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
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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>.