Informes/Junio 2014/en/Editathon at the Soumaya Museum

On June 6th, we perform a first Edit-a-thon in Museo Soumaya, a private museographic institution belonging to Fundación Carlos Slim, in their Plaza Carso venue, plamned previously with the museum curators about topics related to their collections.

As first activity, the Wikimedia México community attendees receive a special backstage guided tour with closed museum. At 10 a.m. we begin the marathon of edition and a begginers workshop for the people who attends the event and does not have any previous experience in the wiki edition. The event occured in the lobby of the museum, a plain and blank area surrounded by master workshops as an exact replica of Michelangelo's Pietà and Rodin's Kiss, plus mexican masters Rufino Tamayo and Diego Rivera murals. The event generated awareness into the visitors of the museum, some of which they were informed by the volunteers of the Mexican chapter of the activity we had been performing.

The Wikimedia Mexico volunteers in conjunction with the museum, create 9 articles in Spanish Wikipedia and one in Wikivoyage. Rufino Tamayo works as Naturaleza Muerta and El Día y la Noche, or Woman bathing by Edgar Degas, now have an article on the main internet reference. This event was actively supported by the director of the museum, Alfonso Miranda, as well as his research and outreach staff, who provided the information necessary to give depth to the writing and verifiability. Officialy the event ended at 3 pm, but part of the chapter members remained at the museum discussing and improving the contents written with the support of Soumaya staff until 10 pm.

This event was part of the GLAM initiative between the mexican chapter and Museo Soumaya.

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