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

• University of Antwerp
• PACKED vzw

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

Related links

• University of Antwerp on Wikidata
• Category about the University of Antwerp at Wikimedia Commons
• Universiteit Antwerpen page in Wikipedia education portal in the Dutch Wikipedia
• University of Antwerp page in Wikipedia education portal in the English Wikipedia

Announcements and notices

• (nl) Universiteitsbibliotheek Antwerpen: beelddonaties aan Wikimedia Commons, 19 April 2018   (archived)
• (nl) Prentenkabinet Universiteit Antwerpen: 1.093 hogeresolutiebeelden en metadata op Wikimediaplatformen, 6 November 2018   (archived)
• (nl) Wikify Antwerpen!, 27 February 2019   (archived)
• (nl) Wikify Antwerpen!, February 2019   (archived)
• (nl) PACKED: medewerking aan edit-a-thon Universiteit Antwerpen voor Erfgoeddag, 5 March 2019   (archived)
• (nl) Wikify Antwerpen!, 21 February 2019   (archived)