Dear fellows,

The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities developed during the last month by Amical Viquipèdia.

Kind regards,

David Parreño Mont User:Davidpar (As a member of Amical Viquipèdia)

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*Source:* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia/March_...

GLAM-WIKI

- March 1st. GLAM-WIKI workshop at Basque Contry Cultural Institutions. Kippelboy - March 5th. Museu d'Història de Catalunya (Catalan Museum of History) announces its Wikipedian in Residence, user Galazan. - March 6th. Meeting with Fundació Joan Miró to preparate the 35-hour-long edit-a-thon to be held in April. Kippelboy - March 8th. Meeting to organize wiki workshop in Tarragona. Kippelboy - March 8th. Meeting to find a possible Wikipedian in Residence at Museu de la Música (Music Museum). Kippelboy - March 9th. Edit-a-thon at Palafrugell Archive[1] about women who have a street dedicated. During WikiWomen's History Month[2]. Davidpar - March 16th. Edit-a-thon at Drassanes,[3] in Barcelona (Commons category)[4] - March 18th. Meeting with people in charge of education section at Catalan Museum of History. Galazan and Barcelona - March 18th. Wikipedia workshop at Puigcerdà library. Kippelboy - March 19th. Presentation of a new Wikipedian in Residence at Museu Morera, Lleida. ESM - March 22th. Meeting with Barcelona City Council to design Wikiproject 1714. Kippelboy - Weekly. Wikipedia editing meetings at Girona's Museum of art.

Education

- Whole month. Second phase of project Viquimodernisme (Modernism)[5]. Kippelboy and ESM collaborating with GRACMON-University of Barcelona. - Whole month. Wikiproject about Preservation of digital information resources[6]. 11 articles were started or expanded. Wikiproject coordinated by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya with Amical's support.

- wikiArS - March 18th. The image set Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean sea[7] created by Pau Bahí (Llotja School) advised by D. Garcia-Castellanos (I. Jaume Almera CSIC) is considered as “Valued Image Set” in Wikimedia Commons. - Whole month. Peer review of Llotja and EDRA student’s works. Preparation of assignments for Manresa students. Contacts with new schools. - Help page for posting to Commons specific for students linked to wikiArS.[8]

Open Data

- March 4th. Meeting with Grup Catalunya Dades to prepare Big Data Week Barcelona.[9]

Media

- Amical's Twitter surpasses 2000 followers.[10] - Barcelona TV, TV3, Descobrir.cat talk about edit-a-thon at Drassanes. Davidpar - La Vanguardia, Europa Press, Catalunya Ràdio (interview to Galazan), VilaWeb, Bonart, ABC/EFE talk about Wikipedian in Residence at Museu d'Història de Catalunya. Davidpar - Agència Catalana de Notícies, La Vanguardia, TV3 (minute 6:45), 324.cat 1, 2, Catalunya Ràdio (minute 3:38), VilaWeb, VilaWeb Mollerussa, La Mañana, Segre 1, 2, Nació Digital, El Punt Avui, La Paeria, Bondia.cat, Bonart, IntocableDigital.Cat talk about new Wikipedian in Residence at Museu Morera, Lleida. - "Viquimodernisme, not just another GLAMwiki project",[11] article by ESM on Wikimedia Blog about Viquimodernisme.

Other

- March 8th. Meeting with Direcció General d'Atenció Ciutadana of Catalan Government. - March 16th. 12th anniverary of Catalan Wikipedia. We had a good cake during Drassanes edit-a-thon :-) - March 20-21th. Coorganizated Sharing Commons Sprint[12], with IGOP-UAB, OKFN and Ourshare. Lilaroja, Dvdgmz - March 25th. Meeting-workshop at Centre d'Estudis Vilassarencs. Dvdgmz

[1] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Viquimarat%C3%B3_dones_amb_carr...</> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month </> [3] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Viquimarat%C3%B3_drassanes</> [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editathon,_Barcelona_Royal_Shipya...</> [5] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/21/viquimodernisme/ </> [6] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Preservaci%C3%B3_de_recursos_d%27...</> [7] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Valued_image_set:_Messinian_salinity_crisi...</> [8] http://www.viquimedia.cat/viqui/WikiArS/Com_publicar_a_Commons </> [9] http://bigdataweek.com/barcelona/ </> [10] https://twitter.com/wikimediacat </> [11] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/21/viquimodernisme/ </> [12] http://p2pfoundation.net/Sharing_Commons_Spring_Barcelona_March_2013</>