Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/August 2020

Editing weekends

The first weekend was themed on the national Macedonian holyday St. Elyah and we named it simply "Macedonia". This wider topic achieved 16 new and one article related to our homeland and was attended by four people. On 8th & 9th, "Time" was conducted and in that occasion three men edited about six new pages. Next was named "Photography" and that weekend five users got included and created 18 articles. Then there was "Pirates" that got interested three men who created seven pages. The final weekend was appointed for "Samurais". In those two days, four men got involved and created eight pages.

Editing days

The three men included at the "Archaeological sites at Vinica region" contributed in 32 new articles. On 6th, the editing day "Roman provinces" was organized and resulted in 10 creations out of five Wikipedians. The third one this month was scheduled as "Archaeological sites at Kratovo region" and was attended of four users that produced 14 new articles. Again with Roman Empire related topics, on 13th we held "Roman (administrative) themas" that was comprised of three men and they accumulated seven new articles. We again continued with the archaeology topics because on 18th, "Archaeological sites at Ohrid region" got occured and 9 pages got created, comprised of two Wikipedians. On 20th, "Stationery" was the topic and was participated by four users who contributed in seven creations. Five days later, we organized "Archaeological sites at Štip region" and it was successful because 52 articles got created by participation of four users. And the last one this month, was called "Acts of the Apostles" and attracted five people who contributed twelve newly established articles.

Sketch lessons

This month, the archaeologist student created seven templates on municipal level archaeological sites. Then she created three articles about various topics.

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  Creating an archaeology template
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  Another lesson this month
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  Lesson in late August

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

As of August 31, this worldwide initiative has ended, that started on July 1 2020. With cooperation with the other user group GLAM Macedonia, we managed to spread the word to participate 22 Wikipedians. Hence the initiative was contest like, there was prizes for the top 9 participants, if they cover at least 100 articles. At the end and after thorough check of the results, 8 users were valid to get a prize. The Macedonian editors overcome the target minimum of 900 total articles and the overall number of covered articles was 1,882 articles, and within them the participants inserted 2,744 photos.