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Memory of the World report

Manuscripts on Arabic Wikipedia

By MartinPoulter

This is the sixteenth 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.

Recent activity

We bid farewell to Clara Weber, the consultant working with the UNESCO team, who ended her placement at the end of 2025. Clara contributed a great deal to the Wikidata data set and to updating the online MoW International Register and the UNESCO web site.

The Nāgarakrĕtāgama palm-leaf manuscripts, subject of a new article in Arabic Wikipedia

This month I have been:

  1. Improving the data set on Wikidata, especially for the inscriptions that have few properties. All inscriptions now have at least seven statements, for a total of 8,213 statements in the data set.
  2. Replacing a lot of broken links in English Wikipedia with current links to the MoW International Register
  3. Writing a paper about the open data set we have released on Wikidata, how it is already being used on the Wikimedia projects, and the new visualisation and research possibilities it offers.
  4. Collecting sources for a new article about the Documentation Centre for Indigenous Peoples.

An Upworthy article used a quote from UNESCO's documentation of this project: specifically a quote from Khalili Foundation director Waqas Ahmed about preserving cultural heritage.

New articles

View statistics

The Massviews tool reports 4,300,551 views on English Wikipedia articles that link to the MoW International Register.

The GLAMorgan tool reports 115 million image views in January for images related to the MoW International Register. This is likely an overestimate.


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