Wikimedia MKD/Reports/2024-07
Teachers' Conference: OOU 'Strašo Pindžur' - Skopje
[edit]Wikimedia MKD's dedication for increasing its members and increasing the number of educators (teachers) that use and edit Wikipedia and also incorporate Wikipedia in their own curricula have been one of the targets with outmost priority of the organization. Through the conferences or seminars for teachers, Wikimedia MKD tries to train as many teachers as possible to edit and use the encyclopedia and its related project, as well as use these projects as education tools in their classroom.
On 09-07-2024 Wikimedia MKD organized a seminar for teachers at the Elementary School 'Strašo Pindžur' in Skopje. The seminar was attended by 15 teachers from this school who expressed high interest for Wikipedia and its benefits. The seminar or conference started at 09:00 AM and it was made of 2 parts; the first part was a theoretical one where lectures were held, while the second one was practical one which was actual training on how to use Wikipedia and basic editing guide.
Bosa Filipović opened the conference and presented the speakers, while introducing the attendees with the Wikimedia Movement and Wikimedia MKD itself. The next lecturer was the president of Wikimedia MKD, Nikolče Stojanoski, who talked about the organizational layout of Wikimedia MKD, the Movement, and the major programmes of Wikimedia MKD. The last lecturer was the Executive President, Snežana Štrkovska, who talked about Wikipedia in Macedonian, the basics of the encyclopedia, how to edit Wikipedia, how to publish an article, how to contribute to the Movement and how to use Wikipedia as an education tool
Following the short break, the conference continued with the practical part. All participants were introduced with the basics of Wikipedia, how to open an account and how to begin editing an article. Moreover, they were trained how to publish an academically accepted neutral POV article that may serve as a reliable source of information.
15 new users were registered to the Macedonian Wikipedia, which also were registered as members of Wiki Senior Club. The actual in-live conference resulted with 5 new articles by the new users.
You can see how it went through the photographic material uploaded on Commons, but also some of the photos are bellow:
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Nikolche Stojanoski giving a lecture -
Snezana Strkovska giving a lecture -
Nikolche Stojanoski giving a lecture -
Editing on Wikipedia -
Editing on Wikipedia
