Dear community:
Below you will find the report of activities of August and September 2014
done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in
touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or
only to make some suggestions.
The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki:
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Agosto_2014/
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/> (August/Spanish)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Agosto_2014/en
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/en>
(August/English)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Septiembre_2014/
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/> (September/Spanish)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Septiembre_2014/en
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/en>
(September/English)
Kindly regards.
On behalf our chapter.
Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito)
WMMX Secretary.
==
September
Highlights
==
===50 hours of art in Wikipedia: the Museo Soumaya editathon===
Between September 26 and 28, we literally lived in Museo Soumaya of Mexico
City during a 50-hour editathon, surpassing the mark of 35 hours
established by Amical Wikimedia in 2012. With the full support of the
museum, we finished this great challenge achieving 64 new articles in
Spanish Wikipedia and more in English, Catalan and Hebrew with editors
outside Mexico City, in Uruguay, Venezuela and Israel. There were also
editors who came from the States of Puebla, Jalisco and Aguascalientes just
to be part of this wondrous occasion.
Museo Soumaya made a great effort as well: they developed a logistics plan
that included the active participation of researchers, investigators and
museum curators, offered unique support for the wikipedists' stay,
established a small temporary library with references, created a complete
program of cultural contents (including guided visits to the museum and its
thematically divided halls), visits to the Inbursa Aquarium and UNOtv
studios, and provided hot meals and beverages during the 50 hours of the
event on top of it all.
The event began with the presentation of the new museum website, presented
by Alfonso Miranda, head of Museo Soumaya, and followed by a special
message of opening by Lila Tretikov, executive director of Wikimedia
Foundation. "We are so proud to partner with institutions like Museo
Soumaya as part of our ongoing relationships with the world’s leading
galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. I want to thank the organizers
of this event, the incredible team at Wikimedia Mexico. Your passion,
enthusiasm, and energy are unsurpassed. You inspire me with your creativity
and commitment", said Tretikov in her message.
We had special talks by Herminia Din, from the American Association of
Museums, and Liam Wyatt, currently GLAM coordinator at Europeana and
long-time GLAMmer.
At 10:01 PM Sunday 28th, everyone in the museum celebrated reaching 50
hours of continuous Wikipedia edits and we had a small cocktail
celebration, and the ceremony award from the Museum to the people who wrote
more articles.
The results of the activity are huge: 64 new articles in 5 languages, 1616
editions to the Wikimedia projects and 15 new and active registered users.
We hope to continue working with the museum in our shared mission of free
knowledge dissemination to the whole world, one art piece at a time.
===1985 Earthquake editathon===
On September 20th we perform the 1985 Earthquake editathon at Centro
Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (CCUT) of UNAM. During some hours the
Wikimedia Mexico community edit about the main article of the 1985
Earthquake, one of the most relevant historical events in the recent Mexico
City history. In addition to the Wikipedia edition activities, the cultural
center recorded some stories from citizens who lived the events, due to an
open call made previously. The surrounding zone of Tlatelolco, where the
cultural center is settled, was one of the most damaged zones.
This event was inaugurated by Mr. Marco Rascón, interinstitutional
coordinator at Mexico City Culture Secretariat, and Eunice Hernández, Head
of Communications of the CUT. In his speech, Mr. Rascon highlighted the
importance of 1985 Earthquake in the Mexico City recent history and the
subsequent development of their democratic institutions. He was involved
actively in the social movements after the earthquake claiming houses for
the victims and the mind under the "real-life superhero", Superbarrio
Gómez. Rascon noted that free knowledge efforts help to expand the
available historical sources for the future generations with more scope and
accuracy.
For this editathon, the Wikimedia Mexico organizers worked previously for
at least 15 hours with hemerographical sources only available in libraries
and included now in the Spanish Wikipedia article. In this editathon we
worked to give more breadth and historical references to a single article,
unlike other events that we worked on several simultaneously. And the event
was not only an exercise of writing with more accuracy but as an exercise
of social gathering about an episode which remains in the Mexico City
habitants until today.
During the event we uploaded 116 historical photos from the next weeks
after the earthquake taken by Roberto Esquivel, an engineer recently
passed. His family been assisted to the editathon and received a diploma
from Wikimedia Mexico community. All the donated images are available now
in Wikimedia Commons.
==Journal
==
September 2
*Meeting with Manuel Venegas “Borla”, production coordinator, and Agustín
Peña, Program Manager at Ibero 90.9.
Shooting of the film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAVxKM8DhY
(in Spanish with subtitles in English)
.
*Working session about Chapter processes with Minoru Osorio.
September 3
*Monthly Board meeting
September 4
*Meeting with Carlos Enrique Galindo Leal, PhD, General Director of Science
Communications, following up on the CONABIO project
.
