Create and join activities[edit]

Connect locally

Together with the local organizations and communities you can raise awareness of the heritage elements in your region online. If you are part of a heritage community, safeguarding organization or Wikimedia affiliate, get together and see what you can do together!

Check out the contacts page to find your local contacts or contact us to get started with the introductions. You can also find answers to common questions of focal points and Wikimedia affiliates.

Find contacts

Start organizing

You can choose the way to work together and the schedule that best suits you. Here's a list of ideas for activities, you can also add your ideas to the list.

Once you are ready to start organizing activities, create a space for your local or thematic team on these pages. Add activities and information, and prepare to showcase your activities online.

Start organizing

Help making more living heritage visible online

The heritage elements can be made visible by adding basic information about them in Wikidata. Can you help make available necessary pieces of information in your country?

Opening content

Participate on Wikimedia projects

You can already start working with the existing data about the living heritage elements. Browse the heritage elements and enrich their data on Wikidata: translate their labels and descriptions, link to other existing data or add images.

Work on wiki

Join the planning meetings

If you wish to participate in the global coordination of the project, you can join the regular open meetings. See the upcoming meetings and subscribe to the meetings calendar to be invited to them regularly.

Meetings

Join volunteer teams[edit]

Ethical sharing team

The group supports the ethical sharing coordinator with their expertise and contacts. They participate in creating the program of the webinar.

The group will be lead by the Ethical sharing coordinator.

Join

Editorial team

The Editorial team of the project website participate in the editorial work of the website and help with their expertise and contacts.

The group will be lead by the Campaign coordinator.

Wikimedia support team

The group will support focal points and others in importing inventories data to Wikidata and media materials to Wikimedia Commons. Some of them focus on the upload workflow on Wikimedia Commons to take into account community consent. They can give advise on open licensing and questions of data protection.

Join