Activities in 2016

On this page we collect activities in 2016 related to Wikimedia which have taken place in Belgium or by volunteers from Wikimedia Belgium. It is an activity log in what we collect all our general assemblies, board meetings, meetings with other organisations and people, meetings for projects, presentations, workshops, edit-a-thons, conferences, publication of press releases, sending out of invitations and newsletters, (photo) contests, and many other activities and milestones.

2016

January

11 January - Grant request public facing activities WMBE 2016 approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (info | grant)
14 January - First interim report Wiki Loves Art 2016 grant submitted (info | grant | interim report | project page)
15 January - Just For The Record: Heroines edit-a-thon in the Pianofabriek, Brussels (documentation | photos)
16 January - Public Domain Day (info | announcement (fr | nl) (archived (fr | nl)))
19 January - Board meeting Open Knowledge Belgium (info) (Geertivp)
22 January - Just For The Record organisational meeting (team + Romaine)
22 January - Wiki Loves Art meeting (Lfurter & Romaine)
23 January - Annual General Assembly (2nd) + board meeting (10th) in WTC Tower 1 - 25th floor, Brussels + wikimeet (documentation | photos)
25 January - Public Domain Day Celebration in the European Parliament in Brussels (info | photos | Vimeo | Communia (archived) | CC (archived))
28 January - Meeting to look into administration (DerekvG & Geertivp)
29 January - Wikidata meeting for cultural institutions organised by PACKED vzw at Faro in Brussels (project page | Wikidata project page | photos | final report published (archived) | publication) (Sandra Fauconnier, Multichill, Romaine)
- Publication of whitepaper: Flemish art collections, Wikidata and Linked Open Data/Whitepaper
29 January - Wiki Loves Art meeting in Brussels (Lfurter & Romaine)
30-31 January - Stand at FOSDEM at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus Solbosch in Brussels, organised by WMBE, WMDE and WMF (photos | organisation | Phabricator) (Romaine for WMBE)

February

2 February - Jimmy Wales @UCL Dr. Honoris Causa Louvain-La-Neuve (announcement (archived))
12 February - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
15 February - Preparational meeting for meeting on 30 April about Wikiducation, Wiki Loves Art and Wiki Loves Monuments at Enchora in Antwerp (Stefano & Derek)
20 February - Wikimeet & board meeting (11th) at Kubus in Antwerp (documentation | photo)
24 February - Meeting with WMNL (DerekvG & Geertivp)
25 February - KUL - Photography Hackaton with Europeana @ Fablab Celstijnenlaan 300 Heverlee (invitation (archived) | presentation) (Stefano & Derek)
27 February - Just For The Record: Gender Redirect edit-a-thon in Amazone, Brussels (documentation | photos)
28 February - Wikimedia Presentation in Louvain-la-Neuve University for non French native people (M0tty)
29 February - Presentation given at Open Belgium 2016 in Antwerp (website | photos) (Romaine)

March

1 March - Meeting with Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie about preparing activities during the writing weeks Brussels on Dutch Wikipedia (project page) (SvenDK & Romaine)
1 March - Wiki Loves Art meeting in Brussels (Lfurter, Romaine, and from Packed & Faro)
1 March - Wiki Loves Art meeting in Brussels (Lfurter & Romaine)
4 March - Meeting with the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage on the donation of images to Wikipedia/Wikimedia (Romaine)
4 March - Meeting with EDRi about their internal wiki (Romaine & SPQRobin)
4 March - Meeting acquaintance with at Wikimedia office Troonstraat 51 Rue du Trône with Mozilla & ... (Romaine & SPQRobin)
8 March - Meeting with EDRi about their internal wiki (Romaine)
8 March - Just For The Record: stand for the International Women’s Day in Muntpunt, Brussels (documentation | photos)
9 March - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
10 March - Training Wikipedia (1) for Dutch libraries in Brussels at the Flemish Community Commission in Brussels (project page) (Romaine)
11 March - Training Wikipedia (2) for Dutch libraries in Brussels at the Flemish Community Commission in Brussels (project page) (Romaine)
18-20 March - Just For The Record at Ladyfest with stand and presentations
19 March - Simpleshow workshop in Utrecht (DerekvG)
26 March - WMBE strategy meet-up about Freedom of Panorama at Wikimedia office Troonstraat 51 Rue du Trône (Dimi z, Geertivp, Romaine, SPQRobin & Afernand74)

