Wikimedistas de Colombia/Grupo de usuarios/Report 2018

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2018
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Talks, Workshops & Edit-a-Thons[edit]

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Women's Day Edit-a-Thon 3 March Bogotá
  • Gutemonik
  • Partnership with Sweden's Embassy in Colombia, thanks to our participation in Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2017
  • +8 articles about Women & Peace
  • +20 attendees
FLISOL 2018 28 April Bogotá
  1. Gutemonik
  2. C3r098
Talk Wikimedia & Local production Software
Workshop in Fresno 2 Juny Fresno, Tolima
  1. Gutemonik
  2. C3r098
Talk in Universidad Javeriana 7 Juny Cali
  • Sahaquiel9102
Talk What is and what is not Wikipedia to the Communication Direction of the University.
Editatona Universidad Nacional 22 August Colombia
  • Sahaquiel9102
Talk via Skype on how to organize a Editatona (Gender gap related Edit-a-Thon) with the organizers of the group MiTiCa and the Observatorio de Género de la Universidad Nacional. See Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona Universidad Nacional
Talk with Karisma 9 September Colombia
  • Sahaquiel9102
Talk via WhatsApp about Wikimedia Commons, Licenses and the possibility to host in Commons a project about the history of the Design in Colombia.
Wikisource during Colombian Esperanto Congress 4 November Cali
  • Tefita228
Introducing the project in Spanish and Esperanto to the audience. Small workshop was presented. 40 attendees.

Contests[edit]

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Wikivacaciones 2017 December 2017 - January 2018 Colombia
  1. Sahaquiel9102
  2. Remux
Wiki Loves ZEOs 2018 August 2018 Worldwide
  1. Sahaquiel9102
  2. Remux
See grant report
Wikivacaciones 2018 December 2018 - January 2019 Colombia
  1. Sahaquiel9102
  2. Remux
On going.

Indigenous languages[edit]

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Talk with Arhuaco women 8 February Valledupar, Colombia
  • Gutemonik
  • Post on our blog
  • Partners: Centro de Internet y Sociedad de la Universidad del Rosario and Rising Voices
Indigenous Languages in Digital Media 18 May Bogotá
  • Gutemonik
Talk about uses of Wikimedia Projects and small workshop
Workshop Pueblos Indígenas 19 October Bogotá
  • Gutemonik
In association with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) & the Centro de Internet y Sociedad de la Universidad del Rosario, we organized a workshop. A further workshop was planned.

Public Policy[edit]

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Copyright Law Update Several months Colombia
  1. Hiperterminal
  2. C3r098
  3. Gutemonik
  4. Sahaquiel9102

GLAM[edit]

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Public Domain Day 1 January Colombia
  1. Sahaquiel9102
  2. Hiperterminal
  3. C3r098
#1Lib1Ref 24 May Bogotá
  • C3r098
  • Post on our blog
  • Workshop in the Santo Tomás University Library
  • 41 attendees
  • Wikidata
World Library and Information Congress 2018 24-30 August Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Hiperterminal
  • Promotion of the Wikimedia Malaysia and Wikidata presentation in the Congress and Twitter.
  • Further conversations with librarians about the use of Wikipedia in classroom, uses for librarians and how Wikidata and Linked Open Data can benefit collaborative cataloguing for librarians.
  • Mention in the Malaysia report, GLAM Newsletter, August 2018.
Meeting with Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá 28 August Bogotá
  • C3r098
Discussed about a possible partnership and activities
Talk in Colombian National Library Congress 19 September Bogotá
  • C3r098
  • Presentation of Wikimedia Colombia
  • Wikimedia & GLAM
  • Call to action
Workshops with Biblored 20 November - 4 December Virgilio Barco Library, Bogotá
  • C3r098
  • Workshops with librarians of the District Library Network of Bogotá (Biblored). A contact with the people of the Luis Ángel Arango Library, administrated by the Bank of the Republic, was made.
  • Blog post
  • 16 attendees.
  • Editing and creation of 11 articles.
Keynote at IX Jornada TAB 9 November Mar del Plata, Argentina
  • Hiperterminal
  • Presentation of the Colombian experience in policy and advocacy from the GLAM sector, with references to the work with Wikimedia Colombia and invitation to work closer to Wikimedia Argentina from the library field.
Presentation in Jornadas Profesionales ACBJ 7 December Library of the Congress; Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Hiperterminal
  • Presentation of the Colombian experience in policy and advocacy from the GLAM sector, with references to the work with Wikimedia Colombia and invitation to work closer to Wikimedia Argentina from the library field.
  • Video available here

Wikimedia Colombia & Media[edit]

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Interview in La Tertulia RCN 11 July Colombia
  • Sahaquiel9102
Sahaquiel9102 was interviewed on the shutdown of Wikipedia and the change of the Copyright Law in Europe. Hear the audio from 15:00 on.
Interview with El Catalejo Magazine 23 August San Francisco (USA) - Cali - Medellín
  • Sahaquiel9102
Thanks to User:SLien (WMF), Sahaquiel answered the questions of the journalist of El Catalejo Magazine about how Wikipedia and WMF work.
Interview in Radionica FM 10 September Colombia
  1. Hiperterminal
  2. Sahaquiel9102
Hiperterminal & Sahaquiel were interviewed about topics accepted in Wikipedia, the goals and articles related to colombian Rock.

Wikimedia Colombia inside the Wikimedia Movement[edit]

Activity Date Place Volunteer/s Resume/Report
Wikimedia Conference 2018 18-22 April Berlín, Germany
  1. Tefita228
  2. Sahaquiel9102
  3. Remux (as member of Esperanto & Free Knowledge)
  • Sahaquiel9102 attended the preconference, the Boarding Training.
  • A meeting with the AffCom was achieved.
  • Iberocoop meeting.
Wikimania 2018 18-23 July Cape Town, South Africa
  1. Sahaquiel9102
  2. Remux
GLAMWiki Conference 2018 3-5 November Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Sahaquiel9102