Wikimedia talk:About Outreach wiki

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706 - Roman Numerals, (Numbers).

Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?.

2:6 - 6:18, 135 days, (6:19+ to fill out).

*6:19, 6:20 (?)
*6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?)
*6:26 (?)
*6:27 (?)
*6:28 (?)
*6:29 (?)
*6:30 (?)
*7:1 (?)
*7:2 (?)
*7:3 (?)
*7:4 (7:5)

''7:6''

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*202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns.
*202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths.

Current, 202 6617. ($#!+).

*202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria).

''2026619''

== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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707

Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?.

2:6 - 6:18, 135 days, (6:19+ to fill out).

*6:19, 6:20 (?)
*6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?)
*6:26 (?)
*6:27 (?)
*6:28 (?)
*6:29 (?)
*6:30 (?)
*7:1 (?)
*7:2 (?)
*7:3 (?)
*7:4 (7:5)

''7:6''

*202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses.
*202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks.
*202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others.
*202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns.
*202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things.
*202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap.
*202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others.
*202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist.
*202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets.
*202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools.
*202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk.
*202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce.
*202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels.
*202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes.
*202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others.
*202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans.
*202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers.
*202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary.
*202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint.
*202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles.
*202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner.
*202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns.
*202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths.

Current, 202 6617. ($#!+).

*202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria).

''2026619''

== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?.

2:6 - 6:18, 135 days, (6:19+ to fill out).

*6:19, 6:20 (?)
*6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?)
*6:26 (?)
*6:27 (?)
*6:28 (?)
*6:29 (?)
*6:30 (?)
*7:1 (?)
*7:2 (?)
*7:3 (?)
*7:4 (7:5)

''7:6''

*202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses.
*202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks.
*202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others.
*202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns.
*202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things.
*202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap.
*202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others.
*202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist.
*202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets.
*202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools.
*202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk.
*202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce.
*202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels.
*202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes.
*202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others.
*202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans.
*202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers.
*202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary.
*202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint.
*202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles.
*202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner.
*202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns.
*202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths.

Current, 202 6617. ($#!+).

*202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria).

''2026619''

== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?.

2:6 - 6:18, 135 days, (6:19+ to fill out).

*6:19, 6:20 (?)
*6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?)
*6:26 (?)
*6:27 (?)
*6:28 (?)
*6:29 (?)
*6:30 (?)
*7:1 (?)
*7:2 (?)
*7:3 (?)
*7:4 (7:5)

''7:6''

*202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses.
*202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks.
*202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others.
*202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns.
*202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things.
*202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap.
*202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others.
*202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist.
*202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets.
*202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools.
*202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk.
*202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce.
*202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels.
*202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes.
*202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others.
*202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans.
*202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers.
*202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary.
*202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint.
*202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles.
*202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner.
*202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns.
*202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths.

Current, 202 6617. ($#!+).

*202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria).

''2026619''

== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?.

2:6 - 6:18, 135 days, (6:19+ to fill out).

*6:19, 6:20 (?)
*6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?)
*6:26 (?)
*6:27 (?)
*6:28 (?)
*6:29 (?)
*6:30 (?)
*7:1 (?)
*7:2 (?)
*7:3 (?)
*7:4 (7:5)

''7:6''

*202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses.
*202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks.
*202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others.
*202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns.
*202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things.
*202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap.
*202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others.
*202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist.
*202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets.
*202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools.
*202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk.
*202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce.
*202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels.
*202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes.
*202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others.
*202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans.
*202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers.
*202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary.
*202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint.
*202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles.
*202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner.
*202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns.
*202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths.

Current, 202 6617. ($#!+).

*202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria).

''2026619''

== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?.

2:6 - 6:18, 133 days, (6:19+ to fill out).

*6:19, 6:20 (?)
*6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?)
*6:26 (?)
*6:27 (?)
*6:28 (?)
*6:29 (?)
*6:30 (?)
*7:1 (?)
*7:2 (?)
*7:3 (?)
*7:4 (7:5)

''7:6''

*202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses.
*202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks.
*202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others.
*202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns.
*202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things.
*202 6530, Cloths, Flowers Frisun or Soap.
*202 6531, Food Shopping like Party Pies, Waters and Others.
*202 6601, Pairs of Boots, Pillow or Podiatrist.
*202 6602, Plates or Pans, Grated Cheese or Baskets.
*202 6603, Forks, Pans and Other Kitchen Tools.
*202 6604, Cups, Cordial Jug or Strawberry Milk.
*202 6605, Food Shopping like Cans of Coca Cola, Waters, Cordials or Pile of Sauce.
*202 6606, Purses, Lu Papers or Paper Towels.
*202 6607, Candles, Statues or Pizza Boxes.
*202 6608, Cups, Blankets and Others.
*202 6609, Food Shoppibg like Cola Bottles, Sour Cream and Onion Chips or Cans.
*202 6610, Towels, Cloths, Soap or Containers.
*202 6611, Nachos, Apple N Raspberry Codrial or Stationary.
*202 6612, Basket, Electric Bed with Instructions or Paint.
*202 6613, Aerobar, Birthday Cake or Packet of Candles.
*202 6614, Plates, Blankets or even Vacuum Cleaner.
*202 6615, Towels, Cloths or Dressing Gowns.
*202 6616, Smiths Chips, Heater Vents, Stuff for Lasagna or Cloths.

Current, 202 6617. ($#!+).

*202 6618. (Boat Registration Check, Victoria).

''2026619''

== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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Candy Crush Saga Wiki: Tasty Sugar Track Edits Currently Out Of Control (TST), Most Edits were made on 6/23, No New Episodes Will Be Released on 6/24, False?.

2:6 - 6:18, 133 days, (6:19+ to fill out).

*6:19, 6:20 (?)
*6:21, 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25 (?)
*6:26 (?)
*6:27 (?)
*6:28 (?)
*6:29 (?)
*6:30 (?)
*7:1 (?)
*7:2 (?)
*7:3 (?)
*7:4 (?)
*7:5 (7:6)

''7:7''

*202 6525, Pot with Fork and Spoon, Bags with Sunglasses.
*202 6526, Baskets, Tobacco Stuff or Socks.
*202 6527, Food Shopping like Cola Bottles, Cans, Cordial and Others.
*202 6528, Socks, Pairs of Shoes, Dressing Gowns.
*202 6529, Towels, Cubes with Things.
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== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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== interesting decision to have this redirect ==

Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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Hi! I see in history that this decision to have just redirect to [[Main page]]?  

It was done by a user who was very quickly in/up-ranks/out here https://guc.toolforge.org/?by=date&amp;user=Rock+drum 

I wonder if this should be changed sometimes soon and actually describe a bit of history and intention of this wiki - no?  [[User:Zblace|Zblace]] ([[User talk:Zblace|talk]]) 02:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

:Yes indeed, I think it would make sense to develop a page like this further. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 02:22, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:Given the history a rough first draft now. [[User:Pharos|Pharos]] ([[User talk:Pharos|talk]]) 22:35, 17 May 2026 (UTC)</text>
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* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/From the team|From the team]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Africa report|Africa report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report|AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Albania report|Albania report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Argentina report|Argentina report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Armenia report|Armenia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Aruba report|Aruba report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Asia report|Asia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Australia report|Australia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Austria report|Austria report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Basque Country report|Basque Country report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Belgium report|Belgium report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Bhutan report|Bhutan report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Bolivia report|Bolivia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Brazil report|Brazil report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Bulgaria report|Bulgaria report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Canada report|Canada report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Catalan areas report|Catalan areas report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Colombia report|Colombia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Côte d'Ivoire report|Côte d'Ivoire report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Croatia report|Croatia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Czech Republic report|Czech Republic report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Denmark report|Denmark report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Estonia report|Estonia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Egypt report|Egypt report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Europe report|Europe report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Finland report|Finland report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/France report|France report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Germany report|Germany report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Ghana report|Ghana report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Greece report|Greece report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Hungary report|Hungary report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/India report|India report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Indonesia report|Indonesia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Ireland report|Ireland report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Israel report|Israel report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Italy report|Italy report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Kosovo report|Kosovo report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Latvia report|Latvia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Malaysia report|Malaysia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Mexico report|Mexico report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Netherlands report|Netherlands report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/New Zealand report|New Zealand report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Nigeria report|Nigeria report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Macedonia report|North Macedonia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Norway report|Norway report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Philippines report|Philippines report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Poland report|Poland report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Portugal report|Portugal report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Republic of Srpska report|Republic of Srpska report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Republic of Korea report|Republic of Korea report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Romania report|Romania report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Russia report|Russia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Serbia report|Serbia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/South Africa report|South Africa report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Spain report|Spain report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Sweden report|Sweden report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Switzerland report|Switzerland report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Taiwan report|Taiwan report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Tunisia report|Tunisia report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/UAE report|UAE report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Uganda report|Uganda report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/UK report|UK report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Ukraine report|Ukraine report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Uruguay report|Uruguay report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/USA report|USA report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Biodiversity Heritage Library report|Biodiversity Heritage Library report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Special story|Special story]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Open Access report|Open Access report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Content Partnerships Hub report|Content Partnerships Hub report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Memory of the World report|Memory of the World report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report|Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Wikipedia Library report|Wikipedia Library report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Wikidata report|Wikidata report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Wikisource report|Wikisource report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Wiki Loves Living Heritage report|Wiki Loves Living Heritage report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report|Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/WMF GLAM report|WMF GLAM report]]
* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/GLAM Wiki conference report|GLAM Wiki conference report]]
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=== Editathons and excursions ===
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Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences was one of the leading partners of Wikimedia Czech Republic for years. In 2026 this cooperation expanded into several new dimensions, which boosted their role in GLAM programme as well as educational activities.

 We are developing a long-term cooperation with the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) which was initiated in 2023.

The Wikigap edit-a-thon Women in Science was held at the Czech Academy of Sciences headquarters, following successful previous editions in 2023 and 2024. The event was accompanied by a guided tour of the historical building (originally constructed in the 1860s for a savings bank) and an exhibition on Czech dialects in the Science and Art Gallery. This year, FZU Wikipedian Sandwort expanded the red list by adding more than 120 prominent female scientists from various scientific fields in Czechia.

The second edition of Science Month on Wikipedia provided another great opportunity for an edit-a-thon in a scientific environment. In May, we visited one of the FZU facilities, where participants enjoyed a guided tour of the scanning electron microscope laboratory with commentary on research and production of photovoltaic panels. A second group had the opportunity to explore the entire 1920s complex, which features beautiful Art Deco elements.

Both events brought together scientists, Wikipedians, and students, fostering a two-way learning experience - academics learned more about Wikimedia projects, while the general public had a unique opportunity to see where cutting-edge research takes place.

One lesson emerging from GLAM collaborations is that even a relatively small collection of openly licensed images can achieve substantial public reach when used effectively. For example, just 32 images contributed by FZU and subsequently incorporated into Wikipedia articles are now accounting for more than 30,000 page views in a single month.

This also highlights an important point for GLAM partners: uploading images is only the first step. The greater challenge - and where the true impact lies - is identifying relevant articles where these images improve readers’ understanding of the topic. Careful matching of visual material with relevant content can significantly increase both visibility and educational value.

During both Wikigap and Science Month, participants made use of the Czech Academy of Sciences Photobank which releases all its photos under CC BY-SA 4.0 license - thanks to previous efforts of Wikipedian Chmee2.

Another example of this cooperation is that more FZU employees are now contributing to Wikimedia projects directly. A notable instance is the discovery image of the first Czech comet detected in the southern hemisphere. FZU also continues to release more materials on Wikimedia Commons, such as the educational comics about nanoworld (in english).


