Dear friends,
Here is the Wikimedia España (Spain, ES) Report of
Activities for the months of July, August and September 2013. It is also
avaliable, as all the precedent, in Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/2013-07-09
Best regards,
--
Jorge A. Sierra
Presidente
Wikimedia España
http://www.wikimedia.org.es
July
- 4.07.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, profesor of UJI. Evaluation
of the 3rd year of using Wikipedia in a subject of Translation degree.
- 8-31.07.2013: Courses on "Wikis in education: an introduction" in
Universidad de Cádiz (4 sessions). It includes a lesson on "Wikipedia
edition" (Free resources updated for the course: slides and exercises).
- 11.07.2013: Presentation of a paper about UCAC2/wikiArS project in "X Jornadas Internacionales de Innovación Universitaria" conference about educational innovation in Madrid. Proceedings (pages 917-924)
- 15.07.2013: Meeting with Fundació Isonomia to explain the gender gap
in Wikimedia, show activities done by other chapters and talk about
doing activities next year.
- 19.07.2013: Collaboration in newspaper article about Wikipedia conflicts for El Confidencial Opus Dei y Athletic de Bilbao, entre los artículos más controvertidos de Wikipedia
- 27.07.2013: Photographic coverage of music festival Músicos en la naturaleza 2013. Pictures of Deep Purple, Loquillo and Bebe. [1]
August
- 08-11.08.2013: Participation of 7 members of the chapter in
Wikimania with intensive exchange with members of other chapters, along
with an extensive summary of everything that happened there in order to
keep all chapters members informed.
- 09-10.08.2013: Co-organisation of a photowikimeetup on-site in Hong Kong by "Poco a poco" (WMES member) to take pictures of the city, as well as of monuments for WLM13.
- 11.08.2013: Attendance to the Iberocoop meeting on-site in Hong Kong.
- 11.08.2013: Talk by David Gómez about wikiArS in Edu-III (Wikimania)
- 11.08.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España, for El Confidencial (newspaper) "Hay empresas que pagan por hablar bien de ellas, pero siempre se detecta"
- 16.08.2013: Agreement
between the departament of applied physics of the Telecommunications
ETSI of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Wikimedia España. The
first agreement comprises the improvement of the 10 most visited
articles about physics in the Wikipedia in Spanish that need to be
expanded or improved (wording or references). Discussion is going on to
expand and formalize the collaboration.
- 28.08.2013: We were able to register the Internet domain wikimedia.es after several years
- 01-30.08.2013: Organization of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Spain
- Collaboration with Quo (magazine) in a report about conflicts in Wikipedia
September
- 09.09.2013: Meeting with Eugenio Monesma, film producer and director, and owner of the largest ethnographic archive in Spain.
- 10.09.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España, for La Vanguardia (newspaper) "Mis alumnos me han entregado a veces trabajos copiados de Wikipedia escritos por mí"
- 13.09.2013: Meeting with Fundació Globalis
- 13.09.2013: Photographic coverage of a stage of Vuelta a España 2013. [2]
- 14.09.2013: Photographic coverage of the football match between
Atlético de Madrid and UD Almería, of the Liga (Spanish Premier League).
[3]
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, professor of "Traducción e interpretación" to prepare the new year of Wikipedia project Aprendices de traducción con la Wikipedia [4]
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with Vila-real Town council to organize Wikimedia Conference and GM of WMES in Vila-real.
- 17.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Intereconomía.
- 18.09.2013: Participation in the UPM: Convocatoria ETSI de Telecomunicación: Edición Wikipedia 2013_14, an event to give students of the Politecnic University of Madrid a introduction to the edition in Wikimedia.
- 24.09.2013: Press conference at Vila-real city hall about Wikimedia Conference in Vila-real
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Vila-real [5]
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Onda Cero
- 27.09.2013: Workshop about Wikimedia projects in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Photo hunting in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Wikimedia and education Conference in Vila-real, with two talks and one debate, in Vila-real
- 29.09.2013: III General Assembly of WMES in Vila-real
- 30.09.2013: Finishing upload campaign for WLM 2013.
- During the month; wikiArS online work. David Gómez. Adaptation of UploadWizard for wikiArS using Campaign: Campaign:wikiArS, creation of mechanisms to create assignments, and other improvements of templates, categories and documentation in Commons, and Outreach.