Wikidocumentaries

Vision

Wikidocumentaries will be the goggles to the heritage ecosystem where interconnected Wikimedia projects, institutional repositories, communities using linked platforms and individuals all come together in a shared space, a collective media commons.

Wikimedia projects cannot host all the media of the world, but can connect and make sense of them.

Tap into the interlinked heritage ecosystem

Interact with institutional APIs based on interlinked repositories.
Leverage Wikimedia knowledge to connect resources across languages and sources.

Extending beyond the margins

Make use of languages as widely as possible.
Develop technological solutions to conditional sharing.
Make available low-cost and free solutions for contributing.

Sensemaking in the Cultural Commons

Automate visualizations and narratives with transparent and editable algorithms.
Use the open materials to provide information based on actual sources.
Allow users to bring in their knowledge, by refining, adding and enriching existing materials.
Converge data across sources and record provenance.

Links

Wikidocumentaries

Wikidocumentaries website displays the development version of the website. You can search any Wikidata topic and display it visually with links, maps and visualization.

Documentation and planning

Ideas about different functionalities have been recorded on this website over time. Any one of the ideas, or any other idea, can be picked up for realization.

Codebase in GitHub

The codebase is in GitHub. It includes one repository for the UI (front end) and another one for the API (backend).

Images uploaded from Wikidocumentaries to Wikimedia Commons