Wikipedians in residence at Serbia, Wikimedia Serbia

Wikipedian in residence is part of a global program of cooperation with cultural institutions GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), which has been implemented worldwide for more than 10 years.

The idea of this program is in two-way cooperation with cultural institutions, which are assigned an experienced editor of Wikipedia for a certain period of time, in order to work on increasing the content of Wiki projects in the field of cultural and historical heritage.

The project implies a one or several-month-long work of the chosen Wiki editor in the cultural institution, which is supported and/or partly financed by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, ie Wikimedia Serbia.

The goal is for the Wikipedian in residence to help the institution in digitizing the materials that would then be on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource, to train employees on how to edit Wikipedia, to help write articles about the institution and numerous materials under the protection of institutions.

The project has been implemented around 160 times, in more than 100 cultural institutions around the world so far.

Wikipedian in residence does the following:

Digitizing various materials (books, photos, postcards, documents, etc.)
Uploading digitized material to Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and other relevant wiki projects
Working on increasing the content of Wikipedia according to the agreed topics and available literature in the institution
Organizing and holding workshops on editing Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons for employees of a cultural institution
Working with employees and helping them better understand Wikimedia projects
Mediating between Wikimedia Serbia and the cultural institution
Maintaining connections between the organization and the institution and making suggestions for new models of cooperation or strengthening the old ones

So far, 30 Wikipedian in residence projects were realized in Serbia, 2 are ongoing, while numerous are in preparation.

