GLAM/Newsletter/February 2026/Contents/Switzerland report
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Neocomensia, SAPA, Atelier Winterthur, GLAM-on-Tour Disentis
Neocomensia
In the French part of Switzerland the project Neocomensia was founded by User:LuciOle. The aim is to contribute to the Wiki projects with the archive material of the Romandie. The archives in Neuchâtel work together and host regular meetings. There is a quite rich heritage related to the history of the cities and to the landscape. One can find the heritage of Roussou, valuable scetchbooks and lots of plants. The group of archivists meet up since a few years and share their expertise. Recently there are also public online sessions to share knowledge and to help newcomers with their questions. Find here further informations (in French).
SAPA
For the past couple of years, an ongoing cooperation with the SAPA Foundation, the Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts aim to import the Foundation's structured data about theater productions into Wikidata. To learn more about the project, you can read the project page on Meta as well as a blog post describing the datasets imported in 2025. To dig deeper into the data, you can have a look at the SPARQL queries.
In the frame of the partnership, the SAPA Foundation also released a thousand of archive pictures from the photographer Fred Erismann. The pictures are now published on Wikimedia Commons in CC BY-SA, together with metadata, and are available for the Wikipedia communities to reuse in their articles. For more details, the project page and an example of message left on a Wikiproject, inviting editors to use the pictures.
Wiki-Atelier in Winterthur
In Winterthur there is a new regulary meetup at the Winterthur library. It is great to see that the library is very active and sponsoring the meetings. Also they provide library cards without any costs for the Wikimedians, including access to databases behind paywalls. The German speaking format called Wiki-Atelier has been started by User HaDi who is a librarian himself. More and more GLAMs are open to host wiki projects. On the image you see the landscape at Winterthur.
GLAM-on-Tour Disentis
A GLAM-on-Tour took place in Disentis where the main language is Romansh. Find here the biography of Karl Hager who was a priest and a natural scientist. He used the camera shown on the photo to explore the Surselva, the landscape around Disentis. The event, which took place from 19 to 22 February, was attended by 24 participants and resulted in several dozen new articles, mainly in the German language version, but also in French and Italian (working list).
