Wikimedia Belgium, association for the promotion of free knowledge, on Wikipedia and beyond. Engaging people in free knowledge.
Joined August 2012
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
Feb 20
38 ambtenaren van de FOD Financiën repeteren tot 4 keer/maand tijdens de werkuren voor de Koninklijke Harmonie van Financiën
Samen goed voor 1.022 werkdagen per jaar, oftewel 5 voltijdse krachten
Overheidsharmonie kost overheid elk jaar 1.022 werkdagen
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8 Apr 2025
🌍 Overstap van X naar Bluesky
Wikimedia België heeft beslist om over te stappen op Bluesky en X te verlaten.
Als neutrale organisatie kiezen we voor een infrastructuur binnen social media, vrij van invloed van politiek.
Onze volgers zijn welkom op bsky.app/profile/nl.wikimedi…
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🌍Wikimedia Belgique a décidé de migrer vers Bluesky et de quitter X.
En tant qu'organisation neutre, nous optons pour une infrastructure au sein des médias sociaux, libre de l'influence des jeux politiques.
Nos suiveurs sont invités sur le site: bsky.app/profile/fr.wikimedi…
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🌍 Switch from X to Bluesky
Wikimedia Belgium has decided to switch to Bluesky and leave X. As a neutral organisation, we opt for an infrastructure within social media, free from the influence of political playing fields.
Our followers can find us: bsky.app/profile/wikimedia.b…
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
28 Feb 2025
All the information you need to start working on your program submissions is now available on the Wikimania Wiki! Submission form coming soon!
Read more here: wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki…
#wikimania2025 #wikimanianairobi
ALT Wikimania Nairobi Programs
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
3 Mar 2025
Dear all,
Program submissions for Wikimania 2025 are officially open!
Got an idea that will spark dialogue and inspire Wikimedians? Now’s the time to share it. Learn more on the Diff blog post and submit your proposal by the end of March.
diff.wikimedia.org/2025/03/0…
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week: wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:S…
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21 Feb 2025
🌍📢 February 21 = International Mother Language Day!
Language is identity. @UNESCO calls to protect language diversity and multilingualism. You can help by writing or translating Wikipedia articles!
📖 Give your mother tongue an online voice!
👉 What is your favorite word?
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☃️ Day 2 of the #DataReuseDays2025 are about to start. Join us for an introduction to accessing Wikidata's data and live coding a website with Snowman!
For more information about how to join see wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data…
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19 Feb 2025
🚀 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲!🌍
Join the Planetary Science Wiki Edit-a-thon to highlight women & underrepresented groups in STEM!
📖 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: Feb 25, Mar 4 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00
📢 Sign up now!
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💫 The #DataReuseDays2025 are about to start! Join us for the opening, research results and the opportunity to ask all your questions about building applications with Wikidata's data.
For information about how to join see wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data…
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
17 Feb 2025
Visualizing RDF knowledge graphs
In the last few days, 2 new open source tools for RDF knowledge graph visualization were released 🧵
#OpenSource #EmergingTech #KnowledgeGraph #dataViz #Visualization #DataScience #RDF
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
13 Feb 2025
Wikipedia volunteers are making the internet better for everyone!
Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed @DPGAlliance, highlighting the volunteer communities' role in advancing free and trusted knowledge in 300 languages.
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
17 Feb 2025
It's out! You can now access The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI: cambridge.org/core/books/the…
20 #openaccess chapters covering topics on AI, ethics, philosophy, legal domains & sectoral applications.
Huge thanks to all the authors who made this possible!
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
13 Feb 2025
Join us @UoE_EFI on 5 March for an afternoon of talks exploring: @Wikimedia in the curriculum; Scottish history and historical #opendata (witches, religious change in early modern Scotland); and opening up the collections of the National Library of Wales!
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
27 Jan 2025
Round 3 Begins!
From Photos to Winners! Round 3 of Wiki Loves Monuments Jury Review commences!
#WLM2024 #WikiLovesMonuments #JuryReview
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week: wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:S…
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
4 Dec 2024
🌍📚📈 People spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours — nearly 275,000 years! — reading English Wikipedia in 2024. The free encyclopedia is answering questions and sparking curiosity around the world every day.
ALT English Wikipedia by the numbers
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Wikimedia Belgium retweeted
18 Dec 2024
20 years ago, we installed our first servers outside the US, providing access for a growing international community.
Now, our servers span the globe, supporting billions of pageviews each month and ensuring that free knowledge is accessible everywhere. ➡️ w.wiki/BJU
ALT On 18 December 2004, the Wikimedia Foundation installs its first servers outside the United States at a data center in France, to improve access to Wikipedia for users living in Europe. Picture depicts a back view of the cluster of Wikimedia servers in Aubervilliers near Paris, France, installed on 18 December 2004.
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