April

2 April - Press release Brussels writing weeks published (press release)
2 April - Communications training in Utrecht (project page) (Geertivp & Romaine)
3 April - Wikimedia Belgium Newsletter - April 2016 published
4 April - Onepager of Wiki Loves Art ready in three languages for sending out to knowledge organisations (onepager: Dutch/French/English) (Romaine, Lfurter & partners)
4-17 April 2016 - 11 edit-a-thons on 6 locations supporting the writing weeks Brussels (project page)
5 April - Meeting with Brussels Museums Council in Brussels (Romaine)
5 April - Wikipedia writing session library Koekelberg + meeting (project page) (SvenDK, Romaine & DerekvG)
6 April - Wikipedia writing session library Koekelberg (project page) (Geertivp & Romaine)
7 April - Wikipedia writing session library Jette (project page) (Romaine)
7 April - Wikipedia writing session library Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (project page) (Patrick Vanhoucke & Romaine)
7 April - Wiki Loves Art meeting in Brussels (Lfurter & Romaine)
9 April - Wikipedia writing session library Muntpunt (project page) (SvenDK, SPQRobin, Romaine, MADe & Afernand74)
11 April - Wikipedia writing session library Koekelberg (project page) (Andre Engels & Romaine)
11 April - Wikipedia writing session Vrije Universiteit Brussel, train the trainer (project page) (SvenDK)
12 April - Wikipedia writing session library Anderlecht (project page) (Romaine & Effeietsanders)
12 April - Wikipedia writing session Vrije Universiteit Brussel (project page) (Romaine, Effeietsanders & SvenDK)
12 April - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
13 April - Meeting about WMCON profile of WMBE, at office (Romaine & Geertivp)
13 April - Wikipedia writing session Vrije Universiteit Brussel (project page) (Romaine, Geertivp, Lfurter, SPQRobin & SvenDK)
13 April - Presentation about Gender-neutral writing at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (project page) (Lfurter)
14 April - Wikipedia writing session library Jette (project page)
14 April - Wikipedia writing session Vrije Universiteit Brussel (project page) (SPQRobin)
15 April - A drink to conclude the writing weeks.
21 April - Awards ceremony with Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, to personally thank participants for their contributions. (photo) (Taketa)
25 April - Awards ceremony with Sven Gatz, Flemisch minister of Cultur and Brussels Affairs, to thank participants for their contributions. (Taketa & SvenDK)
19-25 April - Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin (report) (Geertivp & Romaine)
27 April - Meeting with Royal Library of Belgium (Romaine)
27 April - Meeting with EDRi about their internal wiki (Romaine)
30 April - Introduction in Wiki Loves Art and Wiki Loves Monuments at Enchora in Antwerp (DerekvG & Romaine)
30 April - Board meeting (12th) at office in Brussels (documentation)

May

10 May - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
23 May - Meeting with the Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform (info) (Romaine)
24 May - Submitting grant request Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Belgium and Luxembourg (info | grant request | project page)
26 May - Training Wikipedia for Proximus (project page) (Geertivp)
28 May - Wiki Loves Art meeting at office & creation of guidelines for the project (Lfurter & Romaine)
28 May - Board meeting (13th) at office in Brussels (documentation)
30 May - Preparation & deliver FoP letter to members of federal parliament (Dimi z, Romaine & Geertivp)
30 May - Evaluation Brussels writing weeks 2016 with Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie and Muntpunt (Romaine)
31 May - First interim report Wiki Loves Art 2016 grant approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (info | grant | interim report | project page)

