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This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue II, February 2026

From the team • Belgium report • Czech Republic report • Italy report • New Zealand report • Poland report • Serbia report • Spain report • Switzerland report • UK report • Biodiversity Heritage Library report • Memory of the World report • Calendar

GLAM in 2026 is calling to action!

By Conbene

This Month in GLAM

Lots happening in the GLAM space this month! If you're working in the culture and heritage sector within the Wikimedia Movement, here are a few things worth your attention:

📅 The Global GLAM Calls happen on the last Tuesday of every month — and there's always room for your ideas! Got a topic to propose? Share it here! Past calls and topics are now neatly organized in Metabase (part of the Content Partnerships Hub), making it easy to search and browse previous discussions — take a look!

The next call is March 24 and registration is already open. If you missed February's call, the recording is available now — featuring presentations on Wikimedia Enterprise, the CPH Help Desk, Malay-Arabic manuscripts from Penyengat Island, and WikiSami - Sum of All Manuscripts Bali. Lots of great content!

Quick Survey: GLAM Tool Usage

User:Dactylantha is running a short survey to better understand how GLAM practitioners use Wikimedia tools — and what happens when things go wrong! Your responses will help shape a project at the Wikimedia Hackathon focused on making it easier to report issues, find documentation, request features, and share workarounds. Takes just a few minutes, and responses are open until April 8, 2026.

(Copy/paste to access survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxpGnxZPKlQAFB6_i1KJiQDhOMTSKYrmKxA0AfnfnRq_fmgw/viewform)

Have Your Say on Wikidata Notability

There's an important Request for Comments happening on Wikidata around Notability policy reform — and your voice matters! Head over and share your thoughts.

A photo safari through Wiki Loves Fashion & a rescue mission with Mission Gourmande!

By Caren Vervaeke

News from Wikimedia Belgium.

Wiki Loves Fashion 2026

Wiki Loves Fashion

Fashion, fiber & folklore

In February 2026, we will once again be organizing a writing challenge on fashion: Wiki Loves Fashion 2026. But this year, we are going one step further. We will not only be shining the spotlight on fashion, but also on textile techniques and intangible heritage. In fact, it will be called: Wiki Loves Fashion, Fiber & Folklore.

Why? Because clothing is more than just style. It tells stories about identity, craftsmanship, tradition, and social change.

On a photo safari to an exhibition

2026 is packed with fashion exhibitions. This is an excellent opportunity to create visual material together that we can use on the Dutch and international versions of Wikipedia.

The idea is simple: meet up with other Wikipedians and visit an exhibition together. A photo safari, in other words. It's not mandatory, but going out together increases the fun and often improves the quality of the results.

What should you bring?

Your museum card 😉
A camera or smartphone
Curiosity

Don't just photograph the pieces themselves, but also room texts, context, scenography, and background information. Exhibition catalogs, podcasts, and online videos can help you write new or improved articles.

Exhibitions to discover

There are many inspiring exhibitions:

Suit Yourself: 100 Years of Menswear 1750–1850 – Rijksmuseum (until March 15, 2026)
Draad en Dracht – Scheveningen style in motion – Muzee Scheveningen (until May 28, 2026)

And particularly topical:

Embroidering Palestine – ModeMuseum Antwerpen (MoMu) (December 13, 2025 – June 7, 2026)

This latest exhibition shows how Palestinian embroidery conveys identity, history, and emotion, from traditional costumes to contemporary interpretations. Textiles as a silent form of resistance in violent times.

Institutions such as Kantcentrum Brugge and the Manneken Pis Museum also offer inspiration for those who want to delve deeper into textiles and crafts.

Writing together, enriching together

With this edition, we want to not only improve articles, but also make underrepresented topics related to textiles, crafts, and folklore more visible within Wikimedia projects.

So, do you feel like writing, taking photos, or just joining us on our journey? Join Wiki Loves Fashion 2026.

Because heritage only truly comes alive when we make it visible together. ✨

10,500 pages saved in one weekend

Mission Gourmande

What do you do when a museum is threatened with closure and a unique collection is at risk of being dispersed? You mobilize. Quickly.

