Outreach Wiki outreachwiki https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.46.0-wmf.22 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikimedia Wikimedia talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk TimedText TimedText talk Module Module talk Translations Translations talk Topic 0 72586 275942 275923 2026-04-04T13:17:46Z Wuselig 16400 zwischenspeichern 275942 wikitext text/x-wiki <noinclude>{{:GLAM/Newsletter/March 2026/Header}}</noinclude> {{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Art History Loves Wiki 2026 – digital/local. collection loves wiki|By [[w:de:Benutzer:Wuselig/Kulturbotschafter|Wuselig]]}} === A little background on the KuWiki Working Group === [[File:Kuwiki-Logo.png|thumb]] The full name is '''kuwiki.AG Kunstwissenschaften + Wikipedia.''' There is an English Language page that will give you some background: [[w:de:Wikipedia:Working Group Arthistory + Wikipedia|kuwiki.Working Group Art History + Wikipedia]]. [[File:03032022 KUWIKI AG 02.jpg|thumb|Some members of the group at a bi-monthly video-exchange]] For me as an art loving Wikipedian, without an academic background in Art History the unique feature of our group is the eye-level exchange between experts and volunteers. The initial members were students and PhD students who wanted to introduce the tools of our Wikiverse into academia, but also improve the quality of the depiction of art and art-history in Wikipedia with the fruits of their studies. In these last five years kuwiki.AG has brought Wikipedia and its sister Projects behind the ivy walls. In addition to the chapter coordinated [[w:de:Wikipedia:GLAM|GLAM-activities]] where we largly approach GLAM-institutions from our side (outreach), the members of the kuwiki.AG are working from within their various institutions, wether as students, staff, emerits, to amateur/dilettants, like I, but alwaysin the role of a volunteer Wikipedian. Not embedded like a Wikipedian in Residence, nor in the role as a payed editor. The working group gets together in bi-monthly online-meetings to coordinate their activities. === kuwiki's activities === [[File:Poster Wikimania 2023 kuwiki Art History and Wikipedia.pdf|thumb|Poster Session at Wikimania]] The initial and still defining project was the [[w:de:Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kunstwissenschaften + Wikipedia/Living handbook|Living handbook]] a [[w:Vademecum|Vademecum]] to familiarize Wikimedians with the concepts of Art History and Art Historians with the concepts of Wikipedia when writing articles about art-related topics. Various topics are picked up, presented, discussed, explained in an open to all interested parties on-line forum called [[w:de:Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kunstwissenschaften + Wikipedia/tips & tools|tips & tools]] on an irregular, but frequent basis on Thursday nights kuwiki presents their work at various congresses hosted by arthistorical societies like the "[https://kunstgeschichte.org/verband/3-netzwerktreffen-situation-der-universitaeren-kunstgeschichtslehre/?st deutscher verband für Kunstgeschichte]", at the "Tag der Provenienzforschung", or "Kongress für Kunstgeschichte". But also at WikiCons and Wikimanias. But it also organizes own congresses, like [[w:de:Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kunstwissenschaften + Wikipedia/Provenance loves Wiki|Provenance loves Wiki]] in 2024, where the focus was on [[w:Provenance|Provenance]] Research and if Wikidata is a suitable and persistent tool for mapping ownership of artwork. [[w:de:Wikipedia:Art History Loves Wiki 2025|Collections, Archives & Research Data]] in 2025 focused on how Wikidata and resaerch data from various institutions couldbe reconciled. This year's [[w:de:Wikipedia:Art History Loves Wiki|Art History Loves Wiki 2026 – digital/local. collection loves wiki]] put into focus how especially museums could utelize the potentials of the different Wikimedia projects. === Art History Loves Wiki 2026 – digital/local. collection loves wiki - Cologne, March 27-29 2026 === [[File:Art History Loves Wiki 2026-0376.jpg|thumb|A presentation at the conference]] The meeting at [[w:Schnütgen Museum|Museum Schnütgen]] was organized by kuwiki in colaboration with the museum and with financial and logistical support by Wikimedia Germany (WMDE). On Friday afternoon we started with an introduction to the [https://schnuetgen-digital.de/rundgang/start.aspx 360° Tour of the Museum Schnütgen]. And how the museum is planning to further enhance this with explanatory links to the exhibits. Next a project was introduced that is trying to map ''[https://archiater.hypotheses.org/ Early Modern Hospitals in European Cities]''. An example of the organization of [https://zenodo.org/records/19349396 a local edit-a-thon] at a local museum with a local community to enhance the visibility of women artists in this institution. Whereas this might not be new to our community of Wikimedians, the audience of this conference reaches beyond our community. [https://echolot-eccch.eu/ ECHOLOT] was introduced next. A project that aims to reconcile various cultural data-bases with the Wikimedia Ecosystem. A choice of various guided tours through the museum and an adjacent church on Saturday morning helped to get the participants get into conference-mode again. The Museum Schnütgen presented [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/hai/sammlungen/koeln/ms.html their digitized inventory books], which are archived in the [https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/hai/index.html Heidelberg Accssion Index (HAI)]. The [https://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/de/index Prometheus-Bildarchiv] is just as old as Wikipedia. It has 4.150.000 Images of art, culture and history from 136 databases. [[W:de:Wikipedia:Museen BW|Wikipedia:Museen BW]] was an initiative of the Baden-Württemberg official coordinatinating organization for museums and the Wikipedia Community to built 1:1 partnerships between Wikipedians and local museums to bring their content into the Wikipedia projects. The [[w:LVR Industrial Museum|LVR Industrial Museum]] which unites the industrial museums in the Rhineland reported on their outlooks and refered to [[:c:Category:GLAM_on_Tour_-_Ratingen_-_Macht_der_Mode|best practice experiences with Wikipedians]] in the past. A Wikipedian's rabbit hole project about how a side-remark in a book by a local historian inspired a Wikipedian to follow through. He had written about a tempory art-depot on the [[w:Hohenzollern Castle|Hohenzollern Castle]] during WW II to safeguard artwork from Cologne museums, among them the Schnütgen Museum. The remark was, if it wouldn't be possible to recreate this collection, if only just virtually, and the Wikipedian said, "[[w:de:Kunstdepot Hohenzollern|can try]]" A follow up on last years [https://zenodo.org/records/14685748 Bringing together Collection Data and Wikidata via AI] followed. <br /> <noinclude>{{GLAM/Newsletter/Comments|month=March 2026}}</noinclude> fgcwedx7rhbotbqz2f2xj9rz6d3yd8i