Wikimedia Belgium has the honour of inviting you to the Freedom of Panorama Launch Reception!

The Belgian Federal Parliament has recently adopted a full Freedom of Panorama legislation. This means that the beauty of Belgium can now freely be depicted on Wikipedia articles and can widely be shared online. The new law comes into force on 15 July 2016.

In order to celebrate the beginning of this new outburst of creativity, we are inviting you to an evening reception where we will show you some of the astonishing images that we can now share, enrich several Wikipedia articles with photographs and share with you our plans for future projects that are now possible.

Hou je van Brussel? Doe dan mee aan de Wikipedia Schrijfweek Brussel. Van 4 tot 17 april 2016.

De Wikipedia Schrijfweek is een week waarin gebruikers van Wikipedia zich richten op een bepaald land. Ze schrijven gezamenlijk over onderwerpen die hen interesseren en die te maken hebben met dat land. Maar er zijn themagerichte en lokale versies van de Schrijfweek. En van 4 tot en met 17 april 2016 is er een Schrijfweek over Brussel.

De Brusselse bibliotheken en UiTinBrussel organiseren een reeks schrijfsessies om de achterstand van Nederlandstalige informatie over aan Brussel gerelateerde onderwerpen op Wikipedia weg te werken. Thema’s genoeg: literatuur, architectuur, kunst, muziek, wetenschap, erfgoed...

Open Belgium is an annual conference about open knowledge, open data and more in Belgium. The conference is held in English and is organised by Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium.

The 2016 edition was held in Antwerp. Three Wikimedia BE team members were present: MADe, DerekvG, Romaine.

Feb 25, 2016  Stefano Caneva and Derek Giroulle will represent Wikimedia Belgium at the KUL-Fablab Photography  Hackathon coorgansied with Europeana
Find the brochures about creative commons on Wikimedia.be  Publications page  find a PDF of our presentation

Some more information on the General Assembly for Saturday. I think it super to have 3 new people that want to join the board.

As we seem to have more board candidates than places in the board, I would like to go over the options.

The Board of Wikimedia Belgium is pleased to invite its esteemed members to attend it's Annual General Assembly Meeting for the Financial Year ended 31 December 2015 which will be convened on Saturday 23 January at 13:00 at

The Agenda of the Meeting is to consider:

Update - applications for Wikimania have closed

A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by
January 9th. To apply, visit the scholarship page.

Have you ever wanted to join the worlds biggest Wikipedia event? But you ou never got selected for a scholarship?
No panic, as this year, the number of (partial) sholarships was increased x10.

Again good financial news for our organisation!

The Wikimedia Foundation, our "mother" organisation, has approved our programme  for the coming six months, and has also approved the associated budget.
This financial support, together with your donations, has three goals:

1. We want Belgian Wikipedians, people interested in free knowledge, and the whole public to know that we exist, and to share
   with them what we do. 
2. We want people that know our organisation to become member.
3. We want our members to become active in our organisation and in the Wikimedia environment.

Do you want to know how the money will be spent? Come to our General Assembly, or join a monthly board meeting.

Good news. HP-Interex Belgium, representing the user community of Hewlett-Packard computers, has supported Wikimedia Belgium with a donation of almost 500 euro.
We thank HP-Interex and Mieken for their support!

Do you also want to support us? Become a member, or support us financially.