An initiative by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Wikimedia Switzerland wants to help save Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage. And anyone can support from their own laptop. In this interview, the ICOM team talks about the project and the situation in Afghanistan.
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Securing access to cultural heritage is a central concern of Wikimedia - and the digitized copies of collections in museums are one of the prerequisites for free knowledge - for example in Wikipedia. How to handle objects from the colonial past is of particular importance in this context. Part 2 of a series of blog posts.
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For the Wikimedia movement, the strategic focus of its work until 2030 is on “Knowledge Equity“. The aim is to remove social, political and technical barriers in order to enable everyone to use and create Free Knowledge. But how should this be realized? And what exactly does “Knowledge Equity” mean?
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This year, the annual meeting of the Wikimedia community will take place online on August 13-17th 2021. The theme of the gathering will be 20 years of Wikipedia. The program consists of four tracks, the unconference and on-demand events. We collected some useful information for you.
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Interview with Wikipedian Nikolina Šepić about her outstanding commitment to Wikipedia and #1lib1ref
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Wikidata celebrated its 8th birthday, and as every year the decentralized birthday celebrations brought together a community from all around the globe. This year, the community experimented with a new format: a 24 hours-long online call with different workshops and talks.
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Happy Birthday, Wikidata! The open knowledge base is turning eight. Since it came into being, the project developed by Wikimedia Deutschland in intensive collaboration with an international community has made enormous progress. In the following interview, Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata product manager, talks about Wikidata’s beginnings, milestones and plans for the future.
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OPEN!NEXT is a research project funded by the European Union that researches and promotes open hardware. It is intended to help users and companies to create hardware collaboratively and on the basis of open standards. Wikimedia Deutschland is one of the project partners.
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The Wikidata community strives to improve the quality of its data and to balance its coverage. The application ProWD is a tool that detects data gaps and imbalances in Wikidata. In the following interview, Nadyah Hani and Refo Ilmiya, who worked on the tool as their final thesis in computer science, explain how ProWD fills the gaps.
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In July the online language conference Celtic Knot 2020 took place. Organised by Wikimedia UK and WIkimedia Ireland, and supported by Wikimedia Germany, the conference was a forum for the support of Wikipedias in minority languages. The conference brought together 60 participants who share a passion for language on the Wikimedia projects and the ways in which Wikidata helps strengthen these.
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Ah, to be the Visiting Wikimedian! Being in its fifth year, I believe this role has been sufficiently explained by my predecessors so perhaps what remains is to share with you my experience.
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In June, the virtual Wikidata weekend took place where 30 members of the Wikidata community met to get to know Wikidata and support each other in programming with open data. We introduce some of the participants and their projects.
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Wiki Loves Pride! The vision of Wikimedia is a world where every single person can free share in the sum …
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Wikibase is the free and customizable knowledge base that drives Wikidata. It’s perfect for setting up open archives that serve GLAM institutions*, libraries and databases for scientists as well as anyone else working with large datasets. To make installing and setting up Wikibase easier, we’ve added a lot of new information on our Wikibase website to help users with the process.
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The murder of George Floyd has caused shock and protests worldwide. Racism, discrimination and institutionalized violence are also major problems in Germany. Wikimedia Germany supports the Wikimedia Foundation's initiative on Black Lives Matter and is committed to justice and free access to information for all.
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