Wikimedistas de Colombia/Grupo de usuarios/Report 2018

2018 Reporte anual

Talks, Workshops & Edit-a-Thons

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Women's Day Edit-a-Thon	3 March	Bogotá	Gutemonik	Partnership with Sweden's Embassy in Colombia, thanks to our participation in Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2017 +8 articles about Women & Peace +20 attendees
FLISOL 2018	28 April	Bogotá	Gutemonik C3r098	Talk Wikimedia & Local production Software
Workshop in Fresno	2 Juny	Fresno, Tolima	Gutemonik C3r098	As group, we provided help to the project Wikipedia en Fresno (see grant) and give a workshop in the place. There is also an entry on the Education Newsletter in Outreach with more details.
Talk in Universidad Javeriana	7 Juny	Cali	Sahaquiel9102	Talk What is and what is not Wikipedia to the Communication Direction of the University.
Editatona Universidad Nacional	22 August	Colombia	Sahaquiel9102	Talk via Skype on how to organize a Editatona (Gender gap related Edit-a-Thon) with the organizers of the group MiTiCa and the Observatorio de Género de la Universidad Nacional. See Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona Universidad Nacional
Talk with Karisma	9 September	Colombia	Sahaquiel9102	Talk via WhatsApp about Wikimedia Commons, Licenses and the possibility to host in Commons a project about the history of the Design in Colombia.
Wikisource during Colombian Esperanto Congress	4 November	Cali	Tefita228	Introducing the project in Spanish and Esperanto to the audience. Small workshop was presented. 40 attendees.

Contests

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Wikivacaciones 2017	December 2017 - January 2018	Colombia	Sahaquiel9102 Remux	See grant report Blog post
Wiki Loves ZEOs 2018	August 2018	Worldwide	Sahaquiel9102 Remux	See grant report
Wikivacaciones 2018	December 2018 - January 2019	Colombia	Sahaquiel9102 Remux	On going.

Indigenous languages

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Talk with Arhuaco women	8 February	Valledupar, Colombia	Gutemonik	Post on our blog Partners: Centro de Internet y Sociedad de la Universidad del Rosario and Rising Voices
Indigenous Languages in Digital Media	18 May	Bogotá	Gutemonik	Talk about uses of Wikimedia Projects and small workshop
Workshop Pueblos Indígenas	19 October	Bogotá	Gutemonik	In association with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) & the Centro de Internet y Sociedad de la Universidad del Rosario, we organized a workshop. A further workshop was planned.

Public Policy

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Copyright Law Update	Several months	Colombia	Hiperterminal C3r098 Gutemonik Sahaquiel9102	Declaration on the Copyright Law Update proposal on our blog Presentation of our Declaration in the Congress of Colombia by Gutemonik. See video from 1:11:00. We got exceptions and limitations for libraries, archives and museums for copyright in the update and an article to review it every 3 years, which open an opportunity to include more exceptions and limitations.

GLAM

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Public Domain Day	1 January	Colombia	Sahaquiel9102 Hiperterminal C3r098	Post on our blog Post on our GLAM partner's blog Complete works of Óscar Delgado transcribed into Spanish Wikisource
#1Lib1Ref	24 May	Bogotá	C3r098	Post on our blog Workshop in the Santo Tomás University Library 41 attendees Wikidata
World Library and Information Congress 2018	24-30 August	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hiperterminal	Promotion of the Wikimedia Malaysia and Wikidata presentation in the Congress and Twitter. Further conversations with librarians about the use of Wikipedia in classroom, uses for librarians and how Wikidata and Linked Open Data can benefit collaborative cataloguing for librarians. Mention in the Malaysia report, GLAM Newsletter, August 2018.
Meeting with Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá	28 August	Bogotá	C3r098	Discussed about a possible partnership and activities
Talk in Colombian National Library Congress	19 September	Bogotá	C3r098	Presentation of Wikimedia Colombia Wikimedia & GLAM Call to action
Workshops with Biblored	20 November - 4 December	Virgilio Barco Library, Bogotá	C3r098	Workshops with librarians of the District Library Network of Bogotá (Biblored). A contact with the people of the Luis Ángel Arango Library, administrated by the Bank of the Republic, was made. Blog post 16 attendees. Editing and creation of 11 articles.
Keynote at IX Jornada TAB	9 November	Mar del Plata, Argentina	Hiperterminal	Presentation of the Colombian experience in policy and advocacy from the GLAM sector, with references to the work with Wikimedia Colombia and invitation to work closer to Wikimedia Argentina from the library field.
Presentation in Jornadas Profesionales ACBJ	7 December	Library of the Congress; Buenos Aires, Argentina	Hiperterminal	Presentation of the Colombian experience in policy and advocacy from the GLAM sector, with references to the work with Wikimedia Colombia and invitation to work closer to Wikimedia Argentina from the library field. Video available here

Wikimedia Colombia & Media

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Interview in La Tertulia RCN	11 July	Colombia	Sahaquiel9102	Sahaquiel9102 was interviewed on the shutdown of Wikipedia and the change of the Copyright Law in Europe. Hear the audio from 15:00 on.
Interview with El Catalejo Magazine	23 August	San Francisco (USA) - Cali - Medellín	Sahaquiel9102	Thanks to User:SLien (WMF), Sahaquiel answered the questions of the journalist of El Catalejo Magazine about how Wikipedia and WMF work.
Interview in Radionica FM	10 September	Colombia	Hiperterminal Sahaquiel9102	Hiperterminal & Sahaquiel were interviewed about topics accepted in Wikipedia, the goals and articles related to colombian Rock.

Wikimedia Colombia inside the Wikimedia Movement

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Wikimedia Conference 2018	18-22 April	Berlín, Germany	Tefita228 Sahaquiel9102 Remux (as member of Esperanto & Free Knowledge)	Sahaquiel9102 attended the preconference, the Boarding Training. A meeting with the AffCom was achieved. Iberocoop meeting.
Wikimania 2018	18-23 July	Cape Town, South Africa	Sahaquiel9102 Remux	See Sahaquiel9102's and Remux's reports. Blog post. Presentation of a Lightning talk
GLAMWiki Conference 2018	3-5 November	Tel Aviv, Israel	Sahaquiel9102	Tools for GLAM to see file usage. Blog post. New definition of GLAM useful to apply in Colombia. Attended the Movement Strategy Workshop