Wikipedians in residence in Serbia

Wikipedians in residence
Number	Username	Name and surname	Cultural institution	Articles	Released files	Digitized material	Workshops
01	ImperatorkA	Jovana Milosevic	University Library Svetozar Markovic (2014)	18 new	102 photos	5 books (4554 pages)	8 workshops 10 participants
02	Marrrrrra	Marija Gajic	Botanical Garden Jevremovac (2015)	13 new 7 improved	1388 photos		3 workshops 11 participants
03	CumulusBGD	Milica Vucetic	University Library Svetozar Markovic (2016)			8 books (2585 pages)
04	M Todorovic	Milos Todorovic	Museum in Smederevo (2016)	2 new 2 improved	80 photos	4 books (294 pages) two more have been done (117 pages)
05	Vladimir Nimcevic	Vladimir Nimcevic	Historical Archive of Subotica (2017)	16 new 3 improved	190 photos and digitized files files	5 books (589 pages)	1 workshop 7 participants
06	Security 'n' Roses	Dusan Ruzic	Museum of Yugoslavia (2017)	37 new 8 improved	327 photos
07	Geograf208	Stefan Mitic	National Museum in Leskovac (2017)	13 new 26 improved	157 photos - музеј 127 photos - стажиста	2 books (105 pages)	1 workshop 4 participants
08	Marko Stanojevic	Marko Stanojevic	Museum of Yugoslavia (2018)	100 new 1 improved	437 photos	5 albums (144 photos)
09	ShadowBrood84	Aleksandar Tumaric	Museum of Vojvodina (2018)	94 new 5 improved	282 photos	5 books = 951 pages
10	Mala Kometa	Oksana Mudri-Nedic	Museum in Vrbas (2018)	25 new 7 improved	349 photos
11	Vilena66	Milena Milenkovic	Historical Archive in Pirot (2018)	100 new 15 improved	361 photos	7 books = 1043 pages	1 workshop 3 participants
12	Tekiii	Teodora Lukic	Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia (2018)	39 new 3 improved	542 photos	5 books = 602 pages (52 + 144 + 84 + 146 + 176 страна)	1 workshop/edit-a-thon 11 participants
13	Ioannes2909	Jovana Obradovic	Historical Archives in Pancevo (2018)	14 new 3 improved	253 photos	1 book (192 pages)	1 workshop 2 participants
14	Korak po korak	Jelena Latov-Papic	Theatre Museum of Vojvodina (2018/19)	10 new 3 improved	173 photos	1 book (73 pages)	1 workshop 2 participants
15	Tekiii	Teodora Lukic	Museum of Science and Technology Belgrade (2019)	13 new 7 improved	503 photos	2 books (391 pages)	1 workshop 8 participants
16	Draganapopovic	Dragana Popovic	University Library "Svetozar Markovic" (2019)	16 new 13 improved 13 illustrated	158 photos	10 books (2607 pages)	-
17	Korak po korak	Jelena Latov-Papic	Serbian National Theatre (2019)	20 new 17 improved 67 illustrated	521photos	2 books (489 pages)
18	ShadowBrood84	Aleksandar Tumaric	Museum of Vojvodinian Slovaks (2019)	70 new 2 improved 97 illustrated	363 photos
19	Suzana M.Jovanovic	Suzana Mihajlović Jovanović	Historical Archive of Negotin (2019)	22 new 53 improved 77 illustrated	226 photos	5 books (982 pages)	1 workshop 3 participants
20	ShadowBrood84	Aleksandar Tumaric	Karlovci Gymnasium (2019)	70 new 227 improved	419 photos	5 books	1 workshop 2 participants
21	Alexzr88	Aleksandar Radlovacki	Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Zrenjanin (2019)	30 new 22 improved 55 illustrated	429 photos	3 books
22	DjordjeMarkovic	Djordje Markovic	National Museum of Toplice (2020)	34 new 32 improved 10 illustrated	597photos		1 workshop 2 participants
23	Miljanamatic	Miljana Mitic	Society for Culture, Art and International Cooperation Adligat (2020)	34 new 30 improved 14 illustrated	458 photos	3 books
24	Tam Jankovic	Tamara Jankovics+	Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (2020)	88 new	98 catalogues		1 workshop 1 participant
25	Ioannes2909	Jovana Obradovic	Belgrade City Library (2020)	126 new 26 improved 278 illustrated	881 photos 114 magazines	6 books	Not organized because of COVID-19 pandemic]
26	Богатый гость	Milos Vuckovic	Society for Culture, Art and International Cooperation Adligat (2020)	40 new 45 improved 202 illustrated	431 Society 109 WiR	5 books	Not organized because of COVID-19 pandemic]
27	Fallenlibraryboy	Djordje Ilic	Cultural centre Rex (2020)	13 new 16 improved 3 illustrated	154 files	21 books	1 workshop 1 participant
28	M Todorovic	Milos Todorovic	Museum of African Art (2021)	8 new 3 improved 32 illustrated	303 files
29	Tam Jankovic	Tamara Jankovic	Jewish Digital Library (2021)	32 new 8 improved 5 illustrated	53 files	6 books
30	Veljko Vuckovic	Veljko Vuckovic	Musem of Rudnik and Takovo Region (2021)	31 new 93 improved 161 illustrated	686 датотека	30 books
31	Vilena66	Milena Milenkovic	National Library of Pirot (2021)	27 new 24 improved 16 illustrated	38 files	13 books
32	Богатый гость	Milos Vuckovic	Youth Theater DADOV (2021)	287 new 23 improved 52 illustrated	394 files	1 book
33	Ioannes2909	Jovana Obradovic	Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (2021)	62 new 62 illustrated	77 catalogues
34	Ioannes2909	Jovana Obradovic	Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment (2022)	10 new 111 illustrated	527 files	13 books
35	Sara Horvat 1300	Sara Horvat	Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2022)	21 new 25 improved	73 files
36	Suzana M.Jovanović	Suzana Mihajlović Jovanović	Historical Archive of Negotin (2022)	15 new 10 improved 88 illustrated	200 files	3 books
37	Korak po korak	Jelena Latov-Papić	Faculty of Dramatic Arts (2022)	71 new 14 improved 30 illustrated	393 files	6 books 9 catallogues	1 workshop 4 participants
38	Alexzr88	Aleksandar Radlovački	National Museum of Zrenjanin (2022)	28 new 9 improved 20 illustrated	190 files	2 books	1 workshop 2 participants
39	Korak po korak	Jelena Latov-Papić	Society for Culture, Art and International Cooperation Adligat (2023)	12 new 2 improved 38 illustrated	1.371 files	5 books
40	Nikolina Šepić	Nikolina Šepić	Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (2023)	338 new 20 improved 13 new cattegories	189 files		1 workshop 4 participants
41	MilenaBal	Milena Baltić	National Museum of Kraljevo (2023)	87 new 73improved 43 illustrated	519 files
		In total	35 institutions	2.086 new articles 625 improved articles 1.726 illustrated articles	15.133 files	198 books	27 workshops 88 participants