Hi,

Last month, Andrea from Italy asked about events with journalists. You can find at our monthly report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/March_2015 a highlight about the Wikipedia Day at Catalunya Radio.

Looking forward to hear your experience at International Journalism Festival :)

Best,

David Parreño Mont www.davidparreno.cat

-- On 13th of March, from 8am and throughout the day, Amical Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia and Ramon Barnils Group organized an Edit-a-thon at Catalunya Ràdio headquarters https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Viquimarat%C3%B3_Ramon_Barnils, the Catalan public radio station. The event lasted 12 hours with live connections every half an hour. The aim of the initiative was to improve the article of the eminent journalist Ramon Barnils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Barnils, a founder of Catalunya Ràdio, updating and renewing his entry and other related items. Catalan Wikipedia celebrated its 14th anniversary on the 16th of March, just when it is about to reach 500,000 articles, and the 14th of March was the 14th anniversary of the death of Ramon Barnils. 25 Wikimedians attended (8 new) the edit-a-thon in different turns. All the radio programs of that day were focused on Wikipedia: Wikipedians were interviewed on the factual programmes, the analysis program discussed on the impact of Wikipedia, the comedy show made jokes about Wikipedia, and the game show asked trivia questions about Wikipedia. The Ramon Barnils Group and relatives released photos of the journalist into Wikimedia Commons. The Catalan public TV and many digital media covered it, too. In addition, Wikipedians improved the Wikidata item and the Wikiquote page of Ramon Barnils, and made a lots of pics and recorded the voice of the journalists of Catalunya Ràdio for Wikimedia Commons. You can find the images here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Viquimarat%C3%B3_Barnils and here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Catalunya_R%C3%A0dio.