Hi there,
Tomorrow is the next Global GLAM Call, 26 May at 13:30 UTC.
This month we will have an update about a Commons Upload tool that was
re-discovered at the NWE Hackathon, an update about the Open Heritage
Statement from Creative Commons, and then also a tutorial for submitting a
request for Translation Admin privileges; + plenty of time for other
updates from you and anyone else in the community.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Global_GLAM_call_2026-05-26
Please remember to register in advance to receive the zoom link in the
registration.
See you online!
All the best,
Connor
(appologies for cross posting on various GLAM, Culture and Heritage related
mailing lists)
Hello!
My AI assistant (Lumo via Proton) told me that Schema and Wikidata are
connected. Could not verify that and found this:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schema.org .
Does anyone know the current status?
Cheers,
Johanna
Hello,
Over the last few months the Global GLAM Calls
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_GLAM_calls> have grown
significantly! This month in April there were more than 100 registrations,
and 50 attendees on the call. This is incredible!
All this is thanks to your contribution, curiosity, and continued
engagement with culture, heritage, and Wikimedia projects.
In case you missed the call the recording is already available
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Global_GLAM_call_2026-04-28> on
Commons. The topics, presenters, and documents, are also neatly organized
in Metabase <https://metabase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q43731> for easy
search and reference.
But now’s the time to build out the agendas for the coming months. Do you
have a topic you’d like to present on or have a request for? Send it to the
organizers via the request form
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_GLAM_Calls/Topic_Requests> on
Meta-wiki.
In 2026 there’s special focus on topics from the Strategic Pillars (Small
GLAMs, Minority Languages, Robust Technical Infrastructure, and Community
(mental) Health, and GLAM Recognition) but all kinds of presentations and
discussions are welcome.
Registration for the May call
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Global_GLAM_call_2026-05-26> is
already open, though the agenda is not 100% ready. See you online!
All the best,
Connor
I'd like to propose the next WREN call for something like Feb 17 @ 20 UTC,
if that works for folks.
If it's an issue for some folks that Feb 17 is Shrove Tuesday, we could
also do the following week on Feb 24.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
I've made this proposal in the big ongoing discussion on narrowing Wikidata
notability, to help ensure that we can still cover GLAM-related topics,
especially those related to marginalized knowledge.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Notability_poli…
Feel free to comment and refine this proposal, which I'm sure is incomplete.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hello!
This is a reminder that next week 28 April is the monthly Global GLAM Call.
The topics include AI-Bridges, the connection between AI tools and
platforms and cultural heritage collections, CommonsDB, a registry of
public domain and open access materials, as well as info about partnerships
in the ESEAP and SA regions! There will of course also be time for general
discussion and questions.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Global_GLAM_call_2026-04-28
Don’t forget to register ahead of time. Hope to see you online!
Best,
Connor
Hi all,
I hope I am not the first, as WiR in a university
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2025/Contents/Net…>
I am trying to set up a wiki with wikibase. Anyone experience with this?
Does anyone have a guide how to set such up or any advice would be welcome.
In 2019 the university became a victim of a hack with ransomware, making
education and research come to a full stop. Since then regarding ICT the
possibilities are limited, and skills with MediaWiki/Wikibase is likely
practically zero (I haven't seen anything regarding such).
The goal of the wiki is to collect (public) knowledge of the history of the
university (which exists this year 50 years). Knowledge that exists in
texts, images and metadata. A wish for such a platform exists for 10+
years, but nobody actually managed to get it done. For me it combines what
I am good at, with writing, data, and images, I create order in chaos
(colleagues experience a lot of chaos, also because the history is not
easily accessible) and I often try to fill up gaps that others leave open
(the idea has been massively embraced by colleagues, but nothing done yet
in that direction).
First I tried to follow the suggestions colleagues had for what software to
use, software that is not open, hard to use for what I have in mind,
missing basic possibilities, and after all is working in a wiki my natural
environment. So I have come to the conclusion it must be a wiki. Besides
the basic Wikipedia extensions, I have identified some features I need:
- own domain name setup
- default skin/design changes
- display of title changeable (for non wikibase pages)
- account creation control, no anonymous edits
- images local upload + usage from Commons
- query
- wikibase items with Item: prefix
(Anything else I should think of?)
At the moment I am considering the following possibilities for MediaWiki
with a wikibase:
1. Hosting within university: still a puzzle who to talk to or how to
arrange it, but the ICT department has limited skills in the field (and
asking me to take of the software updates), limited storage capacity and
charges fees to other departments for hosting, so this does not seem to be
the best option at this moment.
2. Miraheze: no query service, but other things are well organised for what
I need, including domain name setup.
3. Wikibase.Cloud: no images upload (only Commons or linking to images
elsewhere), which is a limitation as I do also want to add historical
images for which a CC license is difficult to arrange.
Thoughts anyone?
Romaine
I've made the following proposal in the light of the recent Wikidata
notability discussion, as well as long-standing issues with Wikipedia
notability around topics that are present in GLAM collections/archives:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Village_pump#Proposal_for_Arc…
Would appreciate your thoughts and input to make this a more fully
fleshed-out and actionable project concept.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi all
I'm working on a training programme to support Wikimedians in Residence,
especially ones at larger and international organisations. I'm hoping that
the course will be useful for anyone wanting to do a partnership or WiR
like position.
Does anyone know of any existing materials that might be useful beyond the
basic how to edit courses? Any suggestions are very welcome, anything from
suggestions of kind of activities or projects it should include or any
material you know about which could be included.
Thanks very much :)
John
Hello,
On 24 March at 13:30 is the next Global GLAM Call — I hope you will join!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Global_GLAM_call_2026-03-24
This month’s call will be hosted by Lutherking Petercan and features topics
such as an introduction to the new Pattypan release 26.02, Metrics on
Wikimedia platforms, the IGO Partnerships with the Content Partnerships
Hub, and a new GLAM project in Venezuela!
This call will also feature simultaneous interpretation between spanish and
english!
Hope to see you online,
Connor