Wikipedia:Benelux Education Program/Maastricht University

Since 2014, various activities and courses have been taking place in collaboration among users from Wikipedia, Wikimedia Nederland, and Maastricht University (UM). This page aims to provide a comprehensive overview of all the Wikipedia activities organised at the university as part of the Wikipedia Education Program.

2024

Wikidata workshop in The Plant at FASoS in October 2024

January 2024 - Course Historic Beer Recreations and Archival Herbal Books (documentation)
Spring 2024 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia in groups (documentation)
Spring/Summer 2024 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation)
September 2024 - Maastricht University Library donates 1890 files from 13 digitalised books of the Special Collection to Wikimedia Commons with the 20th birthday of Wikimedia Commons. (1890 images, Instagram post^archived, Dutch press release of Wikimedia Nederland^{archived/archived})
15 October 2024 - Workshop: Navigating the World of Wikidata for Research, Science, and Cultural Heritage with the Twelfth Birthday of Wikidata in The Plant at FASoS, Grote Gracht 76 (event page^(archived)/documentation on Wikidata/presentation/photos/Linkedin message^(archived))
October/November 2024 - Maastricht University Library donates 273 scans of the book Scrutinium Physico-Medicum by Athanasius Kircher to Wikimedia Commmons as part of the Maand van de Geschiedenis (Month of History). (Kircher S.J.: fact or fiction?^archived)

2023

January 2023 - Course as part of the project Opening up old books: investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht (documentation)
Spring 2023 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia in groups (documentation)
Spring/Summer 2023 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation)

2022

January 2022 - Course as part of the project Opening up old books: investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht (documentation)
January 2022 - Wikipedia assignment as part of the course What is Research? at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FaSOS) (documentation)
8 March 2022 - FASoS Wikithon in honour of Women’s Day, on 8 March (Announcement in FASoSweekly ^{archived/archived}) (documentation)
Spring 2022 - Marble class of FASOS (documentation)
Spring 2022 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia in groups (documentation)
Spring/Summer 2022 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation)

2021

January 2021 - Course as part of the project Opening up old books: investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht (documentation)
January 2021 - Wikipedia assignment as part of the course What is Research? at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FaSOS) (documentation)
Spring 2021 - Marble class of FASOS (documentation)
Spring 2021 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia in groups (documentation)
May 2021 - Course Digital Professional Communication with students of the University College Venlo (documentation)
Spring/Summer 2021 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation)

2020

January 2020 - Wikipedia assignment as part of the course What is Research? at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FaSOS) (documentation)
Spring 2020 - Marble class of FASOS (documentation)
Spring 2020 - Wikipedia introduction for the students from the block Digital Professional Communication (documentation)
Spring 2020 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia in groups (documentation)
Spring/Summer 2020 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation)

2019

January 2019 - Course as part of the project Opening up old books: investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht (documentation | photos)
4 February 2019 - Workshop 1Lib1Ref (documentation | photos)
Spring 2019 - Marble class of FASOS (documentation)
22 March 2019 - Organiser of Researcher meets Curator together with Stichting Academisch Erfgoed and Huygens ING (website ^(webarchive) | UM website ^(webarchive) | UM website ^(webarchive) | Wikidata item | photos)

Spring 2019 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia in groups (documentation)
Spring 2019 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation)

2018

1 February 2018 - Workshop 1Lib1Ref (documentation)

Spring 2018 - 4 marble classes of FASOS (documentation)

Spring 2018 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia in groups (documentation)

Spring 2018 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation)

2017

February 2017 - Course On Expedition. (documentation)
- 22 February 2017 - Course day in university library as part of course (AWossink & Romaine)
Spring 2017 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia (documentation)
- 29 March 2017 - Introduction to the students

April-May 2017 - Students of Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience writing article on Wikipedia: Historical Book Review (documentation | images)
- 19 April 2017 - Meeting 1
- 26 April 2017 - Meeting 2 - book discussion + introduction in Wikipedia/Wikimedia
- 3 May 2017 - Meeting 3 - discussion + reviewing existing examples
- 10 May 2017 - Meeting 4 - general feedback about written articles
- 17 May 2017 - Meeting 5

Spring 2017 - Course Style and Modernity with introduction in university library and Wikipedia/Wikimedia (documentation) (photos) (Romaine)
- 8 May 2017 - In three sessions for three student groups introduction in Wikipedia/Wikimedia (Romaine)

2016

March-June 2016 - Course On Expedition as part of bachelor of students (documentation | photos)
- 16 March 2016 - Course day in university library as part of course (AWossink & Romaine)
- 25 May 2016 - Course day in university library as part of course (Romaine & Dick Bos)

November 2016 - "Be Bold": Knowledge Sharing on Wikipedia is part of the "Sharing Culture" module in the Master Media Culture (project page) (Romaine)
- 11 November - first session with introduction and start
- 30 November - second session in what the articles of the students are discussed and judged

2015

16 January 2015 - Lecture by Jimmy Wales for students
16 January 2015 - 39e Dies Natalis with awarding honory doctorate to Jimmy Wales and Frans Timmermans + drink afterwards (photos)
February - June 2015 - Course On Expedition as part of bachelor of students (Dutch info | English info | photos)
- 6 May 2015 - Course day in university library as part of course (Dick Bos, FrankTMeijer, Romaine & Taketa)
- 3 June 2015 - Course day in university library as part of course + drink afterwards (Dick Bos, WeeJeeVee & Romaine)

November - December 2015 - 2x 3 course days for students of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the Grote Gracht (info | photos)
November - December 2015 - 3 wikicafés in the former Tapijnkazerne (open for all students and staff) (photos)
- Under the guidance of experienced Wikipedia users you can work here on articles and/or drop by to ask questions about Wikipedia.
- Dates: 10 November (Tuesday), 17 November (Tuesday) and 4 December (Friday)
- Location: Tapijn Learning Spaces, Tapijn Kazerne 3, room 0.003

2014

5 February 2014 - Wiki course in university library (Randwyck), open for all students and employees (Taketa) (d)
19 February 2014 - Wiki course in university library (Randwyck), open for all students and employees (Taketa & Romaine) (d)
5 March 2014 - Wiki course in university library (Randwyck), open for all students and employees (Taketa & Romaine)
February - June 2014 - Course as part of bachelor of students (info | images)
- 7 May 2014 - Edit-a-thon in university library as part of course (photos) (Spinster, FrankTMeijer & Romaine)

Image donation of more than 200 illustrations from historic travel reports in the Jesuits Collection of the University Library Maastricht, donated to Wikipedia (photos)

Selection of some of the illustrations from historic travel reports from the University Library Maastricht