Wikipedia:GLAM/Connected Heritage/About

About The Project
Wikimedia UK received funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund Digital Skills for Heritage Initiative in March 2021. The 2 year project entitled Developing open knowledge skills, tools and communities of practice for sustainable digital preservation, is known as Connected Heritage for short. Connected Heritage aims to raise digital skills and confidence across the UK heritage sector.

Heritage organisations of all sizes across England and Wales were invited to attend a webinar to find out more about how to partner with Connected Heritage. This session illustrated how Wikimedia's Connected Heritage project could help your organisation engage with open knowledge, address skills gaps and share content over Wiki platforms.

Project Team
Two digital skills Wikimedians, Dr Lucy Hinnie and Leah Emary, were hired in August 2021 to coordinate and achieve delivery of the project, under the leadership of Dr Richard Nevell. Leah left the project in March 2023, and is much missed!

The Project is now run by Richard Nevell, and Lucy Hinnie.

Project Stages

 * The first stage of the project is about reaching out to people active in the cultural and heritage sector to tell them about the project and to interest them in editing Wikimedia projects.


 * The second stage involves running Wiki editing training events or offering bespoke advice or assistance to partner organisations on how to add their knowledge and collections to Wikimedia projects.


 * The third stage of the project is embedding the Digital Skills Wikimedians into partner organisations for a mini-Wikimedian in Residence. These mini Wikimedian in Residences are set to run from 6 weeks to 3 months with 2-4 partner organisations.

The project was initially set to end on 31 March 2023. A second phase, building on the work of the first, has been agreed for 2023 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and will end on 30 November 2023.

Get Involved
You can read more about what we can do for your organisation in this.

If you would like to be involved or be in touch, send an email to connectedheritage (at) wikimedia (dot) org (dot) uk.



In the news

 * This Month in GLAM UK Report Volume XIII, Issue IV, April 2023 Democratising knowledge and cultural diversity
 * Filling in the gaps: Six months into Leah Emary's placement as resident Wikimedian, we've seen 12,500 visits to updated Wikipedia entries focused on mixed histories. Mixed Museum March 2023 Newsletter
 * The Mixed Museum - An Overview of the Residency - February 2023
 * Faversham Society News - November 2022
 * Connected Heritage – The Mixed Museum’s new partnership with Wikimedia - March 2022
 * Blackpool Social Club Hosts Two Month Wikithon
 * Video from our panel at the Heritage Dot conference is now live here.
 * Residency at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum blog post by Lucy Hinnie.