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=== Sauna &amp; sun ===
[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] was the newest iteration of open cultural heritage -related workshops AvoinGLAM has created. The work started with events organized together with Finnish heritage institutions in the series of Hack4FI – Hack Your Heritage hackathons in 2012–2018.

Covid-19 stopped the 2020 Hack4FI only a day before the launch, giving rise instead to [https://hack4openglam.okf.fi/ Hack4OpenGLAM] online hackathons in the context of the Creative Commons Global Online Summits in 2020–2021.

[[m:AI Sauna|AI Sauna]] in 2024 started the current sauna-related tradition. It gathered open knowledge advocates, Wikimedia developers, Finnish cultural heritage institutions and researchers to discuss the effect of AI on open cultural knowledge while also exploring the possibilities offered by it. 

Oulu Löyly tapped again to the physical power of sauna and sun to bring people together, this time asking how the heritage of even the smallest and most vulnerable communities can survive and remain accessible in the current technological and political climate.

=== What went in ===
These themes and topics nurtured our collaborative work:

==== Culture as a global public good ====
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The underpinning policy question was how culture can be established as a foundational dimension of society. What conditions are needed to ensure that access to cultural heritage, participation in cultural life, and the benefits of knowledge remain open, inclusive, and sustainably safeguarded over time?

'''Brigitte Vézina''' ([[ccorg:|Creative Commons]]) focused her talk [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Closing the gap in equitable access to heritage|''Closing the gap in equitable access to heritage'']] on the barriers that prevent access to public domain heritage online — legal restrictions, paywalls, and cultural heritage laws being misused to extend copyright. She called for international policy action through UNESCO around the [https://openheritagestatement.org/ Open Heritage Statement], framing openness as a structural principle for cultural heritage governance.

'''Matti Hakamäki''' ([https://kansanmusiikki-instituutti.fi/en/ Finnish Folk Music Institute]) in his presentation [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#The Culture Goal – From Necessity to Reality|''The Culture Goal – From Necessity to Reality'']] on [https://culture2030goal.net/ ''Culture2030Goal''] made a complementary argument: that without a dedicated culture goal in the post-2030 UN sustainability framework, other goals on climate, poverty, and social equity cannot be fully achieved, because all of them require shifts in cultural behaviour to succeed.

These perspectives were further grounded in the discussion hosted by '''Sanna Marttila''' ([https://en.itu.dk/ IT University of Copenhagen]), that drew out practical questions of access, participation, and the responsibilities of institutions, governments, and technology companies toward culture as a public good.

==== Heritage at risk ====
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File:Renata Ávila - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Renata Ávila
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'''Mikael Hiltunen''' ([https://hanaholmen.fi/en Hanaholmen]) in his [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Hanaholmen_Heritage|keynote]] presented the [https://hanaholmen.fi/en/hanaholmen-heritage Hanaholmen Heritage program] and [https://hanaholmen.fi/en/events/hanaholmen-heritage-conference conference], a Nordic–Baltic policy initiative on cultural heritage preparedness in the face of conflict, hybrid threats, and geopolitical disruption. He argued for recognizing cultural heritage as critical infrastructure, expanding digitisation as both a preservation and counter-disinformation tool, and establishing a shared Nordic-Baltic cloud for storing heritage materials.

The framing was extended by '''Jan Ainali''' ([https://wikimedia.se/ Wikimedia Sweden]) in a [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Heritage_at_Risk|discussion]] connecting preparedness to open infrastructures and volunteer-driven documentation efforts such as [https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ Wiki Loves Monuments] — and raising the risk that digitization without open licensing simply creates new silos.

The pre-event conversation chaired online by '''Renata Ávila''' ([https://okfn.org/en/ Open Knowledge Foundation]) echoed similar concerns. It explored the [https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/knowledge-as-critical-digital-infrastructure-a-call-to-action-for-a-resilient-future-5e23968b170e ''Knowledge as Critical Digital Infrastructure''] initiative by Open Knowledge Foundation and [[foundationsite:|Wikimedia Foundation]], and framed open knowledge and the digital commons as essential infrastructure for democratic resilience in the context of geopolitical instability, platform dependency, and AI-related risks. The discussion is further documented by Renata in [https://blog.okfn.org/2026/06/24/open-knowledge-and-critical-infrastructure-a-nordic-conversation/ ''Open Knowledge and Critical Infrastructure: a Nordic Conversation''].

==== Sovereign governance of digital heritage ====
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File:Connor Benedict - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Connor Benedict
File:Oulu Löyly Resilience panel.png|Tove Ørsted, Daniel Antal, Deepesha Burse, and Connor Benedict
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The [[m:Oulu_Löyly/Documentation#Resilience|panel discussion]] hosted by '''Connor Benedict''' ([[m:Content Partnerships Hub|Content Partnerships Hub]]) on community resilience opened with examples of heritage brought into the open:

* '''Tove Ørsted''' ([https://www.aalto.fi/fi Aalto University]) introduced the university’s century of architectural measurement drawings, now digitised and used to rebuild burnt homes and churches.
* '''Daniel Antal''' ([https://reprex.nl/ Reprex] / [[m:Wikimédia Magyarország|Wikimedia Hungary]]) presented his work connecting Livonian, Udmort, and other small Finno-Ugric communities to materials held about them in Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian collections.
* '''Deepesha Burse''' ([https://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland]) shared her work helping a Nigerian community document election violence on a Wikibase instance.

The panel asked who decides what gets saved — often already determined without communities knowing, with materials sitting in outside institutions, described in foreign languages, and out of reach for those they concern. Visibility alone is not enough: data must be structured, usable, and governable by communities themselves.

On AI, there was broad agreement that generative systems flatten cultural nuance and put under-represented knowledge at particular risk, making community control over reuse, backed by provenance and structured data, the most promising direction on offer.
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File:Sofie Veramme Oulu Löyly interview.png
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'''Sofie Veramme''' ([https://immaterieelerfgoed.be/nl Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed]) was interviewed for the Oulu Löyly podcast by '''Niina Holappa''' ahead of the event. Her core argument is that data about communities must come from those communities, and that people need to understand what happens to their data online — including the ability to change, opt out, or remove it. She references the [https://www.fairdata.fi/tietoa-fairdatasta/fair-periaatteet/ FAIR] and [https://www.gida-global.org/careprinciples CARE] principles as practical frameworks for this, and highlights the tension between the static nature of data and the living, changing nature of intangible heritage. The podcast will be continued and published later this year.

==== Equipping the cultural commons ====
Oulu Löyly brought together a set of initiatives around a shared vision: that open, federated infrastructure could form the foundation of a genuine cultural commons, where even small and under-resourced communities can contribute their heritage materials on equal terms. The '''Open Culture Fair''' highlighted initiatives ranging from tech to artwork demonstrations and workshops.

'''Jouni Tuominen''' ([http://helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki]) presented the [https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/ ECHOES European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage] (ECCCH) and the [https://echolot-eccch.eu/ ECHOLOT] EU project. Together with [https://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana], the [https://www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/en Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage], and the [https://eosc.eu/ European Open Science Cloud] (EOSC), ECCCH represents Europe's growing infrastructure for discovering, sharing, and collaborating around cultural heritage data — connecting heritage institutions, researchers, and communities across borders.

'''Deepesha Burse''' (Wikimedia Deutschland) presented [https://wikiba.se/ Wikibase] and the broader Wikimedia ecosystem — [https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], [[d:Wikidata:Main_Page|Wikidata]], and [[c:Main_Page|Wikimedia Commons]] — a globally maintained open infrastructure for linked data, images, and knowledge, freely available for anyone to build upon.

The [https://echolot-eccch.eu/ ECHOLOT] project brings these two worlds into direct connection through a federated model: institutions and communities can maintain their own interoperable knowledge bases while contributing to a shared network, without surrendering control or depending on a centralised system, and publish simultaneously to Europeana and Wikimedia platforms with provenance and rights metadata embedded.

'''Jan Ainali''' offered a live demo of [https://www.commonsdb.org/ CommonsDB] for making the rights status of materials verifiable and trustworthy as they travel across systems.

'''Johan Kylander''' presented Finland's national long-term digital preservation services at [https://csc.fi/en/ CSC — Finland's IT Center for Science]. Such infrastructure represents a further opportunity for communities: the computing capacity for sovereign, community-accessible hosting already exists, but bringing it within reach of smaller actors requires political willingness to fund it as shared public infrastructure.

Beyond the infrastructure initiatives, the Open Culture Fair also featured a rich mix of projects, workshops, and demonstrations. Connor Benedict presented the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Content Partnerships Hub|Wikimedia Content Partnerships Hub]]. '''Vertti Luostarinen''' showed [https://peacemachine.eu/ Layers in the Peace Machine], an immersive installation at Oulu City Hall using open-source AI and community memories. '''Lù Chén''' shared her work pluralising the [https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/ Nokia Design Archive] through social remembering. '''Hanna Sipos''' facilitated a workshop on the valuation of AI art. '''Ewen Chardronnet''' presented [https://www.makery.info/en/ Makery's] publications on art, science, and technology. '''Andrew Paterson''' hosted the first in-person meeting of the [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Open Latitudes|Open Latitudes]] network, and Matti Hakamäki conducted a [[m:Oulu_Löyly/Documentation#Culture_Goal_2030_%E2%80%93_from_need_to_reality:_the_opportunities_and_practical_use_of_SDG_18_on_the_ground|hands-on session on Culture as Sustainable Development Goal 18]].

==== North is OK ====
Oulu Löyly brought new energy to Nordic and Baltic collaboration. It marked the launch of [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OK North], a new initiative bringing together open knowledge organizations from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, and Sweden to collaborate and share resources.

The event also coincided with the [[m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026]], and brought the participants together for a joint webinar and meetup.

To top it all off, at the opening of Oulu Löyly, Wikimedia Finland announced that Finnish Wikipedians had been honored with the [https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410845/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information]. Congratulations, Finnish Wikipedia! 
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File:OuluLöyly.jpg|Sauna raft Kesän sauna at the Oulu Sauna Festival

👉 Read the [[GLAM/Newsletter/June_2026/Contents/Finland_report|Finland report about the Northern Europe Wikimedia meetup]]. 
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=== Think &amp; do with mind &amp; body ===
The first day of the '''Open Culture Fair''' with talks, demos and workshops concluded at the [https://kesansauna.fi/saunafestival/ Oulu Sauna Festival] where more than ten temporary saunas lined the Oulu River. The sunny evening hosted a rich program of activities such as '''Naked Truth sauna dialogues''' — a Finnish-Estonian format based on the [https://www.timeoutdialogue.fi/whats-timeout-about/ Erätauko] constructive dialogue method brought to the equalizing environment of the sauna.

=== What came out ===

Next morning, the participants of the '''Think &amp; Do''' organized in groups based on shared concerns about heritage at risk. Each group then worked to agree on a shared mission statement and agreed on the output.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Oral-to-Written|Oral-to-Written]] project addressed how fluent speakers of Saami and other under-resourced languages can contribute knowledge without needing to be fluent writers, surfacing language trauma, trust, and technical barriers as equally important as infrastructure.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#May the Source Be With You|May the Source Be With You]] group took up the reuse question directly, proposing transparency mechanisms — provenance, attribution, and bot identification — so that communities and institutions can trace how their openly shared materials are used, including by AI systems. Open cultural heritage depends on infrastructure that communities can actually use.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities|SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities]] project examined how small community organizations can build and sustain archives with low-cost, low-threshold tools — mapping practical “slots” of infrastructure rather than imposing institutional systems. 

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#ORLA - Open Resource &amp; Learning Assistant|ORLA — the Open Resource &amp; Learning Assistant]] group created a self-assessment tool to help institutions identify their next steps toward open access. The working prototype was built using Claude.

