GLAM/Newsletter/August 2024/Contents/Macedonia report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue VIII, August 2024

Macedonia report

An insight of Wkikimedia MKD's 2024 GLAM Programme

GLAM programme is one of the key programmes of Wikimedia MKD and as such a lot of activities and projects have been realized so far. Since the beginning of 2024 many activities and project activities have been completed and excellent results have been achieved. The size of the activities varied, some are small workshops and other are activities of a large scale with results that exceed even the given goals for the particular activities.

Since this year’s GLAM programme and activities are topic-oriented, that is writing, contributing, acting and promoting the ‘Climate and Climate Changes’, Wikimedia MKD organizing topic-oriented GLAM events and activities. This topic is very important today in Macedonia and in the world and our Macedonian community on Wikipedia is giving its own contribution to this cause.

On 18.04.2024 a workshop was held in the city library Goce Delcev in Veles. Members of the Wiki Club Veles, members of the club Wiki Senior and other members took part in - or in total 27 people, led by the coordinator Lili Arsova. The first part of the workshop was a lecture from NGO Vila Zora. After the lecture 14 participants edited on Wikipedia and created 36 new articles.

Another event was held on 26th June 2024 with the members of Wiki club Ohrid. The workshop was opened by Natasha Nedanoska who talked about this important subject. After the lecture, members of Wiki club Ohrid wrote articles on this subject on the Macedonian Wikipedia. Wikimedia MKD and the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) continue their well-established productive collaboration on various different topics related to our environment. This time, Wikimedia MKD in collaboration with the MES organizations planned and successfully organized an edit-a-thon of climate changes. This is one of several GLAM project events this year where the focus is the climate changes. Having in mind the fact that Wikimedia MKD dedicated its GLAM programme on climate changes, this edit-a-thon and the lecture that preceded it was a very good chance to give our contribution to this worldwide problem. This event took place on 30 May 2024 at the premises of the Museum of Macedonian Struggle in Skopje. The edit-a-thon started at 12:00 local time and it was organized with students of Josip Broz Tito High School in Skopje. The total number of students that took part was 10 led by the coordinator Irena Trajkovska Sterjoska.

The selected few for this report are just an exemplary representation of the type of GLAM activities and projects that were carried out so far by Wikimedia MKD. There are many more with great results that can be seen and viewed on our monthly reports. Wikimedia MKD’s dedication to providing free knowledge and increasing the number of volunteers for this cause has been and will be among the key priorities in the period that follows.