Wikimedia Czech Republic/Reports/March 2021

March 2021
Report

Multimedia & Community Programs

2021-03-02: Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové starts with GLAM

We have established a GLAM cooperation with the Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové.

Museum's director doc. Mgr. Petr Grulich, Ph.D. signed a contract with Lukáš Nekolný, the museum's new wiki-resident and the guarantor of GLAM cooperation.With this step, the museum wants to show its openess not only to wiki projects, but also to the public. And we really have something to look forward to. As a part of the GLAM cooperation, thousands of digitalized items from various museum collections will be published under Creative Commons Licenses, and many wikipedia articles focused on these items are also planned.

Stay in touched and subscribe our GLAM newsletter or follow museum's dashboard.

2021-03-22: WikiGap 2021 edit-a-thon was organized online and 19 new articles are published so far

On 8th of March we celebrated an International Women Day by organizing our annual event, however this year we had to adjust to a pandemic restriction and shift our meeting to the digital space.

The Opening WikiGap 2021 online edit-a-thon lasted for 3 hours with 1 extra hour for those, who wanted to finalize their work on articles. The event was open both for newcomers, for whom we ensured a lecturers’ support as well as for Wikipedians with experience, who had a dedicated breakout room during our Zoom session.

In total 22 participants subscribed and 20 joined the first WikiGap editaton. We had 4 lecturers, 3 of them were skilled female trainers.

One of the articles, which was written during the WikiGap describes a contemporary philosopher Rosi Braidott, and since its creation, it was viewed already 320 times. Another great example of an important female figure added to Wikipedia is Ľudmila Šapošniková-Aujeská, who was a first female pilot in Czechoslovakia.

On the weekend of 20th March in the afternoon, we ran a second WikiGap 2021. 9 people participated in Zoom online edit-a-ton. The structure was similar - newcomers had support from skilled editors and we summed up the results after 2,5 hours of editing. During the session, one of the articles, which was translated by a new user concerns Zdenka Wiedermannová-Motyčková, teacher, journal editor, and women's rights activist.

File:Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Zdenka Wiedermannová-Motyčková.jpg/800px-Zdenka Wiedermannová-Motyčková.jpg fot. Zdenka Wiedermannová-Motyčková

Thank you to all, who joined forces with us and participated in events, as well as trainers, who run them. WikiGap is not over yet, the challenge to write articles on women and by women is open until 8th of April. Do not forget to add hashtag #WikiGap2021, so that we will know how many of new texts were created.

File:Https://www.wikimedia.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/03/wikigap-A-1024x576.png Účastníci WikiGapu 8. března

EDUcational Programs

2021-03-25: Success of the Seniors write Wikipedia online courses

There were originally 2 cycles of courses planned but at the end 5 cycles of the course Senior write Wikipedia were managed. We are very thankful to all lecturers, who bravely transferred to online teaching and also to all of our participants who are interested in our project and challenged themselves to participate online.

2021-03-31: New collaborations of universities with project Students write Wikipedia

We were asked by university teachers for collaboration in project Students write Wikipedia, which means that new editors from the field of molecular biology and chemistry will be introduced. Both universities Technical university Liberec and University of chemistry and technology in Prague are interested in editing Wikipedia and both teachers were invited for our courses for library workers How to write Wikipedia. We are very happy about this collaborations because it may lead to long-term cooperation and regular amount of new topics in Wikipedia.

2021-03-26: Seniors Write Wikipedia graduates participates in WikiGap Challenge

The WikiGap 2021 Challenge, during which we write articles about important women, was joined by graduates from the Seniors write Wikipedia courses. During the online edit-a-thon, which took place on March 25, 2021, nice new articles was written: dubbing director Irena Skružná, visual artist Kateřina Černá or Women Presidents Symposium. We are happy that other graduates create articles about women independently, outside the edit-a-thons. In total, over 150 articles have already been created or improved within this year's WikiGap.

2021-03-15: Lecturers' meeting Spring 2021

We meet with our team of lecturers regularly, twice a year. It was no different in March this year. Due to the overall epidemiological situation, we met again in the online environment on the Zoom platform.

In addition to the traditional news and the planning of the calendar of educational activities of Wikimedia CR, there was also a personal sharing and wishes - who would like to get involved in what and what kind of competences each would like to further develop.

This time the traditional educational block had 2 parts: How to search for suitable materials and examples to demonstrate wiki phenomena in courses (With Vojta Veselý) and a very current topic of interactivity in online space - how to keep the best of physical courses in online courses and how to refresh time spent in online space (with Lucia Schubert).