ORLA combines the self-assessment tool with an AI-powered bot that guides users toward relevant resources and can help generate a project plan for moving from closed to open collections. The self-assessment works independently without additional services, while the bot requires an API key. Both are available on GitHub.

[[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Open Latitudes|Open Latitudes]] is an ongoing one-year transdisciplinary network exploring solar-human relations across the Nordic and Baltic region, connected to the [https://liepaja2027.lv/en/ Liepāja 2027 European Capital of Culture] program. The network brings together organizations working with local archives, community art, open knowledge, and environmental themes — including [https://www.pikene.no/ Pikene på Brøn] from Norway, [https://imagininggodzilla.fi/ Imagining Godzilla] from Finland, [https://www.makery.info/en/ Makery] from France, and a knitwear design project by Kerolaina Bula from Latvia. The case example at Oulu Löyly asked how open knowledge and heritage can be part of contemporary and hybrid arts production, with each partner exploring connections to Wikimedia platforms and Creative Commons licensing.
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File:May the Source Be With You image.png|May the Source Be With You implementation journey
File:Oulu Löyly May the Source Be With You.png|What? – So what? – Now what?
File:Oulu Löyly SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities documentation.png|SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities documentation
File:ORLA questionnaire.png|ORLA questionnaire
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==== Our recommendations ====
We have pulled together a set of recommendations that are hosted in the original version of the [https://www.okf.fi/2026/06/28/is-the-sauna-still-hot/ blog post in the Open Knowledge Finland blog]. They encapsulate what was discussed but may be refined over time to better reflect all discussions.

🛡️ Treat open knowledge as critical infrastructure 

📚 Support culture and heritage in order to nurture resilient societies

🤝 Build sustained translocal cooperation

🕸️ Design federated, interoperable knowledge systems 

☁️ Invest in sovereign, open cloud infrastructure 

📝 Secure heritage custodians flexible reuse rights 

⚖️ Strengthen culture's place in global policy

==== Documentation ====
All presentations and work is documented on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Documentation|Documentation]] page. It includes

* [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Talks|Talks]] and [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Discussions|discussions]] with links to presentations and recordings. The captions of the recordings have been proofread, so they can be watched in other languages as well.
* [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Think &amp; Do|Think &amp; Do projects]] with links to slides, recordings of the presentation, project pages on wiki and additional resources.
* The recordings are published on AvoinGLAM’s [https://www.youtube.com/@avoinglam YouTube channel]. Subscribe to stay updated!
* Openly licensed [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Photos|photos]] may be added to the joint Google photo album or a [[c:Category:Oulu_Löyly_photos|Wikimedia Commons category]].
* The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Pinboard|Pinboard]] and the podcast are works-in-progress. There was not enough time to create a representative collection of works highlighting these questions on the Pinboard or interview enough people to produce the podcast series. We intend to continue work with them outside the event documentation. They will be linked from the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Documentation|Documentation]] page when the time is right, and the podcast videos will feature on [http://www.youtube.com/@avoinglam AvoinGLAM’s YouTube page].

=== Thank you! ===
Oulu Löyly was organized by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/AvoinGLAM|AvoinGLAM]] and [http://www.okf.fi/ Open Knowledge Finland] in partnership with [[ccorg:|Creative Commons]], [http://wikimedia.fi/ Wikimedia Finland], [http://wikimedia.ee/ Wikimedia Eesti], [http://wikimedia.se/ Wikimedia Sverige], [https://wikitongues.org/ Wikitongues], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi/ Anarâškielâ servi].

Special shoutout to the team who made the event happen: Sophea, Juliaana, Niina, Joy, Liisi, Marja, Tea, Teemu, Tochi, Tove, and Susanna and the Oulu2026 volunteers!

[https://www.norden.org/en/nordic-council-ministers The Nordic Council of Ministers] supports the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OK North] network initiative and its partners [http://www.opendenmark.dk/ OpenDenmark], [http://www.creativecommons.no/ Creative Commons Norway], [https://okee.ee/ Open Knowledge Estonia], [https://okfn.se/ Open Knowledge Sweden] ja [https://www.creativecommons.se/ Creative Commons Sweden] from the [https://www.nkk.org/en/demos/ Demos] program.

Thank you for collaboration, [https://okfn.org/en/ Open Knowledge Foundation], [https://www.ouka.fi/en/oulu-central-library-saari Oulu Central Library Saari], [https://kesansauna.fi/saunafestival/ Oulu Sauna Festival], [https://kanresta.fi/en/restaurants/cafe-tarina/ Cafe Tarina], [https://uleaborg.luckan.fi/ Luckan Uleåborg] and [https://greensoul.fi/ Green Soul Catering].

The event was made possible with support from the [[foundationsite:|Wikimedia Foundation]]. 

Oulu Löyly was part of the official program of [https://oulu2026.eu/en/ Oulu2026 – Cultural Capital of Europe] and the [https://www.ica.org/international-archives-week/iaw2026/ International Archives Week].

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=== Sauna &amp; sun ===
[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] was the newest iteration of open cultural heritage -related workshops AvoinGLAM has created. The work started with events organized together with Finnish heritage institutions in the series of Hack4FI – Hack Your Heritage hackathons in 2012–2018.

Covid-19 stopped the 2020 Hack4FI only a day before the launch, giving rise instead to [https://hack4openglam.okf.fi/ Hack4OpenGLAM] online hackathons in the context of the Creative Commons Global Online Summits in 2020–2021.

[[m:AI Sauna|AI Sauna]] in 2024 started the current sauna-related tradition. It gathered open knowledge advocates, Wikimedia developers, Finnish cultural heritage institutions and researchers to discuss the effect of AI on open cultural knowledge while also exploring the possibilities offered by it. 

Oulu Löyly tapped again to the physical power of sauna and sun to bring people together, this time asking how the heritage of even the smallest and most vulnerable communities can survive and remain accessible in the current technological and political climate.

=== What went in ===
These themes and topics nurtured our collaborative work:

==== Culture as a global public good ====
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File:Brigitte Vézina - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Brigitte Vézina
File:Matti Hakamäki - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Matti Hakamäki
File:Sanna Marttila - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Sanna Marttila
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The underpinning policy question was how culture can be established as a foundational dimension of society. What conditions are needed to ensure that access to cultural heritage, participation in cultural life, and the benefits of knowledge remain open, inclusive, and sustainably safeguarded over time?

'''Brigitte Vézina''' ([[ccorg:|Creative Commons]]) focused her talk [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Closing the gap in equitable access to heritage|''Closing the gap in equitable access to heritage'']] on the barriers that prevent access to public domain heritage online — legal restrictions, paywalls, and cultural heritage laws being misused to extend copyright. She called for international policy action through UNESCO around the [https://openheritagestatement.org/ Open Heritage Statement], framing openness as a structural principle for cultural heritage governance.

'''Matti Hakamäki''' ([https://kansanmusiikki-instituutti.fi/en/ Finnish Folk Music Institute]) in his presentation [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#The Culture Goal – From Necessity to Reality|''The Culture Goal – From Necessity to Reality'']] on [https://culture2030goal.net/ ''Culture2030Goal''] made a complementary argument: that without a dedicated culture goal in the post-2030 UN sustainability framework, other goals on climate, poverty, and social equity cannot be fully achieved, because all of them require shifts in cultural behaviour to succeed.

These perspectives were further grounded in the discussion hosted by '''Sanna Marttila''' ([https://en.itu.dk/ IT University of Copenhagen]), that drew out practical questions of access, participation, and the responsibilities of institutions, governments, and technology companies toward culture as a public good.

==== Heritage at risk ====
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File:Mikael Hiltunen - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Mikael Hiltunen
File:Jan Ainali - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Jan Ainali
File:Renata Ávila - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Renata Ávila
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'''Mikael Hiltunen''' ([https://hanaholmen.fi/en Hanaholmen]) in his [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Hanaholmen_Heritage|keynote]] presented the [https://hanaholmen.fi/en/hanaholmen-heritage Hanaholmen Heritage program] and [https://hanaholmen.fi/en/events/hanaholmen-heritage-conference conference], a Nordic–Baltic policy initiative on cultural heritage preparedness in the face of conflict, hybrid threats, and geopolitical disruption. He argued for recognizing cultural heritage as critical infrastructure, expanding digitisation as both a preservation and counter-disinformation tool, and establishing a shared Nordic-Baltic cloud for storing heritage materials.

The framing was extended by '''Jan Ainali''' ([https://wikimedia.se/ Wikimedia Sweden]) in a [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Heritage_at_Risk|discussion]] connecting preparedness to open infrastructures and volunteer-driven documentation efforts such as [https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ Wiki Loves Monuments] — and raising the risk that digitization without open licensing simply creates new silos.

The pre-event conversation chaired online by '''Renata Ávila''' ([https://okfn.org/en/ Open Knowledge Foundation]) echoed similar concerns. It explored the [https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/knowledge-as-critical-digital-infrastructure-a-call-to-action-for-a-resilient-future-5e23968b170e ''Knowledge as Critical Digital Infrastructure''] initiative by Open Knowledge Foundation and [[foundationsite:|Wikimedia Foundation]], and framed open knowledge and the digital commons as essential infrastructure for democratic resilience in the context of geopolitical instability, platform dependency, and AI-related risks. The discussion is further documented by Renata in [https://blog.okfn.org/2026/06/24/open-knowledge-and-critical-infrastructure-a-nordic-conversation/ ''Open Knowledge and Critical Infrastructure: a Nordic Conversation''].

==== Sovereign governance of digital heritage ====
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File:Connor Benedict - Oulu Löyly speaker.png|Connor Benedict
File:Oulu Löyly Resilience panel.png|Tove Ørsted, Daniel Antal, Deepesha Burse, and Connor Benedict
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The [[m:Oulu_Löyly/Documentation#Resilience|panel discussion]] hosted by '''Connor Benedict''' ([[m:Content Partnerships Hub|Content Partnerships Hub]]) on community resilience opened with examples of heritage brought into the open:

* '''Tove Ørsted''' ([https://www.aalto.fi/fi Aalto University]) introduced the university’s century of architectural measurement drawings, now digitised and used to rebuild burnt homes and churches.
* '''Daniel Antal''' ([https://reprex.nl/ Reprex] / [[m:Wikimédia Magyarország|Wikimedia Hungary]]) presented his work connecting Livonian, Udmort, and other small Finno-Ugric communities to materials held about them in Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian collections.
* '''Deepesha Burse''' ([https://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland]) shared her work helping a Nigerian community document election violence on a Wikibase instance.

The panel asked who decides what gets saved — often already determined without communities knowing, with materials sitting in outside institutions, described in foreign languages, and out of reach for those they concern. Visibility alone is not enough: data must be structured, usable, and governable by communities themselves.

On AI, there was broad agreement that generative systems flatten cultural nuance and put under-represented knowledge at particular risk, making community control over reuse, backed by provenance and structured data, the most promising direction on offer.
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File:Sofie Veramme Oulu Löyly interview.png
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'''Sofie Veramme''' ([https://immaterieelerfgoed.be/nl Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed]) was interviewed for the Oulu Löyly podcast by '''Niina Holappa''' ahead of the event. Her core argument is that data about communities must come from those communities, and that people need to understand what happens to their data online — including the ability to change, opt out, or remove it. She references the [https://www.fairdata.fi/tietoa-fairdatasta/fair-periaatteet/ FAIR] and [https://www.gida-global.org/careprinciples CARE] principles as practical frameworks for this, and highlights the tension between the static nature of data and the living, changing nature of intangible heritage. The podcast will be continued and published later this year.

