Basque Wikimedians User Group (BWUG) is proud to announce the creation of WikiBizi1, a
project created as a summer proposal for COVID-19 times. It will gather an open travel
guide of the Basque Country, three photo-contests superseding our current
WikiLoves__________ contests and GLAM collaborations. The main project page is here:
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBizi.
1Bizi means both life and live:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bizi#Basque
== An open travel guide ==
This will be a very special summer: without mass-tourism, without long travelling and
without festivals, many people is engaging in short excursions. BWUG thought that this
could be a great opportunity to start working in an open travel guide, but creating an
instance of Wikivoyage would be out of scope. So we have created an open travel guide at
Wikibooks:
https://eu.wikibooks.org/wiki/Euskal_Herriko_bidaia-gida. Every municipality
has been linked to Wikipedia
(
https://eu.wikibooks.org/wiki/Euskal_Herriko_bidaia-gida/Herriz_herri), and we have
agreed with Berria newspaper (the only newspaper in Basque, which is published under
cc-by-sa license) to take all their travel routes and upload them to Wikibooks
(
https://eu.wikibooks.org/wiki/Euskal_Herriko_bidaia-gida/Ibilbideak), so people can
collaborate with images, corrections or even link to other routes. There's a button in
every route so you can easily upload images from your experience directly into Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Euskal_Herriko_Bidaia_Gida.
== Three-in-one photo contests ==
WikiLovesMonuments, Earth and Folk are dead! Long live to WikiBizi! We will run this three
contests from July 1st to September 30th, so people have more time to take and upload
photos. We will have three categories: Monuments
(
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBizi/Ondarea), Nature (open concept:
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBizi/Natura) and Culture (so people can upload
old photos from their home fiestas:
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBizi/Kultura). Each photo contest will have
prizes and its own campaign.
== GLAM collaboration ==
Summer is for museums. Most museums here have started opening in the last week, and we
want to help them and collaborate with them. We have written to all the museums in the
Basque Country and some of them are answering. From the simplest collaboration (adding a
line and a link to the travel guide) to a full day visit and collaboration to free some of
their collection with wikimedians, we hope to have some GLAM activity during this summer.
And who knows, may this be the beginning of a beatiful friendship. We have created a page
for them:
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBizi/Museoak.
== WikiTakes ==
When wikimedians visit a place like a swarm, they tend to document everything. This is
WikiTakes, a proposal we learnt from Wikimedia Spain
(
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Takes_by_Wikimedia_Espa%C3…). We will
try to adopt this kind of events this summer, and take villages or routes together. Of
course, is about living a place showing that our towns are alive. That's why they
won't be called WikiTakes but WikiBizi.
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Best,
Galder