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Introduction[edit]

Objectives[edit]

  1. Encourage cultural enthusiasts, practitioners and GLAM professionals to edit and participate in Wiki projects
  2. Create and expand content about art, history and cultural movements in various languages, with a focus on South Asia
  3. Use Wikipedia to enable and strengthen the cultural community to make knowledge about culture and arts open, accessible and available to everyone.

Activities[edit]

Past Activities:

  • March-April (every year) : Art+Feminism editathons with GLAMs based in India
  • School Education pilot project : 'The Grand Trunk Road' -- expanding and creating articles about monuments on the Grand Trunk Road in India.
  • April / November (pilot) : Indian Heritage Online - Uploading open-licensed content featuring Indian monuments and sites to Wikimedia Commons.
  • August: Wiki Loves Museums India 2022 - On the occasion of India's 75th year of Independence, a photo contest was organised to photograph museum collections that celebrate the stories of India.
  • November (every year) Open Knowledge Fellowship 2022 - A project with the objective of creating (and expanding) representation of India’s art and museum collections on various Wiki Projects (wikipedia, commons, Wikidata)

Planned Activities :

  • Open Knowledge Fellowship 2023-24
  • Indian Heritage Online contest - Wiki Asian Month
  • THL Museum Weekends
  • Art+Feminism editathons
  • Image Description campaigns
  • School Engagement : Wiki x History and Arts (continue the Grand Trunk Road project by expanding it across Bangladesh and Pakistan).
  • Post-colonial history, history of art based editathons.

History[edit]

Since hosting our first editathon in 2017 as part of Art+Feminism, we have trained and sensitised hundreds of cultural enthusiasts and practitioners in using & editing Wikipedia to close the knowledge gaps related to South Asian women. We have regularly hosted campaigns and editathons, especially with India's museums and enabled them to add their collections to Commons; we have also worked on identifying Asian collections published by international GLAMs that have not been added to Commons. Towards the same, our Indian Heritage Online campaign added 1700+ images from collections to Commons. We also developed The Heritage Lab Open website to enable editing Commons for captions in different languages.

We are proud to have initiated Wiki Loves Museums in India and of executing the first Open Knowledge Fellowship; as a result, GLAMs we partner with have successfully had a close look at the WiR program.

Through partnerships with schools and universities, we have also been able to introduce Wiki-based projects as part of digital humanities learning.

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