Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/August 2021

Editing weekends

The first weekend was started July 31 to August 1 and due to the summer, we titled it "Beaches". This topic achieved six new articles and was attended by two people. On 7th & 8th, "Puzzles" was conducted and in that occasion three men edited about seven new pages. Then there was "Hinduism" that got interested two men who created four pages. The second-to-final weekend was appointed for "Rivers". In those two days, four men got involved and created 40 pages. Next was named "Middle Ages" and that weekend two users got included and created 16 articles.

Editing days

The three men included at the "Archaeological sites at Vinica region" contributed in 18 new and nine improved articles. On 5th, the editing day "Works by Alexander Pushkin" was organized and resulted in eight creations in articles and one new template, out of three Wikipedians. The third one this month was scheduled as "Departments of France", reboot of 2020, and was attended of three users that produced three new articles. Again with cultural heritage related topics, on 12th we held "Cultural Heritage of Northern Europe" that was comprised of one man and he accumulated four new articles. Then on 17th, "Information Units" got occurred and 15 pages got created, comprised of two Wikipedians. On 19th, "Macedonian Folk Songs (I)" was the topic and was participated by one user who contributed in three creations. Five days later, we organized "Clouds" and seven articles got created by participation of two users. On 26th, it was arranged for "Painting by Titian" which had attendance of three men who enriched the Macedonian Wikipedia with 20 new articles. And the last one this month, was called "Egyptian Pyramids" and attracted three people who contributed seven newly established articles.

Editing competition

Starting from July 9 and ending on August 8, we organized the "Summer Olympics" themed after the then ongoing 2020 Summer Olympics. The competitors were designated to edit everything related in the Summer Olympic Games no matter the past editions, competitors, sports, etc. The final results are these: number of competitors - 3, created articles - 127, improved articles - 5. Concerning the prizes, addressing to the contesters with the most accumulated points, the top two users won one, plus an additional prize for the best edited article.

Wikiexpeditions

The third wikiexpedition this year was held 27-29 August, when four men visited Buševa Mountain and Prilepsko Pole, situated in the Municipalities of Prilep and Krivogaštani.

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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

For the second time, we organized our own WPWP competition, as part of the international initiative, through partnership with GLAM Macedonia. The competition lasted from July 1 to August 31. At this 2021 edition 13 participants had chance to insert images in image lacking articles. The contesters had overall number of covered articles that was 4,564 articles, and within them the participants inserted 5,145 images.