Wikimedia MKD/Reports/2025-03
Edit-a-thon "Women at the Macedonian front"
[edit]Wikimedia MKD is always striving to celebrate equality, social and cultural values and promote the idea of diversity. Decreasing the gender gap regarding Wikipedia content and its related project has been one of the key focuses of the organization's efforts. Like previous years, Wikimedia MKD organized an edit-a-thon on 7 March 2024 on the topic "Women at the Macedonian front", which it celebrates the International Women's Day with.
The event was attended by 12 members of the Wiki Club from the "Josip Broz-Tito" High School in Skopje, who, under the mentorship of history professor Irena Trajkovska Stejrovska, came to the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle. Educator Ana Vishinova gave a lecture on significant women in Macedonian history. The lecture served as inspiration for the participants, which was followed by joint editing of articles related to the topic.
The end result of this editing marathon is 10 newly created articles on Wikipedia.
You can see how it went through the photographic material uploaded on Commons, but also some of the photos are bellow:
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Edit-a-thon "Get to know Slovenia" results
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Wikimedia MKD continuously organizes editorial marathons in order to enrich the Macedonian language Wikipedia with quality and accessible information. Through these events, volunteers and Wiki Club members actively contribute to free knowledge, covering various topics from culture, history, geography, and many other areas.
The editorial marathon "Get to know Slovenia" took place from 1 February 2025 to 28 February 2025. The project was organized by the Wikimedia MKD in cooperation with the Slovenian Center - Skopje, supported by Slovenian embassy in Skopje. The main goal was to reduce the lack of content related to Slovenia on the Macedonian-language Wikipedia. All members of the Wiki Clubs in Macedonia were welcome to participate and contribute to the enrichment of the Macedonian-language Wikipedia.
Participation in the editorial marathon were simple and has only a few basic rules:
- The participant had to be a member of one of the Wiki Clubs in Macedonia.
- The article written had to be on a topic related to Slovenia.
- The article had to be new.
The top five participants will be awarded with special prizes and diplomas, which will be awarded during the month of April at a ceremonial event in Skopje. The prizes are provided by the Slovenian Center in cooperation with the Embassy of Slovenia in Skopje. So the results are as follows:
- I Award - Горазд Војнески
- II Award - Emilija Dobreva
- III Award -Mito999
- IV Award - Марко09
- V Award - XavieraMars
A total of 50 users participated and 645 articles were written.
Wikimedia MKD's Newsletters
[edit]Wikimedia MKD always presents its activities in Wikimedia Newsletters. In January 2025, the CEE Newsletter covered the activities of the association in November and December of the previous year 2024, including part of January 2025 ending with the celebration of Wikipedia's birthday. The second CEE Newsletter covered the activities in January, February and until mid-March 2025.
Also in the education newsletter in February, we presented the activities that Wikimedia MKD had in the field of education for February, and then again in the March edition the activities of Wikimedia MKD in the field of education for March. Finally, we also presented the annual GLAM program in detail in the GLAM Newsletter.
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 March 2025 there were in total 8 editing days, where participants edited on different topics in order to enrich the content of Wikipedia. The editing days and the topics were:
- 4.3.2025 - Government ministries of Armenia
- 6.3.2025 - Cave paintings
- 11.3.2025 - Churches in Australia
- 13.3.2025- Wolf Prizes
- 18.3.2025 - Cultural heritage of Serbia
- 20.3.2025 - Prehistoric art
- 25.3.2025 - Urban legends
- 27.3.2025 - Saint Lucian people
Cumulatively, 7 different users took part in these calls and edited. In total, 34 new articles were created during the editing days in March 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 March 2025 the following editing weekends were organized:
- 1-2 March 2025 - Music education
- 8-9 March 2025 - Television series
- 15-16 March 2025 - Chocolate
- 22-23 March 2025 - Protests
- 29-30 March 2025- Water pollution
In total, during these weekends there were 7 different users editing on the given topics and they created 29 new articles on the Macedonian Wikipedia.