==== Equipping the cultural commons ====
Oulu Löyly brought together a set of initiatives around a shared vision: that open, federated infrastructure could form the foundation of a genuine cultural commons, where even small and under-resourced communities can contribute their heritage materials on equal terms. The '''Open Culture Fair''' highlighted initiatives ranging from tech to artwork demonstrations and workshops.

'''Jouni Tuominen''' ([http://helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki]) presented the [https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/ ECHOES European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage] (ECCCH) and the [https://echolot-eccch.eu/ ECHOLOT] EU project. Together with [https://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana], the [https://www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/en Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage], and the [https://eosc.eu/ European Open Science Cloud] (EOSC), ECCCH represents Europe's growing infrastructure for discovering, sharing, and collaborating around cultural heritage data — connecting heritage institutions, researchers, and communities across borders.

'''Deepesha Burse''' (Wikimedia Deutschland) presented [https://wikiba.se/ Wikibase] and the broader Wikimedia ecosystem — [https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], [[d:Wikidata:Main_Page|Wikidata]], and [[c:Main_Page|Wikimedia Commons]] — a globally maintained open infrastructure for linked data, images, and knowledge, freely available for anyone to build upon.

The [https://echolot-eccch.eu/ ECHOLOT] project brings these two worlds into direct connection through a federated model: institutions and communities can maintain their own interoperable knowledge bases while contributing to a shared network, without surrendering control or depending on a centralised system, and publish simultaneously to Europeana and Wikimedia platforms with provenance and rights metadata embedded.

'''Jan Ainali''' offered a live demo of [https://www.commonsdb.org/ CommonsDB] for making the rights status of materials verifiable and trustworthy as they travel across systems.

'''Johan Kylander''' presented Finland's national long-term digital preservation services at [https://csc.fi/en/ CSC — Finland's IT Center for Science]. Such infrastructure represents a further opportunity for communities: the computing capacity for sovereign, community-accessible hosting already exists, but bringing it within reach of smaller actors requires political willingness to fund it as shared public infrastructure.

Beyond the infrastructure initiatives, the Open Culture Fair also featured a rich mix of projects, workshops, and demonstrations. Connor Benedict presented the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Content Partnerships Hub|Wikimedia Content Partnerships Hub]]. '''Vertti Luostarinen''' showed [https://peacemachine.eu/ Layers in the Peace Machine], an immersive installation at Oulu City Hall using open-source AI and community memories. '''Lù Chén''' shared her work pluralising the [https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/ Nokia Design Archive] through social remembering. '''Hanna Sipos''' facilitated a workshop on the valuation of AI art. '''Ewen Chardronnet''' presented [https://www.makery.info/en/ Makery's] publications on art, science, and technology. '''Andrew Paterson''' hosted the first in-person meeting of the [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Open Latitudes|Open Latitudes]] network, and Matti Hakamäki conducted a [[m:Oulu_Löyly/Documentation#Culture_Goal_2030_%E2%80%93_from_need_to_reality:_the_opportunities_and_practical_use_of_SDG_18_on_the_ground|hands-on session on Culture as Sustainable Development Goal 18]].

==== North is OK ====
Oulu Löyly brought new energy to Nordic and Baltic collaboration. It marked the launch of [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OK North], a new initiative bringing together open knowledge organizations from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, and Sweden to collaborate and share resources.

The event also coincided with the [[m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026]], and brought the participants together for a joint webinar and meetup.

To top it all off, at the opening of Oulu Löyly, Wikimedia Finland announced that Finnish Wikipedians had been honored with the [https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410845/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information]. Congratulations, Finnish Wikipedia! 

👉 Read the [[GLAM/Newsletter/June_2026/Contents/Finland_report|Finland report about the Northern Europe Wikimedia meetup]]. 
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=== Think &amp; do with mind &amp; body ===
The first day of the '''Open Culture Fair''' with talks, demos and workshops concluded at the [https://kesansauna.fi/saunafestival/ Oulu Sauna Festival] where more than ten temporary saunas lined the Oulu River. The sunny evening hosted a rich program of activities such as '''Naked Truth sauna dialogues''' — a Finnish-Estonian format based on the [https://www.timeoutdialogue.fi/whats-timeout-about/ Erätauko] constructive dialogue method brought to the equalizing environment of the sauna.

=== What came out ===

Next morning, the participants of the '''Think &amp; Do''' organized in groups based on shared concerns about heritage at risk. Each group then worked to agree on a shared mission statement and agreed on the output.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Oral-to-Written|Oral-to-Written]] project addressed how fluent speakers of Saami and other under-resourced languages can contribute knowledge without needing to be fluent writers, surfacing language trauma, trust, and technical barriers as equally important as infrastructure.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#May the Source Be With You|May the Source Be With You]] group took up the reuse question directly, proposing transparency mechanisms — provenance, attribution, and bot identification — so that communities and institutions can trace how their openly shared materials are used, including by AI systems. Open cultural heritage depends on infrastructure that communities can actually use.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities|SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities]] project examined how small community organizations can build and sustain archives with low-cost, low-threshold tools — mapping practical “slots” of infrastructure rather than imposing institutional systems. 

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#ORLA - Open Resource &amp; Learning Assistant|ORLA — the Open Resource &amp; Learning Assistant]] group created a self-assessment tool to help institutions identify their next steps toward open access. The working prototype was built using Claude.

ORLA combines the self-assessment tool with an AI-powered bot that guides users toward relevant resources and can help generate a project plan for moving from closed to open collections. The self-assessment works independently without additional services, while the bot requires an API key. Both are available on GitHub.

[[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Open Latitudes|Open Latitudes]] is an ongoing one-year transdisciplinary network exploring solar-human relations across the Nordic and Baltic region, connected to the [https://liepaja2027.lv/en/ Liepāja 2027 European Capital of Culture] program. The network brings together organizations working with local archives, community art, open knowledge, and environmental themes — including [https://www.pikene.no/ Pikene på Brøn] from Norway, [https://imagininggodzilla.fi/ Imagining Godzilla] from Finland, [https://www.makery.info/en/ Makery] from France, and a knitwear design project by Kerolaina Bula from Latvia. The case example at Oulu Löyly asked how open knowledge and heritage can be part of contemporary and hybrid arts production, with each partner exploring connections to Wikimedia platforms and Creative Commons licensing.
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==== Our recommendations ====
We have pulled together a set of recommendations that are hosted in the original version of the [https://www.okf.fi/2026/06/28/is-the-sauna-still-hot/ blog post in the Open Knowledge Finland blog]. They encapsulate what was discussed but may be refined over time to better reflect all discussions.

🛡️ Treat open knowledge as critical infrastructure 

📚 Support culture and heritage in order to nurture resilient societies

🤝 Build sustained translocal cooperation

🕸️ Design federated, interoperable knowledge systems 

☁️ Invest in sovereign, open cloud infrastructure 

📝 Secure heritage custodians flexible reuse rights 

⚖️ Strengthen culture's place in global policy

==== Documentation ====
All presentations and work is documented on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Documentation|Documentation]] page. It includes

* [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Talks|Talks]] and [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Discussions|discussions]] with links to presentations and recordings. The captions of the recordings have been proofread, so they can be watched in other languages as well.
* [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Think &amp; Do|Think &amp; Do projects]] with links to slides, recordings of the presentation, project pages on wiki and additional resources.
* The recordings are published on AvoinGLAM’s [https://www.youtube.com/@avoinglam YouTube channel]. Subscribe to stay updated!
* Openly licensed [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Photos|photos]] may be added to the joint Google photo album or a [[c:Category:Oulu_Löyly_photos|Wikimedia Commons category]].
* The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Pinboard|Pinboard]] and the podcast are works-in-progress. There was not enough time to create a representative collection of works highlighting these questions on the Pinboard or interview enough people to produce the podcast series. We intend to continue work with them outside the event documentation. They will be linked from the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Documentation|Documentation]] page when the time is right, and the podcast videos will feature on [http://www.youtube.com/@avoinglam AvoinGLAM’s YouTube page].

=== Thank you! ===
Oulu Löyly was organized by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/AvoinGLAM|AvoinGLAM]] and [http://www.okf.fi/ Open Knowledge Finland] in partnership with [[ccorg:|Creative Commons]], [http://wikimedia.fi/ Wikimedia Finland], [http://wikimedia.ee/ Wikimedia Eesti], [http://wikimedia.se/ Wikimedia Sverige], [https://wikitongues.org/ Wikitongues], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi/ Anarâškielâ servi].

Special shoutout to the team who made the event happen: Sophea, Juliaana, Niina, Joy, Liisi, Marja, Tea, Teemu, Tochi, Tove, and Susanna and the Oulu2026 volunteers!

[https://www.norden.org/en/nordic-council-ministers The Nordic Council of Ministers] supports the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OK North] network initiative and its partners [http://www.opendenmark.dk/ OpenDenmark], [http://www.creativecommons.no/ Creative Commons Norway], [https://okee.ee/ Open Knowledge Estonia], [https://okfn.se/ Open Knowledge Sweden] ja [https://www.creativecommons.se/ Creative Commons Sweden] from the [https://www.nkk.org/en/demos/ Demos] program.

Thank you for collaboration, [https://okfn.org/en/ Open Knowledge Foundation], [https://www.ouka.fi/en/oulu-central-library-saari Oulu Central Library Saari], [https://kesansauna.fi/saunafestival/ Oulu Sauna Festival], [https://kanresta.fi/en/restaurants/cafe-tarina/ Cafe Tarina], [https://uleaborg.luckan.fi/ Luckan Uleåborg] and [https://greensoul.fi/ Green Soul Catering].

The event was made possible with support from the [[foundationsite:|Wikimedia Foundation]]. 

Oulu Löyly was part of the official program of [https://oulu2026.eu/en/ Oulu2026 – Cultural Capital of Europe] and the [https://www.ica.org/international-archives-week/iaw2026/ International Archives Week].

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=== Sauna &amp; sun ===
[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] was the newest iteration of open cultural heritage -related workshops AvoinGLAM has created. The work started with events organized together with Finnish heritage institutions in the series of Hack4FI – Hack Your Heritage hackathons in 2012–2018.

Covid-19 stopped the 2020 Hack4FI only a day before the launch, giving rise instead to [https://hack4openglam.okf.fi/ Hack4OpenGLAM] online hackathons in the context of the Creative Commons Global Online Summits in 2020–2021.

[[m:AI Sauna|AI Sauna]] in 2024 started the current sauna-related tradition. It gathered open knowledge advocates, Wikimedia developers, Finnish cultural heritage institutions and researchers to discuss the effect of AI on open cultural knowledge while also exploring the possibilities offered by it. 

Oulu Löyly tapped again to the physical power of sauna and sun to bring people together, this time asking how the heritage of even the smallest and most vulnerable communities can survive and remain accessible in the current technological and political climate.

=== What went in ===
These themes and topics nurtured our collaborative work:

==== Culture as a global public good ====
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The underpinning policy question was how culture can be established as a foundational dimension of society. What conditions are needed to ensure that access to cultural heritage, participation in cultural life, and the benefits of knowledge remain open, inclusive, and sustainably safeguarded over time?

'''Brigitte Vézina''' ([[ccorg:|Creative Commons]]) focused her talk [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Closing the gap in equitable access to heritage|''Closing the gap in equitable access to heritage'']] on the barriers that prevent access to public domain heritage online — legal restrictions, paywalls, and cultural heritage laws being misused to extend copyright. She called for international policy action through UNESCO around the [https://openheritagestatement.org/ Open Heritage Statement], framing openness as a structural principle for cultural heritage governance.

