Cultural and natural heritage across the world is in danger – due to factors such as war, climate change, theft or simply decay, and a lack of resources. What is the role of the Wikimedia movement in safeguarding our heritage digitally?

The Heritage Guard Network will briefly present its preliminary findings from a project aiming to study exactly this and invite the audience for a conversation on how to make use of the findings and build new opportunities ahead.

Join us for an insightful workshop dedicated to fostering synergies between Wikimedians and diverse stakeholder groups such as libraries, cultural heritage institutions, researchers, students, and educators. Through compelling stories of successful partnerships from countries across the world, we explore the dynamics of collaboration, identifying key contributors, and effective strategies, and how to overcome challenges in ensuring that the open movement is supported, not hindered, by laws.

During the workshop, key topics for partnerships will be mapped, what questions already unite us and potential blind spots, and where and how we should collaborate more for the open.

The Content Partnerships Hub has forged dynamic collaborations with UN agencies including FAO, WIPO, and UNESCO, facilitating dialogue between intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and the Wikimedia movement. Over the past year, our efforts have yielded invaluable insights into prospective partnerships. Join us for a program track where we unveil these insights, engage in collaborative brainstorming with Wikimedians to enhance and expand them, and culminate with a hands-on edit-a-thon empowering Wikimedians to translate these insights into action.

The open science and Wikimedia communities share the common goal of developing high quality openly available content, yet collaborations between the movements have been limited. This workshop will focus on building connections between the communities, and will begin with a brief introduction to open science, followed by a presentation of different barriers that exist for open science, and examples from different parts of the world. It will then provide a structure for looking at how Wikimedians can support the development of open science policies and practices. Finally, the workshop will discuss coordinated efforts for national and regional collaborations.

The world of AI moves very quickly, and the debates are heated. Ethical implications, copyright, bias of data, impact on jobs, control of personal data, the list can be made longer. But what does the Wikimedia movement think?

This session aims to gather Wikimedians with an interest in AI to understand different viewpoints, concerns, and ideas that could inform future advocacy work from WMF, chapters, affiliates, and volunteers.

This roundtable will share the experiences of various Wikimedians in Residence (WiR). Roles, challenges, best practices, and tools they have used in their work with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and other projects. New initiatives, whether local or global in nature as well as strategy to expand the impact of WIR will be on the table as well.

Discussion with the wider Wikimedia community is encouraged, even expected, in order to share best practices related to new developments and how does the work of WIRs advance the Wikimedia goals, and finds way in the 2030 strategy implementations.

We propose a session focusing on developing the next steps of the Helpdesk of the Content Partnerships Hub – with a focus on how it can improve capacity building in the GLAMwiki space. Through the Helpdesk you can request support for your content partnerships and through the working groups you can share your expertise by jointly responding to the many requests posted for the Helpdesk.