Hi all,

Happy New Year to you all!

We are happy to inform you all that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has been announced as a partner of Wikidocumentaries project along with different open knowledge organisations, GLAM institutes and academic institutions of Finland. Wikidocumentaries, as you might know, is a project by Open Knowledge Finland, which combines different aspects of a topic from different platforms including Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, FlickR, Europeana, OSM etc. into one place and provides a comprehensive display of knowledge to the readers. The link of the website is here - https://wikidocumentaries-demo.wmflabs.org

You may have noticed earlier, that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has engaged with the Wikidocumentaries project for more than 2 years now. The tables listing monuments in Wiki Loves Monuments in India competition have been providing a Wikidocumentaries links for each monuments for the last 2 years, using which photographers can upload photographs from that website directly into the competition. Bengali Wikisource has also provided Wikidocumentaries links in different namespaces for more than a year now. Wiki Loves Butterfly has very recently started to provide their links too in their tables of butterflies.

WikidataCon 2021 also had a presentation showcasing the above collaborations and some idea-level ambitious discussions to integrate in more potential areas in near future. Hope this year, our partnership will start bringing those ideas to reality.

Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)