Wikimedia Czech Republic/Reports/November 2022

November 2022
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Programs for community

2022-11-15: Wikipedia Asian Month for the fourth time on Czech Wikipedia!

Czech part of the global Wikipedia Asian Month contest started on 1st November this year.

The Wikipedian who creates the most articles on each language version of Wikipedia will be awarded the honorary title of "Wikipedia's Asian Ambassador". Each participant who writes at least 4 articles of the required length and format will receive a special award from an Asian Wikicommunity after the competition. The specific community and the award is a surprise.

More details on the website: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Asijsk%C3%BD_m%C4%9Bs%C3%ADc_Wikipedie_2022

2022-11-17: November 17th celebrations on Wikipedia: Czechoslovakia 1948-89

The Czechoslovakia 1948-89 Wikipedia Contest is being made more exciting this year with a prize of socks for all participants and runs until 18 December. Take inspiration from the articles that have already been written as part of this year's challenge and see how you can win too. You can find everything in the new article on our blog (Czech only).

Foto: Sametová revoluce, Josef Šrámek ml., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Educational programs

2022-11-01: The autumn meeting of Wikipedians has started

Read the new blog article (Czech only). Find out where you can meet wikipedians, how these meetups work, and what support and help the community offers to newcomers.

2022-11-03: Discover 20 reasons to use Wikipedia in school (from the educator's keyboard)

A new article on our blog(Czech only) answers your questions about Wikipedia and education. Why use Wikipedia in school with students and teachers? What do we gain? And what do we lose if we don't use it? This text is from the keyboard of an educator and long-time Wikimedia CR contributor offering 20 reasons to include Wikipedia in school education.

Programs for partnerships

2022-11-14: Automatic updates from the National Authorities Database, the holy grail of Wikidata

Wikidata is the largest aggregator of Czech databases ever. For the first time, they are getting an automatic import of the National Library of the Czech Republic's National Authorities Database. What does this mean for Wikidata? Find out in a new blog article (Czech only).