Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Macedonia/2012

This is the Chapter report for Wikimedia Macedonia for 2012.

Projects and activities

Two workshops and five lectures were held in front of students from different faculties in the country.
Wikimedia Macedonia and South East European University signed a cooperation agreement (26 April).
Certificates were awarded to the most prolific contributors in the project Macedonia on Wikipedia for 2011-12 (5 July).

Pages about the Macedonian Wikipedia and Wikimedia Macedonia on Facebook and Twitter were maintained throughout the year with significant increase in the number of followers.
Two members of Wikimedia Macedonia participated as guests in a talk show at Alfa TV (13 January).

Brest and Kiril Simeonovski represented Wikimedia Macedonia at the Finance meeting in Paris (17-19 February).
Kiril Simeonovski represented Wikimedia Macedonia at the Open Wiki GLAM Serbia in Belgrade (24 February).
Brest and Slobodan Jakoski represented Wikimedia Macedonia at the Wikimedia Conference 2012 in Berlin (30 March-1 April).
Vasilka Dimitrovska represented Wikimedia Macedonia at Wikimania 2013 in Washington DC (12-15 July).
Brest represented Wikimedia Macedonia and Toni Ristovski represented the Macedonian-Wikipedia community at the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2013 in Belgrade. Kiril Simeonovski was Programme manager of the conference and one of its organisers (13-14 October).

Thirteen regular meetups were held during 2012.
The celebration of the 11th birthday of Wikipedia was held in Skopje and was attended by representatives of another NGOs from Macedonia and Hungary (15 January).
The 36th regular meetup was attended by representatives of Free Software Macedonia and saw a discussion on the further cooperation between the two NGOs (26 November).