Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Shared Knowledge/General report 2021
This is an annual overview of the activities and achievements set out by Shared Knowledge (SK) in the annual plan for 2021, spanning from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. The report uniformly concludes the activities conducted in 2021.
Financial overview[edit]
You can also see our General financial report for 2021 (standard wiki-way) or simplified version on Google Sheets.
Summary of the Year[edit]
- 2021 is the seventh year of existence of the user group.
- Shared Knowledge with its activities, managed to reach to 421 participants who contributed in 23,922 content pages.
- 3,322 uploaded images during 2021 were used in articles.
- SK managed to cooperate and collaborate with fourteen institutions, organizations, and associations:
- NECINMK;
- MladiHub;
- Swedish Embassy of Macedonia;
- UN Women Skopje;
- Megjashi;
- Cinematheque of Macedonia;
- Children's Art Center - Skopje;
- National Institution - University Library "Goce Delčev";
- "Dragan Tozija" House of Culture;
- Skopje Zoo;
- Local Community of Galičnik;
- Institute of Physics;
- Institute of Chemistry; and
- Institute of Biology.
Aims set for the 2021 grant in general[edit]
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2021 activities[edit]
- See: Annual plan 2021
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Synopsis of the 2021 objectives[edit]
Professors Mentorship
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Through this activity we gave mentoring lessons on Wikipedia of people who are university level or high school level professors. Depending of the individuals, additionally, few articles got created. During the first half of the year, 3 professors were included. In the second half, another three professors were part of this activity. Four of them are university professors, one is elementary school teacher, and one is high school professor. The mentorship lessons were made in February, June, September and December, and were made on various locations depending of the individuals.
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As an extension within this activity, we had two editing events in a high school in Skopje. This was done with the collaboration with the high school professor mentioned above. The training lessons and editing events on the students that study at the Mathematical-Computer Science Gymnasium, the newest high school in Macedonia. Three classes on December 13, and two classes on December 20, were part of the training that included intro of Wikipedia and its goals, skills using the wiki tool to translate existing articles into other language Wikipedias, as well as source editing where they can improve but also create articles. A total of 76 high school students listened to the training, along side the professor and two of our SK mentors, and 39 articles were created, while one was improved. The covered articles were mostly about geography, history, music, movies, automobiles, wild life, sports.
High School Students Editing Competition
A competition held exclusively for high school students. From April 19 to May 9, the editing competition titled "Biosphere Reserves of the World" was on. It was co-organized with GLAM Macedonia User Group, according to the their annual plans. The chosen topic was due to the low number of biosphere reserves articles on the Macedonian Wikipedia. Unlike the previous 2020 edition, this time after the end of every week, the best ranked article was elected and was prized (three prizes of this kind in total). Also, after the end of the three-week competition, the participants were ranked based on quantity and quality combined, when the top three participants were prized in this manner. Seven students were part of this activity and they achieved numbers of 121 new articles were and 2 improved ones.
Wikiexperiments
Recording videos of natural sciences experiments. The first half of the year included filming on May 25 and 26, by shooting physics experiments were on our two day agenda, filmed again with the professor Oliver Zajkov at the laboratory of the Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje. The second half of 2021 was for more fulfilled with filming experiments at the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics. The collaboration with prof. Oliver Zajkov continued in October and four more physics videos were made. In July we filmed several videos with the chemists Vladimir Petruševski, Marina Stojanovska and Miha Bukleski. Another two chemistry sessions were made in October and November, this time only with Vladimir Petruševski and Marina Stojanovska. Our biggest achievement in Wikiexperiments 2021 was making a collaboration with the Institute of Biology of the already mentioned faculty. 20 biology videos were made that showed experiments from the fields of mycology, animal physiology, microbiology, botany, and ecology of plants performed by several docents and assistant in coordination with their respective superior professors. A total of 63 experiments were recorded.
Wiki Science Competition 2021
A photographic competition. Wiki Science Competition is on international level and is held every two years and had several editions that aims to encourage the public to take science-themed images and upload them on Wikimedia Commons, enriching it with content of this kind and bringing people closer to science. For 2021 edition, Shared Knowledge joined as a representative from Macedonia. The Macedonian edition of "Wiki Science Competition 2021" was part of the international competition. This competition lasted from November 1 to December 15, generally following the period of the other national level competitions. 21 competitors were part of this contest and they contributed by uploading 127 files, more specific 126 images and one video, media that was divided into the seven categories of microscopic images, images sets, wild life and nature, general category, people in science, non-photographic media, and astronomy. The best four rated images were prized.
