Meet Germany

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GLAM Macedonia
GLAM Macedonia
Goethe Institut
Goethe Institut

Meet Germany is a three day German Wiki Camp for Wiki Club members in the Republic of North Macedonia, taking place in the weekend 3d to 5th of May 2019. It is organized by GLAM Macedonia in cooperation with the Goethe Institute in Skopje.

Aim and framework[edit]

Meet Germany is a mutual project of GLAM Macedonia and the Goethe Institute in Skopje with the aim to fill the content gap on German themes on Macedonian Wikipedia. All Wiki Club members in the Republic of Macedonia are welcome to apply for participation.
In the three days several workshops and edit-a-thons were held for 31 participants.

Topics[edit]

Accepted topics of articles are all German themes, for example history, geography and culture of Germany and much more.

Trainers / Presenters[edit]

Tentative Programme[edit]

Friday, 3d of May 2019[edit]

Time Subject
14:00 Departure from Skopje
15:30 Arriving at the hotel
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Opening of the German WikiCamp
21:30 Free activities

Saturday, 4th of May 2019[edit]

Time Subject
08:00 Outdoor physical activities
08:30 Breakfast
09:15 Editing Wikipedia
11:00 An organised walk to the lake
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Rest and free activities
15:30 Lecturing
17:00 Editing Wikipedia
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Party

Sunday, 5th of May 2019[edit]

Time Subject
08:00 Outdoor physical activities
08:30 Breakfast
09:15 Editing Wikipedia
12:00 Free activities for participants, while organizers and adult Wikipedians count the number of articles and decide on first five places of best contributors.
13:00 Closing of camp, lunch, award and certificates ceremony
14:00 Return to Skopje

Participants[edit]

List of participants and their contributions can be found on the mk.wiki project page.

Results[edit]

In the three days of the Wiki Camp 31 particpants created 539 new Wikipedia articles. All photos can be found at thhe Category:Wiki Camp Meet Germany 2019.