'''Matti Hakamäki''' ([https://kansanmusiikki-instituutti.fi/en/ Finnish Folk Music Institute]) in his presentation [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#The Culture Goal – From Necessity to Reality|''The Culture Goal – From Necessity to Reality'']] on [https://culture2030goal.net/ ''Culture2030Goal''] made a complementary argument: that without a dedicated culture goal in the post-2030 UN sustainability framework, other goals on climate, poverty, and social equity cannot be fully achieved, because all of them require shifts in cultural behaviour to succeed.

These perspectives were further grounded in the discussion hosted by '''Sanna Marttila''' ([https://en.itu.dk/ IT University of Copenhagen]), that drew out practical questions of access, participation, and the responsibilities of institutions, governments, and technology companies toward culture as a public good.

==== Heritage at risk ====
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'''Mikael Hiltunen''' ([https://hanaholmen.fi/en Hanaholmen]) in his [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Hanaholmen_Heritage|keynote]] presented the [https://hanaholmen.fi/en/hanaholmen-heritage Hanaholmen Heritage program] and [https://hanaholmen.fi/en/events/hanaholmen-heritage-conference conference], a Nordic–Baltic policy initiative on cultural heritage preparedness in the face of conflict, hybrid threats, and geopolitical disruption. He argued for recognizing cultural heritage as critical infrastructure, expanding digitisation as both a preservation and counter-disinformation tool, and establishing a shared Nordic-Baltic cloud for storing heritage materials.

The framing was extended by '''Jan Ainali''' ([https://wikimedia.se/ Wikimedia Sweden]) in a [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Heritage_at_Risk|discussion]] connecting preparedness to open infrastructures and volunteer-driven documentation efforts such as [https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ Wiki Loves Monuments] — and raising the risk that digitization without open licensing simply creates new silos.

The pre-event conversation chaired online by '''Renata Ávila''' ([https://okfn.org/en/ Open Knowledge Foundation]) echoed similar concerns. It explored the [https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/knowledge-as-critical-digital-infrastructure-a-call-to-action-for-a-resilient-future-5e23968b170e ''Knowledge as Critical Digital Infrastructure''] initiative by Open Knowledge Foundation and [[foundationsite:|Wikimedia Foundation]], and framed open knowledge and the digital commons as essential infrastructure for democratic resilience in the context of geopolitical instability, platform dependency, and AI-related risks. The discussion is further documented by Renata in [https://blog.okfn.org/2026/06/24/open-knowledge-and-critical-infrastructure-a-nordic-conversation/ ''Open Knowledge and Critical Infrastructure: a Nordic Conversation''].

==== Sovereign governance of digital heritage ====
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The [[m:Oulu_Löyly/Documentation#Resilience|panel discussion]] hosted by '''Connor Benedict''' ([[m:Content Partnerships Hub|Content Partnerships Hub]]) on community resilience opened with examples of heritage brought into the open:

* '''Tove Ørsted''' ([https://www.aalto.fi/fi Aalto University]) introduced the university’s century of architectural measurement drawings, now digitised and used to rebuild burnt homes and churches.
* '''Daniel Antal''' ([https://reprex.nl/ Reprex] / [[m:Wikimédia Magyarország|Wikimedia Hungary]]) presented his work connecting Livonian, Udmort, and other small Finno-Ugric communities to materials held about them in Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian collections.
* '''Deepesha Burse''' ([https://www.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland]) shared her work helping a Nigerian community document election violence on a Wikibase instance.

The panel asked who decides what gets saved — often already determined without communities knowing, with materials sitting in outside institutions, described in foreign languages, and out of reach for those they concern. Visibility alone is not enough: data must be structured, usable, and governable by communities themselves.

On AI, there was broad agreement that generative systems flatten cultural nuance and put under-represented knowledge at particular risk, making community control over reuse, backed by provenance and structured data, the most promising direction on offer.
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'''Sofie Veramme''' ([https://immaterieelerfgoed.be/nl Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed]) was interviewed for the Oulu Löyly podcast by '''Niina Holappa''' ahead of the event. Her core argument is that data about communities must come from those communities, and that people need to understand what happens to their data online — including the ability to change, opt out, or remove it. She references the [https://www.fairdata.fi/tietoa-fairdatasta/fair-periaatteet/ FAIR] and [https://www.gida-global.org/careprinciples CARE] principles as practical frameworks for this, and highlights the tension between the static nature of data and the living, changing nature of intangible heritage. The podcast will be continued and published later this year.

==== Equipping the cultural commons ====
Oulu Löyly brought together a set of initiatives around a shared vision: that open, federated infrastructure could form the foundation of a genuine cultural commons, where even small and under-resourced communities can contribute their heritage materials on equal terms. The '''Open Culture Fair''' highlighted initiatives ranging from tech to artwork demonstrations and workshops.

'''Jouni Tuominen''' ([http://helsinki.fi/ University of Helsinki]) presented the [https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/ ECHOES European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage] (ECCCH) and the [https://echolot-eccch.eu/ ECHOLOT] EU project. Together with [https://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana], the [https://www.dataspace-culturalheritage.eu/en Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage], and the [https://eosc.eu/ European Open Science Cloud] (EOSC), ECCCH represents Europe's growing infrastructure for discovering, sharing, and collaborating around cultural heritage data — connecting heritage institutions, researchers, and communities across borders.

'''Deepesha Burse''' (Wikimedia Deutschland) presented [https://wikiba.se/ Wikibase] and the broader Wikimedia ecosystem — [https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], [[d:Wikidata:Main_Page|Wikidata]], and [[c:Main_Page|Wikimedia Commons]] — a globally maintained open infrastructure for linked data, images, and knowledge, freely available for anyone to build upon.

The [https://echolot-eccch.eu/ ECHOLOT] project brings these two worlds into direct connection through a federated model: institutions and communities can maintain their own interoperable knowledge bases while contributing to a shared network, without surrendering control or depending on a centralised system, and publish simultaneously to Europeana and Wikimedia platforms with provenance and rights metadata embedded.

'''Jan Ainali''' offered a live demo of [https://www.commonsdb.org/ CommonsDB] for making the rights status of materials verifiable and trustworthy as they travel across systems.

'''Johan Kylander''' presented Finland's national long-term digital preservation services at [https://csc.fi/en/ CSC — Finland's IT Center for Science]. Such infrastructure represents a further opportunity for communities: the computing capacity for sovereign, community-accessible hosting already exists, but bringing it within reach of smaller actors requires political willingness to fund it as shared public infrastructure.

Beyond the infrastructure initiatives, the Open Culture Fair also featured a rich mix of projects, workshops, and demonstrations. Connor Benedict presented the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Content Partnerships Hub|Wikimedia Content Partnerships Hub]]. '''Vertti Luostarinen''' showed [https://peacemachine.eu/ Layers in the Peace Machine], an immersive installation at Oulu City Hall using open-source AI and community memories. '''Lù Chén''' shared her work pluralising the [https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/ Nokia Design Archive] through social remembering. '''Hanna Sipos''' facilitated a workshop on the valuation of AI art. '''Ewen Chardronnet''' presented [https://www.makery.info/en/ Makery's] publications on art, science, and technology. '''Andrew Paterson''' hosted the first in-person meeting of the [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Open Latitudes|Open Latitudes]] network, and Matti Hakamäki conducted a [[m:Oulu_Löyly/Documentation#Culture_Goal_2030_%E2%80%93_from_need_to_reality:_the_opportunities_and_practical_use_of_SDG_18_on_the_ground|hands-on session on Culture as Sustainable Development Goal 18]].

==== North is OK ====
Oulu Löyly brought new energy to Nordic and Baltic collaboration. It marked the launch of [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OK North], a new initiative bringing together open knowledge organizations from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, and Sweden to collaborate and share resources.

The event also coincided with the [[m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026]], and brought the participants together for a joint webinar and meetup.

To top it all off, at the opening of Oulu Löyly, Wikimedia Finland announced that Finnish Wikipedians had been honored with the [https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410845/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information]. Congratulations, Finnish Wikipedia! 

👉 Read the [[GLAM/Newsletter/June_2026/Contents/Finland_report|Finland report about the Northern Europe Wikimedia meetup]]. 
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=== Think &amp; do with mind &amp; body ===
The first day of the '''Open Culture Fair''' with talks, demos and workshops concluded at the [https://kesansauna.fi/saunafestival/ Oulu Sauna Festival] where more than ten temporary saunas lined the Oulu River. 

The sunny Northern evening featured a rich program of activities, including '''Naked Truth sauna dialogues''', a format that combines the friendly, equal, and respectful atmosphere of the sauna with the [https://www.timeoutdialogue.fi/whats-timeout-about/ Erätauko] method for constructive dialogue. The format was envisioned for Tartu's European Capital of Culture program in 2025 as a Finnish-Estonian collaboration.

=== What came out ===

Next morning, the participants of the '''Think &amp; Do''' organized in groups based on shared concerns about heritage at risk. Each group then worked to agree on a shared mission statement and agreed on the output.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Oral-to-Written|Oral-to-Written]] project addressed how fluent speakers of Saami and other under-resourced languages can contribute knowledge without needing to be fluent writers, surfacing language trauma, trust, and technical barriers as equally important as infrastructure.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#May the Source Be With You|May the Source Be With You]] group took up the reuse question directly, proposing transparency mechanisms — provenance, attribution, and bot identification — so that communities and institutions can trace how their openly shared materials are used, including by AI systems. Open cultural heritage depends on infrastructure that communities can actually use.

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities|SPECS for Low-Tech Infra for Communities]] project examined how small community organizations can build and sustain archives with low-cost, low-threshold tools — mapping practical “slots” of infrastructure rather than imposing institutional systems. 

The [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#ORLA - Open Resource &amp; Learning Assistant|ORLA — the Open Resource &amp; Learning Assistant]] group created a self-assessment tool to help institutions identify their next steps toward open access. The working prototype was built using Claude.

ORLA combines the self-assessment tool with an AI-powered bot that guides users toward relevant resources and can help generate a project plan for moving from closed to open collections. The self-assessment works independently without additional services, while the bot requires an API key. Both are available on GitHub.

[[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Open Latitudes|Open Latitudes]] is an ongoing one-year transdisciplinary network exploring solar-human relations across the Nordic and Baltic region, connected to the [https://liepaja2027.lv/en/ Liepāja 2027 European Capital of Culture] program. The network brings together organizations working with local archives, community art, open knowledge, and environmental themes — including [https://www.pikene.no/ Pikene på Brøn] from Norway, [https://imagininggodzilla.fi/ Imagining Godzilla] from Finland, [https://www.makery.info/en/ Makery] from France, and a knitwear design project by Kerolaina Bula from Latvia. The case example at Oulu Löyly asked how open knowledge and heritage can be part of contemporary and hybrid arts production, with each partner exploring connections to Wikimedia platforms and Creative Commons licensing.
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File:ORLA questionnaire.png|ORLA questionnaire
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==== Our recommendations ====
We have pulled together a set of recommendations that are hosted in the original version of the [https://www.okf.fi/2026/06/28/is-the-sauna-still-hot/ blog post in the Open Knowledge Finland blog]. They encapsulate what was discussed but may be refined over time to better reflect all discussions.

🛡️ Treat open knowledge as critical infrastructure 

📚 Support culture and heritage in order to nurture resilient societies

🤝 Build sustained translocal cooperation

🕸️ Design federated, interoperable knowledge systems 

☁️ Invest in sovereign, open cloud infrastructure 

📝 Secure heritage custodians flexible reuse rights 

⚖️ Strengthen culture's place in global policy

==== Documentation ====
All presentations and work is documented on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Documentation|Documentation]] page. It includes

* [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Talks|Talks]] and [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Discussions|discussions]] with links to presentations and recordings. The captions of the recordings have been proofread, so they can be watched in other languages as well.
* [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Think &amp; Do|Think &amp; Do projects]] with links to slides, recordings of the presentation, project pages on wiki and additional resources.
* The recordings are published on AvoinGLAM’s [https://www.youtube.com/@avoinglam YouTube channel]. Subscribe to stay updated!
* Openly licensed [[m:Oulu Löyly/Documentation#Photos|photos]] may be added to the joint Google photo album or a [[c:Category:Oulu_Löyly_photos|Wikimedia Commons category]].
* The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Pinboard|Pinboard]] and the podcast are works-in-progress. There was not enough time to create a representative collection of works highlighting these questions on the Pinboard or interview enough people to produce the podcast series. We intend to continue work with them outside the event documentation. They will be linked from the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Oulu Löyly/Documentation|Documentation]] page when the time is right, and the podcast videos will feature on [http://www.youtube.com/@avoinglam AvoinGLAM’s YouTube page].

