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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding to GLAM lists. > > Pine > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Ivan Martínez" <[email protected]> > Date: Jun 3, 2016 15:43 > Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] 72 hours with Rodin editathon in Mexico > City > To: <[email protected]> > 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_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 > > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > > -- "Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso 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>. Socio de Wikimedia México <https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal>. [image: Andrés C y C on about.me] Andrés Cruz y Corro about.me/andycyca <http://about.me/andycyca>
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