Edit-a-thons
Editing events for people that are experts at some field who contribute on Wikipedia at their respective areas. Five held Edit-a-thons in 2021. Shared Knowledge has managed to organize four edit-a-thons in the period of these six months. Four editions were held. One in January, two in February, and the fourth one in mid April. The first and third event were co-organized with the national youth organization MladiHub which was partnering with our user group since the second half of 2020. The other two editing events were with totally new organizations/collaborators such as Neci NMK and renowned Megjashi, respectively. The last and fifth edit-a-thon was held in October, titled WikiGap Skopje, made with partnership with our two traditional collaborators - Swedish Embassy in Macedonia and UN Women.
Editing competitions
The Editing Competitions (EC) are the prized events, lasting for 30 days. Four editing competitions were organized trough out February-March, July-August, November-December. The editions of 2021 include "Dinosaurs", "Summer Olympics", "Solar System". 637 Wikipedia articles were covered.
CEE Spring 2021
A stand alone Editing Competition as part of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Initiative. It lasted from April 1 to April 30. 256 Wikipedia articles were covered.
Editing days
102 editions have been made and within those activities, 946 articles were created/improved. Editing days' topics included: Art about paintings of famous artists; literature about works of famous writers; World Heritage sites; Macedonian archaeological sites by regions; music about Macedonian folk songs that start on a specific letter, national anthems; geography about classical geography or administrative divisions of a certaion country; history about monarchs, battles, treaties, buildings; sports about association football and Formula 1; computer science about programming languages, information units; culture about laureats; ethnic peoples; writing systems about scripts, numeral systems; and less covered topic in the field of cuisine, economics, linguistics, astronomy, psychology, and transport.
Editing weekends
52 editions have been made and within these activities, 664 articles/templates were created/improved. Editing weekends' topics included: music about musical theory, genres, and musical events; history about Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Middle Ages; geography about populated places, seismology, climate and environment, geographical features; astronomy about objects and astronautics; sports about association football, athletics; education about universities, libraries, linguistics, Braille, philosophy; transport about cars and airships; religion about specific religions and mythologies; culture about specific national/ethnic cultures, events, cuisines, literature, performances; and less covered topic in the field of politics, Macedonian local self-government, architecture, mathematics, technology; general topics of a specific country.
Week-a-thons
Three installments were made. The first two were part of international wiki initiatives such as "Activism for Healthy Environment" and "Wiki Loves Fashion", respectively. The third week-a-thon was a stand alone editing event via the collaboration with Swedish Embassy in Macedonia and UN Women.
Photohunts
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Three photohunts got carried in the first half of 2021. The first two were thematically the same, at the Skopje Zoo, with time distance of two weeks. The Skopje Zoo photohunts served as prearrangement in the future project in the second half of 2021 - Skopje QR Coding. This means we got to know all the species at the Zoo, updated with all the old and new habitants of the Zoo. These photohunts got held in early Spring by two men, the first being in late March, and the second in mid April. At the very end of the first half of 2021, the third photohunt was made. This time three new people went to photograph remote villages in the Municipality of Studeničani. These places are about 20-25 km off by air, of the capital Skopje, but due to their mountainous terrain, the got generally left off by the Wikipedian community. Another two were made in the second half of 2021. Overall that makes five photohunts in the entire year. Generally, the subject of the covered photohunts was villages and their countryside, neighborhoods and zoos. When it comes to 2021 statistics, 279 photographs were uploaded on Commons, with 30 new articles and another 80 improved articles.
WikiSketch Lessons
WikiSketch Lessons are an all time open objective which was several times held in 2021. It was engaged when an interested Wikipedian, with no skills or rather minor ones, wanted to contribute, spend some time, and learn few new things on our encyclopedia. The covered topic vary, but generally were about geography, literature, people, children's rights, associations and societies, church organizations, museums, and other. It should be noted that many of the covered articles were local content. The amount of lessons in 2021 was 25, with some lasting for more than an hour. Depending on the participant, some lessons were carried online, or were with physical presence at our office or at their location.