On January 31 and February 1, 2026, a French-Belgian team of Wikimedia volunteers visited the Musée de la Gourmandise in Hermalle-sous-Huy (province of Liège). Their mission: to digitally preserve the museum's culinary heritage before it was too late.

The campaign was named Mission Gourmande. And it became a race against time.

Display case by display case

For two days, a dozen volunteers worked methodically and with great concentration. Objects were carefully removed from display cases, dusted, photographed in temporary studio setups, and accurately described.

The result:

700 objects photographed
More than 1,200 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
39 rare books fully digitized
More than 10,500 pages saved

Among the objects: fragile paper decorations from the 19th century, silverware, everyday utensils, and a solid iron knife over five feet tall. Not only masterpieces, but also ordinary kitchen heritage was given a digital future.

Tasty history

The books form a small treasure trove of culinary history. The oldest work dates from around 1660. There are also two Dutch-language gems among them:

From simple recipes to spectacular pièces montées, from wine literature to historical health advice: together they amount to more than 10,500 pages that are now freely available.

Heritage free for everyone

The digitization was organized in a matter of weeks, with support from Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia France.

In the year that Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary, Mission Gourmande demonstrates what Wikimedia has stood for for a quarter of a century: preserving knowledge and cultural heritage and sharing it freely — for everyone.

Want to see all images on Wikimedia Commons? Then click here.

Agenda

✍️ Wikipedia writing sessions for International Women's Day 2026

From March 8 to 10, 2026, Wikipedia writing sessions will take place at 16 locations in Flanders, Brussels, and Wallonia as part of International Women's Day. More than 30 heritage organizations are supporting the initiative, which will accommodate at least 350 volunteers.

The aim is to increase the visibility of women on Wikipedia, as a significant proportion of biographies and articles about women are still missing worldwide.

The initiative is organized by FARO, meemoo, Bruges Public Library, and Wikimedia Belgium.

Participants must bring their own laptop and a pre-created Wikipedia account. More information about locations and registration is available here.

🎉 Wikipedia 25 Party – Celebrate with us in Brussels!

In 2026, Wikipedia will celebrate its 25th anniversary. What began as an ambitious idea has grown into a global knowledge project with more than 65 million articles in over 300 languages. Today, Wikipedia feeds our daily lives, from education and research to quiz questions and even AI applications.

That deserves a celebration.

🥳 You're invited!

📍 Les Ateliers des Tanneurs Huidevetterstraat 60A Rue des Tanneurs, Brussels (easily accessible by train from Brussels Central Station)
🗓 March 18, 2026
🕕 From 6:00 p.m.

Join volunteers, partners, and supporters in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the world's largest free encyclopedia.

👉 Registration required.

📆 Wikimedia Belgium General Meeting

Dear members and supporters, We cordially invite you to attend the Wikimedia Belgium General Meeting on Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., at Transport en Mobility in Leuven.

During this meeting, we will look back on the past year, discuss future projects and strategic plans, and there will be time for questions and ideas. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute your thoughts on the future of our association and to connect with other members. Confirming your attendance is mandatory.

📍Transport & Mobility Leuven Diestsesteenweg 71 3010 Leuven
🕑 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
✍🏻 Registration required

Do you want to read more news from Wikimedia Belgium? Read the full newsletter here.

National Library overview of 2025

By Pavel Bednarik & Václav Jirousek

National Library Czech Republic in 2025

In 2025, the National Library of the Czech Republic (NLCR) continued its cooperation with Wikimedia Czech Republic, focusing on the development of topics in the fields of librarianship, book history, and information science on Czech Wikipedia, media uploads to Wikimedia Commons, and data integration on Wikidata. During the year, 51 new articles were created on Czech Wikipedia and 681 articles were edited.

A total of 1,071 media files were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, mainly digitized documents from NLCR’s digital libraries, as well as photographs from library events and images from the NK ČR Archive (see the full package here). By the end of 2025, the collaboration had contributed 1,336 files in total, which were used in 1,136 Wikipedia articles and other Wikimedia projects. These files generated approximately 8.1 million views in 2025.

