Amical Wikimedia/July 2013

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July 2013 (català)

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Facade of the Music Museum of Barcelona

• The Music Museum of Barcelona incorporates a Wikipedian-in-residence in order to spread the museum and Catalan music in the Internet. It's the first music museum in the world which starts a Wikiproject. It will improve instruments, music women and Catalan luthiers' information in the net.. News item. Marionaaragay
• Wikipedian-in-residence at the moment: ESM at Museu d'Art Jaume Morera, Galazan at Museu d'Història de Catalunya, Marionaaragay at Museu de la Música de Barcelona and Glòria Guirao at Fundació Suñol.
• The History Museum of Catalonia uploads to Wikimedia Commons tenths of photos about personalities to illustrate Wikipedia articlesd. Galazan
• 27 July. Edit-a-thon at History Museum of Catalonia to improve articles related to 1714. This activity is related to Wikiproject Museu d'Història de Catalunya, coordinated by Galazan.
• 28 July. First conversations with the Science section of Museu de Mataró. Vàngelisvillar

Education

Recreation drawning of Antoni Villarroel from documentation about the purchase of a dress. By Naara Riveiro.

Panel explaining the process

• WikiArs activities and meetings:
  • July 5th. Meeting with Llotja teachers. Planning new academic year and an public activity. Dvdgmz
  • July 6th. Meeting with Art del Treball teachers and new advisors in the scope of Biology and ancient History. Dvdgmz
  • July 19th. Meeting with Art School of Tarragona that will join the initiative next academic year. Meeting with teachers and also with members of the Tarraco Arqueological Museum (MNAT) that will do the expert supervision. Lluis_tgn and Dvdgmz
  • 22 July. Two illustrations uploaded (1 and 2) of Antoni de Villarroel) within project wikiArS. Galazan
  • IEG Midpoint report by Dvdgmz. Evaluations about the wikiArS initiative status.

Media

• The media highlight that Viquipèdia in Catalan reaches a "perfect" classification at the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles, based on an interview with QuimGil for Europa Press: El Mur Tecnològic (Imatica.org), Europa Press, CatalunyaPress, El Punt Avui, 324.cat, Ara, El Singular Digital, Nació Digital, Racó Català, El Periódico de Catalunya, Telecinco (EP), El Economista (EP), Yahoo Noticias (EP), ValenciaPlaza (EP) Davidpar
• The Museu de la Música de Barcelona WikiProject and resident wikipedian Marionaaragay also got media coverage at L'Auditori, EFE (ABC), Europa Press, Informativos Telecinco (EP), El Economista (EP) i Llibertat.cat. Davidpar
• The WikiMarathon at the Museu d'Història de Catalunya was covered at Barcelona TV, Llibertat.cat, VilaWeb i Racó Català. Davidpar
• The collaboration agreement with the Women's Institute of Catalonia was covered at Microbits, Europa Press i El Periódico de Catalunya. Davidpar
• The participation of EDRA art & design students in the wikiArS project was covered by Ràdio Rubí i Xombit. Davidpar
• July 25: El món a RAC 1 interviews QuimGil.
• July 31: A picture with the four stripes wins the Wiki Loves Public Art European contest (article in Catalan), VilaWeb Davidpar

Organization

• New members: Vàngelisvillar, Tituscat, Ivan_bea
• 10 July. Chat via IRC to define Amical's strategic plan.
• 13 July. Strategic plan meeting.

Other

• 20 July. Workshop at Work camp Guifi.net. ESM
• 22 July. The Catalan Institute of Women and Amical Wikimedia sign an agreement which aims to add content reflecting the gender perspective and women in Wikipedia. News item
• 29 July. A photo of Barcelona wins the european edition of Wiki Loves Public Art 2013 contest. News.

See also

• Monthly activities reports