Writing week/Brussels

From 4 to 17 April 2016 we organise a (double) writing week about Brussels. You can join by writing about the Brussels-Capital Region. Please add contributions to the list of articles below.

Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, will meet with a group of Wikimedians on 21 April 2016 to personally thank them for their contributions.

New on Wikipedia?

First: welcome to Wikipedia!

Before you start writing, please keep the following thoughts in mind:

add to Wikipedia only knowledge that is suitable for an encyclopedia
add only material that is available under a free license or describe knowledge in your own words
describe the knowledge from a neutral point of view
add references and sources where the information can be found
do not write about your own organisation nor about yourself, a family member or your boss
do not describe new theories, new insights that have not been published widely
look at comparable subjects as examples of how it is done
use headers to structure an article
use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia in that language)
do not use links inline in the text, but only as reference or at the bottom of a page
avoid qualifications like "the best", "the most", "great" and write time specific (not: "last year", "coming month", etc., but: "on 10 April 2016")

Local projects

Dutch Wikipedia - Sven Gatz, the Flemish Minister for Culture, met with a Dutch participant on 25 April 2016 to personally thank them for their contributions.
French Wikipedia - Meta page in French.

Participants

Gereon K. receives a signed Certificate of Appreciation from Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of the Brussels Capital Region, at the award ceremony on 21 April

New Wikipedia editor Nathalie Cools receives a signed Certificate of Appreciation from Sven Gatz, Flemish Minister for Culture, and organisor Sven De Kerpel, at the Dutch Wikipedia award ceremony of Writing Week Brussels on 25 April 2016

Add your name here below if you are participating in the writing weeks about Brussels. Please indicate the wiki(s) where you are active, and if possible also the area or topics you like to write about.

Romaine (talk) 18:56, 3 April 2016 (UTC) - nl-wiki - writing about squares, passages couverts, churches, ..., and taking photos locally if anyone requests them[reply]
SvenDK (talk) 03:35, 4 April 2016 (UTC) - nlwiki, enwiki - mainly history related topics.[reply]
Glorious 93 (talk) 13:50, 4 April 2016 (UTC) - elwiki - mainly history or geography related topics.[reply]
Ongenaed (talk) 18:56, 3 April 2016 (UTC) - fr-wiki - writing about squares[reply]
Guy Delsaut - fr-wiki - trying to write on Brussels personalities
Sinuhe20 (talk) 06:03, 5 April 2016 (UTC) - de-wiki[reply]
Szilas (talk) 06:43, 5 April 2016 (UTC) - hu-wiki[reply]
--Gereon K. (talk) 07:01, 5 April 2016 (UTC) - de.wiki - articles abbout asteroids discovered at the Observatoire royal de Belgique/Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België in Uccle/Ukkel.[reply]
Dimi z (talk) 08:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC) Will improve several articles on bg.wp, mostly about individual communes[reply]
Twindoors (talk) 12:32, 5 April 2016 (UTC) - fr-wiki; it-wiki; en-wiki - writing about Brussels musicians and composers[reply]
Ranveig - nn-wiki; filling in missing links from our main Brussels article
Nenea hartia (talk) 21:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC) - ro-wiki - writing about transport infrastructure in Brussels[reply]
Basquetteur (talk) 13:27, 6 April 2016 (UTC) -es-wiki[reply]
--Aktron (talk) 16:33, 6 April 2016 (UTC) cs.wiki[reply]
--Donaldleclau (talk) 11:10, 7 April 2016 (UTC) fr.wiki - Write a page about Bruxelles-Propreté/Net Brussel[reply]
----Gentenaar~nlwiki (talk) 14:50, 7 April 2016 (UTC) nl-wiki[reply]
Inc0gnic0wiki (talk) 01:12, 8 April 2016 (UTC)- en-wiki - adding topic on historical sightseeing spots in Anderlecht district - Brussels[reply]
--Anas1712 (talk) 16:23, 8 April 2016 (UTC) - frwiki (sometimes enwiki, nlwiki & arwiki)[reply]
Magazijnmeester (talk) art organisations
--Jane023 (talk) 09:39, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
JukoFF (talk) 11:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC) -ru-wiki[reply]
--Andrew J.Kurbiko (talk) 23:44, 12 April 2016 (UTC) - uk-wiki, few articles about artists[reply]
Freimut Bahlo (talk) 14:10, 13 April 2016 (UTC) - de-wiki, articles about jazz[reply]
BerendWorst (talk) 10:44, 10 April 2016 (UTC) - en-wiki, multiple subjects.[reply]
Harilevente (talk) 16:54, 14 April 2016 (UTC) - hu-wiki, public transport[reply]
EmDee 6:00, 14 April 2016 - fr-wiki - Architecture
afernand74
Brussels Bazar talk, 16 April 2016. Will translate several articles to fr/nl/en, mostly about architecture, nature, culture

Join

Everyone can join: write these weeks about topics related to Brussels! Looking for inspiration?

Add your suggestions at: List of possible topics

Meetings

Wikimeet at Muntpunt library on 9 April

Several edit-a-thons will be held in cooperation with the Brussels Network of Public Libraries and the InfoGroep student organisation of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Everyone is welcome to join in.

Date	Time	Location	Address
5 April 2016	14.00-19.00	library of Koekelberg	Rue de l'Eglise Saint-Anne 63, 1081 Koekelberg
6 April 2016	14.00-17.00	library of Koekelberg	Rue de l'Eglise Saint-Anne 63, 1081 Koekelberg
7 April 2016	10.00-13.00	library of Jette	Place Cardinal Mercier 6, 1090 Jette
7 April 2016	10.00-15.00	library of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre	Avenue des Grands Prix 63, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
9 April 2016	10.00-13.00	Muntpunt library	Place de la Monnaie 6, 1000 Brussels
11 April 2016	14.00-19.00	library of Koekelberg	Rue de l'Eglise Saint-Anne 63, 1081 Koekelberg
12 April 2016	12.00-17.00	library of Anderlecht	Rue Saint-Guidon 97, 1070 Anderlecht
12 April 2016	17.00-23.00	VUB, building E.1	Boulevard de la Plaine 2, 1050 Ixelles
13 April 2016	17.00-23.00	VUB, building E.1	Boulevard de la Plaine 2, 1050 Ixelles
14 April 2016	10.00-13.00	library of Jette	Place Cardinal Mercier 6, 1090 Jette
14 April 2016	17.00-23.00	VUB, building E.1	Boulevard de la Plaine 2, 1050 Ixelles

Contributions

We would like to keep track of contributions that are done as part of Writing Week Brussels, so please add them to the list on this page.

Articles created

Strongly improved articles

Images

Map of closed/open (pre)metro stations in Brussels in the aftermath of the attacks on 22 March 2016
Map of closed/open (pre)metro stations in Brussels in the aftermath of the attacks on 22 March 2016, status since 11 April
Muntpunt library
Rudi Vervoort