Event:Wiki Loves Public Domain/About
Scope
[edit]Wiki Loves Public Domain is an initiative aimed at increasing content from and about creators whose works are in the public domain or are entering it. This project will enrich Wikimedia platforms by focusing on the documentation and promotion of public domain cultural heritage. By doing so, it contributes to the visibility and accessibility of freely usable works and the people behind them.
The initiative has the form of a Wiki Loves-style competition, inspired by successful past campaigns such as Wiki Loves Monuments. The competition is scheduled to run in the last quarter of 2025, engaging the global Wikimedia community in a coordinated effort to celebrate and preserve public domain contributions.
The project is split into activities on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Wiki Loves Public Domain has challenges and competitions for each of these Wiki projects.
Organisations
[edit]Wiki Loves Public Domain is organised and supported by the following organisations.
Wikimedia Nederland
[edit]Wikimedia Nederland is part of the global Wikimedia Movement and supports the volunteers working on Wikipedia and other wiki-websites in the Netherlands.
See: https://www.wikimedia.nl/about-us/
Wikimedia Belgium
[edit]Wikimedia Belgium is part of the global Wikimedia Movement and supports the volunteers working on Wikipedia and other wiki-websites in Belgium
See: https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Belgium
Wikimédia France
[edit]Wikimédia France is part of the global Wikimedia Movement and supports the volunteers working on Wikipedia and other wiki-websites in France.
See: https://www.wikimedia.fr/
Open Nederland
[edit]Open Nederland is a network association that connects open domains in the Netherlands, like Open Educational Resource, Open Source, and also Public Domain.
Meemoo
[edit]Meemoo is a non-profit organisation that, with help from the Flemish Government, is committed to supporting the digital archive operations of cultural, media and government organisations. Together with our partners, we bring the past back to life and prepare it for the future. We safeguard their archive content digitally, and make it accessible and usable.
See: https://meemoo.be/
Other collaborations
[edit]Wikiproject Public Domain in Latin America
[edit]The Wikiproject Dominio Público en América Latina (Public Domain in Latin America) is collaborating on this initiative, supporting the creation of lists of Latin American creators and works who are entering the public domain in 2026.