Wikimedia Czech Republic/Reports/December 2023

December 2023
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Programs for community

2023-12-12: Who are the winners of Let’s add ASH to Wikipedia! challenge?

Let's add ASH to Wikipedia! was the name of a challenge and competition not only for students of archival and auxiliary historical sciences, which lasted from 1 to 30 November 2023. The event was organized by the Hradec Králové Student Section of the Czech Archival Society.

The three most active users won a voucher to Kosmas bookstore, a certificate, and gift items. Thanks for your entries and see you again next year!

2023-12-19: What was it like back then? Czech Wikipedia celebrates the anniversary of its founder Miroslav Malovec

On December 9, 2023, a meeting of the founders of the Czech Wikipedia was held at the Scout Institute in Prague on the occasion of the anniversary of its founder Miroslav Malovec. The event was attended by Esperantists, Wikipedians, commemorators and representatives of Wikimedia CZ. In addition to the jubilarian, Chuck Smith, a distinguished guest, and Marek Blahuš, the organizer of the event, gave a talk about beginnings of Czech Wikipidia. Marek Blahuš presented his publication How Czech Wikipedia Was Born. Read more on our blog

2023-12-20: Wikipedia Asia Month is over. Enriched the encyclopedia with 343 articles

This November marked the fifth edition of the Wikipedia Asian Month competition. Each year, the event aims to raise awareness of the world's largest continent, which is in many cases underrepresented on Wikipedia. This year, 343 articles were added to the Czech version of Wikipedia. Thirty-six competitors took part.

Find out more on our blog

Educational programs

2023-12-01: Czech Wikipedia celebrates seniors in December

The Wikimedia Czech Republic dedicates December to the celebration of seniors. The month will include a gathering of those who remember the founding of Wikipedia and a series of courses, reunions and an evening Wikischool. In 2023, Wikimedia CR held 40 free courses, which resulted in 130 unique articles being created, 1,500 articles being edited and 600 files being uploaded. All thanks to the public collection. More in the article on our blog.

2023-12-04: December WikiSchool: What do we need Wikidata for?

What is Evening WikiSchool for seniors?It is a series of regular, specialised workshops aimed mainly at seniors, especially graduates of the beginner (and advanced) Seniors Writing Wikipedia (SePW) courses.

What does the Evening WikiSchool offer?It offers the opportunity to focus on developing the specific skills that a good Wikipedian needs to do their job. We will focus on techniques and tweaks that can be used in editing practice that are not covered in detail in the Seniors Write Wikipedia courses.

In December's Wikischool, we will look at a separate project that links Wikipedia to other projects (Wikipedia Commons) and forms its invisible backbone - Wikidata. Wikidata are metadata items that provide "order" between entries (articles) in different language versions of Wikipedia around the world. They also serve as an identifier for Wikipedia users. The coordinator of the Prague Wikiclub, Wikipedian Jan Myšák, will tell us what Wikidata are for and how to work with them for ordinary users.

The online workshop - Evening Wikischool for Seniors. You can sign up here and find all the rest of the information and details there.

Don't hesitate to register, as the workshop has limited capacity.

Other

2023-12-12: Why is Wikipedia so successful? Martin Urbanec for the Ones and Zeros podcast

This month, the podcast of the Faculty of Information Technology gave space to wikipedian Martin Urbanec. Martin is the vice-president of Wikimedia Czech Republic and the only Czech working for Wikimedia's US headquarters as a software developer.

The episode "Why is Wikipedia so successful?" can be heard on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts.