Istanbul Bilgi University Wikipedia Student Club
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İstanbul Bilgi University Wikipedia Student Club (BİLGİviki or BİLGİ Wikipedia Student Club; Turkish: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Vikipedi Öğrenci Kulübü) is a student club established at İstanbul Bilgi University in Türkiye. The headquarters of the student club is the santralistanbul Campus in Eyüpsultan, Istanbul.
The student club's mission is to encourage students to contribute to all Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia, to support Creative Commons licensed content production and to use correct resources.
As of September 2023, the club was officially established after completing the necessary procedures.
Social media: Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), Threads, Flickr
Goals[edit]
As BİLGİ Wikipedia Student Club, our goals are as follows:
- We aim to encourage students to contribute to Wikipedia based on the knowledge they have on the topics they wish, after learning the rules of writing, verifying and accessing the right sources, not just reading, Wikipedia, which is open source and freely licensed.
- Gaining a culture of cooperation and sharing.
- To inform students about free licenses.
- Collaborations on youth and student issues with the Wikimedia CEE Hub Youth Group and other Wikipedia Student Clubs around the world.
Activities[edit]
- Wikipedia 201 Education Program for Advanced Users in Turkey
- Edit-a-thons (November 2023 and future)
- Photo Contest (in 2024)
- Collaboration with Student Wikipedian Community in Waseda University Tokyo (part of Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship Project)
Latest news[edit]
- Meeting with Auezov University Wikipedia Community (February 22, 2024)
- Meeting with Senaki WikiClub (January 30, 2024)
- Japan-Türkiye Friendship Online meeting 20 January 2024
- Japan-themed edit-a-thon was held in Türkiye, hosted by BİLGİ Wikipedia Student Club
- Friendship between Wikipedia Student Clubs in Türkiye and Japan
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This student club is supported by the Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey.
Student clubs were established to increase the number of students interested in Wikimedia Projects in academic institutions in Türkiye and to provide students with open knowledge awareness. Visit the page for information about clubs.