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Here is Wikimedia Israel report for December 2013:

Program activities

GLAM

December 18th - we had a second Wikipedia lecture for members of the "preserves marine heritage" group (some of the Israeli Navy personnel) at the Younes & Soraya Nazarian library, at the University of Haifa .

GLAM: The National Library

Two Editing workshops for librarians and staff of the National Library were held in December. The purpose of the workshops is to train library staff to guide new editors in Wikipedia. The intention is to hold a monthly workshop to the general public. In December, a very successful experimental workshop was held.
202 photos of the Rothschild Haggadah and the city of Jaffa from the early 20th century were uploaded to Commons.

Wikipedia Winter Hackathon

Over sixty volunteer programmers gathered in “Campus Tel Aviv” space on December 26th for a day MediaWiki learning, bug fixing and developing of Gadgets and other tools based on Wikipedia articles. This was the second Hackathon organized by Wikimedia Israel following the success of the first Israeli Hackathon last May. You can also read about it at the Wikimedia Foundation Blog.

Educational and Academic Collaborations

On December 5th, we had another editing workshop for 15 MA students at the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program Tel Aviv University, as part of the ongoing cooperation.

On December 11th, there was a Wikipedia lecture followed by an editing workshop (on December 18th) for the students and academic faculty of Tel Aviv University, at the Social Sciences and Management Library.
On December 26th, a Wikipedia lecture of "How to write the encyclopedia everybody reads?" was given to students at the School of Communication at Netanya Academic College. Following this lecture, the students began co-editing the article: "user-generated content" with the assistance and guidance of a volunteer, as part of " writing Wikipedia articles as an academic task" project.

December 30th – A Wikipedia Introductory lecture was given to ninth graders gifted pupils as an Wiki in Education cooperation.

Other Projects

Wiki-Air – 2 Wiki-Air flights took place in December, that allowed us a glimpse of the snowy mountains of Israel (a very rare sight in Israel) and produced about 300 freely licensed images.
December 6th - Elef Milim ) Thousand Words Tours) – a tour held to the Northern Golan Heights attended by about 17 Wikipedians and there were over 260 new photos uploaded to Wiki Commons.

Press coverage

Wikipedia 2013 articles view coverage

Blog posts

December 11 – The second Wikipedia Hackathon is coming!
December 17 – Snowy WikiAir Flight in Israel.
December 28 - Second Wikipedia Hackathon – 80 developers gathered in TLV Campus.
December 29 - The winning photographs of "Wiki loves monuments" International Competition 2013.
December 31 - Wikipedia Most viewed articles for 2013.

Upcoming:

3.1 - Wikipedia editing workshop to the general public at the National Library in Jerusalem.
8.1 - Wikipedia editing workshop for the employees of the Preservation of Heritage Sites organization in Israel.
13.1 - Wikipedia Introductory lecture at the department of Communication, Bar Ilan University.
17.1 - Community meetup - celebrating Wikipedia’s 13th birthday.

Regards,

Chen Davidi

Activity Coordinator

Wikimedia Israel