Amical Wikimedia/February 2013

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February 2013 (Catalan)

GLAM-WIKI

Arnaugir (R) at the Wiki Academy Kosovo diploma award ceremony

• February 2. Meeting to outline the 2013 ICUB Wikiproject. Kippelboy
• February 4. Meeting with Casa Batlló for guidance with the Wikiproject. Kippelboy
• February 5. Meeting with Fundació Palau for guidance with the Wikiproject. Kippelboy
• February 5. BibliotequesCAT Wikiproject preparation meeting. Woman Librarian competition. Kippelboy
• February 6. Meeting with user Galazan for the upcoming Wikiproject with the Catalonia History Museum (MHC). Kippelboy
• February 18. Meeting with the Chief Archivist of Barcelona and the Municipal Archive System of the Barcelona City Hall. Kippelboy
• February 19. Meeting with the director of the Jaume Morera Art Museum to prepare the Jaume Morera Art Museum Wikiproject. Kippelboy
• February 20. Presentation of study at the Map Library of Catalonia. Kippelboy
• February 21. Wikipedia workshop with technicians from the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Kippelboy
• February 22–24. Participation in Wiki Academy Kosovo (Pristina, Kosovo) as mentor and speaker on GLAM in Catalonia. Project organised by the IPKO Foundation. Arnaugir
• Weekly. Open Wikipedia editing meetings at the Girona Museum of Art. Several users

Educational projects

2012 Viquifabricació winners with their diplomas

• February 8. Prize award ceremony of the Viquifabricació Wikiproject at the Polytechnical University of Madrid. Project organised jointly by Amical and SIF. Final report in Catalan, Final report in English. Arnaugir
• The entire month. Museums Wikiproject with students from the Pompeu Fabra University. Kippelboy
• The entire month. Start of the second semester of the Wikimodernism Wikiproject. Kippelboy and ESM
• Start of the UPF-Art Wikiproject. Kippelboy
• Drafting and submittal of a grant application to the WMF to further WikiArS. Dvdgmz
• Addition of four new Llotja studens to the wikiArS project with Scientific Drawing Professor Luís Casado, with the task to draw mammals under the supervision of Leptictidium.
• Fulfilment of requests on the geology of the Bages for wikiArS. Dvdgmz
• Cooperation with the WikiSkills project. Barcelona

Open data

• February 5. Meeting with Mèdia140 to prepare BigDataWeek BCN 2013. Kippelboy

Communication

• February 11. Monthly chat meeting open to members, Wikipedians and others. See page.
• February 21. The documentary La força de Babel ("The strength of Babel"), on the benefits of multilingualisnm is broadcast on El 33 (Catalonia's second public television channel). A sizeable part of the documentary deals with Wikipedia, with quotes from Wikipedians and Amical members at Wikimania in Haifa.
• February 22. VilaWeb talks about Wiki Academy Kosovo and the participation of Amical member Arnau Duran.
• February 25. Meeting with the Barcelona Tourism Board. Kippelboy and Amadalvarez
• February 25. "Viquimodernisme: una cruïlla afortunada", an article by Esther Solé in the Núvol digital cultural newspaper. Davidpar
• More coverage of the cooperation between libraries and Wikipedia: Catalunya Música, Wiki4HE (UOC)
• Global Voices publishes a news item on the Wikimodernism project in Catalan, Spanish, English and French. Davidpar

Others

• February 2. Meeting with the Associació Foto-Connexió to explain how to create a wiki and what needs to be taken into account when uploading images.
• February 4. Visit to the IGOP to speak about the Amical offices.
• February 13. Grant application Studying content interest and editor engagement factors with new editors submitted to the WMF. Marc Miquel