=== Thank you! ===
Oulu Löyly was organized by [[m:Special:MyLanguage/AvoinGLAM|AvoinGLAM]] and [http://www.okf.fi/ Open Knowledge Finland] in partnership with [[ccorg:|Creative Commons]], [http://wikimedia.fi/ Wikimedia Finland], [http://wikimedia.ee/ Wikimedia Eesti], [http://wikimedia.se/ Wikimedia Sverige], [https://wikitongues.org/ Wikitongues], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi/ Anarâškielâ servi].

Special shoutout to the team who made the event happen: Sophea, Juliaana, Niina, Joy, Liisi, Marja, Tea, Teemu, Tochi, Tove, and Susanna and the Oulu2026 volunteers!

[https://www.norden.org/en/nordic-council-ministers The Nordic Council of Ministers] supports the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OK North] network initiative and its partners [http://www.opendenmark.dk/ OpenDenmark], [http://www.creativecommons.no/ Creative Commons Norway], [https://okee.ee/ Open Knowledge Estonia], [https://okfn.se/ Open Knowledge Sweden] ja [https://www.creativecommons.se/ Creative Commons Sweden] from the [https://www.nkk.org/en/demos/ Demos] program.

Thank you for collaboration, [https://okfn.org/en/ Open Knowledge Foundation], [https://www.ouka.fi/en/oulu-central-library-saari Oulu Central Library Saari], [https://kesansauna.fi/saunafestival/ Oulu Sauna Festival], [https://kanresta.fi/en/restaurants/cafe-tarina/ Cafe Tarina], [https://uleaborg.luckan.fi/ Luckan Uleåborg] and [https://greensoul.fi/ Green Soul Catering].

The event was made possible with support from the [[foundationsite:|Wikimedia Foundation]]. 

Oulu Löyly was part of the official program of [https://oulu2026.eu/en/ Oulu2026 – Cultural Capital of Europe] and the [https://www.ica.org/international-archives-week/iaw2026/ International Archives Week].

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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

During the two hackathon days, the xx participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|500px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]
* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]
* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. 

: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.

''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

During the two hackathon days, the 68 participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|500px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]
* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]
* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. 

: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.

''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

During the two hackathon days, the 68 participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|400px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]
* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]
* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. 

: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.

''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

During the two hackathon days, the 68 participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|400px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]
* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped-2).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]
* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. 

: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.

''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

During the two hackathon days, the 68 participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|400px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]
* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped-2).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]
* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history. 

: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.

''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

During the two hackathon days, the 68 participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|400px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]
* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped-2).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]
* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history.
 
[[File:Calaverita del equipo Umbrales.jpg|thumb|Calaverita model of the Umbrales team.]]
: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.

''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities around the world.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
During the two hackathon days, the 68 participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''
: [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''
[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|400px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''
[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped-2).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history.
 
: [[File:Calaverita del equipo Umbrales.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Calaverita model of the Umbrales team]]
: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.


''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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From June 10 to 12, the second edition of the [http://www.hackatonarpa.com '''Hackatón BAM BUAP'''] (Libraries, Archives, and Museums Hackathon) took place at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico. The event was organised by the [https://arpa.buap.mx/ Faculty of Visual and Audiovisual Arts (ARPA)] and the [https://bibliotecas.buap.mx/ General Directorate of Libraries (DGB)] at the Central University Library, with the financial support from [https://wikimedia.ch/en/ Wikimedia CH].

=== Strengthening the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP ===

The opening night on June 10 was used to get the participants acquainted with the core ideas behind [https://openglam.org/principles/ Open GLAM] and the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons hackathon methodology]. Beat Estermann and Sandra Palacios presented the plan on [https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/promocion-y-transformacion-digital-del-patrimonio-cultural-con-open-bam-en-puebla/288014154 how to strengthen the Open GLAM Programme at BUAP]: The existing two pillars of the Open GLAM Programme, the annual [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Cultural_Hackathons|hackathon]] and the [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/CultureFLOW|CultureFLOW method]] are to be complemented by a WikiClub and by an Open GLAM Competence Network: While the WikiClub is oriented towards encouraging university-wide contributions to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the Open GLAM Competence Network is intended as a community of practice among local heritage institutions and service providers, offering mutual assistance to local institutions in adopting and implementing open data and open access policies. These four pillars will be complemented by a [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign to channel the outreach efforts and sharing of know-how both on an international and on a national level.

[[File:Museum-Rietberg-Zürich-Inv.Nr.-2025.1296-Figur.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Museum Rietberg, Zürich: device (origin: Mexico)]]
[[File:Wereldmuseum - Witte quechquémitl met borduursels in verschillende kleuren - quechquemitl - RV-4880-1a (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Wereldmuseum: White quechquémitl with embroidery in various colours (origin: San Luis Potosí, Mexico)]]
=== Outreach Among Heritage Institutions Around the World ===

In the run-up of this year’s hackathon, heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in a variety of countries were invited to provide data and to submit a hackathon challenge. Two institutions decided to give it a go:

: '''[[:en:Rietberg_Museum|Museum Rietberg]]''' (City of Zurich) uploaded high-resolution photographs of 681 pre-Columbian artifacts from the [[:Commons:Category:Anne-Marie_und_Caspar_Reinhart_Collection_at_Museum_Rietberg,_Zürich|Anne-Marie und Caspar Reinhart Collection]], while publishing their metadata on Wikidata, thus providing a nice showcase for data publication that can serve as an example to other ethnographic museums in the future.

: The '''[[:en:Nationaal_Museum_van_Wereldculturen|Wereldmuseum]]''' (Dutch National Museum of World Cultures) pointed the hackathon participants to an interesting textile collection with valuable items of traditional handicraft in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, neighbouring Oaxaca and further States, some of them representative of rare pre-Columbian techniques.

Apart from these very specific suggestions, the hackathon participants were pointed to the online catalogues of approx. 40 heritage institutions with Mexico-related holdings in Europe and the Americas that make content available under free copyright licenses or at least grant open access to their collection catalogues. The Wikidata-based [[:meta:Wiki_Loves_Collective_Memories/Monitoring#International_Monitoring_of_Heritage_Institutions|monitoring of institutions]], initiated at the occasion of this year’s hackathon, will serve as a basis for further outreach efforts to heritage institutions around the world. The goal is to promote open access to collections with a focus on ethical sharing, especially among institutions whose holdings are international in scope and therefore of special value to a variety of communities worldwide.

=== Highlights from this Year’s Hackathon Projects ===
During the two hackathon days, the 68 participants, mostly from computational and artistic backgrounds, worked in 12 groups on an interesting kaleidoscope of projects, covering the following aspects:

* '''Exploring the Large Diaspora of Mexican Cultural Artifacts'''
: [[File:Wereldmuseum - Portret van een Tlaxcalan man - RV-A24-5a (cropped).png|thumb|left|200px|Wereldmuseum: Portrait of a Tlaxcalan man (around 1898)]]

: Four teams worked on the development of '''online applications for the exploration of Mexico-related heritage artifacts''' in collections around the world: '''Amatohtli''' (the term signifies “map” in Nahuatl) is an app presenting a collection from various perspectives, including games. The team managed to develop a fully-fledged prototype running on real data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (visit [https://amatohtli-frontend-opal.vercel.app/ this link] and click on “Colección” to start exploring the 681 objects in the Anne-Marie und Caspar-Reinhart Collection). Three other teams proposed interesting extensions or variations on the same theme.

: Another team elaborated a concept for the implementation of an '''expert sourcing campaign''' to enhance and complement the catalogue entries of approx. 200 items from the '''textile collection gathered by Irmgard Weitlaner and Bodil Christensen''' during their travels in Mexico in the 20th century. Several domain experts have been located. The team is currently in contact with the Wereldmuseum to coordinate the upload of the images to Wikimedia Commons in preparation of the campaign. In addition to complementing the object metadata, the domain experts will be invited to contribute their know-how to improve related Wikipedia articles.

: And finally, one team tackled the challenge entitled '''“Through the Eyes of Strangers”''', which takes the short biographies of several anthropologists / ethnologists who visited Mexico during the 19th and 20th century as a starting point to study their attitudes and perspectives on the people and cultures which they encountered. As has been observed by various hackathon participants, the differences in character, attitude, and methodological approaches among the “visitors” from abroad are striking. The idea is to present an artistic treatment of the different portraits in the context of an application showing the itineraries and places visited, alongside the objects and/or information collected. 

* '''A Wiki Club to Help Fill the Contributor Gap'''
[[File:Participantes del Hackatón BAM BUAP 26 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|400px|Participants of this year's hackathon]]

: The initial members of the Wiki Club used the hackathon to get organised and to [[:meta:User:Beat_Estermann/Wiki_Club_BUAP|plan their activities]] throughout the rest of the year. A series of activities were listed that new contributors could engage in. One of them, the completion of Wikidata entries about Mexican museums based on the official database of the Ministry of Culture, was tackled by another project team whose members got acquainted with Wikidata and [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine]] in order to be able to conduct mass data ingests. A possible starting point for contributions to Wikipedia are the above-mentioned biographies about anthropologists and archaeologists who visited Mexico and left their traces in  various heritage collections. A first example is the newly created article about the Austrian-Dutch physician and amateur archaeologist [[:en:Hans_Feriz|Hans Feriz]]. 

: One of the key goals of the Wiki Club is to recruit new active contributors from Mexico in order to help fill the contributor gap. Currently, in comparison to the speakers of other major European languages, speakers of Spanish and Portuguese are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Spanish Wikipedia only has 7.5 active editors per million speakers, compared to 26 for English, 40 for German, 17.5 for French, or 10 for Russian). Furthermore, among the Spanish speakers, Mexicans are among the least likely to contribute to Wikipedia (Mexico only counts 5 active contributors per million inhabitants, compared to 45 for Spain, 17 for Argentina, 7 for Colombia, or 13 per million speakers of Spanish worldwide)&lt;ref&gt;Sources: [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Statistics]; [https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world Most Spoken Languages in the World (Berlitz)]; [[:en:List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language|List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language (English Wikipedia)]]. The Wikipedia Statistics are for May 2026. Note that there are important discrepancies in the official Wikipedia Statistics between the total number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia (4200 editors with at least 5 edits per month) and the number of active editors of Spanish Wikipedia per country (totalling 6830 editors with at least 5 edits per month).&lt;/ref&gt;.

* '''Chatty Mascots and Relatable Organisational Identities to Capture the Attention of Gen Z'''
[[File:Presentation of Project Mumur - 20260612 - 172420 (cropped-2).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mumur, the elf from the Historical Archive]]

: The [[:es:Archivo_Histórico_Universitario_(Benemérita_Universidad_Autónoma_de_Puebla)|Historical Archive]] of the [[:en:Meritorious_Autonomous_University_of_Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)]], which was founded in 1587 as [http://:es:Colegio_del_Espíritu_Santo Colegio del Espíritu Santo] and thus ranks among the [[:es:Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoamérica|oldest institutions of higher education in the Americas]], is looking for a brand mascot that is appealing to the younger generations and can be used across a variety of online offers and communication campaigns to raise awareness about the archive’s holdings. Two hackathon teams responded to the challenge, proposing the mascots “MUMUR” (a savant-looking elf) and “MINO” (alluding to the Roman goddess Minerva, featured in the university’s coat of arms) respectively. The latter team also reflected on how the character could be used in the context of a chatbot, which would translate the information contained in a knowledge base in order to engage younger users in a colloquial interaction about topics related to the university’s history.
 
