Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/January 2021

Editing weekends

The year happened to start with the weekends subproject, titled as "Musical Theory". This initial topic of 2021 gathered four people who wrote 21 new articles and one improve article. Next was "Comets" which was participated by three men who created 13 articles. During 16th to 17th, the weekend was dedicated for "Handball", themed after the current 2021 IFH World Men's Handball Championship. This edition ended up with five new articles out of two men. Afterwards, the geographical themed "Cities/Towns" brought 16 new articles and one improved one out of four participants. At the last two days of January, "Ancient Egypt" was held and attracted four men that made 13 new articles.

Sketch lessons

At January 5th, in our office, we managed to met with the Macedonian professional basketball player Edis Nuri who was eager to improve and create one article each.

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Editing days

On 5th, "Works of Victor Hugo" was held that interested three Wikipedians who overall created one template and 16 articles. On the day of Orthodox Christmas, "Christmas Food" was organized, four articles were created out of two men. On 12th, the "Macedonian Folk Songs" was reactivated this years, creating or improving articles about folk songs that started under the letter A. That day three people joined this event and created eight articles. Two days later, it was "Districts of Hong Kong" being comprised of two men who created three articles. At Tuesday 19th, "Archaeological sites of Štip Region" was scheduled and 40 new articles were created during this 24 hour period by two participants. Also, the entire archaeological template of this region was completed. Next was "Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir", comprised of two users that made 10 new articles. Then the "Settlements in the Municipality of Kušnica" editing day, a municipality located in modern day Greece, got organized and two people joined and created six and improved three articles. On 28th, "Scripts" was on, being comprised of three participants who achieved five articles, all created.

Edit-a-thon

"British Culture" Edit-a-thon

At 28th, again with collaboration with the youth organization MladiHub, we held the first editing event of this type, on the subject "British Culture" hence the collaborators cooperate with UKaid. Nine new people attended the intro and the lecture of how to use Wikipedia. When it comes to editing participants, eight total and six new participants contributed and created 41 new articles.