Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Nederland/20231

Communication and publicity

Newsletters

We sent out the newsletter of January, February and March.

Blogs

Four blogs have been published on our website:

• Writing to the Ukrainian Wikipedia
• Students write Wikipedia articles about Frisian women
• WikiUil named after Casper Albers
• What does the work of a Wikimedia Nederland board member look like?

Activities published in the media

• Leerlingen schrijven voor Wikipedia over Friese vrouwen tegen de 'gender gap'/ Students write about Frisian women against the 'gender gap' for Wikipedia
• Aftrap project WikiWomen in Burgum / Kick-off project WikiWomen in Burgum
• Leerlingen schrijven Wiki-artikelen over Friese vrouwen: "Zo dragen we ons steentje bij" / Pupils write Wiki articles about Frisian women: 'This is how we contribute'

Gendergap & LGBTI

This quarter there were three WikiFridays and one WikiSaturday. The first one started on January 27 with 14 participants and the second one happened on February 24 with 7 participants. On March 11 there was an extra edit-a-thon (WikiSaturday) about resistance women. Fifteen participants visited this first part of a triptych. On March 24 the third WikiFriday took place, surrounding the International Transgender Day of Visibility.

#100Wikiwomenchallenge

The #100wikiwomenchallenge started on November 29, 2022 and ended on March 8, 2023. The aim of this challenge was to expand the number of biographies about women in the run-up to International Women's Day. Every day one article about a women was added, in total 100 articles were added. Three participants won a prize by drawing lots.

GLAM

WMNL hosted one GLAM coordinators meet-up themed 'Meten is weten' which was focused on GLAM-related metrics. 7 participants of various Dutch GLAM organisations took part in the meeting.

WMNL co-hosted two GLAM EU- meet ups for the GLAM project coordinators of the different European Wikimedian chapters, one on January the 10th and one on the 7th of February.

Wiki goes Caribbean

On the 23th of january an online meet-up was hosted by WMNL to talk about topics surrounding decolonising data and knowledge equity with a group of 12 participants (Wikimedians involved in the Wiki goes Caribbean project and also colleague from Wikimedia Deutschland working on the topic).

Other activities

On January 28 and 29 the first two Ukrainian writing workshops took place in the Netherlands, with over 20 participants in Amsterdam and Rotterdam learning to edit Ukrainian Wikipedia.