Wikimedia Czech Republic/Reports/April 2022

April 2022
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Educational programs

2022-04-04: Announcing a new Wikipedia writing course!

Despite the fact that a lot of people have been successfully passing our courses since the beginning of the year, the number of people interested is still growing.

And we definitely intend to support that!

Právě pro ně jsme ve spolupráci s centrem Elpida připravili nový kurz Senioři píší Wikipedie pro začátečníky. Ovšem nezoufejte, kurz je otevřen široké veřejnosti, ne jen pro klienty centra Elpida.

In cooperation with the Elpida Centre, we have prepared a new course for them - Seniors Writing Wikipedia for Beginners. But don't despair, the course is open to the general public, not just Elpida Centre clients.

The course "Seniors write Wikipedia for beginners" in cooperation with the Elpida Centre with 6 lessons will take place from 14 April 2022 to 19 May 2022. The lecturer is [Bednařík]. The course takes place online on the Whereby platform.

So if you have the desire and time Thursdays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM, feel free to sign up here!

2022-04-11: Learn how to write Wikipedia with us in 2022

We are opening registration for Wikipedia writing courses designed not only for librarians.

Before the summer will hit on us, we have traditionally prepared three courses for you, which follow each other freely.

They are intended both for beginners who want to learn the basics of editing on Wikipedia, and for more experienced ones who are interested in training their skills in order to start passing these skills on to others.

#1 Wikipedia basics (not only) for librarians (9th May 2022)
#2 Wikipedia writing workshop (23rd May 2022)
#3 How to teach seniors to write Wikipedia (6th June 2022)

You can find more about the content of the courses and the application form here.

2022-04-13: Do you have Computer at school?

After a few years and a covid break, we returned to our participation in the Computer at School conference, which focuses on digital technologies in education - how to present them effectively, efficiently, interestingly.

This year's event will focus, among other things, on digital competence in humanities subjects and the changes that have taken place in the Framework Curriculum regarding the development of ICT competence.

The conference is taking place on 12-14 April, traditionally in Nové Město na Moravě. Colours of Wikimedia is defended by Lukáš Jakubík, a teacher, Wikimedian and member of the WMČR. Among other things, he will discuss with teachers how to (not) work with Wikipedia in teaching.

We supported his participation at conference as part of Community Mini-Grants.

More about the conference here.

2022-04-29: Check out our new newsletter (not only) for librarians!

Wikimedia Czech Republic organises various training courses for librarians to learn how to use Wikipedia.

What does this all entail?

You can read about it in our new newsletter! There you will find the latest news.

Or visit the relevant page directly on Wikipedia! There you will find more detailed information.

Programs for community

2022-04-07: WikiGap 2022 brought a record 431 edits

We have achieved a new WikiGap record - 431 articles about women and related topics were created and expanded on the Czech Wikipedia during the month! We are working on more detailed statistics. In March, there were a total of six editathons, including student and senior ones. We would like to thank all participants and partners for joining this year's challenge and helping to close the internet gender gap. The winners of the wo-men publishing vouchers will be contacted soon.

2022-04-22: Join the #Wikipedia20 Birthday Challenge

On May 3, 2022, the Czech Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of existence. Join in the symbolic celebration by writing new quality articles for Wikipedia's birthday. Each participant will receive a Wiki badge. You can also win bookstore vouchers, t-shirts thermo mugs and other WMCR merch. The challenge lasts for a month and starts on April 22.

You can enter by creating any new article and adding the hashtag #Wikipedia20 to the edit summary. We can track the results using the hashtag tool. More information can be found on the Wiki-page (Czech only).

Other

2022-04-28: Looking back at Wikicity in Třeboň: dozens of new articles

Wikicity - a team of Wikipedians embark on a mission to better map a city on Wikipedia. Members of the expedition will use local libraries, museums, etc. to pull information available from local sources and add it to Wikipedia. What was achieved at the last Wikicity in South Bohemia? Why Třeboň? And what is it actually like to organize a Wikimest in November? The organizer of the event, Aktron, answers these questions in his blogpost (Czech only).

https://blog.wikimedia.cz/2022/04/28/ohlizime-se-za-wikimestem-v-treboni-desitky-novych-clanku/