WikiProject:United Nations/WIPO
This pages enumerates the core articles that WIPO's Wikipedians in Residence (WiR) have created and improved and some historical background on the project.
Current WiR for WIPO:
- Florence Devouard. Since February 2022. fr / en
- Salvador Alcántar. Since April 2023. es / en
- Mervat Salman. Since February 2024. ar / en
WIPO's core articles
editThis is a selection of articles we have been working on...
See also
Images
editThis section shows some examples of the images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, for all files see:
- Images uploaded by WIPO's WiR
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World IP Day 2022 -
Global leaders in innovation in 2021 from Global Innovation Index 2021 -
Daren Tang, WIPO Director General in 2023 -
World Intellectual Property Report 2022 cover page -
Participation of women inventors in PCT Applications 2009-2023 -
Cover page of the Global Innovation Index 2023 Report
About WIPO's residence
editWIPO is producing a huge amount of specialist knowledge that can be shared on Wikipedia, which benefits Wikipedia and increases the audience WIPO reaches. Sharing content with Wikipedia is simple for WIPO because its publications (and its website since mid 2022) are already licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).
The initiative is spear-headed by Charlotte Beauchamp, head of Publications and Design Section. WIPO has previously worked with three other Wikipedian in Residence:
- John Cummings, mid 2021, over three months
- Isla Haddow-Flood and Sherry Antoine, end of 2021, over two months
The objective of 2022 was for one experienced Wikipedian Florence Devouard to collaborate with teams of WIPO experts to improve and develop content in WIPO's fields of expertise on Wikimedia projects, within Wikimedia's rules and guidelines, over a longer and more stable timeframe, for long lasting benefits.
In 2023, the team decided expand the scope of the project to another UN official language: Spanish, the second language in the world with more native speakers. That is how Salvador Alcántar, from Mexico was invited to be Wikipedian on Residence. This experience motivated to try another extra language: Arabic, and in 2024, Mervat Salman, from Jordan, was invited to join the team.
The project is meant to
- create new or edit existing articles on Wikipedia (and Wikidata) by adding expert information, knowledge, data, and statistics from WIPO publications and resources, as well as
- create opportunities for WIPO staff to better understand the Wikimedia projects and ecosystem for a long lasting mutually beneficial relationship.