WikiStands
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This newest project which was been made in the second half of 2021, more specific in September. This activity consisted of making editing events at public places such as malls, squares and busy pedestrian streets. The goal was to introduce Wikipedia to the interested pedestrians, with having quick training on how to use Wikipedia, and finally editing and publishing new articles. The average time we spent with an individual was 20-25 minutes. The number of WikiStands events was two, that were a week apart. The covered topics, generally a participant's choice, were about geography, association football and music.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
Just like last year with the inaugural edition, Shared Knowledge together with GLAM Macedonia User Group continued to implement the objective Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photographs (WPWP). Again, it was part of the international initiative Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos. WPWP has a great over all benefit due to using images from Commons that were not present on a certain language Wikipedia's article, and by that the Commons uploaded image is finding it's purpose. With this engagement, many image-less articles (4,654) were enriched with 5,145 images, whether they were about coat of arms, flags, people, astronomy, science subjects, geographical places, objects. Out of 13 competitors, the top five ones earned prizes.
Wikiexpeditions
Four expeditions of this kind were held with a SUV, successfully completing this objective according to the Annual plan. Wikiexpeditions were held in late May, mid June, late August and late September. The first one (May 21-23) visited the region called Povardarie (Municipalities of Negotino, Demir Kapija and Gevgelija). A month later (June 18-20) was scheduled for another southern mountainous region(s) of our country - Mariovo and Selečka Planina. Those regions belong to the Municipality of Novaci. Then on August 27 to 29, our four participants managed to visit Buševa Planina and Prilepsko Pole (Prilep Plain) which fall under the municipalities of Kruševo, Dolneni, and Krivogaštani. The last one was in the period of September 25-26. This time the location was more eastern, in the Municipality of Radoviš.
Veloexpeditions
2021 was fulfilled with two editions: one in the region called Poreče located in the Municipality of Makedonski Brod, about 30 km away from the Skopje, and the second in the Municipality of Jegunovce, about 25 km away from the capital. The participants had the chance to visit and photograph villages and it's notable landscapes, landmarks, buildings and other. The Poreče Veloexpedition was made in second quarter of the year, while the Jegunovce Veloexpedition was in October.
Geoexpeditions
During 2021, two expeditions of this kind was made. In May, the participants managed to go to mountain of Bogoslovec and it's Gjavolski Dzid (lit. Devil's Wall) Formation that are located in the region of Ovče Pole. Later in October, four wiki explorers got the chance to head to Canyon of Kamnik located in the Municipality of Štip.
Archaeoexpeditions
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Four men (two SK members, a photographer, and the archaeologist MD Ordanče Petrov) headed to the town of Demir Kapija, located in Southern Republic of Macedonia. This area is very rich with history and four archaeological sites were photographed. The most notable was the medieval town/fortress of Prosek which is very difficult to reach because is located on the top of the Demir Kapija Canyon.
Visiting Museums and Libraries
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During the preparations of this assignment, we proposed and chose the destination to be the town of Štip and it's national-level "Goce Delčev" Library. The staffs' Library was eager to collaborate and provided us with their book material, and their quarters so we can hold an editing workshop. The event hence was part of cultural heritage, we decided the book materials to be related about the history, religion, sport, and other about the town of Štip and it's wider region. So on March 12, alongside the library workers that participated in the editing event, we also got joined with few members of the organization NECI NMK, an organization that collaborated with us at an edit-a-thon in early February.
Saray of Resen and Hristo Tatarčev House Visit
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At May 21, in the town of Resen, located in the southern mid-west of the Macedonian Republic, we visited the notable neoclassical Saray of Resen and the family house of the one of the founders of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (MRO) - Hristo Tatarčev. The Saray, built in the first decade of the 20 century, now houses the House of Culture "Dragi Tozija" and the Resen division of the Museum of Macedonia. The places and it's notable things got photographed and uploaded on Commons, and then properly placed on their respective articles for better illustration. Most of the institutions got their new article on the Macedonian Wikipedia, alongside with other related such as the patron of the local House of Culture - Dragi Tozija - who was a Macedonian WWII partisan and later politician.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2021
The "Wiki Loves Monuments 2021" photo competition lasted the entire period of September and was part of the international project that occured in the same period. As the title says, the competitors should photograph and upload images, monuments in general, but our decision was to put an accent and to adapt it at the sites that are listed as cultural heritage of Macedonia. Those sites includes houses, religious buildings, commercial and administrative buildings, archaeological sites, etc. The focus was sites (about 1,200) that did not have any images on Commons. Twelve contesters were part of the WLM in Macedonia and they achieved a number of 800 images. The top three rated images were prized and also the most contributing participant with most covered sites got a prize.
