Wikimedia Czech Republic/Reports/April 2021

April 2021
Report

Multimedia & Community Programs

2021-04-16: WikiGap 2021 ended, it brought over 200 new Wikipedia articles about women and female related topics

On the 8th of April ended the month-long WikiGap challenge. Its purpose was to improve the coverage of women and female-related topics on Wikipedia and acquire more women Wikipedia editors. 71 editors took part and created or developed 238 articles in total. That is an amazing outcome! There were also 5 online editatons, which connected experienced and beginning editors. You'll find a more detailed WikiGap overview in our blogpost (available in Czech).

2021-04-15: Wikimedia Czech Republic launched cooperation with the Open Collections (Otevřené sbírky) project.

Based on public data from the register of the Ministry of Culture and data provided by individual institutions, the pair of authors Lukáš Pilka and Tereza Škvárová created a public report about the digitization and access to cultural heritage in the Czech Republic for 2021.

With the Wikimedia Czech Republic, the Open Collections project shares an interest in the topic of digitizing cultural heritage in the Czech Republic and making it accessible under open licenses. We will support each other in our activities. More on our blog.

EDUcational Programs

2021-04-25: EduCoffee: Wikipedia - how can we use it in teaching?

In cooperation with MAP Prague 12, we organise a seminar for teachers on May 25, 15:00 - 17:00. The event is primarily intended for educators and teachers from Prague 12, Kunratice and Libuše, but do not be afraid to register even if you are from elsewhere, if there is a place, nothing stops you from your participation - everything will take place online on the Zoom platform.

The activity takes place in the regular EduCoffee format.

Our lecturers Vojtěch Veselý and Jaroslav Mašek will guide you through the program.

Registration and more information about the program is available directly on the MAP Prague 12 website.

2021-04-07: The very first student WikiGap

Students and teachers from Biskupské gymnasium Brno spent today's whole morning editing articles on women's topics. They joined the WikiGap 2021 event and help us to give a foundation of the historically first WikiGap within the Students Write Wikipedia programme that we have ever organised.

After a brief introduction led by our lecturer and wikipedian Zdeněk "Hugo" Moravec, the students were divided into groups where, under the supervision and with the help of other lecturers, Brno based wikipedians, they wrote and edited articles. Thanks to the work of students, new articles such as one about the American philosopher Nancy Bauer and Czech archer Lenka Kuncová have appeared on Wikipedia.

2021-04-13: II. EDU up-date call 2021

A regular monthly one-hour meeting in the online space with our lecturers took place on 12.4. In the 2nd meeting this year we shared impressions from the recently organised online courses, talked about further support for senior graduates, and we also discussed the upcoming training at Wikimedia Commons and the possibilities of the Clubhouse platform for educators.

We will meet again in a month.

2021-04-24: Spring news from Seniors write Wikipedia

Have a look at the newest newsletter from Seniors write Wikipedia. You will find out:

how are online courses going
Wikigap 2021 and special senior's edithaton happening
remembering of the author of the project Seniors write Wikipedia, Jan Sokol who passed away recently
help us with drafting a special Wikimedia stickers for project Seniors write Wikipedia

2021-04-27: News from the Students write Wikipedia

Have a look at the newest newsletter from Students write Wikipedia, you will find out:

how was Wikigap 2021 – student's edition
sneak peak to work of our students during winter semester
info about our new collaboration and tip for upcoming event.

2021-04-26: We will be celebrating czech Wikipedias 19th birthday on Clubhouse

On the 3rd of May czech Wikipedia is going to be 19 years old, can you believe it? To this occasion our amazing member, lecturer and wikipedist from Brno Jarda Mašek is starting a serie of discussions Wikipedie zblízka (Wikipedia close up). They will be held on Clubhouse and even you can take part! The first topic is going to be 19 years of Wikipedia. We would love for you to send us your questions. The event starts at 6PM and will be 30 minutes long. We are looking forward to hearing you there! (We will probably speak mostly in czech language.)

2021-04-30: Lecture about Wikipedia for AMI Communications employees

As part of our Open Educational Program, we organize lectures and trainings for the general public and other target groups, including companies. For the PR agency AMI Communications, we organized a lecture on how the Wikipedia's control mechanism works, why and how use reliable sources or whether it is possible to edit at all if there is a conflict of interest. The other topic was about Wikipedia's position in the so-called "post-factual world".

2021-04-28: Another series of wiki-trainings for the public

Another series of our trainings and lectures for the public took place in April. Under normal circumstances, these take place in Prague's Klementinum (National Library). This time they were held online. The introductory training "Basics of Wikipedia (not only) for librarians" was followed by the "Wikipedia Writing Workshop". Eight people took part in both of the events. The following training "How to teach seniors to write Wikipedia" was attended by an employee from the Municipal Library in Přerov, where, we hope, courses for seniors will be opened in the autumn. We keep our fingers crossed for all newcomers!

2021-04-22: Seniors write Wikipedia in Liberec

We are happy to announce a new collaboration of the project Senior citizens write Wikipedia with Technical University in Liberec and their Life-long learning department. Also we are now collaborating with wikipedists Martin Slavík a Pavel Dvořák, who become a new lecturer of our courses and is starting a new cycle on 22th April.

Other

2021-04-28: Searching for fundraiser

We are looking for an external colleague for Wikimedia CZ!

✅ You will do meaningful work in an organization with a global reach.

✅ Our small and friendly team is already looking forward to you.

✅ You determine your working hours and place of work yourself.