September 6
* Airing number 14/24 of the radio program Möebius: ''From Ibargüengotia
to the Malaysia flight''. Aired on Ibero 90.9 FM of Mexico city.
September 8
*Talk at the Technology and Innovation Center in Telmex: Editatón Soumaya
Abierto. 50 hours of Art.
*Meeting with Abdiel, from the Iztapalapa Institute of Technology to
promote the Wikipedia Education Program
September 13
* Airing number 14/25 of the radio program Möebius: ''From Queen Victoria
to wedding garters''. Aired on Ibero 90.9 FM of Mexico City.
September 15
*Meeting with Marco Rascón, Institutional Coordinator at the Culture
Secretariat of the Distrito Federal Government, initial talks towards a
probable colaboration agreement.
September 20
* Airing number 14/26 of the radio program Möebius: ''Damon Albarn''.
Aired on Ibero 90.9 FM of Mexico City
*1985 Earthquake Editathon, at Tlatelolco Cultural Center of UNAM, Mexico
City.
September 23
*Edit workshops towards the second editathon at Museo Soumaya: Editatón
Soumaya Abierto. 50 hours of Art.
September 24
*Talk at the State of Mexico Autonomous University, Atlacomulco campus, as
part of its 30 anniversary celebrations.
September 26 - 28
*Editatón Soumaya Abierto. 50 hours of Art, Museo Soumaya Plaza Carso,
Mexico City.
September 29
*Participation at the Digital Communities for Learning in Higher Education
summit in Xalapa, Veracruz, as guests of the Veracruz University.
;September 30
*Participation at Abre Latam 2014, the Open Data and Transparency meeting
in Latin America, in Mexico City.
==August
Highlights
==
=== Wikimania 2014 ===
From August 6 to 10 we attend Wikimania 2014, the tenth
conference of the
Wikimedia movement at the Barbican Centre in London
:
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventos:Wikiman%C3%ADa/2014
(in Spanish)
==Journal
==
August 7 to 10
* Wikimanía 2014
.
Participation of Omar Sandoval, Salvador Alcántar
,
Christian Cariño
,
Andrés Cruz y Corro Armenta
,
Carmen Alcázar and Iván Martínez
in the Wikimedia international conference.
August 14
* Wikipedia and Wikimedia cultural partnering introductory talks to Centro
Cultural Tlatelolco
staff.
* Meeting with Eddie Ávila of Global Voices about indigenous languages
projects. Also, was spoken about Wikimedia México participation in
Encuentro de Activistas Digitales de Lenguas Indígenas
August 15
* Interview to
I
ván Martínez in "De doce a una" radio program at Noticias MVS, 102.5 FM of
Mexico City.
August 16
* Participation of Salvador Alcántar
at panel "Café por los Derechos Digitales", Zapopan, Jalisco. Organized by
Wikimedia México, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Panoptikon Foundation.
August 19
*Interview to Andrés Cruz y Corro Armenta
y Corro in "Noticias todo el tiempo" morning news with Bernardo Lartigue
and Irela Perez, Radio Capital 830 AM of Mexico City.
(
http://www.ivoox.com/entrevista-a-andres-cruz-miembro-wikimedia-mexico-audi…
(in Spanish)
*Follow-up meeting with teachers of Mexico Wikipedia Education Program at
Faculty of Philosophy and Literature) of the National Autonomous University
of Mexico.
* Wikipedia, Wikimedia cultural partnering and Creative Commons
introductory talks to
Centro de Cultura Digital
staff.
August 21
* Wikipedia edition workshop to Centro Cultural Tlatelolco
staff.
* Follow-up meeting with Daniel Goldin and Biblioteca Vasconcelos staff
about Wikimania 2015.
A
ugust 23
*Moebius_90.9
radio program 14/22: ''From Johnny Cash to Budapest''
*Digital Rights Editathon
at Rancho Electrónico hackerspace, Mexico City.
* "Wikipedia, Puebla
A
rt" editathon, Capilla del Arte UDLAP, Puebla, Puebla.
O
rganized by Puebla Wikipedist Community and Capilla del Arte of Universidad
de las Américas Puebla.
August 26
* Meeting about cultural partners
with Daniel Cosío Villegas Library of El Colegio de México (COLMEX).
August 28
*Meeting with Open Street Map local enthusiasts at Rancho Electrónico
hackerspace. Wikimedia Mexico will support the edition of free maps edition
in Wikibooks and Wikimedia Commons.
August 30
*Moebius_90.9
radio program 14/23: ''From The Great Wave off Kanagawa to Eiffel Tower''
*Wikipedia Monthly Workshop at Telmex Hub, Mexico City.