Hi all

I’m looking for feedback and endorsement for my Wikimedia Foundation PEG grant to be Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian_in_Residence .

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian_...

I’d very much appreciate if you would have a look, the main objectives are :

*1. Train UNESCO and its partner organisations to contribute to Wikimedia projects*: Provide UNESCO and its partners with the skills, tools, resources and connections to contribute to Wikimedia projects in a meaningful, measurable and sustainable way. To integrate into the Wikimedia community both online and by matching them with local Wikimedia organisations and volunteers for in person support and collaboration. The project will*create and improve content receiving 100,000,000 views per year* on Wikimedia projects, *educate 1000 people in over 200 organisations* to learn more about Wikimedia projects. This will include *500 newly registered users* trained to contribute to Wikimedia projects and *500 articles formally reviewed by experts*.

*2. Make content from the archives of UNESCO and its partners available on Wikimedia projects:* This project will facilitate the *upload of 30,000 images, audio files, videos, data and other content*to Wikimedia projects from UNESCO archives http://photobank.unesco.org/exec/index.htm?lang=en (24,000 images), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) http://www.uis.unesco.org/Pages/default.aspx and other sources including *10 organisations changing their content license to be Wikimedia compatible*, a completed pilot project is outlined in the Goal section.

*3. Create a model and resources to encourage other UN organisations and their partner organisations to engage with Wikimedia*: I will work to understand ways in which UNESCO, its partner organisations and the Wikimedia movement’s many shared goals (outlined in the Impact section) can be furthered through contributing to Wikimedia projects. We will create a comprehensive how-to handbook (documentation and a tool chain) which will be an amalgam of existing resources and new resources created by myself and the wider Wikimedia community. *This project will act as a model that can be followed by other UN agencies and their partners to open up their content and engage with Wikimedia* and the wider open education movement.

*4. Disseminate and promote information on the project and its outcomes, open licensing and engaging with Wikimedia*: To make information about and produced by the project as widely as possible with the*aim of moving further towards making open licensing the standard for scientific, cultural and educational organisations and engagement with Wikimedia common practice* .

I ran a pilot project that resulted in the images found in the Wikimedia Commons category Images from the archive of UNESCO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_archive_of_UNESCO, here are a few examples:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Soda_volcano,_Oromia,_Ethiopia.jpg

The Soda volcano, Oromia, Ethiopia.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rubbles_of_the_cathedral_after_the_earthquake_that_hit_the_Capital_Port_au_Prince_just_before_5_pm_on_12_January_2010.jpg

Rubble of the cathedral after the earthquake that hit the Capital Port au Prince just before 5 pm on 12 January 2010.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Young_monk,_wearing_a_special_costume,_Desert_road_in_China,_July-August_1991,_Sikkim,_India.jpg

Young monk, wearing a special costume, July-August 1991, Sikkim, India.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sabha,6,_getting_ready_to_walk_to_school_from_her_house_on_the_borders_eastern_Gaza_strip,_where_she_and_her_family_are_still_living_in_tents.jpg

Sabha, 6, getting ready to walk to school from her house on the borders eastern Gaza strip, where she and her family are still living in tents.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mohana_fishermen_hunters_use_lures_from_real_birds_to_catch_more_birds.jpg

Not far from Mohenjo-Daro (or Mohenjodaro) - These Mohana fishermen/hunters use lures from real birds to catch more birds. They will either eat them or sell them. Mohenjodaro, Pakistan.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Priest_of_rock-Hewn_Churches_of_Lalibela,_a_high_place_of_Ethiopian_Christianity,_still_today_a_place_of_pilmigrage_and_devotion..jpg

Priest of rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela, a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.

If you think this is a worthwhile project please click this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian_in_Residence and click the endorse button. Please share with any individuals or groups you think would be interested I want to include as many language Wikimedia projects as I can.

Many thanks

Mrjohncummings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mrjohncummings