User:John Cummings/grant newsletter

UNESCO make content and data available on Wikimedia

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have made over 1000 files available on Wikimedia Commons on a range of subjects and include photographs, illustrations, graphs and videos with many more to come in the coming months. They are also making data on their inscription programmes available on Wikidata including World Heritage, Man and the Biosphere and Global Geoparks.

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  Photographs from the UNESCO image archive
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  UNESCO World Heritage Site photographs
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  Infographics

Open knowledge in education

John Cummings has been working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO funded by a Wikimedia Foundation grant. "I think that Wikimedia has a unique role to play in universal access to education which many organisations are working towards as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Wikimedia has a huge audience and receives over 15 billion page views per month as well as providing information in Google searches, Facebook and other sites. I hope that by working with UNESCO to explore how they can use and contribute to open knowledge projects including Wikimedia it will encourage other intergovernmental organisations to do the same."

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  Illustrations from UNESCO publications
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  Illustrations of data produced by the Global Initative on Out-of-School Children
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  Aid to Basic Education, the amount of bilateral and multilateral aid contributed or received

Wikiproject UNESCO

Wikiproject UNESCO has been created to help people organise improving information on UNESCO programme inscriptions e.g World Heritage Sites and to help navigate and organise sharing of UNESCO media content on Wikimedia projects. It is designed to be accessible for people new to contributing to Wikimedia and covers several of the projects including Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikivoyage. It is structured around activities including writing, translation and sharing media and has clear and simple instructions for all tasks, it has several tools to help people in all languages.

• News B-roll produced by UNESCO
• Great Minds Speak at UNESCO video series
• ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue video series

Get involved

There are several ways to be involved in the project with more opportunities including in person events in the future. Many of the current tasks are essential for setting up further cooperation, currently the most important are:

• Add content shared by UNESCO to Wikipedia articles and other places.
• Help integrate UNESCO data into Wikidata through the Wikidata Mix n' Match lists