: [[File:Calaverita del equipo Umbrales.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Calaverita model of the Umbrales team]]
: A third visual identity, a ''Calaverita'' (a Día de Muertos style skeleton) travelling the world in the search of Mexico-related heritage holdings, was proposed by the project team “Umbrales” – it may be used in connection with one of the apps featuring Mexico-related artifacts from heritage holdings in other countries or as the mascot of the [[:meta:Wiki Loves Collective Memories|Wiki Loves Collective Memories]] campaign in Mexico.


''The video recordings of the final project presentations are currently being uploaded; as soon as they are ready, a link will be provided here.''


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=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===

The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a State Award for Public Information for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.


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The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's public art documentation project, held at the Oulu Museum of Art. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===

The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a State Award for Public Information for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.


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=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===

The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a State Award for Public Information for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.


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As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center Luckan. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the Oulu Museum of Art. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===

The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===

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The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===

The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center Luckan. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===

The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===

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The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center Luckan. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===

The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center Luckan. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
[[File:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ryhmäkuva.jpg|thumb|Group photo of State Award for Public Information ceremony.]]
The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center Luckan. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
[[File:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ryhmäkuva.jpg|thumb|Group photo of State Award for Public Information ceremony.]]
The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center [[:w:Luckan|Luckan]]. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
[[File:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ryhmäkuva.jpg|thumb|Group photo of State Award for Public Information ceremony.]]
The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. Event was held in Tuirakas, the community space of the Tuira district. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center [[:w:Luckan|Luckan]]. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
[[File:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ryhmäkuva.jpg|thumb|Group photo of State Award for Public Information ceremony.]]
The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. Event was held in Tuirakas, the community space of the Tuira district. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center [[:w:Luckan|Luckan]]. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
[[File:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ryhmäkuva.jpg|thumb|Group photo of State Award for Public Information ceremony.]]
The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the Finnish- and Swedish-language Wikipedias, as well as the Northern Sámi and Inari Sámi editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the English Wikipedia and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. Event was held in Tuirakas, the community space of the Tuira district. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center [[:w:Luckan|Luckan]]. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
[[File:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ryhmäkuva.jpg|thumb|Group photo of State Award for Public Information ceremony.]]
The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the [[:w:fi:Wikipedia:Etusivu|Finnish-]] and [[:w:sv:Portal:Huvudsida|Swedish-language]] Wikipedias, as well as the [[:w:se:Portála:Ovdasiidu|Northern Sámi]] and [[:w:smn:Ovdâsijđo|Inari Sámi]] editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the [[:w:en:Main_Page|English Wikipedia]] and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

As part of Oulu's European Capital of Culture year, [[:m:Wikimedia Suomi|Wikimedia Finland]], [[:m:Wikimedia Eesti|Wikimedia Eesti]], the [[:m:Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group|Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group]], and [https://anaraskielaservi.fi Anarâškielâ servi ry] organized the [[:m:Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026|Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting]] in Oulu on 6–7 June. Event was held in Tuirakas, the community space of the Tuira district. There were 24 on-site participants from nine countries, plus a few more who arrived in the city after the event but couldn't make it to the meeting itself. The event featured discussions on AI, copyright, GLAM, minority language work, Wikimedia editor trends, and affiliate work in general. The Nordic and Baltic chapters also presented their current activities.

The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center [[:w:Luckan|Luckan]]. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works in Oulu's European Capital of Culture area that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
[[File:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ryhmäkuva.jpg|thumb|Group photo of State Award for Public Information ceremony.]]
The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the [[:w:fi:Wikipedia:Etusivu|Finnish-]] and [[:w:sv:Portal:Huvudsida|Swedish-language]] Wikipedias, as well as the [[:w:se:Portála:Ovdasiidu|Northern Sámi]] and [[:w:smn:Ovdâsijđo|Inari Sámi]] editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the [[:w:en:Main_Page|English Wikipedia]] and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to have the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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=== Northern Wikimedist meetup in Oulu===
[[File:WikiNEM_2026_02.jpg|thumb|Working in Tuirakas.]]
[[File:Kulttuurinavigaattori_speaking_on_public_art_documentation_project_presentation_in_Oulu_2026_03.jpg|thumb|Kulttuurinavigaattori presenting a [[W:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]] at Oulu Art Museum.]]

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The event continued with the [https://www.okf.fi/ok-north/ OKNorth meetup], a more policy-focused gathering organized by the Nordic Open Knowledge Network and Nordic Creative Commons affiliates. On Sunday, there was an evening program at the Finland-Swedish culture center [[:w:Luckan|Luckan]]. On Monday, an Open Culture Fair was held at the Oulu Main Library as part of the [[:m:Oulu Löyly|Oulu Löyly]] culture hackathon. In the evening, the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Awards for Public Information]] were conferred on seven recipients, one of which was the Finnish Wikimedia community.

The program concluded on Tuesday with a presentation and discussion on the Finnish Wikipedia's [[:w:fi:Wikiprojekti:Public artworks and memorials in Finland into Wikipedia|public art documentation project]], held at the [[:w:Oulu Museum of Art|Oulu Museum of Art]]. In 2024 and 2025, the project focused on documenting public artworks in the Oulu European Capital of Culture region and recorded information about the works in Wikidata. Since public artworks are constantly being added and removed, the meeting continued with photographing works in Oulu's European Capital of Culture area that did not yet have photographs.

* [[GLAM/Newsletter/June 2026/Contents/AvoinGLAM report|AvoinGLAM's report about the Oulu Löyly]]

=== State Award for Public Information given to Finnish Wikipedians ===
[[File:Ulpu Pajari puhumassa vastaanotettuaan tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon 2.jpg|thumb|[[:c:user:Pitke|Pitke]] of Wikimedia Suomi giving speech together with [[user:Seipinne|Seipinne]] from Inari Saami Wikipedia after receiving the [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] on behalf of Finnish Wikipedians in 2026.]]
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The Finnish Wikimedia community was honored with a [[:w:en:State Award for Public Information|State Award for Public Information]] for its broad, volunteer-driven work on free knowledge. In its citation, the evaluation committee noted that over Wikipedia's 25 years, tens of thousands of Finnish Wikipedians  people of all ages, backgrounds, and worldviews, from amateurs to top scientists have collaboratively and neutrally built the [[:w:fi:Wikipedia:Etusivu|Finnish-]] and [[:w:sv:Portal:Huvudsida|Swedish-language]] Wikipedias, as well as the [[:w:se:Portála:Ovdasiidu|Northern Sámi]] and [[:w:smn:Ovdâsijđo|Inari Sámi]] editions, and that their contributions have also enriched the [[:w:en:Main_Page|English Wikipedia]] and other language versions. According to the committee, by writing about subjects familiar and important to Finns, the community has helped shape how the rest of the world sees Finland. Finnish Wikimedia community were very honored to receive the award.

* Ministry of Education and Culture, 8.6.2026, [https://okm.fi/en/-/state-award-for-public-information-conferred-to-seven-contributors-to-community-relevant-information State Award for Public Information conferred to seven contributors to community-relevant information]


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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt, smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the Egyptian Postal Stamps project.

​May Highlights:

International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;Egyptian Museums&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

​June Focus:

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

 International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop
​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​Our team organized a hands-on workshop on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt, smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the Egyptian Postal Stamps project.

​May Highlights:

International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;Egyptian Museums&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

​June Focus:

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

 International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop
​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​Our team organized a hands-on workshop on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt, smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the Egyptian Postal Stamps project.

​May Highlights:

International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;Egyptian Museums&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

​June Focus:

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

 International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop
​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​Our team organized a hands-on workshop on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

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​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;Egyptian Museums&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

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[[File:STM 1171.jpg|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

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​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​Our team organized a hands-on workshop on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt, smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the Egyptian Postal Stamps project.

== ​May Highlights ==

=== International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;Egyptian Museums&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus:==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​Our team organized a hands-on workshop on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt, smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the Egyptian Postal Stamps project.

== ​May Highlights ==

=== International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;Egyptian Museums&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​Our team organized a hands-on workshop on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt, smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the Egyptian Postal Stamps project.

== ​May Highlights ==

=== International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;Egyptian Museums&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​Our team organized a hands-on workshop on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our [[m:Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group/GLAM_Team|GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt]], smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the [https://w.wiki/Rtiy Egyptian Postal Stamps project].

== ​May Highlights ==

=== [https://w.wiki/Nv4b International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon] ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;[https://w.wiki/Rhry Egyptian Museums]&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​

​Our team organized a hands-on [https://w.wiki/Rtiy workshop] on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.
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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our [[m:Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group/GLAM_Team|GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt]], smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the [https://w.wiki/Rtiy Egyptian Postal Stamps project].

== ​May Highlights ==

=== [https://w.wiki/Nv4b International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon] ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;[https://w.wiki/Rhry Egyptian Museums]&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​

​Our team organized a hands-on [https://w.wiki/Rtiy workshop] on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.

==More Info==
For more information about our core team members and our activities.
*Glam Team Egypt- Wikimedia Egypt.
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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our [[m:Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group/GLAM_Team|GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt]], smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the [https://w.wiki/Rtiy Egyptian Postal Stamps project].

== ​May Highlights ==

=== [https://w.wiki/Nv4b International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon] ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;[https://w.wiki/Rhry Egyptian Museums]&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​

​Our team organized a hands-on [https://w.wiki/Rtiy workshop] on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.

==More Info==
For more information about our core team members and our activities.
*[https://w.wiki/S8MV Glam Team Egypt- Wikimedia Egypt].
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​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our [[m:Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group/GLAM_Team|GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt]], smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the [https://w.wiki/Rtiy Egyptian Postal Stamps project].

== ​May Highlights ==

=== [https://w.wiki/Nv4b International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon] ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;[https://w.wiki/Rhry Egyptian Museums]&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​

​Our team organized a hands-on [https://w.wiki/Rtiy workshop] on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.

==More Info==
For more information about our core team members and our activities.
*[https://w.wiki/S8MV Glam Team Egypt- Wikimedia Egypt].

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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our [[m:Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group/GLAM_Team|GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt]], smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the [https://w.wiki/Rtiy Egyptian Postal Stamps project].

== ​May Highlights ==

=== [https://w.wiki/Nv4b International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon] ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;[https://w.wiki/Rhry Egyptian Museums]&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.

==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​

​Our team organized a hands-on [https://w.wiki/Rtiy workshop] on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.

==More Info==
For more information about our core team members and our activities.
*[https://w.wiki/S8MV Glam Team Egypt- Wikimedia Egypt].

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[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

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== ​May Highlights ==

=== [https://w.wiki/Nv4b International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon] ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;[https://w.wiki/Rhry Egyptian Museums]&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.
[[File:Egyptian National Library and Archives, Cairo – International Museum Day 38.jpg|thumb|Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, which had no photos at Commons before this visit. Now it has 82 uploaded photos.]]
==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​

​Our team organized a hands-on [https://w.wiki/Rtiy workshop] on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.

==More Info==
For more information about our core team members and our activities.
*[https://w.wiki/S8MV Glam Team Egypt- Wikimedia Egypt].

