The closest thing that I could think of was this excellent session about “cultural predation” at Wikimania 2019.

 

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Advocacy/Defending_heritage_through_free_knowledge:_the_importance_of_Wikimedia_projects_against_cultural_predation

 

Sent from Mail for Windows

 

From: Samuel Klein
Sent: 24 March 2022 22:31
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List; Wikimedia Mailing List; Wikimedia developers; Jon Phillips
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Preserving cities and buildings, block by block

 

Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph, OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and information about cities, city blocks, buildings?  Particularly for cities that are damaged by disaster or war, this seems like a valuable thing to do at the granularity of "the unit that individuals photograph, remember, share with one another".  

 

It would be good to have a freely-licensed structural history of a city in this fashion, block by block. And something that refugees from a crisis could do to preserve areas they frequented.

 

SJ

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