June

2 June - Meeting with MuZee in Oostende about Wiki Loves Art (Romaine)
4 June - Meeting about Wikipedia Education Program (Romaine)
9 June - Presentation for Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform (info) (Romaine)
9 June - Training Wikipedia for Proximus (project page) (Geertivp)
10 June - Meeting with Royal Library of Belgium (Romaine)
10 June - Just For The Record: Bots, robots, cyborgs edit-a-thon in Muntpunt, Brussels (documentation | photos)
13 June - Meeting with FoMu in Antwerp about Wiki Loves Art (Romaine)
14 June - Wiki Loves Art meeting (Lfurter, Romaine & Packed)
15 June - Wiki Loves Art presentation for cultural institutions (Romaine)
16 June - Freedom of Panorama has been approved by the Belgian federal parliament
17 June - Second interim report Wiki Loves Art 2016 grant submitted (info | grant | interim report | project page)
18 June - Just For The Record: Bots, robots, cyborgs edit-a-thon in Muntpunt, Brussels (documentation | photos)
18 June - Celebration of 15 years existence of Dutch language Wikipedia in the Netherlands Open Air Museum (documentation) (Romaine)
22 June - Grant request Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Belgium and Luxembourg approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (info | grant | project page)
22-26 June - Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario (Italy)
29-30 June - Conference in Amsterdam: Ready to reach out; conference on digitalisation of cultural heritage (Romaine & Ste.caneva)
- Opening thematic writing weeks about cultural heritage by minister for education, culture and science (project page)
- Meeting on Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg

July

1 July - Start photo contest Wiki Loves Art (1st edition in Belgium) (website participants | website institutions | project page | grant | info page | participating images)
1 July - Press release Wiki Loves Art Belgium in 2016 project launch
2 July - Internal audit on the bank account and expenses
2 July - Project management meeting at office in Brussels (documentation)
6 July - Extraordinary General Assembly in WTC Tower 1 - 25th floor, Brussels + drink afterwards (documentation)
11 July - Invitation to the Freedom of Panorama in Belgium launch event
11 July - Press release: Freedom of Panorama in Belgium
14 July - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
14 July - Meeting with Musea & Erfgoed Mechelen for Wiki Loves Art (Romaine)
14 July - Kazerne Dossin Memoriaal photography session Wiki Loves Art (photos)
15 July - Freedom of Panorama comes official into force in Belgium (documentation)
15 July - 1737 previously deleted files because of missing freedom of panorama are restored on Wikimedia Commons. An overview of the restored files can be found at this page at Commons.
15 July - Freedom of Panorama in Belgium launch event at KIK-IRPA (invitation | documentation | photos)
15 July - Spontaneous afterparty/wiknic in Parc du Cinquantenaire
23 July - FOMU Photo Museum Antwerp photography session Wiki Loves Art (photos)
26 July - Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) photography session Wiki Loves Art (photos)
26 July - Packed vzw bezocht (Romaine)
28 July - Publication of financial report for 2015 (report)
28 July - Publication of activity report for 2015 (report)
30 July - Museum of Fine Arts Ghent photography session Wiki Loves Art + meeting organisers
31 July - Bardelaere Museum meeting and photography session Wiki Loves Art (Romaine)

August

3 August - Meeting with KIK-IRPA about image donation of 10500 German negatives (Romaine)
3 August - Meeting with KIK-IRPA about Wiki Loves Art and Wiki Loves Monuments (Romaine)
3 August - Cinquantenaire Museum (Brussels) photography session Wiki Loves Art
3 August - Meeting with KBR about writing session during Wiki Loves Art
8 August - Musée de la céramique d'Andenne photography session Wiki Loves Art
10 August - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
10 August - Halle Gate photography session Wiki Loves Art + meeting with organisation + meeting organisers
12 August - Library of Université de Liège photography session Wiki Loves Art + meeting organisers
16 August - Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) photography session Wiki Loves Art + meeting organisers
18 August - Meeting with Musée Royal de Mariemont for Wiki Loves Art
18 August - Kazerne Dossin Memoriaal photography session Wiki Loves Art
19 August - Library of Université de Liège photography session Wiki Loves Art + meeting organisers
19-21 August - WikiConvention francophone (1st) in Paris (info | project page | photos) (Lfurter)
20 August - Museum of Fine Arts Ghent photography session Wiki Loves Art
22 August - Musée de la céramique d'Andenne photography session Wiki Loves Art
24 August - Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History photography session Wiki Loves Art
27 August - Royal Library of Belgium photography session Wiki Loves Art + drink afterwards
28 August - Mundaneum photography session Wiki Loves Art + meeting organisers
31 August - Last day participants can upload photos as part of the photo contest Wiki Loves Art

September

1 September - Start photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg (5th edition) (website | project page | grant | working page | participating images from Belgium & Luxembourg | winners)
5 September - Meeting about Kortrijk education program in Brussels (Romaine & Benedict Wydooghe)
5 September - Meeting Wiki Loves Monuments Belgium & Luxembourg in Leuven (Romaine & Ste.caneva)
7 September - Wikimedia Belgium Newsletter - September 2016 published
7 September - Invitation to the photo tours Wiki Takes... in September 2016 during Wiki Loves Monuments
7 September - Meeting with Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) with presentation & questions (project page) (Romaine)
7 September - Meeting with EDRi about their internal wiki (Romaine)
10 September - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
10 September - Wiki Takes... Gent as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 (invitation)
11 September - Wiki Takes... Mechelen as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 (invitation)
16-18 September - WikiCon 2016 in Stuttgart/Kornwestheim (Romaine)
16 September - Wiki Takes... Antwerpen as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 (invitation)
21 September - Wiki Takes... Luik as part of Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 (invitation)
21 September - Preparation meeting for Cultuurforum (Loraine)
22 September - Team meeting Packed & Het Firmament with edit-a-thon in DE Studio in Antwerp (photos) (Romaine)
23-25 September - Participation in the State of the Map OpenStreetMap Conference in Brussels (report) (Geertivp)
27 September - Wikipedia-Course at Luxembourg University in Campus de Belval in Esch-sur-Alzette (Romaine)
30 September - Last day participants can upload photos as part of the photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments

October

4 October - Presentation during Wikimedia session at Cultuurforum (documentation) (Loraine)
5 October - Meeting with Vormingplus Vlaamse Ardennen-Dender (Romaine)
5 October - Meeting at office (Romaine & Dimi z)
5 October - Meeting to talk about annual plan 2017 (Romaine & Loraine)
5 October - Meeting with MuseomixBE (Romaine & Loraine)
6 October - Meeting Wikipedia in the Public Library in the Royal Library in The Hague (project page in Dutch | presentation 1 | presentation 2 | photos) (Romaine)
10 October - Meeting to prepare meeting and annual plan (Romaine & Loraine)
10 October - Meeting with Musée Royal de Mariemont in Morlanwelz (project page) (Loraine & Romaine)
11 October - Submitting grant request for WMBE in 2017 (info | grant request)
12 October - Evaluation meeting Wiki Loves Art at Packed (Loraine & Romaine)
12 October - Preparation jury meeting Wiki Loves Art at Packed
12 October - Meeting about collaboration with Packed
13 October - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
13 October - Wiki Loves Art jury session
14 October - Presentation about Wiki Loves Art at BeMuseum 2016 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Place Royale) (project page | photos) (Romaine)
21 October - Meeting with Comeet in Eeklo about collaboration (Romaine)
21 October - Meeting with MSK Gent about collaboration (Romaine)
22 October - Just For The Record: Red links in Beursschouwburg, Brussels (documentation | archived website)
25 October - Meeting about administration and bank in Brussels (Geertivp & Romaine)
25 October - Meeting with KIK-IRPA to talk how to organise prize ceremony Wiki Loves Art/Wiki Loves Monuments (Sam.Donvil & Romaine)
25 October - Meeting to talk how we will organise prize ceremony Wiki Loves Art/Wiki Loves Monuments (Sam.Donvil & Romaine)
25 October - Evaluation interview about performance of Belgian federal institutions (Belspo) (Romaine)
25 October - Meeting about organisation of Brussels writing weeks 2017 (project page) (Geertivp, MADe, SvenDK & Romaine)
28 October - Wikimedia Presentation of Wikimedia projects as educational partners in schools or collaborating tool for associations and Kiwix workshop under "associalibre 2016", a day of lectures and workshops for associations and stakeholders in education around issues of free software. (conference site / presentation 1 / presentation 2) (Lionel Scheepmans)
29-30 October - Sending out invitation: Invitation: Wikipedia printed in Ghent

November

3 November - Adding 456 PIDs to items about artworks in Wikidata for KIK-IRPA
3 November - Opening new bank account for Wikimedia Belgium (Geertivp & Romaine)
3 November - Onroerend Erfgoed (Flemish monuments) meeting (Romaine)
3 November - Meeting with Open Knowledge Belgium about collaboration (info) (Romaine)
5 November - Wikipedia printed in Ghent (project page | invitation | photos) (Romaine)
10 November - Meeting with grants team WMF to talk about WMBE 2017 grant (info | grant request) (Geertivp & Romaine)
10 November - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
12 November - Just For The Record at Pink Screens Festival (Muntpunt), Brussels (documentation | archived website)
12 November - Sending out invitation: Invitation to the award ceremony of Wiki Loves Art & Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 on 25 November
13 November - Museomix in Museum aan de Stroom in Antwerp (Romaine)
15 November - Meeting with M Leuven for collaboration (Romaine)
15 November - Meeting with Stedelijk Onderwijs Antwerpen for collaboration (Romaine)
15 November - Meeting with Province of Flemish Brabant for writing weeks in Autumn 2017 (Romaine)
17 November - Presentation and workshop for MEPs and their staff of the EPP Group in the European Parliament (Dimi z)
17 November - Lecture about Digital Trade in the European Parliament (Marietje Schaake) (Geertivp)
19 November - Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland in Utrecht with 4 presentations + interview with De Standaard (program archived | wiki | photos & presentations) (Romaine, Geertivp & Lfurter)
23 November - Meeting with Royal Museums of Art and History (KMKG-MRAH) + subsequent meeting (Romaine & Sam.Donvil)
25 November - Meeting with Directorate of Monuments and Sites of Brussels (Romaine)
25 November - Award ceremony Wiki Loves Art Belgium and Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Belgium & Luxembourg at Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels (invitation | winning photos WLA | jury report WLA | winning photos WLM | jury report WLM | photos ceremony | WLA project page | WLM project page)
30 November - Workshop Digitisation of cultural heritage and Orphan Works (en/fr/nl | archived: en/fr/nl)

December

4-10 December - Just For The Record presentation on 5 December + week of presentations and workshops in partnership with Constant VZW
10 December - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
16 December - Study day durable digitalisation in museum's world by VKC and Packed in the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (Spinster & Romaine)
16 December - Interim report Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 grant submitted (info | grant | report | project page)
16 December - Third interim report Wiki Loves Art 2016 grant submitted (info | grant | interim report | project page)
16 December - Grant request Public facing activities 2017 approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (info | grant)
19 December - Receiving paper administration of WMBE with meeting with DerekvG (Geertivp)
19 December - Handling paper administration of WMBE with meeting to treasurer (Geertivp & Romaine)
20 December - Sending out official letter to Minister Peeters (minister for Employment, the Economy and Consumer Affairs with responsibility for Foreign Trade), Minister De Croo (minister for Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecommunications and Post), and Ms. Séverine Waterbley (General Director of the Directorate General for Economic Regulations) to inform about the Wikimedia position in the matter of the Directive of the European Parliament and Council on copyright in the digital single market (2016/0280 (COD)) (Geertivp)
20 December - Interim report Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 grant approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (info | grant | interim report | project page)
20 December - Second interim report Wiki Loves Art 2016 grant approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (late due they had forgotten) (info | grant | interim report | project page)
21 December - Third interim report Wiki Loves Art 2016 grant approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (info | grant | interim report | project page)
21 December - Talk with the Wikimedia Foundation concerning the issues with the grant WMBE 2016 S1 Public facing Activities (info | report) (Romaine & Geertivp)
21 December - Final report for the grant WMBE 2016 S1 Public facing Activities submitted (info | grant | report)
22 December - Final report for the grant WMBE 2016 S1 Public facing Activities approved by the Wikimedia Foundation, grant closed, remaining funds transferred to WMBE 2017 grant (info | grant | report)
31 December - So far, the Wikimedia Belgium Twitter account posted 1361 posts (427 in 2016), follows 361 accounts, has 1010 followers, liked 125 posts, and is added to 4 lists (Twitter)
31 December - So far, the Wiki Loves Monuments Belgium & Luxembourg Twitter account posted 397 posts, follows 82 accounts, has 217 followers, and liked 10 posts (Twitter)
31 December - So far, the Wiki Loves Art Belgium Twitter account posted 124 posts, follows 115 accounts, has 85 followers, and liked 17 posts (Twitter)