Exhibits
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On November 22, we organized the exhibit titled "Japan Through Photographs" at the gallery of Cinematheque of Macedonia and Children's Art Center. The number of participants during the opening was 25. Several people out of this number were from the Embassy of Japan, with the presence of the Japanese ambassador itself. Also, the president of the Macedonian-Japanese Cooperation was present, as well other guests who are interested in Japan and their culture. The Japan exhibit was open for a week. The day later, we held an "Japan" Edit-a-thon themed about Japan related articles. The editing workshop was made in the quarters of the national youth organization MladiHub. During the editing event, he were honored to be visited by the deputy ambassador of Japan and his spouse who were delighted of our engagement about their home country.
Skopje Zoo
In the year 2021, we engaged to make 89 plates for all species within Skopje Zoo. Starting from March and up to October 1, 67 articles were created on the Macedonian and mostly on the Albanian Wikipedia. Those articles needed and were essential for making the QR codes. Our biggest challenge was making articles on the Albanian Wikipedia that uses a language not native to us. For that purpose, we to a degree got help from some fellow Wikimedians of the Albanian Language User Group, two Macedonian graduates that studied Albanian language in college. Also we got help from two Macedonian Albanians that are biologists, at providing us with proper names of the animals in Albanians. The plates have the name of the animal in the three languages, plus the scientific name. In November, the plates were given to the Zoo staff, as they previously agreed to install the plates at their respective animal habitats.
For the outcome the project, see General report 2022.
WikiVillage
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The chosen location was the village of Galičnik which itself is listed as cultural as Cultural Heritage of Macedonia. After checking the official List of Cultural Heritage, in cooperation with people who originate from the village and the Local Community of Galičnik, we were able to locate the houses. Also we were provided with literature about Galičnik, to be used as refferrences in the eventual articles of the sites. This phase occurred in late spring-early summer. After creating the 31 Macedonian articles about the sites/houses, we designed and made 31 QR-coded plaques leading to an article of the respective house. Also, the houses have QR codes of the English article. In the village center, we installed the bulletin board that shows the map of Galičnik indicating the locations of the houses of cultural heritage. The montage of the plaques and the bulletin was done in late October. After the installation, the remaining 31 articles in the English Wikipedia were created. With our engagement, the houses now are highlighted and we brought the dwellers of Galičnik and tourists closer to Wikipedia. Depending of the available literature, which varies at each CH site, the articles contain content of the house characteristics, history of the family/it's owners and they also have coordinates of each house.
Statistics[edit]
Global metrics[edit]
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Global metrics table[edit]
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| 1. Total participants | 437 of 582  Not achieved
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75% of the planned metric was completed. |
| 2. Number of newly registered users | 236 of 366 Not achieved
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64% of the planned metric was completed. |
| 3. Number of content pages created or improved, across all Wikimedia projects | 23.922 of 15.232  Over achieved
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157% of the planned metric was completed. |
| 4. Uploaded photographs used in articles | 3.322 of 2.782 Over achieved
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119% of the planned metric was completed. |
| 5. Number of volunteer hours | 13.673 of 14.454 Not achieved
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94% of the planned metric was completed. |
Objectives metrics[edit]
Project metrics
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Professors Mentorship
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High School Students Editing Competition
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Wikidata Lectures
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Wikiexperiments
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Wiki Science Competition 2021
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Edit-a-thons
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Editing competitions
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CEE Spring 2021
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Editing days
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Editing weekends
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Week-a-thons
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Photohunts
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WikiSketch Lessons
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WikiStands
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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
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Wikiexpeditions
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Geoexpeditions
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Veloexpeditions
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Archaeoexpeditions
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Astroexpeditions
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This activity was not held because of not finding a specific group of people that proper equipment to photograph the night sky and the celestial objects. | |
Visiting Museums and Libraries
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Saray of Resen and Hristo Tatarčev House Visit
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021
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Exhibits
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Skopje Zoo
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Dinopedia
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This activity was not held because of the contractor of the Dino Park had exclusive rights at making event and projects. | |
WikiVillage
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