Wikimedia MKD/Reports/2025-01
Wikipedia Day 2025
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On 15 January 2025, in honor of Wikipedia’s birthday, the Macedonian wiki community organized a special celebration. The event was held in a pleasant atmosphere at the “Piazza Liberta” café in Skopje, starting at 5 p.m. This gathering was an opportunity to mark the 24th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia, one of the largest and most influential open knowledge projects in the world.
The celebration was attended by active wiki editors, supporters and lovers of free knowledge, who jointly celebrated the significance of this global platform for information exchange. The event began with informal discussions, where attendees had the opportunity to share their experiences, successes and challenges with editing Wikipedia articles.
During the event, Lifetime Achievement Awards to two distinguished Wikipedians were given. These awards are given to editors who have been active on Wikipedia for more than 10 years and have made over 10,000 edits. The awards were met with great applause, as a testament to their tireless work and dedication to free knowledge.
In addition to the appropriate snacks and drinks, the birthday cake was also inevitable for this event. Specially prepared for the occasion, the cake was the central focus of the event, officially celebrating 24 years of friendship with Wikipedia.
Besides the event itself and the delicious cake, Wikipedia also received its own gifts. On the very day of the birthday, 15 January 2025, Wikimedia MKD announced a call for all Wikipedia users to publish articles, new or improved, as a birthday gift for Wikipedia. The call lasted throughout the day and 33 new articles were published and 19 Wikipedians gave their gift to Wikipedia and improved the content of the encyclopedia.
This celebration was further proof that Wikipedia is not just a platform, but a real community of people who believe in the power of knowledge. The event ended with a promise to continue with even greater energy in 2025.
You can view all the photographic material from the event here.
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Macedonian Wiki-Community celebrates Wikipedia's 24-th birthday -
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Lifetime Achievement Awards -
Macedonian Wiki-Community celebrates Wikipedia's 24-th birthday
Editing Days
[edit]Editing days is an activity that lasts for the whole year in organization of Wikimedia MKD. Each Tuesday and Thursday different topics are given and the participants create or improve existing articles. In January 2025 there were in total 9 editing days, where participants edited on different topics in order to enrich the content of Wikipedia. The editing days and the topics were:
- 2.1.2025 - Mountains of Montenegro
- 7.1.2025 - Churches in Russia
- 9.1.2025 - United Nations days
- 14.1.2025- Cuban styles of music
- 16.1.2025 - Ancient technology
- 21.1.2025 - Soviet inventions
- 23.1.2025 - Viking art
- 28.1.2025 - Government ministries of Lithuania
- 30.1.2025- Veganism
Cumulatively, 10 different users took part in these calls and edited. In total, 62 new articles were created during the editing days in January 2025.
Editing Weekends
[edit]Editing weekends is another project that is organized during the whole year. During weekends (Saturday and Sunday) user are welcomed to take part in this project activity and improve or enrich Macedonian Wikipedia content. During these weekends, the participants are expected to edit articles on given topics. In January 2025 the following editing weekends were organized:
- 4-5 January 2025 - International rivers of Europe
- 11-12 January 2025 - Football clubs in England
- 18-19 January 2025 - Music festivals
- 25-26 January 2025 - Lost works of art
In total, during these weekends there were 7 different users editing on the given topics and they created 25 new articles on the Macedonian Wikipedia.
In media
[edit]- Presidential and parliamentary elections, Macedonia and Our Father are the most read articles on Macedonian Wikipedia in 2024, radiomof.mk
- Presidential and parliamentary elections – the first two most read articles on Wikipedia for 2024, trn.mk
- Wikipedia Celebrates Birthday in Skopje, nezavisen.mk
- The Macedonian Wiki-Community and Wikimedia MKD celebrated Wikipedia's 24th birthday!, kumanovskimuabeti.mk
- Wikimedia MKD celebrated Wikipedia's 24th birthday mkd.mk
- Wikipedia celebrated 24th years of existence, birthday party was also made in Skopje,trn.mk
- Wikimedia MKD is starting with trainings for editing on Wikipedia,kumanovskimuabeti.mk
- Wikimedia MKD is starting with free trainings for editing on Wikipedia,trn.mk
- Free trainings for editing on Wikipedia, nezavisen.mk
- Trainings for editing on Wikipedia, tetovoinfo.mk
- Free trainings for editing on Wikipedia, mkd.mk
