GLAM/Newsletter/April 2024/Contents/Macedonia report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue IV, April 2024

Macedonia report

Climate Changes and GLAM

Climate Changes: Our common cause

Wikimedia MKD, for some years, tries to focus its GLAM activities on a given topic for extensive and more effective processing of the topics potentials in terms of Wikipedia and its related projects. This year, the organization's chosen topic for editing, promoting and processing through GLAM-related activities was 'Climate and Climate Changes'.

Having said that, Wikimedia MKD tries to facilitate its work and the work of its members and activists by establishing a collaboration with an institution in Macedonia tightly connected to the chosen topic. Consequently, the partnership and collaboration between Wikimedia MKD and the Meteorological Institute of Macedonia were established. Both parties expressed an immense pleasure of working on the giving topic, sharing ideas, help and guideline for easier achievement of Wikimedia MKD's GLAM programme goals.

Since 'climate and climate changes' is a broader term that often includes various different subtopics and editing or contributing potentials, there was a justified view of involving most of the GLAM activities into this topic. As such, among the first GLAM activity or programme that has already started operating is the Wikipedian-in-Residence Programme. In course of several weeks, in close collaboration with the Meteorological Institute of Macedonia, Wikimedia MKD is expecting to reach results that may exceed even the initially planned ones.

The first well-organized and immensely effective and productive activity that was organized by Wikimedia MKD was an editing session and a workshop in Veles, Macedonia. It was organized in collaboration with the NGO Vila Zora from Veles.

The workshop was held at the city library Goce Delčev in Veles on 18 April 2024. The workshop started at 10:30 local time, where members of the Wiki Club Veles, members of the club 'Wiki Senior' and other members and supporters of both organizations took part in - or in total 27 people.

The first part of the workshop was made of three speeches or lectures. The first lecture was held by Olgica Naumoska, an employee of Vila Zora. She was talking about the climate changes in general and introduced the participants of the climate changes and their impact over the eco-systems. Moreover, she was talking about the ways of protecting the environment and natural habitat. Next lecturer was the president of Vila Zora, Saška Kocevska. She was talking about Vila Zora and its activities channelled towards the protection of the environment. At the end of this part of the workshop Lili Arsova was taking about Wikimedia MKD's activities and especially its GLAM Programme.

The second part of the workshop was actual editing on Wikipedia. The participants had an opportunity to enrich or create new articles on the Macedonian Wikipedia on the topic 'Climate and Climate Changes'. In total, 14 users created 36 new articles on the Macedonian Wikipedia.

Wikimedia MKD will continue working on Climate Changes and reaching results that benefit Wikipedia and its related projects.