Hello,
You are invited to join the official launch of Wiki Loves Living Heritage!
In 2023, Wiki Loves Living Heritage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage> celebrates living
heritage <https://ich.unesco.org/en/home> on the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO
2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Join the launch event
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage_launch_event>
on 17 March 13–14.30 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1679058029> to
learn and get excited about the project!
We are inviting affiliates and volunteers to join the activities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Join>
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Start organizing
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Organizers>:
Team up with the local heritage communities and UNESCO intangible cultural
heritage coordinators and create bigger or smaller activities together.
Find your local contacts
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Contacts>
here.
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Share widely: Use the Wiki Loves Living Heritage site and all the social
media channels of the project and the partners to share your activities
online. The campaign highlights living heritage around the world throughout
2023.
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Contribute to Wikimedia projects:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_work>
Make living heritage more visible on Wikimedia projects by adding data to
Wikidata, photographing and adding media to Wikimedia Commons and editing
Wikipedia articles. We are looking for people to help import the
national inventories of living heritage to make the local heritage elements
visible in the project.
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Inspire and be inspired
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Get_inspired>
: Help others contribute to Wikimedia projects by sharing your learnings
and models with other affiliates, communities and heritage coordinators.
Stay updated!
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Watch the videos on the YouTube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/@wikiloveslivingheritage/> or join the regular
planning meetings
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Meetings>!
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Subscribe to the Wiki Loves Living Heritage newsletter
<https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/352653/81811918153581669/share>
Contact us for help connecting with the local Living Heritage coordinators
and Wikimedia affiliates and to discuss your ideas.
Best regards,
Sadik Shahadu, Communications Manager
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The project is initiated jointly by the European network of focal points
for the UNESCO 2003 Convention (ENFP) and AvoinGLAM
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/AvoinGLAM>. It has been supported so far
by the European Heritage Days Network
<https://www.europeanheritagedays.com/>, Workshop intangible heritage
Flanders <https://immaterieelerfgoed.be/nl/team>, the Flemish Commission
for UNESCO in Belgium <https://unesco.be/en>, Quebec Council for Living
Heritage <https://www.patrimoinevivant.qc.ca/>, Finnish Heritage Agency
<https://www.museovirasto.fi/en/>, Culture Ireland
<https://www.cultureireland.ie/about/> and the Dutch Centre for Intangible
Cultural Heritage <https://www.immaterieelerfgoed.nl/>.
Wiki Loves Living Heritage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage>
Email wikiloveslivingheritage(a)gmail.com
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