2024:Program/Wiki Loves Monuments as a way to document destroyed cultural heritage
Session title: Wiki Loves Monuments as a way to document destroyed cultural heritage
- Session type: Lightning talk
- Track: GLAM
- Language: en
Active wars create urgency in documenting and preserving knowledge. This lightning talk will concentrate on sharing lessons learnt and insights from the Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine volunteers when organising a photo contest helping to document not only the cultural heritage, but also its destruction.T
Description
[edit | edit source]As of 6 March 2024, UNESCO has confirmed damage to 345 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine since the full scale Russian invasion of 24 February 2022. Ukraine’s own Ministry of Culture and Information Policy knows of 945 destroyed or damaged sites.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in Ukraine was the second competition edition held since the full-scale invasion began. The local rules had to be changed to ensure safer participation; also, this year a need to document monuments even before they are destroyed was highlighted. In addition to a special category dedicated to collect photos of monuments destroyed by the war, other categories were influenced by the urgency to collect, preserve, and share knowledge: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/04/05/war-destroys-monuments-the-toll-of-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-in-a-wiki-loves-monuments-special-category/
Lessons learnt and insights about organising a contest aimed at documenting cultural heritage while an active war is still happening will be shared during the lightning talk.
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
This session can help participants from different countries to learn how special nominations in Wiki loves monuments photo competition can help to document the evidence of the national cultural heritage destruction and create an open archieve of photos.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
[edit | edit source]- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R94EolmDFqom6nUEGKtrFMtyIYNbacijVTDA4iTWvn4/edit?usp=sharing
Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Daryna
- I'm a Wikipedia editor from 2017. And I started my way as a project manager of Wiki loves monuments in 2022 right after the full-scale invasion has starte in Ukraine. I love this project and I'm always tring to do my work in the best way.