Initiatives
Three strands of work, one goal: making underrepresented heritage easy to find, free to use and safe from being lost.
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We locate, digitise and transcribe heritage works and make them available to the public under open and free licences. Heritage is being lost to the environment and to neglect; the best protection is knowledge that is easy to find and free.
Digital preservation of underrepresented knowledge is the future of documenting precious, rare knowledge of human civilisation.
Explore our collections
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We work with communities and institutions towards free-knowledge equity through inclusive initiatives, campaigns and projects.
Our international contests bring thousands of people together to put their local culture on Wikimedia projects, from folk photography to writing about women in folklore.
See our campaigns
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We organise programmes that raise awareness of open access and free licences. Our events invite contemporary artists and the GLAM community (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) into an open dialogue about copyright and the value of open platforms.
Heritage GLAM on Meta-Wiki (opens in a new tab)Photographers, writers, researchers and organisers are all welcome.