Dear community:
Below you will find the report of activities of
the month of April 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/Abril_2014/ (Spanish)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/en (English)
Kindly regards on behalf our chapter.
Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito)
WMMX Secretary.
==Migrahack Mexico
City==
Wikimedia Mexico was
part of the initiative of running a migrahack in Mexico City and
supported the organization. The point of the event was to gather
together journalists, academics, students, NGOs and programmers to
collect and put order to disperse data about migration in Mexico and
to do some data mining to obtain new knowledge on that topics, and
generate statistics. Wikimedia Mexico, trough our volunteer and Board
member Alan Lazalde gave some talks to show the importance of free
knowledge and open access to data in order to create new knowledge
based on that.
The results of the
Migrahack are in the web page ot the Institute for Justice and
Journalism.
==Aldea Digital
2014==
For the second year
in a row, Aldea Digital was held at Mexico City, a digital inclusion
event at the main square of Mexico City, with a very high attendance.
A strategy covering the full 17 days of the event was planned, but a
few days before the event its organizers made changes to its program
and thus only required Wikimedia Mexico's presence during only one
day of talks and a keynote by Iván Martínez.
On April 11, the
Wikimedia Mexico team gave a full day of introductory 20 minutes
talks of Wikipedia. According to organizers stats, about 1,300 people
attended to our program of talks given by volunteers Omar Sandoval
(10 talks), Christian Cariño (5 talks), Andrés Cruz y Corro (5
talks), Adrián Cerón (5 talks), Rodolfo Galicia (5 talks), Anny
Garcia and Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs (5 talks). This event required
a high effort on our part, but was a very grateful experience for our
chapter. In order to avoid the fatigue of talking for several hours
in a row, our volunteers took turns giving the talks, reducing the
overall tiredness and encouraging everyone to become a better speaker
for future Wikimedia Mexico events.
On April 21, Iván
Martínez gave the keynote "Freedom in the Free Encyclopedia.
The Foundations of Wikipedia's Freedom". The talk, with a
duration of an hour and a half, was attended by 131 participants and
was presented as one of the main contents of the event by Aldea
Digital's organizing staff. In the same stage Steve Wozniak, Moshe
Hogeg (Mobli creator), Walter Bender (MIT researcher) and Yin Lou
(Coursera) gave a keynote each. -
// Photo: Andres
Crúz y Corro during a talk in Aldea Digital:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andres_Cruz_en_Aldea_Digital.jpg
==Children's Day at
Biblioteca Vasconcelos==
The Biblioteca
Vasconcelos (Vasconcelos Library), venue for the next Wikimania 2015,
held an event organized on occasion of Children's Day, celebrated
annually in Mexico on April 30. The Library gave us the option to
read stories to children. However, when the Wikimedia Mexico
community realized the public was expected to be aged 3 to 10 years,
we decided to innovate and make an original story based on the core
values of Wikipedia: free knowledge, sharing, curiosity and
freedom.
Our volunteer Andrés
Cruz y Corro, also a NaNoWriMo participant, wrote a story called "An
adventure called knowledge". This story was told on April 27 and
was very well received by the children as a way to convey the values
behind Wikipedia in a fun and different way. We encourage other
Wikimedia colleagues to use this story as a way to reach out to
younger children and instill the seed of free knowledge. A translated
copy of the story to English will be available in a few days.
// Watch the gallery
in Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Children%27s_Day_at_Biblioteca_Vasconcelos
==Journal==
- April 1
*Second day of the Wikipedia workshop by
Nohemí Chilpa at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad
Iztapalapa (UAM-I) as part of CEUAMI's Semana de Talleres del Capitulo
de las Ciencias de la Computacion de la UAM-Iztapalapa (Worhshop Week at
the Computer Sciences Chapter of UAM)
*Meeting of Wikipedistas en Puebla with SocialTic.
- April 3
*
Q & A session by Christian Cariño with Prof. Adriana Álvarez' class
under WMMX's Education Program at National Autonomous University of
Mexico's (UNAM) Philosophy and Letters Faculty within the Historical
Analysis Seminar.
// Read the full report: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes_abril_2014_Seminario_FFyL_de_la_UNAM
- April 8
*
WMMX's Participation at Universidad Tecnológica Emiliano Zapata's
Technology Fest 2014 event in Morelos State: Omar Sansi imparted a
Wikipedia workshop and Christian gave a talk about the encyclopedia.
// Read the full report:
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/UTEZ
- April 11
*Participation
in Aldea Digital. A total of 30 Wikipedia workshops, each for 30 people
during 20 minutes, offered by Wikimedia México's (Omar
Sansi/Omar_sansi, Christian Cariño/User:Christian Cariño, Andrés
Cruz/User:Andycyca, Adrián Cerón, Rodolfo Galicia, Anny García and
Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs/User:Correogsk) The event was organized by
Telmex and Mexico City's Government.
-April 11 to 13
*Participation of Ivan Martínez, Carmen Alcázar and Salvador Alcántar in the Wikimedia Conference 2014, Berlin, Germany.
// Read the full report:
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/Wikimedia_Conference_2014
// Photo:
Representatives of the Wikimedia Iberocoop chapters at the end of the meeting within the Wikimedia Conference 2014:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON2014_-_Foto_final_reuni%C3%B3n_de_Iberocoop_Wikimedia_Conference_2014.jpg
-April 16
*Meeting of José Flores with Alejandro Alonso for the
implementation of WMMX's Education Program at Instituto Nacional de
Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz.
-April 19
*Meeting of Wikipedistas
en Puebla for define the Annual Plan to share photos in Wikimedia
Commons from Fototeca Lorenzo Becerril, Puebla.
-April 20
*Master keynote by Iván Martínez in the main stage of Aldea Digital 2014. Zócalo, Ciudad de México.
-April 21
*Meeting of Jorge Luis Esquivel Zubiri with the Foreign Affairs office of Gobierno del Distrito Federal for Wikimania 2015.
*Wikipedistas en Puebla meeting. Planning for "Puebla 100" project.
-April 22
*Q
& A session by ProtoplasmaKid with Prof. Adriana Álvarez' class
under WMMX's Education Program at National Autonomous University of
Mexico's (UNAM) Faculty of Philosophy and Literature within the
Historical Analysis Seminar.
- April 21 to 24
*Meetings for Wikimania 2015 with Hoteliers Association of Mexico City and Majory of the City staff.
-April 24
*
Iván Martínez was interviewed by Leopoldo Gómez Ramírez in the program
"So Close, So Far: A Voice of Mexico in the United States of North
America", a bilingual radio program (Spanish and English) transmitted by
91.1FM of Amherst, radio station from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
* Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs, in substitution of Iván Martínez, gave the
talk "How to collaborate in Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects?" within
FLISoL Aragón 2014 (Department of Physics-Mathematics and Engineering,
FES Aragón, UNAM).
-April 25
*Participation of Christian Cariño in FLISoL Acatlán, with the talk "Wikipedia México"
*Participation
of Iván Martínez in FLISoL of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
campus Azcapotzalco with the talk "Lo libre en Wikipedia". Mexico City,
Mexico,
-April 26
*Wikipedia Monthly workshop at TelmexHub, offered
mainly by Andrés Cruz y Corro (second level) and Carmen Alcázar
(beginners), with additional contributions by Iván Martínez, Omar Sansi
and Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs.
-April 27
*Children's Day activity at Biblioteca Vasconcelos with
the story "An adventure called Knowledge" written by Andrés Cruz y
Corro and read by Wikimedia Mexico's volunteers Iván Martínez (4) Carmen
Alcázar (2) and Omar Sandoval (1)