On Wikidata, activities focused on linking the Czech National Bibliography (ČNB), National Authorities (AUT), the Dictionary of Czech Librarians (SCK), and the Czech Terminological Database of Library and Information Science (TDKIV). Approximately 5,000 new links were created between Wikidata and the SCK and TDKIV databases, and around 10,800 Wikidata edits were made overall.

Plans for 2026

Planned priorities include further optimization of workflows for uploading digitized content from NLCR’s digital libraries to Wikimedia Commons. At the same time, the Wikimedian in Residence will place stronger emphasis on the active integration of uploaded files into relevant Wikipedia articles in order to increase their visibility and educational impact. The Library also intends to introduce a mechanism that will allow Wikipedians to propose specific book titles for digitization to support Wikimedia projects.

Another priority for 2026 is the continued collaboration with the National Library Archive, expanding the partnership launched in 2025. The project will concentrate on selecting and uploading historically and culturally valuable archival materials to Wikimedia Commons.

In the area of linked open data, cooperation will continue on connecting library databases with Wikidata, with particular emphasis on the planned upload and integration of data from the Czech National Bibliography (ČNB), as well as the upload of selected data from the Dictionary of Czech Librarians (SCK) to Wikidata.

Gallery

Dan Brown
Lobkovický breviář (sign. XXIII.F.202)
Reconstruction of the main building Klementinum in 1924, Archive of NL
Josef Václav Sládek
Moravské ovoce (Královna Viktorie)
Volodymyr Zelenskyj visiting the Library

Cultural Heritage and Memory: 2026 GLAM Call and Executed Renaissance Edit-a-thon

By Marta Arosio

2026 Wikimedia Italia GLAM Call now closed: 63 projects received!

The first edition of Wikimedia Italia’s GLAM Call for the 2026–2028 triennium has officially closed, and we are thrilled to announce that we received 63 project proposals from a remarkably diverse range of cultural institutions across Italy.

This triennial call, running annually from January 14th to February 28th until 2028, invites museums, archives, libraries, and other cultural organizations—both public and private—to digitize and share their collections freely on Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap. The 2026 round marks the beginning of this new phase, aiming to build a sustainable, open digital heritage over the next three years.

The variety of participating entities reflects the richness of Italy’s cultural landscape: from small local museums and specialized archives to university departments and large public institutions. This diversity is a testament to the broad interest in opening up cultural knowledge and making it accessible to all.

Each selected project will receive funding and dedicated support to help bring their collections online under free licenses, contributing to the collective mission of making knowledge free and open. Selected institutions will also benefit from an online training course (MOOC) and expert tutoring, designed to facilitate the publication of their digital content on Wikimedia platforms. This support ensures that institutions not only share their heritage but do so effectively and sustainably.

Preserving Ukrainian Cultural Memory

On Saturday, February 21, 2026, Wikimedia Italia and Ucraina Più – Milano APS held Italy’s first edit-a-thon dedicated to the “Executed Renaissance,” a tragic period in Ukrainian history marked by the persecution of poets and artists under Soviet repression.

The event took place at the Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri in Milan’s Casa della Memoria, coinciding with UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day. Students of Ukrainian language and literature collaborated with Wikimedia trainers to create and improve Wikipedia articles based on authoritative sources, helping to keep this important history alive.

Iryna Luts, president of Ucraina Più – Milano, emphasized that remembering the artists of the Executed Renaissance is not just an act of historical memory, but a vital effort to ensure such tragedies are not repeated in silence.

Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students and an update on the NZBSI WiR

By Winnieswikiworld & Ambrosia10

Auckland Museum

The third and final month of the Auckland Museum Wikipedia summer studentship has come to an end. Over the past 10 weeks 6 students have contributed to the world of Wikimedia through the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Local Histories project. They have connected with Auckland Museum staff and guest speaker Wikimedians from Aotearoa and across the globe and learnt how others participate in the movement.

The students have written blogposts for Diff (or their GLAMs blogspace) which can be read here:

Overall the students created 37 brand new articles, edited 160 articles, made 1.21K total edits, added 114K words and 1.81K references. They also uploaded 145 files to Wikimedia Commons, of their own images and of their GLAMs open collections.

On February 10th, the students presented their projects at a symposium held in the Auckland Museum auditorium.

