User:Valenic/Heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

I’m Valeria Nicoli (matricula 1044076), a student of the Master course in Planning and Management of Tourism System of the University of Bergamo. For a project related to the course “Heritage Studies and ICT” (2020/2021) I’ve contributed some Wikipedia articles regarding cities, territories and heritage. My user name on Wikipedia is: Valenic.

Links to the articles I’ve contributed to

 * The English article about Vallemaggia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_Maggia
 * The English article about the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno (Lavizzara): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_San_Giovanni_Battista,_Mogno
 * The English article about Peccia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccia
 * The Italian article about Vallemaggia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallemaggia

Description of the contributions and motivations
Vallemaggia is one of the valleys of Canton Ticino, Switzerland. Peccia is a village located in Valle Lavizzara, a minor valley of Vallemaggia. The church of San Giovanni Battista is part of the cultural heritage of the area; it is located in Mogno, another village of Valle Lavizzara. I decided to contribute to some articles about Vallemaggia and its environmental and cultural elements because it’s my grandmother’s and father’s birth place, and I’m really fond of it. I have a quite good knowledge of the area, I know many stakeholders (especially in Val di Peccia), also relatives of mine, who directed me to various sources, which helped me in the contribution to the improvement of the Wikipedia articles. The aim of my contributions, in fact, was to improve the knowledge about this valley, that also has a great potential within the tourism sector. The Maggia valley is known overall by Germans or tourists from central Switzerland, but also by some Italians, especially children and grandchildren of labourers emigrated from northern Italy after World War II. It is for this reason that I choose to edit both the Italian and the English articles about the valley, in order to reach a wider public and make it more accessible. In addition, I added 13 jpeg files on Wikimedia Commons, representing various places and natural and cultural elements within the Maggia valley, and not only. I uploaded one of these images in the article regarding Peccia. I also contributed to OpenStreetMap by adding some information about buildings and roads.

Contribution concerning the English article about Vallemaggia

 * Within “Geography” section I added technical information about the spatial extension, a detail about the path of the river Maggia and a clarification about the side valleys of the area. Finally, I included some information regarding the geographical configuration of Vallemaggia with the lowest and the highest point;
 * In the “History” section I put some missing information regarding the pre-Roman, Roman and Middle Ages history;
 * I created the paragraph “Dialect” and added general information about the Valmaggese dialect and the linguistic influences;
 * Within “Human infrastructure, demographics, transportation” section I included some information about demographics with some data;
 * In “Economy” section I added a part about the marble of Peccia, tourism and some data about the OFIMA.

A user proved the correctness of a name I used, as in target article. Another user changed a disambiguating link I inserted. Link to the Talk section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Valle_Maggia

Contribution concerning the English article about the church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno
Here a lot of information was missing, so I decided to create a paragraph called “Description” with the main characteristics of the church and its history. I also created an Infobox and added information about the location, country, cult, architect, style and diocese. Inside the Infobox I put an already existing picture uploaded by another user. Link to the Talk section:	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Church_of_San_Giovanni_Battista,_Mogno

Contribution concerning the English article about Peccia
Link to the Talk section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Peccia
 * I added the fractions in which Peccia is divided
 * I added to the article an image that I previously uploaded on Wikimedia Commons: “Cortignelli with Pizzo Castello and La Rossa”

Contribution concerning the Italian article about Vallemaggia
Also here a lot of information was missing; I decided to add more information about the geographical aspects of the valley. Specifically, I added some data and wrote about the side valleys of Vallemaggia. Link to the Talk section: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Vallemaggia

I also wrote on the Talk section of WikiProject Switzerland, adding the links of the articles I’ve contributed to:	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Switzerland#%27Category%3ASwiss-language_surnames%27

Wikimedia Commons
Link to the 13 images that I’ve uploaded: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Valenic&ilshowall=1 These files are pictures that I took on August 2019 and 2020 and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The “Val di Peccia.jpeg” file has been uploaded in the article regarding Peccia.

Contribution to OpenStreetMap
Username: Valenic. Link of my profile: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Valenic
 * In the first group of modifications, I fixed some information by adding clarifications about landscape and cultural elements of Vallemaggia.
 * In the second group of modifications, I added two churches’ names and fixed some information about streets in Trescore Balneario, the place where I live.

Reuse of existing content
In the article regarding the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno, I created an Infobox in which I used an already existing jpeg file of another user, that was already uploaded and added to the article. The file is under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Valenic (talk) 17:42, 10 March 2021 (UTC)