Wikistories on Commons

Sharing the sum of all knowledge will not happen until everyone has access to all forms of knowledge. The visually curated knowledge is an area that needs more exploration in our projects, and Wikipedia project constrains the prospects of visual content.

Inspiration
The Inuka team sees an opportunity around underrepresented knowledge transcended in diverse ways, the type of knowledge favouring representation as a visual experience. Culture, Art, Heritage, History and Language topics lend itself to this kind of visual representation, as seen in various photo essay campaigns done on Commons:


 * Wiki Loves Africa 2017/photo essay: Making of Thatch
 * Wiki Loves Monuments 2021: Winners
 * UNESCO training in building audiovisual archives with wiki tools

The Wikimedia Commons is an excellent platform that provides upload and discoverability of licensed media files in different languages.

The Inuka team has begun conceptualising Wikistories on Commons as a visual tool that allows contributing and consuming underrepresented knowledge.

Product Vision
Provide a way to curate and access underrepresented knowledge using images and stories for contributors and readers.

Initial Goals & Objectives

 * 1) Increase visual sources of underrepresented knowledge in our projects, provided by GLAMs and cultural heritage organisations
 * 2) Provide readers easy access to visually-curated underrepresented knowledge.

Achievements of Wikistories on Wikipedia
Currently Wikistories is on Wikipedia in Indonesian as a Beta feature with 107 editors and 184 stories created between July and mid-September.

Next Steps
Communications and Community engagement kicking off in September.