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{{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|From Museum Celebrations to Archival Documentation|By [[User:أحمد ناجي|أحمد ناجي]] &amp; [[User:Sohilaali869|Sohila Elshaaer]]}}

[[File:EWUG visit to Al-Saliba Street 2026 5.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Egypt and GLAM core team members at the Gayer Anderson Museum, April 2026.]]

​After wrapping up a busy and exciting month of celebrating International Museum Day in May؛ our [[m:Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group/GLAM_Team|GLAM team- Wikimedia Egypt]], smoothly shifted gears toward archival documentation. We wanted to focus on something truly authentic and unique belonging to our heritage for our next step, which brought us to a good collaboration with Bibliotheca Alexandrina to work on the [https://w.wiki/Rtiy Egyptian Postal Stamps project].

== ​May Highlights ==

=== [https://w.wiki/Nv4b International Museum Day &amp; Egyptian Museums Editathon] ===
​May was packed with activities for us, all focused on bringing more eyes to Egyptian heritage through digital documentation, community editing, and field visits.

[[File:ندوة أضواء على متاحف مصر.jpg|thumb|Announcing of the seminar in Arabic.]]

​Virtual Seminar: We hosted a fantastic two hour virtual seminar titled &quot;Spotlight on Egyptian Museums:  Between Archaeological Vision and Digital Documentation.&quot; We invited guest speakers specializing in Museology, Near Eastern studies, and digital heritage, and it was great to see so many of our core team members, Wikimedia User Group members and volunteers join the discussion.

​The Editathon: To fill the gaps on Wikipedia, we launched the &quot;[https://w.wiki/Rhry Egyptian Museums]&quot; Editathon, which was  running from May 18 to June 10. Our main goal was to  create articles for the many local museums that completely lacked an online presence.

[[File:Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo – International Museum Day 122.jpg|thumb|The seminar at the Museum of Islamic Art.]]

​Museum Visits: Team members also got out into the field! We visited the Museum of Islamic Art to attend their International Museum Day seminar and took 144 high-quality photos of the artifacts for Wikimedia Commons. We also made a crucial visit to the Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, a place that didn't have a Wikipedia article or any images on Commons yet and immediately added it to our editathon wishlist.
[[File:Egyptian National Library and Archives, Cairo – International Museum Day 38.jpg|thumb|Museum of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, which had no photos at Commons before this visit. Now it has 82 uploaded photos.]]
==​June Focus==

[[File:STM 1171.jpg|thumb|One of stamps uploaded within The Amiri Stamps Workshop.]]

===International Archives Day &amp; The Amiri Stamps Workshop===

​Building on that momentum, we celebrated International Archives Day on June 9 by diving straight into practical archiving work.
​

​Our team organized a hands-on [https://w.wiki/Rtiy workshop] on Wikimedia Commons focused entirely on digitizing historical Egyptian postal stamps, specifically the Amiri &quot;official&quot; category. It was a huge success, and we managed to upload 89 rare stamp files to Commons, making a piece of Egypt’s unique and visual history freely accessible to the world.

==More Info==
For more information about our core team members and our activities.
*[https://w.wiki/S8MV Glam Team Egypt- Wikimedia Egypt].

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=== Open Heritage and GLAM-Wiki Collaboration at the National Museum in Kraków Conference ===

On 12 May, Agata Stadnicka, Wikimedian in Residence at the Princes Czartoryski Library, a branch of the National Museum in Kraków, presented at the conference &quot;New Technologies = New Competencies? Perspectives for Workforce Development in the Cultural Sector&quot;, organized by the National Museum in Kraków as part of the Musedu+ project on developing digital competencies in cultural institutions.

In her presentation, &quot;Open Heritage: Cultural Institutions and Their Collaboration with Wikimedia Polska,&quot; she introduced the GLAM-Wiki partnership model, highlighting the benefits of collaborative projects and the role of a Wikimedian in Residence in supporting the open sharing of collections and knowledge. Drawing on the experience of the National Museum in Kraków, she presented practical examples of how Wikimedia projects can increase the accessibility and visibility of cultural heritage.

Agata's presentation demonstrated that Wikimedia projects can serve as effective tools for supporting the digital transformation of cultural institutions, strengthening professional competencies, and expanding public access to cultural heritage collections and knowledge.

=== Another Meeting of the Polish Wikimedians in Residence Network ===
[[File:Wystawa &quot;Przetwarzanie energii&quot; (CNIT) EC1 Łódź.jpg||thumb|One of the photographs taken by the students, showing the permanent exhibition Energy Processing at the EC1 Science and Technology Centre in Łódź]]
On 23 June, members of the growing network of Polish Wikimedians in Residence met online for another peer-learning session facilitated by Kamila Neuman, Open Culture Manager at Wikimedia Polska. The regular meetings provide a space for exchanging experiences, discussing common challenges, and developing good practices for Wikimedia residencies in cultural institutions.

One of the main topics was the upcoming Open Knowledge: Wikimedia &amp; Research in the CEE Region conference. Katarzyna Makowska, Open Science Manager at Wikimedia Polska, introduced opportunities to contribute to the GLAM track, prompting a discussion on potential presentations showcasing the experiences and impact of Wikimedia collaborations with cultural institutions.

Participants also shared examples of ongoing residency activities, exchanged good practices, and discussed ways to better document and communicate their work through GLAM-Wiki project pages and expert blog posts. These regular meetings continue to strengthen the growing community of practice for Wikimedians in Residence in Poland and support the development of shared approaches to GLAM-Wiki partnerships.

=== GLAM 4.0 – New Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Cultural Institutions === 
[[File:Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 32 20170517 001.jpg|thumb|The University of Warsaw Museum building on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw]]
On 26 June, Kamila Neuman, Open Culture Manager at Wikimedia Polska, participated in the national conference GLAM 4.0 – New Technologies in Cultural Institutions, organized by the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies and the University of Warsaw Museum. The conference brought together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, academia, and the technology sector to discuss the digital transformation of cultural institutions.

The programme explored topics including artificial intelligence, data management, digital documentation, and new approaches to providing access to and interpreting cultural heritage. Of particular interest from a GLAM-Wiki perspective was Dr Marcin Roszkowski’s presentation on integrating GLAM institutions with the Wikidata knowledge graph as part of the digital transformation of cultural heritage.

The event also provided an opportunity to exchange experiences with representatives of cultural institutions from across Poland. It is particularly encouraging to see Wikimedia projects, including Wikidata, becoming an increasingly visible part of discussions on the digital transformation of the GLAM sector. This demonstrates the growing recognition of open data as a key component in improving interoperability, expanding access, and creating sustainable connections between cultural heritage resources.

=== Wrocław University Library Launches a GLAM-Wiki Partnership ===
[[File:Buwr 2023.jpg|thumb|The Wrocław University Library building]]
In June, Wrocław University Library and Wikimedia Polska announced the start of a new GLAM-Wiki partnership. The collaboration was first introduced during the Mostem.pl Festival in Wrocław, where Wikimedia Polska was a partner and discussions focused on the role of memory institutions in advancing open models for sharing knowledge and cultural heritage.

The new partnership aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of the library's collections across Wikimedia projects while expanding open access to cultural heritage. Planned activities include community transcription of historical materials, publishing sources through Wikisource, and enriching heritage data in Wikidata.

The collaboration will help make the library's collections more widely available to researchers, educators, and the general public, with the first joint activities scheduled to begin in the coming months.

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=== Open Heritage and GLAM-Wiki Collaboration at the National Museum in Kraków Conference ===

On 12 May, Agata Stadnicka, Wikimedian in Residence at [[w:Czartoryski Library|the Princes Czartoryski Library]], a branch of [[w:National Museum in Kraków|the National Museum in Kraków]], presented at the conference &quot;New Technologies = New Competencies? Perspectives for Workforce Development in the Cultural Sector&quot;, organized by the National Museum in Kraków as part of the Musedu+ project on developing digital competencies in cultural institutions.

In her presentation, &quot;Open Heritage: Cultural Institutions and Their Collaboration with Wikimedia Polska,&quot; she introduced the GLAM-Wiki partnership model, highlighting the benefits of collaborative projects and the role of a Wikimedian in Residence in supporting the open sharing of collections and knowledge. Drawing on the experience of the National Museum in Kraków, she presented practical examples of how Wikimedia projects can increase the accessibility and visibility of cultural heritage.

Agata's presentation demonstrated that Wikimedia projects can serve as effective tools for supporting the digital transformation of cultural institutions, strengthening professional competencies, and expanding public access to cultural heritage collections and knowledge.

=== Another Meeting of the Polish Wikimedians in Residence Network ===
[[File:Wystawa &quot;Przetwarzanie energii&quot; (CNIT) EC1 Łódź.jpg||thumb|One of the photographs taken by the students, showing the permanent exhibition Energy Processing at [[w:EC1 Łódź – City of Culture|the EC1]] Science and Technology Centre in Łódź]]
On 23 June, members of the growing network of Polish Wikimedians in Residence met online for another peer-learning session facilitated by Kamila Neuman, Open Culture Manager at Wikimedia Polska. The regular meetings provide a space for exchanging experiences, discussing common challenges, and developing good practices for Wikimedia residencies in cultural institutions.

One of the main topics was the upcoming [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge:_Wikimedia_%26_Research_in_the_CEE_Region Open Knowledge: Wikimedia &amp; Research in the CEE Region conference]. Katarzyna Makowska, Open Science Manager at Wikimedia Polska, introduced opportunities to contribute to the GLAM track, prompting a discussion on potential presentations showcasing the experiences and impact of Wikimedia collaborations with cultural institutions.

Participants also shared examples of ongoing residency activities, exchanged good practices, and discussed ways to better document and communicate their work through GLAM-Wiki project pages and expert blog posts. These regular meetings continue to strengthen the growing community of practice for Wikimedians in Residence in Poland and support the development of shared approaches to GLAM-Wiki partnerships.

=== GLAM 4.0 – New Technologies and the Digital Transformation of Cultural Institutions === 
[[File:Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 32 20170517 001.jpg|thumb|The University of Warsaw Museum building on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw]]
On 26 June, Kamila Neuman, Open Culture Manager at Wikimedia Polska, participated in the national conference GLAM 4.0 – New Technologies in Cultural Institutions, organized by the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies at [[w:University of Warsaw|the University of Warsaw]] and the University Museum. The conference brought together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, academia, and the technology sector to discuss the digital transformation of cultural institutions.

The programme explored topics including artificial intelligence, data management, digital documentation, and new approaches to providing access to and interpreting cultural heritage. Of particular interest from a GLAM-Wiki perspective was Dr Marcin Roszkowski’s presentation on integrating GLAM institutions with the Wikidata knowledge graph as part of the digital transformation of cultural heritage.

The event also provided an opportunity to exchange experiences with representatives of cultural institutions from across Poland. It is particularly encouraging to see Wikimedia projects, including Wikidata, becoming an increasingly visible part of discussions on the digital transformation of the GLAM sector. This demonstrates the growing recognition of open data as a key component in improving interoperability, expanding access, and creating sustainable connections between cultural heritage resources.

=== Wrocław University Library Launches a GLAM-Wiki Partnership ===
[[File:Buwr 2023.jpg|thumb|The Wrocław University Library building]]
In June, [[w:pl:Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu|Wrocław University Library]] and Wikimedia Polska announced the start of a new GLAM-Wiki partnership. The collaboration was first introduced during the Mostem.pl Festival in Wrocław, where Wikimedia Polska was a partner and discussions focused on the role of memory institutions in advancing open models for sharing knowledge and cultural heritage.

The new partnership aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of the library's collections across Wikimedia projects while expanding open access to cultural heritage. Planned activities include community transcription of historical materials, publishing sources through Wikisource, and enriching heritage data in Wikidata.

The collaboration will help make the library's collections more widely available to researchers, educators, and the general public, with the first joint activities scheduled to begin in the coming months.

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