This document discusses the role of Wikipedia and its community in supporting cultural heritage organizations. It provides examples of cultural works, buildings, and collections that have been documented on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons through photographs uploaded under Creative Commons licenses. These open licenses allow reuse of the media even for commercial purposes, thereby increasing access to cultural heritage. Institutions are encouraged to provide authorizations and metadata to facilitate uploading photographs of monuments and adding open data about heritage collections on Wikipedia.

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Iolanda Pensa, SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. io@pensa.it - http://iopensa.it
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2. © Information Architects, Web Trand Map 2007/V2, 2007.

3. © Basim Magdy, Superman Will Save Us All, Cairo, 2002, postcard.

4. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.

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10. Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco, Milano, 2012, Raccolte civiche Extraeuropee, Castello Sforzesco, Milano. Images and catalogue on Wikimedia Commons while the collection was not onlin We inkoimr eedxihai bCitoemd,m 2o01n2s,, cccc bbyy--ssaa..

11. Artgate, The art collection of Cariplo Foundation, images and catalogue on Wikimedia Commons, 2012, cc by-sa.

12. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Cariplo on Wikipedia in Italian, 09/2011, CC BY-SA.

13. The countries promoting the contest Wiki Loves Monuments 2010-2013 and documenting with a total of 900’000 images cultural heritage around the world, 2014, cc by-sa.

14. Chiajna Monastery, Bucharest, Romania. Author: Mihai Petre, Wikimedia Commons, 2011, cc by-sa.

15. The windmills of Kinderdijk, The Netherlands, Author: Tarod, Wikimedia Commons, 2012, cc by-sa.
Monastery and chateau in Zbraslav, Prague, Czech Republic. Author: Zdeněk Fiedler, Wikimedia Commons, 2013, cc by-sa.
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Author: Thaler – Tamás Thaler, Wikimedia Commons, 2013, cc by-sa.
Baptistery of St. Peter, San Pietro in Consavia church, Asti, Italy. Author: Marco Odina, Wikimedia Commons, 2012, cc by-sa.

16. Winning images of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. Wikimedia Commons, cc by-sa.

17. The mountain village of Esino Lario, Province of Lecco, Italy bidding to host Wikimania 2016, the international gathering of Wikipedia volunteers. Map Compare.

18. © Chacho Pueble, his great-aunt and photos by his sister Lula, http://www.behance.net/gallery/Grandmother-Tips/2392946.

19. Wikipedia contributors, "Cultural heritage," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cultural_heritage&oldid=621294879 (accessed September 22, 2014), cc by-sa.

20. © Maha Maamoun, Going Places: A Project for Public Busses, Le Caire, 2003-2004.

21. Photo uploaded Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Taking a photo of a monument and uploading it on Wikipedia. Wikipedia under the free license Creative Commons attribution share alike, allowing commercial use.

22. Authorization
from the artist
Authorization
from the owner
List of monuments
Georeferentiating
the monument
Authorization from institutions
overseeing heritage
Photo uploaded Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Really, taking a photo of a monument and uploading it on Wikipedia. Wikipedia under the free license Creative Commons attribution share alike, allowing commercial use.

23. (Authorization
from the artist)
(Authorization
from the owner)
List of monuments and
your content about heritage
Open data about
heritage
Authorization from institutions
overseeing heritage
Photo uploaded
Providing also
your photos
Better knowledge for anyone,
also for commercial purposes.
Facilitating the upload of photos of monuments on Wikipedia: open licenses, open data, authorizations (for commercial use), freedom of panorama.

24. Freedom of panorama, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Croatia, cc by-sa.

26. Example of citation on Wikipedia:
Lisa Van Woersem in cooperation with Robert Oosterhuis, The Netherlands: Cultural Policy Profile in
Compendium: Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe, Council of Europe and European Institute for
Comparative Cultural Research, 04-02-2014.

27. “The big opportunity with open licenses is far more practical:
it has the potential to dramatically increase the impact, reach
and scale of the ideas we invest in…”
!
The Shuttleworth Foundation, 2008

28. Iolanda Pensa, io@pensa.it - http://iopensa.it. 2014, cc by-sa.
Map: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters and Wikimedia user groups supporting Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects and contact points. 2014, cc by-sa.