Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal Library of Belgium/WLA 2016

On Saturday 27 August 2016 a photography session and a Wikipedia writing session (edit-a-thon) is organised at the Royal Library of Belgium as part of Wiki Loves Art in Belgium in 2016. The edit-a-thon is inspired by the 100 Brussels museum days in what 100 masterpieces from Brussels are highlighted. Seven of these 100 artworks are located in the Royal Library in Brussels.

Program

 * 11:00-11:10 welcome at the education unit of the Royal Library
 * 11:10-12:00 tour of the Librarium and behind the scenes
 * 12:00-12:45 lunch, sandwiches
 * 12:45-13:30 introduction Wikipedia/Wikimedia
 * 13:30-15:50 writing session
 * 15:45-16:00 end

Handy links

 * Tutorial
 * Cheatsheet with basic wikisyntax
 * Annotated article
 * Sandbox - generic page where you can test and try
 * Your personal sandbox
 * File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf

Guidelines
The (simplified) guidelines on Wikipedia, resting on the five pillars, include:
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the content that you add must fit in an encyclopedia.
 * Write in a neutral point of view.
 * All content added must be free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute. (copyrights)

Further:
 * Use references to source facts in your article.
 * Sign your messages in talk pages with.

Please note: if you are an employee of the Royal Library, please do not edit the article about the Royal Library to avoid a Conflict of Interest.

Photo contest

 * Website of contest
 * Wiki Loves Art
 * Wiki Loves Art Belgium in 2016 - info page on Commons
 * Category with images uploaded during the photo contest

Please note: upload your images only via the upload link provided on the website of Wiki Loves Art.

Organisation

 * Tobias Hendrickx - KBR
 * Romaine - Wiki Loves Art / Wikimedia Belgium
 * Sam.Donvil - Wiki Loves Art / Packed vzw
 * Lfurter - Wiki Loves Art / Wikimedia Belgium

Suggestions to write about
Below is a list of subjects that can be written newly or translated to another language. Existing articles can be expanded.

Masterpieces
 * Mercator (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Atlas (geography) (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Mercator atlas (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * History of cartography (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Ferraris map (French article / Dutch article / no article in English)
 * Joseph de Ferraris (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * La prostitution et la folie dominent le monde (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * Felicien Rops (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Pornocrates (Pornokrates) (no article in French / no article in Dutch / English article)
 * Les Diaboliques / Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (French article / no article in Dutch / English article)
 * Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (author) (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Melusine (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Histoire de la belle Melusine / (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * Jean d'Arras (author) (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Gheraert (Gerard) Leeu (printer) (no article in French / Dutch article / English article)
 * incunable / incunabel / incunable (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Rembrandt (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Les trois croix (Rembrandt) (French article / no article in Dutch / English article)
 * Etching (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Drypoint (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Gerbert de Montreuil (author) (French article / no article in Dutch / English article)
 * roman de la violette (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * roman de Gérard de Nevers (no article in French / Nederlands artikel / no article in English)
 * Meester van Wavrin (illustrator) (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Jean de Wavrin (patron) (French article / no article in Dutch / English article)
 * Jan van Berry (patron) (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Rimbaud (author) (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Verlaine (author) (French article / Dutch article / English article)

Building/location
 * Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Maurice Houyoux (no article in French / Dutch article / no article in English)
 * Roland Delers (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * Jules Ghobert (no article in French / Dutch article / no article in English)
 * Paleis van Nassau (no French article/ article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * Hertog van Alva (French article / Dutch article / English article)

Collections
 * Museum van de boekdrukkunst (no article in French / Dutch article / no article in English)
 * Chalcographie de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * Librije van Bourgondië (no article in French / Dutch article / no article in English)

Other
 * gravure (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Hans Bol (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Menon (no article in French / Dutch article / English article)
 * La Cuisinière bourgeoise (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * Eugène Ysayi (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Chalcographie/kopergravure/chalcography (French article / Dutch article / English article)
 * Van Hulthem (French article / Dutch article / no article in English)
 * Chronique d'Hainaut (French article / Dutch article / no article in English)
 * Jacques de Guyse (French article / no article in Dutch / English article)
 * Evangelarium van Echternach (no article in French / no article in Dutch / no article in English)
 * Wapenboek Gulden Vlies (French article / Dutch article / no article in English)

Participants

 * Romaine (talk) 00:24, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Soraya (talk) 11:36, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * HCoremans (talk) 11:36, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Hlowagie (talk) 11:37, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Piet Janssens (talk) 11:37, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Vincy.Lacroix (talk) 11:37, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Jacques Ballieu (talk) 11:38, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * IgorGo (talk) 11:38, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Woutedia (talk) 11:49, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Gerard.claeys (talk) 11:49, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * NissiHeather (talk) 11:53, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Daehan (talk) 12:07, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Emerance Nelitine (talk) 12:12, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * TobiasMoMu (talk) 12:23, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Applejuice (talk) 12:28, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Vincy.Lacroix (talk) 12:34, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Julie Bouniton (talk) 13:27, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Results

 * Gerard Leeu (fr)
 * Livre de Gerart comte de Nevers (fr)
 * Histoire de la belle Mélusine (fr)
 * Maître au Dé (fr)
 * De Drie Kruisen (nl)
 * Les Trois Croix (fr) (extended)
 * Royal Library of Belgium (en) (extended)
 * Atlas de Mercator (fr)
 * Roman van Gerard van Nevers (nl)
 * Ferraris map (en) (extended)

By other user, inspired by our session:
 * Die wonderlike vreemde ende schone historie van Melusijnen ende van haren geslachten (nl)
 * Mercator atlas (nl)