Avawatson03 presented, Enhancing Aotearoa's Artistic Presence on Wiki. She spoke about utilising Auckland Museum resources, focusing on underrepresented communities, Women in Red and her work with the Wikiquote #SheSaid campaign.

CuriosityKat33 presented, Wikipedia for GLAMs in the Generative AI Era. She spoke about the dangers of AI, Wikipedia as the antithesis to generative AI, addressing gendered and geographical representation gaps and how GLAMs can use Wikipedia to correctly represent local histories on the internet.

SydneyBridgeUpsideDown and Goose276 presented, Digisting the Working Fleet through Wikipedia. They spoke about their research with the Bill Laxon Library and NZMM Online Collection. Showing how their project established the NZMM a presence on Wiki through articles and Wikimedia Commons uploads.

LadyRabbit presented, Out of the Archives: Wikipedia and open access. She spoke about how her project aimed to broaden the usage of content from the Fletcher Trust Archives and support greater digital visibility for the collection. This included researching a wide range of topics such as the Winstone family and 20th century social welfare.

Roobee11 presented, Finding Connections in unusual places. She spoke about utilising Vernon, institutional archives and the Walsh Memorial Library resources to set up MOTAT's Wikimedia Commons presence- along the way discovering unique connections in her research.

Watch the Summer Student Symposium 2026 here.

Thank you to our partners at the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), the Fletchers Trust Archives and New Zealand Maritime Museum (NZMM).

A special thank you to The Sheldon Werner Charitable Fund, Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand and The Fletchers Trust.

New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedian in Residence update

Much of February was spent working on, as well as preparing documentation for, the data models for both type specimen Wikidata items and the structured data for Wikimedia Commons specimen image files. See this WikiProject collaboration with Auckland Museum for further information on this effort. Ambrosia10 has also been drafting "how to" documentation for NZBSI staff as well as the wider Wiki editing community on how to create type specimen Wikidata items via OpenRefine and how to upload openly licensed specimen images into Wikimedia Commons with appropriate structured data. This documentation will be published in Zenodo and added to Wikimedia Commons in the near future.

In person planning meetings were held with Leanne Elder and Nick Kirk (both from NZBSI) for a survey of staff to gage their knowledge of Wiki platforms. The aim of this survey is to assist with the planning of two in person Wiki workshops to be held at both the Lincoln and Auckland sites in the latter half of May.

Ambrosia10 was able to take advantage of this in person meeting to commence training Leanne Elder, a senior technician in imaging & digitisation at the NZBSI, in Wikimedia Commons uploads. It is anticipated that this will become part of her imaging workflow when dealing with type specimens held in NZBSI collections or loaned to NZBSI staff.

Wikipedia in Cultural Marketing at Crash Mondays Warsaw

By Kamila Neuman

Wikipedia in Cultural Marketing at Crash Mondays Warsaw

In February, Wikimedia Polska was represented at the Warsaw edition of Crash Mondays, a community-driven event series dedicated to marketing, communication, and digital trends. Organized in several Polish cities, the meetings bring together practitioners for short presentations and discussions focused on practical insights.

The Warsaw event was dedicated to marketing in culture. Kamila Neuman, Open Culture Manager at Wikimedia Polska, presented More than Social Media: Wikipedia in Cultural Marketing, highlighting Wikipedia’s role as a trusted knowledge platform in an online environment increasingly shaped by large language models. The presentation showed how cultural institutions can strengthen visibility and credibility by sharing verified knowledge and media through Wikimedia projects.

Other speakers included Elżbieta Ofat, who discussed strategic transformation and contemporary branding in cultural institutions, and Lena Mitek, Creative Director at LNV°ST, who reflected on the realities of building and testing brand identity across audience touchpoints.

Many thanks to Weronika Modzelewska and the entire Crash Mondays Warsaw team for the invitation and for creating such an inspiring space for knowledge exchange.

