Wikimedistas de Colombia/Grupo de usuarios/Report 2019


2019 Reporte anual


Talks, Workshops & Edit-a-Thons edit

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Meeting with Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica & Wikimedia Argentina 15 February Cali - Bogotá - Buenos Aires (Argentina) Sahaquiel9102 Meeting via Google Meet with Juan Carlos from CNMH & Luisina Ferrante from Human Rights of Wikimedia Argentina to talk about a partnership between our organizations to bring more content to Wikipedia on Human Rights in Colombia, missing people and social leaders.
Workshops for Art+Feminism Edith-a-Thon
  1. 20 February
  2. 22 February
University of Valle, Cali
  • Tefita228
  • Sahaquiel9102
Workshops to prepare the participants for the event date.
Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon 8 March University of Valle, Cali
  • Tefita228
  • Sahaquiel9102
  • Remux
A total of 10 articles related to outstanding colombian women were created and edited.
Edit-a-Thon in Uniminuto Bogotá 24 May Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto), Bogotá Baiji Workshop and Edit-a-Thon organized by Professor Noé Pernia from the Faculty of Communication Sciences of Uniminuto with the assistance of the Wikimedistas de Colombia user group, in order to create and improve articles about Colombian women in Wikipedia.
Women in Independence Edit-a-thon 20 July HackBo, Bogotá
  • Remux
  • Marinati55 (WMVE)
Edit-a-thon on Women related to the Independence Campaigns in Colombia. Partnership with Wikimedia Venezuela.
Wikipedia Mujer Edit-a-thon 19 September Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá GuteMonik In this edition, we met with several leaders and academics who reviewed and contributed to the creation of some articles.
OpenConLatAm 2019 26-28 September National University of Colombia, Javeriana University; Bogotá
  • Sahaquiel9102
  • C3r098
Sahaquiel9102 received a scholarship to travel and attend the conference. He lead a workshop on Wikimedia projects as platform for Open Science. C3r098 attend the conference and take part in the Librarians Gathering.
Voces para transformar a Colombia 25-26 November Museo La Tertulia, Cali
  • Sahaquiel9102
  • Tefita228
  • Luisina Ferrante (WMAR)
Sahaquiel9102 & Luisina Ferrante (WMAR) take part in a Round Table, the topic discussed was the use of Internet to collect the memory of invisibilized communities, good practices and privacy on Internet.

Sahaquiel9102, Tefita228 and Luisina Ferrante lead a workshop on Historical Memory, Colombian Conflict and Enviroment.

Contests edit

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Wikivacaciones 2018 December 2018 - January 2019 Colombia
  • Sahaquiel9102
  • Remux
See Grant report
Wiki Loves Earth 2019 May 2019 Colombia
  • Sahaquiel9102
  • JOAN
  • Remux
See Grant report

Indigenous languages edit

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
First workshop with indigenous women 25-26 July Maicao, Guajira GuteMonik First workshop in partnership with the University of Rosario. See blog post.
Second workshop with indigenous women 24-25 August Maicao, Guajira
  • GuteMonik
  • C3r098
Weaving the web: Documentary sources, digital security and speaking indigenous languages on the internet were the themes of the work. More information: http://wikimediacolombia.org/2019/10/tejiendo-la-red-fuentes-documentales-seguridad-digital-y-hablar-lenguas-indigenas-en-internet/
Third workshop with indigenous women 27-29 September Maicao, Guajira
  • GuteMonik
  • Tefita228
Third workshop of edition of the meeting with Wayuu women.

GLAM edit

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Public Domain Day 1 January Colombia Hiperterminal Post on the increase of copy right protection for Institution in our blog
First report from GLAM in Wikimedia Colombia January Colombia Hiperterminal Post on This Month in GLAM about what is linked open data with examples of a Colombian artist and the possibilities to use Wikidata in GLAM institutions
GLAM-Meeting in University Santo Tomás 25 February Bogotá C3r098 Introducing Wikimedia projects to librarians, teachers and general public in partnership with University Santo Tomás. See event.
GLAM in OpenCon LatAm 8 October Colombia Hiperterminal Post on This Month in GLAM about the participation of Wikimedia Colombia in the OpenConLatam in Bogotá.

Wikimedia Colombia & Media edit

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Radio Interview 12 February Cali Tefita228 Tefita228 was interviewed in the program "Escalera al Cielo" of Univalle Estéreo 105.3 FM on the Edith-a-thon Art+Feminism, feminism and LGBT+ & no-binary content on Wikipedia
Creating content on Rock bands of Colombia with Radionica 12 February Bogotá Hiperterminal We join and help the initiative of Radionica (a radio station) to create articles of Rock bands of Colombia to visibilize our culture.
TV Interview 14 February Cali Tefita228 Tefita228 was interviews on "Tardes del Sol" in the channel Telepacifico, the most viewed Colombia's regional channel. The interviewed was to invite people to participate in the next Art+Feminism Edith-a-thon

Wikimedia Colombia inside the Wikimedia Movement edit

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Iberoconf 2019 8-10 February Santiago, Chile
  • C3r098
  • GuteMonik
C3r098 and Gutemonik attended the conference. More information about report in this post.
Wikimedia Summit 2019 29 March - 2 April Berlin, Germany
  • Sahaquiel9102
  • Remux (as member of Esperanto & Free Knowledge)
Sahaquiel and Remux attended the Summit. In the Iberocoop meeting at the Summit, WMCO discussed the process to organize Iberoconf 2020, a regional-level Conference, in Bogotá. The group reach the AffCom and the WMF Board to know about the status of recognition of the group as Chapter. The working group of Governance was of special interest due to this recognition.
Wikimedia+Education Conference 2019 5 - 7 April Donostia, Spain
  • Sahaquiel9102
  • Remux
  • Tefita228
Three members of WMCO attended the conference in the Basque Country (Spain). Remux gave a speech at the Faculty of Philosophy and Anthropology of the Universidad del País Vasco. We made a strong bond with the Basque wikigroup and start thinking on a Education Program of our own. See blog post.
Recognition as Chapter 14 June Wikimedia Planet Wikimedians of Colombia The Board of Trustees recognized our user group as a new Wikimedia chapter. See the official announcement.
Derechos digitales en entornos digitales 12-14 September Buenos Aires, Argentina GuteMonik Gutemonik participated in this event. In this conference were known projects related to human rights, also regional actors and a group of Colombian people active and interested in the challenges of working in digital environments, so there in a meeting was established a working group to shape and constitute the program of human rights in Wikimedia Colombia.