GLAM Macedonia User Group/Reports/2023-09
Annual meeting
[edit]The annual gathering of GLAM Macedonia members held on 2 September. This was meeting in which GM members spoke about upcoming changes which are planned to occur according the status-change of the organization. Namely, this year preparation goes to merge the two user groups in Macedonia into one bigger group, which could also serve as chapter in Macedonia.
Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023
[edit]This year Wikimedia CEE Meeting took place in Tbilisi, Georgia. Seven Wikipedians from Macedonia took part, who also had their own lectures, i.e. presentation of the projects that are being worked on at the local level, and which are part of the guidelines for the overall projects of Wikipedia. From GLAM Macedonia, the two participants were: Zana Strkovska and Natasa Nedanoska.
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Wiki Camp Mihajlovo
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Three days camp for Wiki Club's members this year was named: Let's keep living heritage live! - to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO. The Wiki Camp took place at the weekend September 22-24, 2023 in Mihajlovo, mountain resort for children, on Mount Kozhuv, near Kavadarci. The goal of Wiki Camp is to increase the articles and contents of Macedonian language Wikipedia on free topics about living heritage, improve the existing articles, as well as train unreliable editors.
This camp was the fifth camp for Wiki Club's members in Macedonia, and the first international camp, as we have participants from Serbia, and international speaker. Namely, the wiki-camp was welcomed by Susan Ones from Helsinki, initiator of the project Wiki Loves Living Heritage, Ivona Opetcheska Tatarchevska, senior associate for folklore goods at the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, and Snezhana Štrkovska, president of GLAM Macedonia.
The second day of the wiki-camp, on Saturday, was marked by two inspiring lectures: Lili Arsova from the Wiki Club Veles presented the activities on this topic in the previous period by the Veles Wikipedians. Ivona Opetcheska Tatarchevska, on the other hand, presented to the participants a wide range of information from this part of the cultural heritage, which will be a positive input in the upcoming enrichment of Wikipedia in the Macedonian language with articles on this topic.
Wiki Camp also had some interesting new content. For example, how to successfully attach a photo to your articles was taught by Igor Kuzmanovski, and Nikola Stojanoski, spoke to the participants about the secrets of administering Wikipedia. The Wiki Camp ended on Sunday, with a review of the written articles and the awarding of certificates to the participants and prizes for the most valuable five.
This is the fifth camp for Wiki Club's members, and the first of an international nature. So far, similar camps have been held in: 2017 in Berovo, 2018 in Dojran, 2019 in Veles, and in 2022 in Trnica.
You can see more photos of the Wiki Camp from Mihajlovo at the following category: Wiki Camp Mihajlovo 2023.
