Wikimedians of Latvia User Group/2020

This is a report for activities performed by Wikimedians of Latvia User Group in 2020.

COVID-19 pandemic affected most of the year.

Wikipedian meetings

• During the year no meetings involving local and visiting wikimedians were arranged.
• A single video call was arranged, but there was no continuation to that.
• A photo-expedition took place in September to document major railway infrastructure construction sites.

Outreach events

With COVID-19 restricions in Latvia no outreach activities were performed.

Work was started to enable Growth team features in Latvian Wikipedia.

Community engagement

Article contests

• Wikipedia cleanup contest
• CEE Spring 2020 article contest. Mārtiņš Bruņenieks was involved in organizing the contest also on international level.
• Belarus solidarity weeks
• Asian month 2020

Photo contests

• Wiki Loves Earth 2020

Grants

• WLE Latvia 2020 (report)

Participation in regional and global Wikimedia events

No physical regional or global events took place.

Several members of the group attended online conference Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020 and some of the following CEE Talks calls.

Organizational

No significant changes were made to organiztional practices.

Social networks

These social networks were maintained.

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram