Activities/2019

On this page we collect activities in 2019 related to Wikimedia that took place in Belgium or by volunteers from Wikimedia Belgium. We collect all our general assemblies, board meetings, meetings with other organisations and people, project meetings, presentations, workshops, edit-a-thons, conferences, press releases, publications, invitations and newsletters, (photo) contests, and many other activities and milestones.

2019

Long-running projects:

1 July 2019 - 30 November 2019 - Wiki Loves Heritage 2019 in Belgium
1 September-31 October - (nl) Wikipedia Schrijfwedstrijd NL

January 2019

WikiUilen during new year's event

Public domain day edit-a-thon in the Royal Library of Belgium

1 January - Public domain day: 1954 previously uploaded (and deleted) images restored on Wikimedia Commons as they entered the public domain (project page)
7 January - Preparational meeting for the upload of images and public domain day edit-a-thon (info) (Romaine)
10 January - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
11 January - Wiki Loves Heritage evaluation with Flemish partners in Brussels (info) (Romaine)
12 January - New year's event of Wikimedia Nederland for the Dutch language community in the Royal Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem (event page | photos) (Romaine)
12 January - Award ceremony of WikiUilen (WikiOwls) of the Dutch Wikipedia during the new year's event (award page 2018 | photos | announcement) (Romaine)
15 January - Preparational meetings for activities in Brussels (info) (Romaine)
15 January - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (5th) during Civic Lab Brussels in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
16 January - Online meeting with WMF about our 2018 and 2019 Simple APG grant (info) (Geertivp)
21 January - Public domain day event for staff museums and institutions in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels
26 January - Public domain day edit-a-thon in the Royal Library in Brussels (info | activity page | photos)
26 January - Wikimeet in Brussels
29 January - Grant request annual plan grant request of Wikimedia Belgium 2019 in Belgium approved by the Wikimedia Foundation (info | grant | annual plan)
29 January - Hack The Gender Gap edit-a-thon in BeCentral in Brussels (info | activity page | photos)
30 January - Final report of Wikimedia Belgium 2018 in Belgium grant submitted (info | grant | report | spending report)
30 January - Publication of activity report for 2018 (info | report)
30 January - Publication of financial report for 2018 (info | report)
31 January - Articles from the Hack The Gender Gap edit-a-thon reviewed and published (info | activity page)
31 January - Creative Commons Belgium meeting at BeCentral (info)

February 2019

Opening session FOSDEM

Wiki Club Brussels, 12 February 2019

2-3 February - Present at FOSDEM (info | photos)
5 February - Conversion address to new property (P969 -> P6375) for all of monuments from the German-speaking Community in Wikidata (info) (Romaine)
8 February - Meeting with Open Knowledge to prepare next week's Wiki Club (info) (Romaine)
8 February - Meeting with Iedereen Leest about edit-a-thons and more (info) (Romaine)
8 February - Meeting with Packed about import monuments Flanders to Wikidata (info) (Romaine)
8 February - Mailing with invitation for next week's Wiki Club Brussels sent to participants edit-a-thon of 29 January (info) (Romaine)
9 February - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM (info | report)
9 February - Board meeting (20th) in our office in Brussels (documentation)
6-10 February - Conversion address to new property (P969 -> P6375) for all of monuments of Brussels in Wikidata (info) (Romaine)
11 February - Meeting at BeCentral as preparation for Tuesday (Romaine)
11 February - Preparational meeting for the organising of Wiki Loves Heritage with our Flemish partners (info) (Romaine)
11 February - Meeting with Erasmushogeschool Brussel to start Wikipedia classes this month (info | project page) (Romaine)

Hack the Gender Gap, Brussels

12 February - Preparational meetings for Wiki Club Brussels, community event and more (Romaine & Geertivp)
12 February - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (6th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
14 February - Jury meeting Wiki Loves Heritage 2018 - Oost-Vlaanderen in Gent (Geertivp)
15 February - Meeting in Tilburg of WMNL + WMBE representatives to talk about situation with WMF
18 February - Start education program at Erasmushogeschool in Brussels and two groups of students got an introduction in Wikipedia and started editing (info | project page) (Romaine)
18 February - Evaluation Wiki Club Brussels in BeCentral (info) (Romaine)
23 February - Meeting with Annelore of library in Liège about upcoming edit-a-thon (.Anja.)
23 February - Award ceremony for the Flemish winning photos in the PhotoMuseum in Antwerp, coordinated by the Departement Cultuur, Jeugd en Media of the Flemish Government (info | winners Flemish jury | Flemish jury report | photos)
26 February - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (7th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
27 February - Meeting with the Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform in Leuven (info)
27 February - Preparational meeting for Creative Commons Casino (info)
28 February - Meeting with King Baudouin Foundation about project accounts and more (Romaine | Geertivp)

