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November 2020
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Wikidata & Tech Programs

2020-11-09: Lecture "Wikidata: jak se zapojit do tvorby databáze všeho" at the OpenAlt 2020 conference

On Sunday, November 8, 2020, we participated at the OpenAlt 2020 conference, organized by the OpenAlt, z.s., with the Wikidata: jak se zapojit do tvorby databáze všeho presentation from Vojtěch Dostál. More information about the conference can be found on the conference website, where you can find presentations by other speakers. This time the conference was online.

The lecture has id Q101438856 in Wikidata.

The motto of the conference "Open approach to an open society" clearly speaks about what the organizers and we are working with.

2020-11-10: Import of Czech institutions with Ringgold ID

In cooperation with the team around WikiCite, we had 673 items of Czech institutions with Ringgold ID imported, which is used by the ORCID database. More than half of them were eventually merged into existing items. We promise greater use of ORCID data in the items of Czech scientists.

2020-11-13: Another round of cooperation with the National Library

Another round of cooperation with the National Library is underway on the project of interconnected open data in the Database of National Authorities. As part of this year's project, it is planned to update our wikibase with personnel authorities created in the last year or so and pair them with items in Wikidata (based on the links collected by librarians, as well as matching name and date of birth). It is also planned to create a regularly updated table of the latest authority records so that wikidatists can regularly pair them with Wikidata entries.

EDUcational Programs

2020-11-20: Check out how 2020 Senior WikiTown Prachatice looks like

What does it look like when a group of active seniors, graduates of the "Seniors Write Wikipedia" courses, embark on a creative-educational trip to a specific town, which they then document and describe throughout the weekend? Watch the video!

This year, the so-called Senior WikiTown took place at the beginning of September in Prachatice. And although most of the time the participants were immersed in books and screens while writing wiki-articles, there was also time for mutual learning, joint discussions or photo trips. And in the end, everyone was enriched - both senior wikipedians with shared experiences and Wikipedia itself with new articles. 🙂 You can also find more information on the event page.

2020-11-23: Velvet at schools: How to write (about history) at Wikipedia?

Student of secondary schools and second grades of primary schools now have the opportunity to learn in a 90-minute workshop how (not only) history is actually written on Wikipedia.

The seminar is in full-time and online form is being promoted since the autumn of 2020 as part of the Velvet in Schools offer on the basis of wider cooperation between Post bellum and Wikimedia ČR.

There are only two types of resources, good and bad. Wikipedia, like any other encyclopedia, is a tertiary source, a kind of signpost that brings readers to secondary and primary sources. But how does it really work on Wikipedia? Who monitors its quality? Can anyone write anything there? Can I write something there, as a student? How to write your track on Wikipedia indelibly? What if different historical events have different interpretations? What would Gustáv Husák write about himself? And what would Václav Havel write about him?

More about the offer of our seminar here. Order through the Velvet in Schools website.