GLAM/Newsletter/February 2026/Contents/Memory of the World report
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Focus on Indigenous issues
This is the seventeenth monthly report of the ongoing work to improve the representation of the UNESCO Memory of the World international register on Wikimedia projects. This is supported and fully funded by the Khalili Foundation, with the involvement of UNESCO and Wikimedia UK.
I finished the first draft of a paper about the MoW dataset and have circulated it for feedback.
New articles
I've concentrated this month on MoW inscriptions relevant to Indigenous peoples. This involved creating two new articles on English Wikipedia and making small edits to a range of connected articles, including Indigenous languages of the Americas, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Odette Mennesson-Rigaud, and Curt Nimuendajú (adding a section on the Ethno-Historical Map to the latter article).
- English: Colección de Lenguas Indígenas This article has been submitted for, and passed, Did You Know review. I uploaded two public-domain book covers from the UNESCO site to illustrate the article.
- English: Docip
- Portuguese: Karl Tirén's collection of sami yoik
- Bangla Book of Kells
- Georgian Benz Patent-Motorwagen
- Ido The Wizard of Oz
- Fula 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition
View statistics
The Massviews tool reports 3,273,588 views on English Wikipedia articles that link to the MoW International Register, but also notes that some data are missing.
The GLAMorgan tool reports 98.3 million image views in February for images related to the MoW International Register. This is likely an overestimate.
