GLAM Wiki 2023/Program/Unconvential uses of Wikimedia projects

ID: M015
Facilitators/Speakers: Nassima Chahboun, Carlo Brescia, Patricia Díaz Rubio, Catalina Frigerio	Time block: Morning	Beginning: 9:30
	Location: Auditorium	Duration: 1 hr
Description: In this session, you will learn about: 1. Told Cities project: Reinventing built heritage documentation Told Cities is a project by Wiki World Heritage UG, for the documentation of World Heritage cities through a creative approach, in terms of: 1-Content: The project consists of the creation of a wiki-based website that provides thorough documentation of many tangible and intangible aspects of WH cities (buildings, streets, sound, arts, people, etc.), the website gives access to this information through +500 interactive maps, timelines, and graphs, generated from Wikidata, for +100 cities. 2-Stakeholders: The project is being implemented in collaboration with Heritage NGOs, with a focus on countries without Wikimedia affiliates. 3-Activities: The project is being implemented through a series of training of trainers for volunteers in the target countries, this is in order to equip the locals with the necessary skills to implement the wiki campaigns themselves (editathons, photography contests) and catalyze the creation of new Wikimedia communities in these countries. The session will give a presentation of the project, but most importantly will discuss the reasons behind developing it in this specific format and how it responds to heritage professionals' needs. The goal of presenting Told Cities as a case study is to open the discussion on how to make Wikimedia platforms and tools more accessible to heritage professionals. 2. Indigenous knowledge, epistemic decolonization and the power of images: a GLAM photographic journey into the world of sacred plants from the Peruvian Amazon region Ikaros are magical songs used by traditional healers in the Peruvian Amazon to summon spirits, activate an object or to weave the energetic threads of life of a patient. Ikaros are taught by plant spirits and learned by healers during prolonged periods of restricted diet and isolation. Some of these teacher plants are Ayahuasca, Tobacco and Coca. This type of knowledge has been and is still threatened by other worldviews that see them as sinful practices, backward traditions and quackery. WikiAcción Peru 's first GLAM project with Takiwasi Center in Tarapoto resulted in the liberation of more than 1200 images related to traditional medicine from the northern Amazon of Peru. Through this short photographic journey, we propose a reflection on how South American indigenous knowledge is sometimes persecuted, appropriated, conserved and restituted. As the results of this process are relevant to communities in Peru beyond the ones that read and edit Wikipedia, I will present the museographic proposal for an itinerant exhibition to be implemented in Cusco in 2024 based on this presentation and the GLAM project. The exhibition’s objectives are not only to mobilize knowledge related to indigenous knowledge but also about the Wikimedia movement and Glam projects in Peru. 3. Documenting social movements through Wikimedia projects		Experience level: Beginner
		Keywords: Re-use & re-interpretation of digital heritage, Knowledge equity
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