February in Wikimedia Serbia

By Nebojsa Ratkovic

Strengthening Global Content Partnerships

Wikimedia Serbia actively contributed to the global Content Partnerships Hub initiative, an important program that brings together Wikimedia organizations and volunteers worldwide who are interested in collaborating with various partners to support the free sharing of knowledge. The Hub aims to strengthen cooperation with institutions such as museums, libraries, archives, research institutions, and international organizations, enabling their content to become accessible through Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Independent Cultural Scene Edit-a-thon Continues in Belgrade

Following a successful edit-a-thon held in Novi Sad in collaboration with the What Could Should Curating Do fellowship program, the collaboration continues with a new event in Belgrade. The event will take place on March 19 at 17:00 at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts, organized in partnership with ITHS and ITS. This event will also mark the start of a writing campaign focused on the independent cultural scene in Serbia on Wikipedia. The goal of the initiative is to further improve the visibility and quality of content related to contemporary art in the Serbian language.

Developing New Approaches to Cultural and Knowledge Partnerships

Wikimedia Serbia participated in working meetings dedicated to developing innovative approaches and new initiatives within programs that connect culture, science, and open knowledge. The meetings focused on exchanging ideas, strengthening capacities, and enhancing international cooperation, with the goal of empowering professionals in the fields of librarianship and cultural heritage to engage more actively in free knowledge projects.

Serbian Wikipedia Wins the Global 1Lib1Ref Campaign

The Serbian-language Wikipedia achieved first place in the global 1Lib1Ref 2026 campaign, with a total of 12,681 edits and added references that significantly contribute to improving the reliability of Wikipedia content. Editor Nikolina Šepić made an outstanding contribution with 5,886 added references, alongside significant efforts from other community members. This achievement once again demonstrates the strength and dedication of the Serbian editing community in building high-quality and verifiable free knowledge. More about this achievement can be found on our blog in Serbian.

New Opportunities for Wikipedian in Residence in Serbia

Representatives of Wikimedia Serbia held discussions with several cultural institutions with the aim of establishing new collaborations within the Wikipedian in Residence Program. During the meetings, potential opportunities were explored for individuals to contribute to the digitization, processing, and opening of cultural heritage content through Wikimedia projects. These initial discussions represent an important step toward further developing partnerships and strengthening the presence of open knowledge within cultural institutions.

Wikidata in the GLAM context II

By Rubén Ojeda

Wikidata in the GLAM context II

On 25 February, Wikimedia Spain held the second edition of Wikidata in the GLAM context (the first was held online in July 2025) in the conference room of the Prado National Museum, under the title ‘Connected Heritage: Wikidata in the GLAM Ecosystem’. The meeting brought together professionals from museums, libraries, archives, universities, and digital communities to reflect on a common challenge: how to better connect cultural heritage through open data.

The opening was led by Alfonso Palacio, Deputy Director of Conservation at the Prado, who celebrated the fact that this second edition of Wikidata in the GLAM ecosystem consolidates the previous meeting as a benchmark event with national and international reach. Gustavo Candela, member of the Board of Directors of Wikimedia Spain and professor at the University of Alicante, thanked the Prado for its ongoing collaboration and highlighted a key idea:

Wikidata is much more than a database: it is a living ecosystem that connects collections, data and people.

A phrase that sums up the spirit of the day: opening up, structuring and connecting cultural heritage so that it travels beyond the physical walls of institutions.

The following presentations were given:

Connectivity and cooperation to generate knowledge. Projects developed between the Prado Museum and Wikidata: Ana Mª Martín Bravo, Head of Documentation and Archiving at the Prado National Museum
Open library data: Wikidata as infrastructure: Elena Sánchez Nogales, Director of the Library of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID)
A European perspective on cultural heritage: digital collections, research data, community engagement: Alba Irollo, Research Coordinator at the Europeana Foundation
Integration of data from Wikidata into local records. An experience from the National Library of Spain: Ricardo Santos Muñoz, Director of the Technical Process Department at the National Library of Spain
Visualisation of enriched data: From a library catalogue to interactive end products through Wikidata and Wikimedia: Modesto Escobar, Professor of Sociology at the University of Salamanca, and Ángel Zazo, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the University of Salamanca
Creating lasting impactful projects through Cultural Heritage and Wikimedia: Mahendra Mahey, Member of the Board of Directors of International GLAM Labs, research data analyst (Tallinn University), junior researcher (Estonian National Museum) and doctoral student (University of Strathclyde)

The conference confirmed something essential: when cultural heritage is structured as open data and connected globally, its reach, impact and transformative capacity multiply.

