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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

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GLAM & Wikipedia Education Contractor

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Effects of full-scale invasion

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Effects of full-scale invasion

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  • 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

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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

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  • 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!

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Facebook: Anna Khrobolova

Wikimedia, Twitter: Anntinomy

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National Museum of Brazil

  • 20 million items in the museum's collection

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  • Between 8-25 thousand items on display

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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

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

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  • Luzia’s skull was destroyed

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  • The building got complete burned down

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Wikiproject

Wikiproject

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  • 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?

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

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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?

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Who can we and can not work with?

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3) What will we change?

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

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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:

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  • Telegram group: [link soon]
  • Manifesto?