13 December 2024 2024 UNESCO inscriptions added to Wikidata
The 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage convened in in Asunción, Republic of Paraguay and inscribed 66 elements on the
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists (Q4435332).
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The convention inscribed 2 elements on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, 61 elements on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (three of them were transferred from the Urgent Safeguarding List to the Representative List) and three programmes were included in the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices.
This year’s 2024 inscriptions observe the first-ever inscriptions for Brunei Darussalam, Ghana, Myanmar, Rwanda and Somalia. UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists now feature 788 elements corresponding to 150 countries.
The event period of 2023 is over and we wish the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage a wonderful 20th Anniversary! Wiki Loves Living Heritage continues the work to bring living heritage inventories to Wikimedia projects, inspire activities, and bring focal points, Wikimedia and heritage communities together on the local level.
Introducing the playing cards for the Ethics of Open Sharing
14 April 2023
Bart Magnus and Isaac Oloruntimilehin
Benefits of opening content on Wikimedia projects
FAQ for safeguarding organizations
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annual international photography competition
15 January 2024–14 February 2024
no description
18 November 2023
Dagbani Wikimedia community event
28 October 2023
9th Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon in Geneva focusing on colonial collections and provenance research
29 September 2023–30 September 2023
3-day event for Wiki Clubs members in North Macedonia, dedicated to living heritage
22 September 2023–24 September 2023
A virtual exchange on the culture of burial and mourning as well as the design, care and preservation of graves, tombs, cemeteries and other places of remembrance.
11 September 2023–11 September 2023
presentation, coffee break and a table at the hackathon
17 August 2023
Sadik Shahadu and Susanna Ånäs visit the popular vodcast
28 July 2023
travel grant to do research at Márkomeannu 27-30 July 2023
27 July 2023–30 July 2023
photo campaign on Living Heritage in India
24 July 2023–2 September 2023
documentation project about indigo hand block printing in the Mühlviertel region
21 July 2023–23 July 2023
no description
1 July 2023–30 September 2023
photo contest about intangible heritage in Austria
1 July 2023–8 October 2023
public photo competition on Wikimedia Commons, that invites everyone from Singapore to participate in sharing the tangible and intangible heritage of Singapore on Wikimedia Commons under a free Creative Commons license
15 June 2023–15 July 2023
European photo campaign to document people making efforts to take care, transmit and safeguard the living heritage of humanity
5 June 2023–15 September 2023
activity that aims to collect tales, narratives and legends from different dialects of the Albanian language through sound recordings on Wikimedia Commons
5 June 2023–9 July 2023
no description
3 June 2023
intangible heritage in Flanders
3 June 2023–3 June 2023
no description
1 June 2023
photo contest in Finland to make living heritage visible
9 May 2023–10 September 2023
no description
7 May 2023
activities highlight sustainability and wellbeing and ICOM's new Museum Definition
4 May 2023–18 May 2023
image uploading and Wikipedia editing campaign in Norway and Sápmi
4 May 2023–30 November 2023
participatory event that seeks to contribute to the collection of information on expressions, practices or creators of intangible heritage in Chile
1 May 2023–31 May 2023
wiki contest in Norway and Sámi
1 May 2023–30 November 2023
no description
14 April 2023
event in Veles
13 April 2023–17 April 2023
webinar to kick off the activities in Wiki Loves Living Heritage 2023
17 March 2023
photographic, video and audio contest, with the 2023 theme Climate and Weather.
1 March 2023–30 April 2023
proofreading campaign organized in the Bengali Wikisource to celebrate Living Heritage
1 February 2023–30 November 2023
2023 edition of Wiki Loves Folklore
1 February 2023–31 March 2023
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