Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/May 2022

Editing Weekends

On the last day of April and the first day of May, the first EW was held, titled "Jewellery" that was comprised of three men that achieved two new creations of articles and one improved article. "French Cuisine", which was on 7th to 8th, had attendance of two participants who created six articles. The third editing weekend we chose to be "Celtic Mythology" and this EW had 11 new articles by two Wikipedians. The last weekend which had the title "Shakespearean characters", had performance of six created pages by three men.

The outcome in May was 25 new articles and one improved article.

WikiVillage

Within this month, three articles were created on May 3. They were articles about a former school building, the Jewish Cemetery and the IMARO Museum in the suburb of Novo Selo, town of Štip. The day later, nine articles about individual houses were created and the article of the Novo Selo suburb was created as well on the English language Wikipedia.

Editing Days

On 3rd, the "Works by Dmitri Shostakovich" Editing Day was organized which resulted with eight articles and one template, all new, by three participants. Two days later, the second editing day "African national football teams" achieved four created articles, one improved article and one improved template out of four people. Next one, on 10th, three Wikipedians created nine articles and one template at the "Paintings by Vincent van Gogh" Editing Day. The fourth one was "Green political parties", as part of "2022 Wiki For Human Right" international initiative, occurred on 12th and was attended by one participant with production of six articles. Next one, on 17th, we turned our attention to "Priority traffic signs" and resulted in attendance of one user who created four articles. The sixth editing day was named "Oceanic Currents and Gyres" and the achieved results were six new articles by one participant. On 24, we had the local content "Drama Plays by Goran Stefanovski" ED that ended with creation of 12 articles and participation of one Wikipedian. Two days later, the second last "National Parks of Sweden" ED was on and resulted in five new articles by two men. On the last day of the month we held the "Traffic Notification Signs" and one Wikipedian created four articles.

The outcome in May was 58 new articles, one improved article and two created templates and one improved template.

Wikiexpeditions

From April 30 to May 2, our standard four participants now headed to the Probištip and Kratovo regions - an expedition titled Wikiexpedition to Osogovo and Mangovica Mountains. The visiting in the general Kratovo area is a rerun from a previous Wikiexpedition several years prior, but now only the unexplored villages were covered.

WikiTranslations

Group photo of the participants.

An editorial online event was organized on May 7, which included four students from the Department of Translation and Interpretation at the Faculty of Philology "Blaže Koneski" together with two activists of Shared Knowledge. Five articles were created on that occasion. The aim of the venture was to translate articles from the Macedonian Wikipedia to the English Wikipedia, ie to translate local content that was created by the Macedonian Wikipedians over the years. Additionally, three articles were created on May 10. The next day and on 14, two articles were created.

MakSport

The basketball game between Angeli vs. Kožuv, that was played on May 7, was on our agenda. Before the start of the game, in coordination with the clubs staff, we managed to photograph both teams' players, coaching staff, group photo of Kožuv, and the home ground of Angeli. Out of this matchup, 143 images were uploaded.

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On the same day, we also managed to cover the basketball matchup between Rabotnički vs. Naviko Akademija FMP. Held in the Kale Sports Hall, the basketball players of Rabotnički, group photos of both teams, and the sports venue itself were photographed and 128 images got uploaded on Commons.

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On May 12, again our activist headed to Kale Sports Hall, but now to visit the home team KK TFT to play versus Bitola side KK Pelister. Before the start of the Super League phase matchup, the both teams players and head coaches were photographed during warmups and a team photo of TFT was made, as well the initial moments of the game were taken. 108 images were uploaded.

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Next sports matchup up was between the basketball teams of Fenix 2010 and Gostivar. During this photograpic feat, every individual member of KK Gostivar was photographed, as well pregame warmup and in game moments of the players of the both teams. Out of this game, 65 images were uploaded.

