• Three state museums open the doors to Wikimedia Spain and host concerts for Wikipedia

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