Great to know Ivan. All the best for Wikimedia Mexico.
Hasive WMBD On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ivan Martínez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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_Horas_con_Rodin > [2] > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_Horas_con_Rodin/Art%C3%ADculos_a_editar > [3] > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/05/50-hours-of-art-the-museo-soumaya-editathon/ > > > // Mis comunicaciones respecto a Wikipedia/Wikimedia pueden tener una > moratoria en su atención debido a que es un voluntariado. > // Ayuda a proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: https://donate.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) **:: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী (হাছিব)* User: Hasive <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive> | GSM/WhatsApp/Viber: +8801712754752 Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive> Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People> Board Member | Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd> fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