Material about the conference:

Presentations from each talk: Here
Photos from the event: Gallery

Neocomensia, SAPA, Atelier Winterthur, GLAM-on-Tour Disentis

By Medea7

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).

New content in African and Asian languages

By MartinPoulter

Khalili Foundation

There are two new translations this month. For the first time, we have a translation in Ghanaian Pidgin English: a summary article about the Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage. We also have a second article in Western Punjabi: an overview of the Khalili Collections. There are now overviews of the Khalili Collections in five different Wikipedia languages. Ghanaian Pidgin English Wikipedia has just 4,607 articles, so it has acquired an article about a Khalili Collection before articles about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Topkapı Palace, or Bibliothèque nationale de France!

As I was writing this report, a volunteer started translating the Anis al-Hujjaj article into Hausa, the 21st Wikipedia language reached by this project. I will update on this in the March report.

Among the new articles that use Khalili Collections images, there are Western Punjabi articles about the Blue Quran and the Codex Parisino-Petropolitanus, an article about the Futuh al-Haramayn in Ghanaian Pidgin, and a Kiswah article in Tamil, which translates some of the text about textiles that I added to English Wikipedia's article.

The Wikimania conference is in Paris this year. I am involved in two proposed sessions: a short talk about the Interfaith Explorers reuse and review of Wikipedia text, and a workshop about how the Wikimedia movement can work with international organisations.

I am still working through Cambridge University Library (CUL)'s Cario Geniza manuscripts, adding those that are known to be written by Maimonides himself. This month I added eight more manuscripts to Wikidata, plus a representation of the Lewis-Gibson Collection. I also identified places in Wikipedia which could mention the Cambridge manuscripts, and am in touch with the team at CUL about how to proceed. In the course of looking at the manuscripts, I found a public-domain image on Commons that a volunteer had uploaded without giving proper credit to CUL, but is being used across many different Wikipedia articles. This one image is getting about a million views per year. I added the proper credit and link back to the CUL website.

I gave a training session on contributing to Wikidata, not on Khalili Foundation paid time, but used it as a chance to improve Wikidata's cultural diversity. I invited participants to add knowledge about anything they are interested in, but as a suggestion showed them some African and Asian masterpieces from the list in the appendix of the Ahmed & Poulter 2022 paper. As a result, the group created Wikidata entries for Greek Landscape, Female Militia in the Sea, La Terre, Maasai Steppe Ascending—Convective Displacement, The Whirling Dervishes, and Tutu.

Back in January I had a meeting with Shani Evenstein Sigalov who, as well as part of the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, is involved in two research projects around the use of Wikidata for cultural data. We are going to follow up with a meeting in March about how the experience of the Khalili Collections can help inform faster, AI-assisted workflows for adding cultural collections to Wikidata. I am one of many Wikimedians In Residence being interviewed for the project.

Most work this month has been on finishing up the first phase of the Memory of the World project, for which there is a separate report.

The stats server reports 3,772,693 image views for February.

Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members

By Ambrosia10

Correcting Wikidata & the BHL catalogue

Ambrosia10 has been collaborating closely with Diana Duncan (Field Museum retiree and volunteer) assisting with the disambiguation of BHL creators and improving both Wikidata and the BHL catalogue.

Error report corrections

Progress is also being made on correcting the Wikidata errors reported in the December error report. The error report of BHL identifiers and Wikidata QIDs needing checking/fixing can be found here

Submitted abstract to BHL Day 2026

Sabine von Mering and Siobhan Leachman - members of the BHL-Wiki working group - have submitted an abstract to present at the upcoming BHL Day 2026 on the 29th of April. This presentation will be about the "Women Genera" project, an international collaboration between botanists, data analysts and Wikidatians to create a dynamic dataset in Wikidata linking flowering plant genera to women in whose honour those genera were named. This presentation will highlight the pivotal role Biodiversity Heritage Library played in assisting both the research into the genera and women and also ensuring the statements made in Wikidata were appropriately referenced.

Focus on Indigenous issues

By MartinPoulter

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.

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