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Wikipedia on Aruba – Aruba on Wikipedia

This summer, Wikimedia Nederland will launch the 2-year project ‘Wikipedia on Aruba – Aruba on Wikipedia’. The aim of this project is to enrich information about Aruban and broader Dutch Caribbean culture and heritage on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. In addition, we want to help create a thriving Wikimedia community in Aruba. The project is funded by the Cultural Participation Fund (Fonds Cultuur Participatie). See here for a summary of the project.

Activities

In the project ‘Wikipedia on Aruba – Aruba on Wikipedia’, we will organise online and offline activities for experienced and new editors. We do this in collaboration with our partners on Aruba. The aim of the project is to add Wikipedia articles in English, Papiamento or Dutch, donate media files to Wikimedia Commons, and further expand Wikidata.

We want to develop an attractive mix of different activities between now and early 2026: training courses, photo competitions, writing challenges, hackathons and translation projects. All aimed at sharing text, images and data.

 

Central in the activities is the Wikimedian in Residence in Aruba, a local project coordinator, who will organise the activities, provide training and act as a point of contact. To our knowledge, this is the first Wikimedian in Residence in the Caribbean.

 

We aim to promote the Wikimedia mission throughout the Dutch-speaking Caribbean in the coming years, starting with this pilot in Aruba.

Initiators

This project is an initiative of Wikimedia Nederland in cooperation with Bibliotheca Nacional Aruba, Archivo Nacional Aruba, Monumentenfonds Aruba and UNOCA, and is funded by the Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie.

Want to know more?

Do you have questions or want to be kept informed of progress? If so, please contact Michelle van Lanschot, project coordinator Wikimedia Netherlands, at vanlanschot@wikimedia.nl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This project is supported by The Cultural Participation Fund. The Cultural Participation Fund aims to encourage and increase participation in the arts and culture.