Wikimedia Belgium/fr

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Wikimedia Belgium est une section locale créée légalement le 27 septembre 2014.

Moyens de communication

Public chapter communications are centralized on be.wikimedia.org.

You can reach us by sending an e-mail to info wikimedia.be, board wikimedia.be, admin wikimedia.be.

We publish a newsletter to inform our members, volunteers on Wikipedia and sister projects, partner organisations and anyone else who is interested about activities and news related to Wikimedia in Belgium. The newsletters can be found at: Newsletters. There you also find instructions how to subscribe to the newsletter.

La liste de diffusion sera le moyen de communication privilégié pour annoncer des idées et les avancées des projets et activités. S’inscrire ou voir les informations sur la liste. Pour envoyer un message, adressez-le à WikimediaBE-l lists.wikimedia.org. Vous pouvez consulter les archives.

We also use Twitter Wikimedia_BE, WikimediaBE_fr, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Contact data

Wikimedia Belgium vzw/asbl
Enterprise number: BE 0563.775.480

Membership

Membership in Wikimedia Belgium is accessible to all natural persons, including those living outside Belgium. Membership is free for contributors to Wikimedia projects. For other members, an annual membership fee of € 20 is requested. The public can make a donation.

Reimbursements

Wikimedia Belgium supports Wikipedia volunteers and volunteers on sister projects via expense claims. For more information, see the page Reimbursements.

Board

2024 board members
 
Board 2024
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Finance: Dominque - User:LabDom - dominique [at] wikimedia.be – français, néerlandais et anglais.
  • Projects: Norbert - User:Norbert zeescouts - norbert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
  • Projects: Griet - User:GrietDC - griet [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, français et anglais.
  • Projects: Inge - Ivs-Amz - inge [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
2023 board members
 
Board 2023
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Projects: Dominque - User:LabDom - dominique [at] wikimedia.be – français, néerlandais et anglais.
  • Projects: Norbert - User:Norbert zeescouts - norbert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
2022 board members
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Projects: Dominque - User:LabDom - dominique [at] wikimedia.be – français, néerlandais et anglais.
  • Treasurer: Mike - User:Taketa - mike [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
  • GLAM and Public domain: Sam - User:Sam.Donvil - sam [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
2021 board members
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Gender and Diversity: .Anja. - User:.Anja. - annejea [at] wikimedia.be – français et anglais.
  • Secretary: Mike - User:Taketa - mike [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
  • GLAM and Public domain: Sam - User:Sam.Donvil - sam [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
2020 board members
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Gender and Diversity: .Anja. - User:.Anja. - annejea [at] wikimedia.be – français et anglais.
  • Projects and activities: Mike - User:Taketa - mike [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
2019 board members
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Gender and Diversity: .Anja. - User:.Anja. - annejea [at] wikimedia.be – français et anglais.
  • Education and cultural knowledge Equity: Lionel Scheepmans - User:Lionel Scheepmans - lionel [at] wikimedia.be – français et anglais.
  • Projects and activities: Mike - User:Taketa - mike [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
2018 board members
 
Board 2018
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Secretary & Member communication: Robin - User:SPQRobin - robin [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais, français et allemand.
  • Treasurer & community initiatives: Romaine - User:Romaine - romaine [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
  • Institutions Liaison: Alberto - User:Afernand74 - alberto [at] wikimedia.be – espagnol, anglais, français et néerlandais.
  • .Anja. - User:.Anja. - annejea [at] wikimedia.be – français et anglais.
  • Lionel Scheepmans - User:Lionel Scheepmans - lionel [at] wikimedia.be – français et anglais.
2016-2017 board members
 
Board 2017
 
Board 2016
  • Chair: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Secretary & Member communication: Robin - User:SPQRobin - robin [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais, français et allemand.
  • Treasurer & community initiatives: Romaine - User:Romaine - romaine [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.
  • Institutions Liaison: Alberto - User:Afernand74 - alberto [at] wikimedia.be – espagnol, anglais, français et néerlandais.
  • Gender and Diversity Liaison: Loraine - User:Lfurter - loraine [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
Former
  • Treasurer: Derek V Giroulle - User:DerekvG - derek [at] wikimedia.be be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
2015 board members
 
Board 2015
  • Maarten - User:MADe - maarten [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais. Current function: Advisor to the Board
  • Antoine - User:M0tty - motteditfalisse [at] wikimedia.be – français. Current function: Advisor to the Board.
  • Dimi - User:Dimi_z - dimi [at] wikimedia.be – bulgare, allemand, anglais et français. Current function: International Institutions Liaison, working on EU Affairs and public policy
  • Treasurer: Derek V Giroulle - User:DerekvG - derek [at] wikimedia.be be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Secretary: Geert Van Pamel - User:Geertivp - geert.van.pamel [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais, anglais et français.
  • Institutions Liaison: Alberto - User:Afernand74 - alberto [at] wikimedia.be – espagnol, anglais, français et néerlandais.
  • Community initiatives: Romaine - User:Romaine - romaine [at] wikimedia.be – néerlandais et anglais.

Founding history

 
Assembly at the founding meeting of Wikimedia Belgium in the drawing rooms of the president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives
 
Official group photo

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has approved its recognition as a Wikimedia chapter on August 6, 2014. The first discussions started in 2005, and the active local team has been doing projects (the pilot program as described in the chapter creation guide) since that date. The most important yearly activity was the organisation of Wiki Loves Monuments Belgium & Luxembourg[1] in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Hundreds of volunteers participated in these events: either online, or during one of the real life events. We keep an overview with all relevant activities on our own website or here on meta in 'The Illustrated and Annoted Activity List of Wikimedia Belgium'.

These activities enabled the growth of the proposed chapter. This culminated in 2012 when the decision was taken to start the "chapter creation process". Statutes were made, people had the chance to show their support for the organisation, candidate founders and board members were sought, and the bank account was opened.

The application was filed with the AffCom in August 2013. The statutes were under review for several months, but end of 2013 the AffCom decided to put the application "on hold" for reasons outside of our reach (source).

Activities and community efforts are underway to discuss this with the AffCom and the WMF board itself. The chapter candidate founders sent an open letter to the WMF Board. They also increased their involvement in the community by planning Wikimedia events in the coming months.

As of June 2014, the AffCom was investigating our application. On 23 June 2014, the AffCom released a resolution to recognize Wikimedia Belgium as chapter. During Wikimania, the Board of Trustees recognized Wikimedia Belgium as a new chapter with a resolution.

On 27 September 2014 Wikimedia Belgium was officially founded.

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