Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/General report 2023

This is an annual overview of the activities and achievements set out by Shared Knowledge (SK) in the annual plan for 2023, spanning from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023. The report uniformly concludes the activities conducted in 2023.

Financial overview

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You can also see our General financial report for 2023 (standard wiki-way) or simplified version on [ Google Sheets].

Summary of the Year

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  • 2023 is the ninth year of existence of the user group.
  • Shared Knowledge with its activities, managed to reach to 341 participants (87 old ones & 254 new ones).
  • Shared Knowledge collaborated with 203 editors who contributed in 19,280 content pages.
  • 2,758 new Wikipedia content (articles, templates, modules)
  • 605 uploaded images during 2023 were used in articles.
  • SK managed to cooperate and collaborate with 25 institutions, organizations, and associations:
  1. Youth Council Next Generation (in January);
  2. American High School Skopje (in February);
  3. Slovenian Center Skopje (in February, November);
  4. NLB Bank (in February);
  5. Vasil Antevski Dren High School (in February);
  6. Institute of Chemistry (in February, May);
  7. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (in February, June)
  8. Kennel Association of Republic of Macedonia (in March);
  9. Mountaineering Federation of Macedonia (in May);
  10. Mountaineering Club Kozjak 2013 (in May);
  11. Mountaineering Club Jelak (in May);
  12. Botanica Garden, Institute of Biology (in May);
  13. Institute of Geography (in June, December);
  14. Vevčani Municipality (in the summer to autumn);
  15. Vevčani Parish (in the summer to autumn);
  16. Vraništa Parish (in July);
  17. FK Bregalnica 2008 (in August);
  18. Skopje City Mall (in August);
  19. DREN Hans Em Student Association (in October, December);
  20. Rade Kratovče Elementary School (in October)
  21. RK Alkaloid (in October);
  22. Geosfera Regional Geographic Society (in November);
  23. Mirče Acev Elementary School (in November);
  24. Embassy of Slovenia (in November);
  25. Macedonian Society of Student Physicists (in December).

Aims set for the 2023 grant in general

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Area Measures of success
General
  • to increase the quantity and improve the quality of free content;
  • to raise awareness of the Wikimedia movement;
  • to extend cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation and other affiliated organizations;
  • to extend cooperation with external institutions;
  • to raise awareness about knowledge in general;
  • to release a substantial amount of knowledge held by the Macedonian GLAM institutions;
  • to promote free knowledge in the country's educational system;
  • to increase the presence of the Wikimedia projects in the country's educational system;
  • to encourage participation on Wikimedia projects.
Administration
  • to implement the assumption of going concern;
  • to promote the work done within the organization;
  • to establish efficient and effective organisatiznal governance;
  • to establish efficient and effective volunteer management;
  • to establish efficient and effective process of reporting;
  • to reduce the gender gap in the organization;
  • to extend cooperation with institutions and organizations.
Education
  • to introduce and increase the presence of the Wikimedia projects in the educational institutions;
  • to extend cooperation with educational institutions;
  • to promote the Wikimedia projects as useful educational tool;
  • to raise awareness about the benefits that the editing offers to the students;
  • to increase and improve the content on different topics;
  • to get access to materials that can be used for referencing.
Community
  • to increase activity on the Wikimedia projects;
  • to improve the quality of content;
  • to reach out to new potential editors.
Partnerships
  • to introduce and increase the presence of the Wikimedia projects in the GLAM institutions, other organizations and interest groups;
  • to extend cooperation with GLAM institutions, other organizations and interest groups;
  • to document country's natural and cultural heritage;
  • to document specific, valuable and unique knowledge and data;
  • to release and digitalize materials from the libraries;

2023 activities

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See: Annual plan 2023

Projects engaged in 2023.

  • Professors Mentorship
  • Students Mentorship
  • Wikiexperiments
  • WikiLectures
  • Edit-a-thons
  • Editing Competitions
  • CEE Spring 2023
  • Editing Days
  • Editing Weekends
  • 1Lib1Ref
  • Photohunts
  • Wikisketch Lessons

  • WikiTours
  • WikiStands
  • Wikiexpeditions
  • Geoexpeditions
  • Wiki Love Folklore 2023
  • Wiki Science Competition 2023
  • WikiVillage
  • Museums Visits
  • Botanic Garden Skopje
  • MacSport
  • Theater Actors of Macedonia