Internships at Wikimedia Belgium

DRAFT

This page documents the (possibilities of) internships at Wikimedia Belgium.

Purpose

An internship can enable Wikimedia Belgium in organising more/better activities (improving communication, organizing events like edit-a-thons, contests...) and offers experiences to interns in how Wikimedia and Wikipedia work behind the scenes.

Profile of the intern student:

• student in cultural sector (médiation culturelle / cultural heritage) or communication ;
• good knowledge in informatic use and social networks ;
• (very ?) good knowledge in Dutch, French and English (the members of Wikimedia Belgium and our target audience sometimes speak only one language) ;
• open and interested in learning about free projects like the Wikimedia projects and about Wikimedian issues (free licenses, gender and diversity issues...);
• takes initiative and as comes with suggestions.

Possible tasks (to define):

• writing and/or translating content from and into English, French and Dutch about the news of Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia projects (communication about events linked to the Wikimedia projects, newsletter) ;
• organizing events both online and offline (edit-a-thons, photo contests...).

History and background

Wikimedia Belgium did not had any internships before 2018. Various organisations we work together with, like Open Knowledge Belgium and PACKED vzw, have/had interns.

Contacts

• Romaine

Partners

• Regional Governments (Article 60 was previously Federal responsibility)

Timeline

• Add here all meetings, activities and other milestones of the project

Statistics

The metrics and statistics of this project are:

• Number of people present with an activity: ... (if multiple activities, please specify per activity)
• Number of newly registered users: ...
• Number of content pages created/improved: ... (preferable specify by wiki, content type and creation/improvement)
• Number of edit-a-thons and workshops: ...
• Number of other activities: ...
• ...

See also

• Article 60

External links

• Ontdek fijne stageplekken in de cultureel-erfgoedsector, 3 May 2018   (archived)