Hi all,

Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together on an initiative to create a better and more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships.

This initiative is in its very early stages. We have just given a first presentation about it at Wikimania [1], of which you can watch the video recording [2], read the discussion notes [3], and/or browse the slides with speaker notes [4].

We have now also published information and a landing page about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org [5], where we warmly welcome your first remarks, questions and feedback on the talk page [6]. We look forward to engage many of you in the research and scoping that will take place in the upcoming year!

Warmly,

John Andersson (Wikimedia Sverige)

Sandra Fauconnier (Wikimedia Foundation)

[1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Technology_outreach_%26_innovation/Tools_for_partnerships_%E2%80%93_developing_the_technology_our_partners_need

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfCbdfa0opg 

[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Tools_for_partnerships_developing_technology

[4] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tools_for_partnerships_%E2%80%93_developing_the_technology_our_partners_need_-_Wikimania_2019.pdf

[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMSE-WMF_joint_initiative_concerning_GLAM_communities_of_practice

[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMSE-WMF_joint_initiative_concerning_GLAM_communities_of_practice