Decolonising knowledge/Edit-a-thon January 2025

Improving articles and other data on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects by collaborating with Swiss GLAMs, which have been producing in 2024-2025 exhibitions and publications focusing on colonialism, provenance, restitution, power dynamics and global critical perspectives.

When: 18-19 January 2025
Where: Join us online and in Zurich at the exhibition tour

Decolonising knowledge

What are we working on

Some editing at ETH after the visit

Visiting Benin Dues

Adding data about institutions and relevant related content on Wikidata.
Identifying relevant Wikipedia articles which can be improved.
Starting reviewing Wikipedia articles.
Identifying significant content from the exhibitions which could be shared on Wikimedia Commons and reused for Wikipedia articles and in which language(s).

Participants can contribute in any language.

Reports

This Month in GLAM: Switzerland report (English)
WMCH: Decolonising knowledge – Beninbronzen, Sklavenhandel und Schwertermarke (German)

Worklist

de:Britische Strafexpedition nach Benin tbc
de:Afrikanische Kunst tbc
de:Schweizer Kolonialismus tbc

de:Schweizer Grönlandforschung Done --Rudolf (1rhb) (talk) 03:06, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
de:Schweizerland Done --Rudolf (1rhb) (talk) 10:28, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
de:Margarete von Uexküll Güldenbandt Done --Medea7 (talk) 10:35, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
de:Vereinigte Herbarien Zürich (work in progress) Matutinho (talk) 10:17, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
de:Jakob Kaderli/Jakob Kaderly Done (Rudolf/1rhb)
de:Kaderli Done --Rudolf (1rhb) (talk) 02:42, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
de:Anna Schmid (Ethnologin) Done (Rudolf/1rhb)
de:Areogun/Dada Areogun Done --Rudolf (1rhb) (talk) 18:38, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Heinrich Bütler Done (Rudolf/1rhb)
Helvetia Tinde Done --Rudolf (1rhb) (talk) 15:45, 11 March 2025 (UTC) / 15:46, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata

Exhibitions visited

Colonial Traces – Collections in Context (d:Q131795290), iopensa (talk) 11:12, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Benin Dues. Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures (d:Q131824643), --Sofiasufei (talk) 15:33, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Colonial at Landesmuseum Zurich d:Q131994479
In Dialogue with Benin at Museum Rietberg d:Q131824580

Other items

Monique Ligtenberg (d:Q131795604), iopensa (talk) 11:12, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
extract (d:Q131796257) room of the ETH Library, chiara
Benin Initiative Switzerland (BIS) (Q131824613), thanks joris!
African Students Association of Zurich (Q131824729), iopensa (talk) 15:54, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alice Hertzog (d:Q131994713) curator of Benin Dues (the other curator was already on Wikidata Alexis Malefakis (d:Q113838026)

Fixing data about cultural institutions on Wikidata

Property	Comments from volunteer reviewers
country (P17)	✅ was already set in all institutions --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
image (P18)	✅ was missing just from Hans Erni Museum (Q3329191) --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
instance of (P31)	✅ was already set in all institutions --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
postal code (P281)	✅ was missing just from Hans Erni Museum (Q3329191) and ETH Zurich (Q11942) but maybe the ETH is correct (multiple locations) --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
official website (P856)	✅ added in Fondation Opale (Q111209066), Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (Q120734712), Aargau house of art (Q29574934) --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
short name (P1813)	✅ added in Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (Q120734712). Maybe others? --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
X (Twitter) username (P2002)	✅ added in 2~ institutions --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Instagram username (P2003)	✅ added in 9~ institutions --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Facebook username (P2013)	✅ added in 9~ institutions --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Mastodon address (P4033)	✅ set "no value" in all 11 institutions :( --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
LinkedIn company or organization ID (P4264)	✅ added in 3~ institutions --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PeerTube channel address (P12622)	✅ set "no value" in all 11 institutions :( --ValerioBozz (talk) 21:44, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
...	...

Relevant changes:

Fondation Pierre Arnaud (Q27484306): this art foundation closed the 21st May 2018 because of lack of 500.000 Swiss franc of budget deficit (!). Now is Fondation Opale (Q107080881). So, to be kept, but setting replaced by (P1366), date of official closure (P3999). Updated also on OpenStreetMap [1]
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Wikimedia Commons

Category of the event in Zurich Commons:Category:Decolonising knowledge in Zurich January 2025
Category of the exhibition Colonial Traces at ETH Zurich commons:Category:Colonial Traces at ETH Zurich
Category of the exhibition Colonial at Landesmuseum Zurich commons:Category:Colonial at Landesmuseum Zurich
Category of the exhibition Benin Dues at the Ethnographic Museum University of Zurich commons:Category:Benin Dues - Dealing with Looted Royal Treasures
Category of the exhibition In Dialogue with Benin at Museum Rietberg commons:Category:In Dialogue with Benin

Creating categories related to Benin City

Adding content to commons:Category:Benin bronzes
commons:Category:Areogun

Content

List of exhibitions, GLAMs and relevant research projects.

Documentation about the four exhibitions visited in Zurich: