User:Lukas Fuchsgruber (WMDE)
About me
I am an art historian and museum researcher based in Berlin. In June 2025 I joined the team Digital Education, Democracy and Culture of Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. as Manager Digital Cultural Heritage.
Before that, I worked for several years as a researcher in a project called Museums and Society - Mapping the Social, conducting a case study on the relevance of digital museum collections for critical museology. My book on this research came out in October 2025 as Museen und die Utopie der Vernetzung (print and open access).
My work
My team's focus is to support cultural practitioners in the German context to use the Wikimedia projects to build Linked Open Data. We achieve this through partnerships, consulting and community support. You can find out more about our work here: https://www.wikimedia.de/projekte/offenekulturdaten/
This user account is used exclusively for edits in Wikimedia projects that I make in my function and/or on behalf and in the name of Wikimedia Deutschland.
Image credit: Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0
Contact me
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Publications
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Critical Wikidata Practice blog, 2026
"Cultural heritage data is not neutral. It is always incomplete, reflecting the power structures and assumptions that have shaped how collections were assembled and documented. We explore how the open knowledge graph Wikidata can provide a platform for addressing these power imbalances and challenging bias. This blog documents our ongoing work around critical Wikidata practice, serving as a log of our collaborations, presentations, workshops and ideas." https://critwikidata.hypotheses.org/
Events
[edit]Upcoming Events
[edit]The brochure "Wikidata in Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken" will be presented by community members at: CAA in Münster, September 17–18, 2026, CHNT31 in Vienna, 11 to 13 November 2026
10. Oktober Workshop: "Spuren hinterlassen – Archivieren von Erinnerungsprojekten" beim Abschlusswochenende von Cultures of Remembrance in Fürstenberg https://cultures-of-remembrance.com/en/event/abschlusswochenende-decolonising-cultures-of-remembrance/#Leaving
23. November 2026 “Knowledge is a Commons: Collective Strategies for Defending Research and Culture” https://shield.tib.eu/events/knowledge-is-a-commons/
27. November 2026 digiS Jahreskonferenz, Worldcafe https://www.digis-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/digis-jahreskonferenzen/vortragende-2026/#tab-tb_h801327-4
Documentation of recent events
[edit]July - September 2026
30.9.–2.10.2026 Köln. Jubiläumstagung des prometheus Bildarchiv: Vortrag "Glaubwürdigkeit im Wikiversum: Vernetztes Wissen und Community-Engagement"
29th September 2026 Open Heritage Roundtable, Paris
22nd September 2026 5pm CET. Online workshop: Archiving. The role of open repositories and Wikidata in archiving websites. Organized by Educat Kollektiv. Announcement - Documentation
21. September 12:00 – 13:00 CET online „KultDig“-Lunch: WikiKult - Offene Kulturdaten. mit Eva Seidlmayer Info & Anmeldung
2 July 2026: Wikidata workshop with students of the seminar "Materialgeschichten. Komposite vormoderne Artefakte und deren transregionale Provenienzen" at TU Berlin. Worked on entries of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin: https://w.wiki/RwTe
April - June 2026
11-12 June 2026: WikiKult Netzwerktreffen, Vorstellung der Handreichung: Folien. Barcamp-Session Kritische Datenmodellierung auf Wikidata, Notizen.
6 June 2026: Wikidata Workshop at the conference "Museums as Monuments to the Colonial Troops?" together with Lucy Patterson
28 May 2026: Wikidata for GLAM presentation for the staff of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
27 May 2026: Wikidata Workshop for the fellows of TheMuseumsLab, together with Lucy Patterson
27 May 2026: Wikidata Workshop bei der Ringvorlesung Digital Art History, TU Berlin
29 April: Vortrag zu Wikidata für Kunstgeschichte und Museologie bei der Ringvorlesung Digital Art History, TU Berlin
January - March 2026:
27–29 March 2026: Art History Loves Wiki 2026, Museum Schnütgen, Köln, Input mit Lucy Patterson zu kritischer Arbeit mit Sammlungsdaten auf Wikidata: Folien (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19454486), Mitschnitt.
3 March 2026 Online Veranstaltung Open Heritage Statement. Slides.
15 January Berlin, Konferenz "Engagierte Kunstgeschichte. Verantwortung, Handlungsspielräume und Relevanz eines Fachs in Zeiten multipler Krisen ", Vortrag: "Kritik im Datenraum. Graph-Theorie für eine digitale kritische Museologie" Mitschnitt
23 January Vienna, Konferenz "Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter" Paneldiskussion (Mitschnitt folgt): https://www.belvedere.at/digitalmuseum2026
December 2025
39C3 in Hamburg, end of December. Two workshops on Wikidata and Colonialism in Data with Cin Pietschmann. https://pretalx.wikimedia.de/39c3-2025/talk/JTYHFA/ https://pretalx.wikimedia.de/39c3-2025/talk/SZMDAU/ in the Free Knowledge Habitat. Support for a participatory semantic graph in the Archiv für zeitgenössische Kulturgeschichte (39C3 Call for Arts program).
November 2025
Input on Wikidata and decentral archives at the workshop Subverting Archival Practices, November 28 2025. Summary on Mastodon.
October 2025
Lightning talk at GLAM Wiki 2025 in Lisbon, October 30 2025: "Modelling data on colonial loot in Wikidata". Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_Wiki_2025_-_Modelling_data_on_colonial_loot_in_Wikidata.pdf Recording: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightning_Talks_Decolonization_%E2%80%94_GLAM_Wiki_Conference_2025.webm
Vortrag bei Zugang Gestalten 23. Oktober 2025: "Commons unter Druck: Digitales Kulturerbe im Spannungsfeld der KI", Mitschnitt: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ZG_2025_Commons_unter_Druck_-_Fuchsgruber.webm Folien: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commons_unter_Druck_-_Digitales_Kulturerbe_im_Spannungsfeld_der_KI._Input_Lukas_Fuchsgruber_(Wikimedia_Deutschland)_Zugang_Gestalten_Oktober_2025.pdf
Wikidata workshop "Data Modelling and Web Content at Risk" at Aarhus University 7-8 October 2025, blogpost: https://cc.au.dk/en/c4cdp/news/show/artikel/data-modelling-and-web-content-at-risk-students-of-the-curating-data-course-explore-digital-preservation-through-wikidata-and-linked-open-data
September 2025
"Linked open data and global collaboration in the Wikimedia movement" (Presentation with Lucy Patterson at a workshop at TU Berlin about https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_TheRoK) Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linked_open_data_and_global_collaboration_in_the_Wikimedia_movement.pdf
June 2025
WikiKult Netzwerktreffen 2025: Dokumentation mit Lucy Patterson: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiKult_Netzwerktreffen_2025_-_Dokumentation.pdf