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NEWS: Take part in the Carpathians Challenge! →
The Carpathian Mountains – second largest in Europe after the Alps – span across Southeast Poland, Southwest Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Romania. There is a diverse and rich tradition of folklore, regional crafts and arts, and folk culture within the Carpathian area. We are interested in looking at its cross-border similarities, common history and cultural roots. The goal of the project is to collect bibliography, source material, photo and audiovisual material on authentic folklore of the region, make it available on Wikimedia Commons – and use it for better coverage of related articles on Wikipedia (in English and relevant local languages). The main focus is on regional costume, regional museums, folk arts and crafts and local vernacular architecture.
Teams consisting of Wikipedians, ethnographers from the National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw, and international volunteers will travel to several Central European destinations in order to document folk culture in Wikipedias and Wikimedia Commons. All team members will also write, expand and illustrate a predefined set of related articles on related language versions of Wikipedia. See the lists of articles.
Wikipedians from the team establish contacts with Wikipedians from all the countries visited, inform them about the project in advance, and get them involved in editing, as well as in local training workshops and documentation trips. Each trip will be linked to at least one museum of ethnography in the visited region, with whom the team will collaborate on the project (see list of museums below). We will also conduct a basic wikiworkshop for local residents and staff in one museum in each country.