GLAM/Newsletter/February 2024/Contents/Poland report
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WikiMatejko editing action; The eighth European GLAM Wiki coordinators meet up
The final stage of the WikiMatejko editing action
The WikiMatejko editing action, as part of the GLAM-Wiki collaboration between Wikimedia Poland and National Museum in Krakow, continues for another month. The action engages novices and experienced editors of Wikimedia projects in order to enrich Wikipedia and other sister projects with high-quality content, illustrations and data related to the painter Jan Matejko, his life and work.
In the second stage of the WikiMatejko editing action, which began with a series of training sessions in January 2024, the participants of WikiMatejko focus on creating and developing translations, Wikidata and Open Educational Resources based on content from Wikimedia projects.
The project is an excellent opportunity to seek connections between GLAM-Wiki and Education, so the work on Open Educational Resources is moderated jointly by WMPL staff members Kamila Neuman - Open Culture Manager and Wioletta Matusiak - Open Education and Development Manager.
Another meeting on Open Educational Resources, Wikidata and translation was held in February to provide ongoing support to the action participants and to plan the next steps in creating educational materials based on content from Wikimedia projects. The action participants presented their ideas at the meeting, and potential educational tools possible for creating Open Educational Resources were discussed together.
For Saturday, March 23, we have planned a meeting summarizing the WikiMatejko live edition action at the Cloth Hall of the MNK in Krakow, during which we will summarize the actions and effects of the action and experience the art of Jan Matejko in the Gallery of Polish Art XIX. The event will also be an opportunity for informal talks and a joint celebration of several months of work by Wikimedia volunteers.
Invitation to join WikiMatejko and translate articles to other languages
We continue translating articles to English in order to encourage the international community to translate them into other languages.
If you would like to join the project and translate the articles into other languages please visit a subpage of the project in English, which you can find here. It will feature articles translated into English, and we invite you to translate them into other foreign languages.
We will be pleased if you join the international part of Wikimatejko in this way.
Go ahead and join the project and keep an eye on the page for more articles to be translated, which will appear until mid-March.
If you would like to learn more about WikiMatejko and other GLAM-Wiki activities please contact with Kamila Neuman, Open Culture Manager at Wikimedia Poland.
The eighth European GLAM Wiki coordinators meet up
The eighth meeting of European GLAM Wiki coordinators was held again in February. In the first part of the meeting, the coordinators had the opportunity to listen to a presentation by Sebastian ter Burg, a specialist from the Europeana Foundation, who talked about the Europeana training platform and its potential for developing skills and competencies in the area of digital cultural heritage.
Training.europeana.eu is a platform through which one can learn about a wide variety of topics related to digital cultural heritage. The ever-expanding offering ranges from basic introductions to in-depth information for experts. It offers valuable courses in the area of copyright law, among others, for cultural heritage professionals, users of digital cultural heritage, policy makers, specialists in other data spaces and many other stakeholders.
Meanwhile, Susanna Ånäs of AvoinGLAM summarized the completed Wiki Love Living Heritage campaign.
Wiki Loves Living Heritage is a participatory community initiative that invites heritage practitioners, Wikimedia volunteers and cultural institutions around the world to document and celebrate intangible cultural heritage. Its goal is to combine awareness-raising and documentation efforts-online and in the field-to improve the preservation of intangible heritage around the world. Project website: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage
The meeting of European GLAM-Wiki coordinators has also traditionally been an opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience in the GLAM-Wiki area.
The online meetings of European GLAM-Wiki coordinators were initiated after the September 2022 coordinators' meeting in Prague, organized by Liam Wyatt as part of a series of live meetings. Their purpose is to share knowledge and experiences on an ongoing basis and to build a network to support coordinators in their work in the GLAM-Wiki area. To date, a total of eight online meetings have been held. The team initiating the online meetings and organizing the events includes: Kamila Neuman of Wikimedia Poland, Michelle van Lanschot of Wikimedia Netherlands, and Giovanna Fontenelle of the Wikimedia Foundation.
