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Crisis War and GLAM projects in Ukraine

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What had (not) changed in processing WMUA projects

since 2014?

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  • Crimea and Donbas in Ukraine’s WLX lists and maps, appeals to share archives
  • Crimea-oriented projects
  • Increasing Crimean Tatar Wikipedia

as a goal

  • No databases → No projects around lost and destroyed objects and collections

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  • Microgrants for Wikiexpeditions →

almost every brought some GLAMish content and interaction with institutions

(without much supervision from WMUA)

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  • Librarians as most supportive and interested from GLAM communities
    • Volunteering
    • Events hosting
    • Learning and participating
    • Editing institution-related topics
    • etc.

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2021

GLAM & Wikipedia Education Contractor

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Effects of full-scale invasion

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Effects of full-scale invasion

  • GLAM institutions destroyed, evacuated, closed, operation and priorities changed
  • Travelling/walking for photocampaigns is life-threatening
  • Volunteers goals and priorities changed
  • Collections become even more closed because of vulnerability

Mkip.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Народицька селищна територіальна громада, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Kyivcity.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Others projects on saving heritage

  • Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online - more than 5,000 websites web-archived and 50TB of data gathered
  • Smithsonian cultural rescue initiative - satellite imagery
  • 3D scanning of buildings by Ukrainian professionals and from abroad
  • UNESCO and Blue Shield Danmark - Backup Ukraine project
  • Equipment from Poland to secure city monuments
  • and many other

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Дякую! Thank you!

Facebook: Anna Khrobolova

Wikimedia, Twitter: Anntinomy

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National Museum of Brazil

  • 20 million items in the museum's collection

  • Between 8-25 thousand items on display

On the Wikimedia projects:

  • Commons category had 471 images�
  • PT Wikipedia had 8 articles�
  • Wikidata had 8 items

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September 2nd, 2018

  • 18,5 million items were destroyed, 92.5 % of the collection

  • Luzia’s skull was destroyed

  • The building got complete burned down

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Wikiproject

Wikiproject

  • Page for the project (w:pt:WP:MN)�
  • Establish tasks
    • Wikipedia
    • Wikidata (Tabernacle)
    • Commons
    • Wikisource

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  1. What's the way that we can create more good impact as Wikimedians? What's the role of Wikimedia?

What are we doing right? | What are we doing wrong?

What can be done to prevent | to support | to reconstruct? (before, during, after)

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2) What are our limitations and how can we go beyond them?

Who can we and can not work with?

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3) What will we change?

What actions or good practices should we do from now on?

How to maintain these initiatives for a longer period of time?

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4) How could and should we apply all this to Ukraine?

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An initial call to action:

  • Telegram group: [link soon]
  • Manifesto?