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Professors Mentorship

On May 9, a member of Shared Knowledge was part of a series of lectures on "Open Education and Free Knowledge Sharing" attended by university and high school professors. The event or lectures were in the premises of INOFEIT (an entity within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT)) and were part of the event for dissemination of their project "VALENCE: Advancing Machine Learning in Vocational Education" and the competition in electronics within the workshop "Technology for you" organized by Loging Electronics and Production Laboratory (FabLab) of FEIT, supported by the Interest Group for Free Software and Open Education and Science of FEEIT WITH @FEEIT and the Macedonian section of IEEE. Our lecture was entitled "Wikipedia - a platform for free content", which gave an introduction to Wikipedia, the word about Shared knowledge and its activities and the opportunity for attendees to get involved in our Wikimedia ventures, as well as holding a short training on editing Wikipedia which as part of it, one article was created. The number of the audience was 32.

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Botanic Garden

From 13:30 to 16:30, on May 9, in one of the quarters of the Department of Systematics and Phylogeny of Higher Plants and Phytogeography with Phytocenology at the Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, we had an editorial endeavor with the two assistants of this department, as well as with two of their students. As part of this editorial activity, articles about plants were created (10) within the Botanic Garden Skopje Project. Four days later, in the period from 11:00 to 14:30, another workshop was held. At the same place, the editors, including an employee at the Botanic Garden, the two first session assistants, and two new students, were part of the workshop, creating 13 articles.

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  The participants on May 9
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  A published article on May 9
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  An article during translation on May 9
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  During the editing on May 13
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  A published article on May 13
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  The participants on May 13
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  The participants on May 13

Week-a-thons

From May 4 to May 10, we held the Week-a-thon titled "Climate Changes" as part of the international initiative "2022 Wiki For Human Rights". Due to the competitive nature. One participant won a prize voucher on the merit of creating 26 articles.

Archaeoexeditions

The Archaeoexpeditions got initiated in this month. On 14th, four men, of which: an Shared Knowledge activist, a Dr. in archaeology, a returning Wikipedian and former participant past Wikiexpeditions, and a brand new participant, visited Negotino Municipality. Five archaeological sites were visited including Gradište which is located north of the town of Negotino, Jaka Češma - Crkva, Ormankov Grob and Čair Rid in the south-eastern edge, eastern, and north of the village of Tremnik, respectively, and the last visited site was Gradište in the village of Vojšanci, located south of the village. Additionally, the Vardar River, the bridges in Pepelište and Vojšanci, the local church in Vojšanci, the Negotino Power Plant, and the panoramas of some villages were also photographed. 108 images of encyclopedic use were uploaded.

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Students Mentorship

On May 18, from 09:15 to 10:40, Shared Knowledge, represented by our SK activist, held a lecture on Wikipedia and editing training at the Marie Curie Skłodowska High School located in Aerodrom Municipality. The present students were from the first, second and third grade and there were 31 of them, accompanied by their computer science professor. The first class also introduces the history of Wikipedia, an introduction to Shared Knowledge and its activities. At the second school were the training and lessons from coding and editing through translation. After receiving the training during the second school class, some of the interested people got the opportunity to create articles of which in total three articles were created.

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On May 27, from 10:00 to 13:00, our two SK activists gave lectures on Wikipedia and training at editing and held a workshop at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The participation was by five students, one demonstrator, and one senior laboratory assistant, accompanied by their professor of ethnology and anthropology. On this occasion, two articles were created, three articles were improved and 10 files were uploaded on the Macedonian language Wikipedia. Later that day another article was created. Umno.mk announced the event.

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WikiSketch Lessons

On May 28, from 12 PM to 4 PM, Shared Knowledge held WikiSketch Lessons within the program of the Nihon Ji - Festival of Japanese Culture. Anyone present and interested could write articles related to Japan in general. As a result 11 articles were created out of three participants. Three images of encyclopedic use were uploaded.

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  A conversation with the Japanese ambassador
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  A conversation with the Japanese ambassador
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  A conversation with the Japanese ambassador
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Wiki Loves Earth 2022

The Macedonian WLE logo.

Trough out entire May, we held the the 2022 Wiki Loves Earth, as continuation of the editions in 2014 and 2015. This is part of the wider international photo competition of which its images should portray nature and or protected areas in the participating countries. In our regional contest, our target and aim was solely the protected areas in Macedonia that have no imagery or are in very little quantity. So our targets were Natural Reserves, Monuments of Nature, Parks of Nature, and Natural Rarities that have or had an official status. So, out of 8 competitors 1345 images were uploaded on Commons.