March 2019

Winnaar Wiki Loves Heritage Vlaanderen 2018 Benoit Brummer

Winnars Wiki Loves Heritage Vlaanderen 2018 exposition

1 March - Registration WMBE at goededoelen.be / bonnescauses.be (website: Dutch & French)
2 March - Open Data community day, a community event organised by Open Knowledge Belgium as part of Open Belgium, including Creative Commons Casino, Wikidata workshop, OpenStreetMap workshops, and more, in BeCentral (photos) (for WMBE: Romaine | Geertivp)
4 March - Open Belgium in Brussels organised by Open Knowledge Belgium (info) (for WMBE: Romaine | Geertivp)
8 March - Report published in the Wikimedia GLAM newsletter This Month in GLAM about Wiki Loves Heritage and the Wikipedian in Residence at the King Baudouin Foundation (info | report)
8 March - Geertivp was interviewed for the radio program De Inspecteur from the VRT about the banner above Wikipedia for donating to Wikipedia (article (archived))
8-9 March - Conference WikiconNL 2019 in Utrecht (info)
9 March - (fr) Edit-a-thon about Belgian women at the Chiroux library (.Anja.)
11 March - Publication WMBE at goededoelen.be / bonnescauses.be (website: Dutch & French & German)
12 March - Meeting with Close the Gap in Etterbeek (Romaine)
12 March - Meeting to work on Creative Commons Casino card game in Brussels (Romaine | Agnez b)
12 March - Meeting in Brussels to work on various things, including list of churches in Ghent (Paul Hermans | Romaine)
12 March - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (8th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
13-20-27 March - Mois de la contribution 2019 à Namur
14 March - Wikimédia projects presentation at 8th rencontre du reseau volonterre dasile 2019 à Namur
18 March - All remarkable places of VRT have now an article in Dutch Wikipedia (25 new articles) (list)
21 March - All ~1100 monuments of the Brussels-Capital Region have now coordinates, after having the coordinates added in the past weeks (info) (Romaine)
22 March - Conference Researcher meets Curator in Maastricht, organised by Stichting Academisch Erfgoed, Maastricht University and Huygens ING (website ^(webarchive) | UM website ^(webarchive) | UM website ^(webarchive) | Wikidata item | photos)
22 March - Announcement winners of Wiki Loves Heritage 2018 in East Flanders (info | winners Wiki Loves Heritage 2018 in East Flanders)
25 March - Start education program at Erasmushogeschool in Brussels and two groups of students got an introduction in Wikipedia and started editing (info | project page) (Romaine)
26 March - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (9th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)

April 2019

Wikipedia writing workshop at Amnesty International Vlaanderen

1, 2, 3 April - Board member training in Berlin (Lionel Scheepmans)
9 April - Meeting with Onroerend Erfgoed at VIAA about data import monuments Flanders to Wikidata (Romaine | Beireke1)
9 April - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (10th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
16 April - iNaturalist meets Wiki workshop in Meise Botanic Garden (activity page | photos) (Romaine)
20 April - Wikipedia writing workshop at Amnesty International Vlaanderen in Brussels (project page | photos) (Romaine)
23 April - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (11th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
24 April - Feedback provided on articles written by the students of the Erasmushogeschool (info) (Romaine)
27 April - Wikify Antwerpen (info | nl-wiki meetup page) (Romaine | Geertivp)
30 April - Schrijven voor Wikipedia Ternat 3e sessie (nl-wiki meetup page) (Geertivp) - 6 participants including 3 new

May 2019

BeCentral, 7 May 2019

First Widawiwo meeting in Breda

7 May - Articles of the students (from Autumn 2018) of the University of Antwerp published on Wikipedia (info | documentation) (Romaine)
7 May - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (12th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
21 May - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (13th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
25 May - (fr) Pedagogical workshop about using Wikipedia for homeschoolers
26 May - First meeting upload Dutch Lexemes to Wikidata, Breda (Geert)
28 May - (nl) Opleiding "Schrijven voor Wikipedia", Bibliotheek van Ternat (Geertivp)
30 May - m:Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/Questions (Geertivp)

