 Wikimania Conference and first of all I would like to thank everybody who was involved in organizing this year's conference and the challenges of all the online organization of the different aspects of this annual meeting. So we are from Wikimania Heritage Group and today we will share our story in building partnerships with different heritage views in different countries. So greetings from India and Morocco. I am Naseem Hashanbun. I am an architect and Wikimedean from Morocco and I am the chair co-founder of Wikibority Heritage. Hello everyone. I am Khushi Shah. I'm a conservation engineer by profession and I recently joined Wikibor Heritage as the Wikibor Heritage Coordinator. So first of all let's us introduce Wikibority Heritage User Group. We are a thematic user group of the Wikimedia Foundation that was recognized in October 2020. Our aim is especially in countries with no Wikimedia affiliates and how we are doing it is through proceeding through a key strategy which is building partnerships with heritage NGOs in these countries. So how do we work in order to build these partnerships and implement our activities in countries without affiliates? First of all we start by organizing thematic projects. Among our projects there is talk cities for cities listed as word heritage. We have wind danger that tends to document word heritage sites listed by the UNESCO on the dangers for incendiable word heritage etc and these projects have several relevant countries at once. Therefore we identify the target countries of our projects and in countries without Wikimedia communities or without Wikimedia affiliates we identify heritage NGOs and of course we get in contact with these NGOs in order to present the project, present what the movement is and try to discuss the different details of these projects in order to adapt it to the local context. So once the collaboration is agreed with the heritage NGO we try to work through building capacity in the country in order to enable the local population to document its own heritage and to lead the activities themselves in their country. So along with the local NGO we identify volunteer organizers of our activities and we conduct extensive training of trainers for these volunteers. For example last year we conducted Wikimedia training of trainers in Yemen and Libya and this year we are we are conducting trainings in Ethiopia, Senegal and Guatemala either it is in person or online and the editaton is led by these volunteers and not by the members of the keyword heritage and also we organize the photography campaigns and sometimes wikidata editatons through the same process we always try to build capacity for local volunteers in order to enable them to lead the activities themselves and to document their heritage by their own. So after the completion of the project and after the conducting of different training of trainers and the organization of the different editatons and campaigns we try to sustain this collaboration through proposing further collaborations with the NGO and also with the interested volunteers. We can propose other activities, follow-up editatons or a completely new project and here I'm going to give some overview about the countries we are working on and to speak more about some positive stories and some challenge stories so we're currently working with NGOs from Ethiopia Guatemala and Senegal and actually the most successful partnership was with CN for culture and heritage NGO in Libya where we started last year a project-based collaboration in order to document the heritage sites in Libya that are listed by the UNESCO as endangered. So we conducted training of trainers about Wikipedia and we also organized a photography campaign and through building capacity for the members of the NGO and also for volunteer organizers we tried to build also community so all the participants discovered what the Wikimedia movement is and were interested in the different options and possibilities offered by the movement. So they were very interested in continuing this collaboration and continuing their participation in the movement. So after this Wikipedia training we conducted a Wikidata training that was not initially part of the project so some of the members of the NGO learned how to use Wikidata and they are actually involving Wikidata in one of their projects about heritage sites and climate change in Libya. For the challenge story I'm going to speak about our partnership with Harmony Development Foundation in Yemen. We started also with Windanger projects in order to document the word heritage sites in danger in the country and the completion of our activities including the training of trainers was very challenging due to connection issues in the country. The internet situation was very bad and also due to the political situation and this resulted in a loss of motivation of the volunteers so they couldn't continue contributing to the different wiki projects after the completion of Windanger. So what we learned from this experience? First of all we should try to find partners with a similar vision. There are many heritage NGOs that are interested in different parts of heritage preservation but it was important to find NGOs that are interested in heritage documentation so they can be motivated. Then we use relevant examples to introduce the wiki movement to them. For example through trying to shed lights on how wiki data or other projects can improve their ongoing projects. For example how they can use wiki data for interactive mapping of their heritage sites and of course we think about incentives like certificates, prizes and acknowledgement through publishing articles on our websites about these activities and then in person meetings are very important in order to create some friendly relationship with people and increase their interest in participation. Then this year we talked about involving more heritage professionals in the group and I will let Pushi speak about this part. Hello all. So since aim of the wiki world heritage is to promote various kinds of heritage it is important to involve people from heritage background to stimulate better conversations and approach towards the future of the project. Next slide please. Involving emerging heritage professionals from diverse backgrounds helps raise important dialogues as well as increase the global reach of the projects. It opens up the space to collaborate with various organizations as well as include more and more volunteers into it and giving a platform for emerging professionals to express their views and document their own heritage. Next please. So involving people from heritage background also allows more on-ground reach and better documentation. One of the example could be taken as the recent photo heritage work that was conducted in the Amdabad which is also the world heritage city. So as a part of the collaboration between wiki world heritage and Indian heritage we had conducted this work where we had documented several historic sites of this city. This allowed more people from diverse background as well as heritage background to connect with wiki media understand what we do and document the city in a better format. Next slide please. We also launched a new session new project called wiki heritage are on May 2022 the aim of the project is to reach out to emerging professionals, local NGOs, established institutes as well as as well as export professionals and create a platform for open discussions with them. This project has allowed us to reach out to various people across the globe working in different kinds of heritage conservation and promotion. Next please. The project has allowed us to collaborate with people across different geographic areas such as Africa, various countries of Africa, United Kingdom and various countries from Asia. Next please. So from our different experiences we had one major learning is that wiki media is a potent tool for heritage NGOs in order to document the different aspects of their culture and we should always emphasize on this part wiki media is a tool and not an end for them and in the same time understanding wiki media and how the wiki media movement works was very complicated for these NGOs coming from different backgrounds and who previously didn't have any clue about the movement and the sister projects of wiki media. So what we need is to create some interactive and appealing material like short video sequences that really explain what is the movement and what supports can the movement have to different communities in order to encourage the different NGOs especially in countries with no affiliates to join the movement and create their own wiki media community. So if anybody has any question before the end of the session so from our previous experiences we would like to invite and encourage the wiki medians from different countries and also the foundation to think about how to explain in a very simple practical and appealing way what the wiki media movement is and what is its contribution to and what support it can give to the different NGOs. So we have a question how many heritage and non-profits organization exist. Actually we don't have the exact number of heritage NGOs as we are we have an international scope so we don't have a limited geographic scope but what we can say is that in every country there is at least one heritage NGO that is interested by the documentation aspect and the involvement of the local community. So it will be good to think about catalyzing partnerships with these NGOs in order to catalyze the creation of wiki media communities in these countries. Recording stopped.