Wikimedia Czech Republic/Reports/October 2022

October 2022
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Programs for community

2022-10-25: The next edition of WikiProject and the competition Czechoslovakia 1948-1989 will be launched in October

In 2022 our WikiProject: Czechoslovakia 1948-1989 will be launched earlier, already on the 28th of October. Everyone, who is interested in participating in the activity are invited to visit our freshly refurbished project’s page WikiProject: Československo 1948-1989, which were developed by the projects ambassador and Wikipedia trainer, Roman Vyšanský.

In addition to online activities, we invite you to meet other Wikipedians in person, edit together or consult your articles with tutors at edit-a-thons, which will also be part of the Czechoslovakia 1948-1989 Wikiproject.

To add some variety to the programme, this year we are organising lectures on a topic related to the communist era for each of the edit-a-thons.

When writing or expanding articles, remember to add the following hashtag in the edit box: #soutezceskoslovensko2022

Dates of lectures and edit-a-thons:

'23th November 2022, Didaktikon', Kampus Hybernská, Prague
16:00 - Czechoslovak society in the post-Stalin era 1956-1968: concepts, challenges, projects (lecture by Mgr. Ondřej Holub)
17:00 - 20:00 Edit-a-thon
Registration form for Prague: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSed-TnMDs5xQcDFJLMgECmn3BChjM46YtEHh9xoVmAq4ch5XQ/viewform?usp=send_form

30th November 2022, Museum of East Bohemia in Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové
16:00 - 17:00 Heritage Care in Socialist Czechoslovakia (lecture by Mgr. Jindřich Kolda Ph.D.)
17:00 - 20:00 Editaton
Registration form for HK: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6AryFiHS21oCXazWQch4-Jkd_PuigT6mzbVZBkHC1-kpiHQ/viewform?usp=send_form

10th December 2022, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec
Lecture
Edit-a-thon
(hours to be updated)
Registration form for Liberec: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTnN9VC3BjW3u3tC9-oHGiHyBY1zHu4XdpXpe4L-XusYgnpg/viewform?usp=send_form

2022-10-27: Press release: The Wikipedia competition Czechoslovakia 1948-89 starts on 28 October 2022:

On our blog you can now find a press release (Czech only) about the Czechoslovakia 1949-89 Competition. "Wikimedia Czech Republic is organizing the third edition of the competition, which aims to document Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 on the Czech Wikipedia. You can participate by writing and distributing articles and uploading photos. The competition runs from 28 October to 18 December and will include a lecture and editathon on 23 November at Prague's Hybernská Campus. The first 100 participants will win a pair of socks from Socksfellow."

Programs for partnerships

2022-10-19: A new team member Milan Holecek will focus on Advocacy

Our team has expanded of Milan Holecek, who will focus on advocacy and promotion of free culture and coordinate our activities in this field. He will work with the FKGAEU team (the emerging European advocacy hub), and participate in the Open Collections project. We believe that even with a smaller time commitment of around 8 hours per week, Milan will be a great asset to us. You can read more about Milan in our new blog article (Czech only).

2022-10-28: Wikidata celebrates 10 years of existence, read the article

Wikidata was launched on October 29, 2012, so it is celebrating its tenth birthday today. In that time, geeks have uploaded nearly 500 million entries. They're improving the reliability of Wikipedia, and although you may not know it, you're drawing from Wikidata every day. Let's take a closer look at ten years of the collective efforts of Wikidatists. We wrotea blog post for Wikidata's birthday (Czech only).

Other

2022-10-18: We did not miss the CEE Meeting in North Macedonia

The CEE Meeting was held in Ohrid, North Macedonia, and representatives of Wikimedia ČR actively participated in it. We presented our senior programme, PR activities, the ICOM Redlist project for South East Europe, which generated discussion and positive feedback. After 3 years we met again in person with colleagues from Central and Eastern Europe, the conference had over 120 participants in total. We are in regular contact with many of them regarding cooperation and currently the establishment of the CEE Hub, which was the central theme of the conference. It is a space for communication and cooperation in the region. We are delighted to be one of the founding members and our Executive Director has been elected to the Steering Committee.

PHOTO: Miomir Magdevski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons