On Monday 12 May 2025, the second year of the course Writing Wikipedia – Creating Encyclopedic Content (details on the faculty’s website), which was intended for students of the Department of Information Studies and Librarianship, ended. The course is supervised by Pavlína Kolínová. Most of the students focused on writing an entry related to their field of study, the topic became important events (IFLA and UNESCO Manifesto on Public Libraries), theoretical topics (digital solitude, scapegoating, protection of library collections) or library personalities (Jiří Kábrt, Jaroslav Drtina, Alžběta Šašinková). A separate entry was also created for the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship itself. The block lectures included contributions by lecturers from Wikimedia ČR, external teachers (Jaroslav Mašek) and an editathon at the Municipal Library in Prague. The course was very popular with students and will continue in the summer semester 2025/2026.
Image: Giulia Forsythe – @brockuniversity Social Media, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons