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Public domain month celebration; Edit-a-thon Amnesty International Vlaanderen; Upcoming photo contest: Wiki Loves Heritage
Public domain month celebration
Each year, at 1 January, new works of authors that died 70 years ago enter the public domain. To celebrate this happening we organised together with a long list of partners a public domain month, also to create awareness of public domain and what it means. Our partners in the project are Constant vzw, PACKED vzw, Royal Library of Belgium, Mundaneum, Muntpunt, Nova Cinema, Rosa vzw and PTTL.
During the month all together about 25 activities were organised spread over the month and spread over various locations. The activities included expositions, vernissages, lectures, ateliers, wiki edit-a-thons and a closing event. (full program of the public domain day month)
Two of the activities that took place were related to Wikipedia/Wikimedia:
- 19 May - Edit-a-thon in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels to write and improve Wikipedia articles about authors and their works that became public domain in 2018.
- 26 May - Lecture: An afternoon about the potential and practices of the Public Domain in Muntpunt in Brussels where a series of speakers expressed their perspective and value of the public domain.
See also:
- Invitation to the public domain month in 2018
- More photos of the edit-a-thon in the Royal Library of Belgium on 19 May
- More photos of the lecture in Muntpunt on 26 May
- (Dutch) Some background public domain day month
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The works of Felix Timmermans entered the public domain in 2018
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editing Wikipedia on 19 May
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Lecture on 26 May
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The Royal Library of the Netherlands loves public domain and Wikipedia
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Some statistics from the Royal Library of the Netherlands: in 2016 images of the work Nederlandsche vogelen are 34 thousands times viewed on the website of the Royal Library, in the same period 3.7 million times on Wikipedia.
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Royal Library of Belgium and their mission with the public domain
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Panel discussion
Besides the activities organised during the public domain month in May, also various institutions with collections have been asked to release public domain images of this year's public domain authors. This has resulted in:
- various images from Victor Horta from the Horta Museum
- various images from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
- various images from the Royal Library of Belgium
- the novel Pallieter from Felix Timmermans being released and transcribed on the Dutch Wikisource (index page) + images from the novel being released
- the novel De zeer schone uren van Juffrouw Symforosa begijntjen from Felix Timmermans being released and transcribed on the Dutch Wikisource
- the novel Pieter Breughel zoo heb ik u uit uwe werken geroken from Felix Timmermans being released and transcribed on the Dutch Wikisource
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Historic public domain newspapers in the Royal Library of Belgium
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Donated by the Horta Museum
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Donated by the Horta Museum
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From the novel Pallieter from Felix Timmermans
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From the novel Pallieter from Felix Timmermans
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Image from Gustave Van de Woestijne donated by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
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Image from Gustave Van de Woestijne donated by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Edit-a-thon Amnesty International Vlaanderen
On 20 May 2018 Amnesty International Vlaanderen organised together with Wikimedia Belgium an edit-a-thon to describe together women and/or activists from minority groups and to give them a face on Wikipedia. Because women and/or activists from minority groups often work under the radar, they enjoy even less visibility and recognition than their male co-activists. Amnesty International wants to do something about this through their wiki edit-a-thon.
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Office Amnesty International in Brussels
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Lecture from activist
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Editing Wikipedia
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Editing Wikipedia
Upcoming photo contest: Wiki Loves Heritage
2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage. In line with this international thematic year we organise together with multiple partners a photo contest to make heritage more visible for the public. This photo contest is called Wiki Loves Heritage and in this photo contest are all four types of heritage eligible.
- Immovable heritage are archaeological sites, monuments, cultural-historical landscapes, war relics and city and villagescapes.
- Movable heritage are the collections of art objects, utensils, decorative objects, archival documents, visual material, historic tools and vehicles, etc., which are stored in museums, archives and heritage libraries.
- Immaterial heritage are the non-tangible habits or customs of the past that one cherishes and still practices today. For example, parties, stories, songs, traditions, social customs, rituals, crafts ...
- Maritime heritage is the nautical heritage that can sail or float. This concerns both seagoing vessels and vessels for inland waters with various propulsion types, or without their own propulsion, which were used for pleasure or for professional purposes.
The photo contest will start later this month and will run until halfway November 2018. See for a preview at: Commons:Wiki Loves Heritage 2018 in Belgium.
During the photo contest we encourage all kinds of heritage organisations to organise activities around their heritage collections.
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Archeology
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Heritage monuments
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Landscapes
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Artworks
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Historic documents
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Oldtimer
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Museums
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Speech balloon
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Music
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Celebration
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Crafts
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Maritime heritage
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