Hello everyone!
Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Andres (or Andy if you prefer), I had the
honor of serving as Head of Volunteers during Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City
and now I'm Wikipedian in Residence at Museo Soumaya, where we held the
Wikimania reception and host of this editathon.
As Ivan mentioned, this editathon aims not just to break the record for
Longest Editathon, but is also trying to get the Museum staff educated and
active in Wikipedia and sister projects. For the first time ever, we will
edit in three languages (Spanish, some English and a bit of Italian), but
we'd love to have your help in this effort, so we can extend the museum's
expertise to as many languages as possible.
We're barely 70 hours away from the event's start, so I'm a bit swamped
with work right now as we're making the last touches to our program and
general logistic. However, feel free to ask any and all questions about
this event to Ivan or me.
Best regards,
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Forwarding to GLAM lists.
Pine
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From: "Ivan Martínez" <galaver(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2016 15:43
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] 72 hours with Rodin editathon in Mexico
City
To: <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hi everyone.
This June, Wikimedia Mexico will run the editathon* 72 hours with Rodin*
a huge journey from June 9 to 12 at Museo Soumaya[1]. This time we're
trying to break our previous record (60 continuous hours), this time we're
trying to achieve an even greater marathon: more than 70 continuous hours
editing Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource. We are
celebrating the arrival to the museum of one of Auguste Rodin's
masterpieces: ''The Gates of Hell'', so, we will have a celebration
about
art and free knowledge which will include talks, theater pieces, guided
tours, workshops and fun time activities as karaoke nights. You saw it at
Wikimania, Wikimedia Mexico volunteers love fun also :) The museum will be
open also to public during that 72 hours.
The editathon will focus on Auguste Rodin works and the Museo Soumaya
collections, but beyond that we have higher goals like completing the full
list of museums in Mexico and at least 50 biographies on importan women in
art and feminism as part of our permanent and transversal Gender Gap
Reduction Strategy. In this list (in Spanish)[2] you can find more about
the event and the list of articles. As in other editathons at Museo
Soumaya[3], we are inviting all Wikimedia chapters and affiliates to join
this effort and support us translating articles to more languages. As you
can see in the list, this time we are doing a detailed logistic which
involves pairing Wikimedia Mexico volunteers with museum staff (researchers
and/or curators), aiming to increase experience of the museum’s staff on
Wikipedia.
*72 hours with Rodin* will pursuit to set a new record and it’s an event
prepared since January, escalating in intensity since two months ago with
the coordination by Andrés Cruz y Corro (User:Andycyca), head of volunteers
in Wikimania 2015. As a matter of fact, 60% of the Wikimania 2015 Yellow
Army will be present on the event.
We will love to have support from Wikimedia community in the translation
of the articles produced in the editathon to more languages of the globe.
Please don’t hesitate if you want to join the editathon!
Best,
Iván Martínez
President
Wikimedia Mexico
[1]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H…
[2]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H…
[3]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/05/50-hours-of-art-the-museo-soumaya-edi…
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libre a la suma total de todo el conocimiento humano. Eso es lo que estamos
haciendo."—Jimmy Wales <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales>.
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