University of Antwerp

The University of Antwerp (Dutch: Universiteit Antwerpen, UA) is an important partner for Wikimedia Belgium.

Purpose

The purpose of the collaboration is to have a Wikipedia education program in what students write articles in Wikipedia as assignment. In addition this also images from the university are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and data is added to Wikidata.

History and background

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Contacts

Geertivp

Partners

Budget

Grants: Education program

Timeline

2018 - Upload of more than 1000 reproductions by the Prentenkabinet of the University of Antwerp to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (announcement ^(archived))
8 October 2018 - Introduction in Wikipedia/Wikimedia with class of students (Beireke1)
20 November 2018 - Edit-a-thon with group of students of 8 October (documentation) (Sam.Donvil & Romaine)
29 November 2018 - Feedback provided on all articles written by the students of the University of Antwerp (documentation) (Romaine)
27 April 2019 - Edit-a-thon Wikify Antwerpen (info | activity page)
7 May 2019 - Articles of the students (from Autumn 2018) published on Wikipedia (documentation) (Romaine)

Statistics

The metrics and statistics of this project are:

Number of people present with an activity: 41 students (20 November 2018) + teacher + two from Wikimedia
Number of newly registered users: 46 students
Number of content pages created/improved: 21
Number of edit-a-thons and workshops: 2 sessions

Number of uploads in 2018: 2069 files