User:Vezzoli97/heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

Description of the contribution
In order to carry out the assignment, the first activity I accomplished was to register on wikipedia and create a personal account. Secondly, I registered on the Wikimedia dashboard associated to the assignment of heritage studies and ICT. After this, I added a short presentation on my personal userpage in both the Italian (utente:Vezzoli97) and English (user:Vezzoli97) Wikipedia and also on Wikimedia by saying who I was and that I was contributing to the Wikimedia projects within my assignment. Moreover I added a Babel box in my Italian user page in other for others to know which languages I speak and where I come from. Finally I selected the articles to which I wanted to contribute and start working on them:

Town:


 * Italian article about Vezza d'Oglio
 * English article about Vezza d'Oglio
 * Italian article about Bergamo
 * English article about BergamoHeritage:


 * English article about Church of Santa Maria Elisabetta (Bergamo)

Article about the town
First of all, in the articles about Vezza d'Oglio I updated the demographic information upon consulting the ISTAT website: in the Italian article the previous data dated back to 2021 while in the English one it dated back to 2016. Now it's up to date with the latest informations that are available on ISTAT which correspond to the first of January of 2022. In the English version of the article I added the "ISTAT code" as it can be a well founded source for people searching information on this municipality. Following this, I added the section "origins of the name" in the English version by translating what was written in the Italian one (with references).

For what concerns the article about the city of Bergamo I translated the section "theater" that was already present in the Italian version (with references). Secondly, I added two reference which were not present in both the Italian and English articles (Creberg Teatro Bergamo & la Compagnia Stabile di Teatro). Finally I added a photo of the Gaetano Donizetti theater with a short description (the photo that I used was already present in the Italian article).

For both articles about Bergamo and Vezza d'Oglio I added a comment in the English and Italian discussion page about my contribution in order for users to see which additions I have made and to let them know that it is connected to the assignment. Finally I added the links of the articles together with my name in the Italian and English pages of the course on wikipedia.

Article about heritage
For what concerns the article about heritage I decided to focus on the Church of Santa Maria Elisabetta (Bergamo) since the already existing wikipedia page in Italian did not provide an English version. I created a new page and I translated the majority of information which were present in the Italian version (with references). As well as for the articles about the town I added a comment in the English discussion page about my contribution and I added the link of the article in the English page of the course on wikipedia.

Discussion
In order to accomplish this assignment I decided to focus on two cities that I know well: I live in the province of Bergamo so I decided to focus both on the heritage and the town of Bergamo since it's really fascinating for me to discover more about the place where I grow up and to contribute in providing more up to date and multilingual information to visitors and inhabitants. Moreover I concentrated also on the city of Vezza d'Oglio since it's the place where I spend all my summers and winters and, for the same reasons that push me to choose Bergamo, I Wanted to provide more up to date information to the visitors of the page.

For what concerns the sources and references I've used mainly the one that were already present in the Italian version of the articles. Before using them I checked that they were reliable. I listed above the new sources that I added.

Personally, I found the assignment to be really engaging and instructive, and I believe I will keep contributing to Wikipedia articles in the future.