Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Connecting Cultures

Connecting Cultures is a non-profit research agency based in Milan, founded in 2001 by Anna Detheridge, critic and theorist of visual arts and it is working on projects, events, training, publications, research and archives in the fields of art, territory usage, society, human rights and cultural policies.

History of collaboration
The collaboration of Connecting Cultures with Wikipedia began in June 2011, following its participation in the project "Share Your Knowledge". Connecting Cultures released the texts of its site under a BY-SA license.

Main activities

 * it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Maratona 2011 - 2011 edit-a-thon about Africa.

Upload of contents on Wikipedia, reactions, analysis
Patrizia Cancelli, a researcher at the institution, worked on Wikipedia. Patrizia has thus personally experienced what it takes to create a page on Wikipedia, and how much work it takes to adapt existing texts (not originally designed for an encyclopedia), make them neutral, providing them with a complete bibliography. Untangling oneself can sometimes be difficult, and sometimes it looks impossible, when one is confronted with the current policies regarding notability, a concept that might look obscure, but instead it makes much sense to more experienced Wikipedians, although it can be extremely different from one language community to another. It can therefore happen that after debating, some articles are deleted for these or for other reasons, but it must be said that for each person who dispenses alerts or warnings, there is always at least another one more generous with advices and guidance to build a happy working environment. Since April 2012 therefore about twenty articles about artists, collectives and associations were written, which have recorded some thirteen thousand visits through December 2012; among these entries, we should certainly report those regarding two men of international caliber such as the Albanian it:Adrian Paci, who also has a page on Wikipedia in German, Polish and Albanian, and Polish it:Krzysztof Wodiczko, whose biography can also be read on the encyclopedias in English, Spanish, French, Polish and Serbo-croatian.

Articles in Italian

 * it:Adrian Paci
 * it:Arte, Patrimonio e Diritti Umani
 * it:Artway of thinking
 * it:Cittadellarte
 * it:Emilio Fantin
 * it:FuoriLuogo
 * it:Gruppo A12
 * it:Krzysztof Wodiczko
 * it:Laura Morelli
 * it:Liliana Moro
 * it:Maria Thereza Alves
 * it:Marjetica Potrč
 * it:Massimo Bartolini
 * it:Progetto Zingonia
 * it:Riccardo Benassi
 * it:Sarat Maharaj
 * it:Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade
 * it:Stefano Arienti


 * it:Categoria:WikiAfrica/Connecting Cultures,18 entries, over 13,000 visits April trough December 2012

Italian version

 * it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Istituzioni/Connecting Cultures

Related pages

 * WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge
 * Hints about articles to be created from Connecting Cultures contents

Links

 * Connecting Cultures website
 * Connecting Cultures joins “Share Your Knowledge”