Congrats Wikimedia Mexico for the new Guinness World Record. You guys are awesome.
Bodhisattwa Bengali comminity Very exciting and inspiring! Thanks for sharing Ivan! On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Hasive N. Chowdhury < nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd> wrote: > Great to know Ivan. All the best for Wikimedia Mexico. > > > Hasive > WMBD > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ivan Martínez <gala...@gmail.com> 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. 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