June 2019

4 June - Wiki Club Brussels meeting (14th) in BeCentral (info | en-wiki meetup page)
13 June - Meeting with (founding) User Group Litouwen (Geertivp)
14 June - Meeting with Erfgoed Oost-Vlaanderen (WLH) (Geertivp)
14 June - Meeting with Industriemuseum Gent (WLH) (Geertivp)
15 June - Annual General Assembly (6th GA) + board meeting (21th) in office at Rue du Trône, Brussels + wikimeet (documentation)
21 June - Meeting PACKED, Rony Vissers (WLH) (Geert)

July 2019

UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop drink

1 July - Start Wiki Loves Heritage (Geert)
1 July - Start Wikimedia Education course (Geert, Lionel)
3-6 July - Wikidata conference UGent (Geert)
3-5 July 2019 - d:Wikidata:Events/UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019 (photos)
10 July - Meeting the burgomaster of the city of Brussels Fabian Maingain (.Anja.)
10 July - Meeting with FARO, Roel Daenen (WLH) (Geert)
10 July - Meeting with KOERS museum, Thomas Ameye (WLH) (Geert)
11 July - E-mailing Wiki Loves Heritage (Geert)
13 July - Board meeting
20 July - Board meeting
30 July - Board meeting
30 July - Sent Announcement from the Board of Wikimedia Belgium, and to all our members (effective + associate) (Geert)

August 2019

Wikimania, Stockholm

01 August - Tax declaration (Geert)
08 August - Search for candidates Fonds Vrienden van Wikimedia België (Geert)
12 August - Introduction for new Board members (Geert)
13 August - Selection of scholarship for Wiki Techstorm (Geert)
14-18 August - Wikimania, Stockholm Sweden
24 August - Announcement of scholarship for Wiki Techstorm (Geert)
28-30 August - (fr) Co-Construire, Ramegnies-Chin (Tournai)
Tot 31 August - (nl) Inschrijven Wikipedia NL schrijfwedstrijd

September 2019

WikiConvention francophone 2019 Ouverture

WMBE Informatiestand Informatie aan Zee 2019

6-8 September - (fr) WikiConvention francophone, Brussels
8 September - Open Monumentendag, FARO
14 September - (fr) Présentation de la Maison Losseau et de ses collections, introduction à la numismatique.
14-15 September - Journée du patrimoine
17 September - Restart Bi-weekly Wiki Club, Brussels
17 September - (nl) Opleiding Schrijven voor Wikipedia, Bibliotheek van Ternat
19-20 September - (nl) Informatie aan zee, VVBAD, Kursaal Oostende
28 September - (fr) Recommandations photographique de la Maison Losseau: introduction à la photographie dites « neutre » ou « muséale »

October 2019

1 September-31 October - (nl) Wikipedia Schrijfwedstrijd NL
1,15,29 October - Bi-weekly Wiki Club, Brussels
5 October - (fr) [Pratique] Atelier photographique à la Maison Losseau : photographie d'un set de médailles.
5 October - (fr) Presentation Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at UCL SmartMonday
10,16 October - (nl) Workshop "Schrijven voor Wikipedia" voor VGC Brussel
12 October - (fr) [Pratique] Atelier retouches des photos de l'atelier précédent à la Maison Losseau.
15 October - (nl) Opleiding Schrijven voor Wikipedia, Bibliotheek van Ternat
24 October - Foss4G Brussels
25-26 October - (en) WikidataCon 2019, Berlin
29 October - (fr) Première session Wiki Club des Grands Lacs, Brussels

Writing for Wikipedia, 29 October 2019, Brussels
Wiki Club Brussels, 29 October 2019, Brussels
Wiki Club des Grands Lacs, 29 October 2019, Brussels

November 2019

Training "Writing for Wikipedia", Boekentoren, Gent

9 November - (fr) [Théorie & pratique] Wikimedia Commons à la Maison Losseau : téléversement de photos, placer des photos sur Wikipédia.
12,26 November - Bi-weekly Wiki Club, Brussels
21-23 November - (en) Wiki Techstorm conference, WMNL, Amsterdam
22 November - (nl) Sharing is Caring X, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
26 November - (nl) Het Groot Onderhoud, FARO, Antwerpen
28 November - (nl) Trefdag digitaal Vlaanderen
28 November - (fr) Wikipedia workshop in La Delta Namur

December 2019

10 December - Bi-weekly Wiki Club, Brussels