Meeting with Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica & Wikimedia Argentina
15 February
Cali - Bogotá - Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Sahaquiel9102
Meeting via Google Meet with Juan Carlos from CNMH & Luisina Ferrante from Human Rights of Wikimedia Argentina to talk about a partnership between our organizations to bring more content to Wikipedia on Human Rights in Colombia, missing people and social leaders.
Workshops for Art+Feminism Edith-a-Thon
20 February
22 February
University of Valle, Cali
Tefita228
Sahaquiel9102
Workshops to prepare the participants for the event date.
Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon
8 March
University of Valle, Cali
Tefita228
Sahaquiel9102
Remux
A total of 10 articles related to outstanding colombian women were created and edited.
Edit-a-Thon in Uniminuto Bogotá
24 May
Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto), Bogotá
Baiji
Workshop and Edit-a-Thon organized by Professor Noé Pernia from the Faculty of Communication Sciences of Uniminuto with the assistance of the Wikimedistas de Colombia user group, in order to create and improve articles about Colombian women in Wikipedia.
In this edition, we met with several leaders and academics who reviewed and contributed to the creation of some articles.
OpenConLatAm 2019
26-28 September
National University of Colombia, Javeriana University; Bogotá
Sahaquiel9102
C3r098
Sahaquiel9102 received a scholarship to travel and attend the conference. He lead a workshop on Wikimedia projects as platform for Open Science. C3r098 attend the conference and take part in the Librarians Gathering.
Voces para transformar a Colombia
25-26 November
Museo La Tertulia, Cali
Sahaquiel9102
Tefita228
Luisina Ferrante (WMAR)
Sahaquiel9102 & Luisina Ferrante (WMAR) take part in a Round Table, the topic discussed was the use of Internet to collect the memory of invisibilized communities, good practices and privacy on Internet.
Sahaquiel9102, Tefita228 and Luisina Ferrante lead a workshop on Historical Memory, Colombian Conflict and Enviroment.
Post on This Month in GLAM about what is linked open data with examples of a Colombian artist and the possibilities to use Wikidata in GLAM institutions
GLAM-Meeting in University Santo Tomás
25 February
Bogotá
C3r098
Introducing Wikimedia projects to librarians, teachers and general public in partnership with University Santo Tomás. See event.
Tefita228 was interviewed in the program "Escalera al Cielo" of Univalle Estéreo 105.3 FM on the Edith-a-thon Art+Feminism, feminism and LGBT+ & no-binary content on Wikipedia
Creating content on Rock bands of Colombia with Radionica
12 February
Bogotá
Hiperterminal
We join and help the initiative of Radionica (a radio station) to create articles of Rock bands of Colombia to visibilize our culture.
TV Interview
14 February
Cali
Tefita228
Tefita228 was interviews on "Tardes del Sol" in the channel Telepacifico, the most viewed Colombia's regional channel. The interviewed was to invite people to participate in the next Art+Feminism Edith-a-thon
Sahaquiel and Remux attended the Summit. In the Iberocoop meeting at the Summit, WMCO discussed the process to organize Iberoconf 2020, a regional-level Conference, in Bogotá. The group reach the AffCom and the WMF Board to know about the status of recognition of the group as Chapter. The working group of Governance was of special interest due to this recognition.
Three members of WMCO attended the conference in the Basque Country (Spain). Remux gave a speech at the Faculty of Philosophy and Anthropology of the Universidad del País Vasco. We made a strong bond with the Basque wikigroup and start thinking on a Education Program of our own. See blog post.
Recognition as Chapter
14 June
Wikimedia Planet
Wikimedians of Colombia
The Board of Trustees recognized our user group as a new Wikimedia chapter. See the official announcement.
Derechos digitales en entornos digitales
12-14 September
Buenos Aires, Argentina
GuteMonik
Gutemonik participated in this event. In this conference were known projects related to human rights, also regional actors and a group of Colombian people active and interested in the challenges of working in digital environments, so there in a meeting was established a working group to shape and constitute the program of human rights in Wikimedia Colombia.
