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Efforts to get Wikipedia listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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April 2016
A visual presented supporting Wikipedia's listing at the Wikimedia Conference Berlin 2011
Wikipedia for World Heritage
refers to the efforts put forth to get
Wikipedia
listed as a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site
. The idea was originally proposed to the
Wikimedia chapter
by the
Wikimedia Foundation
at the 2011 Wikimedia Conference in Berlin.
An online petition was started at the German Wikipedia on May 23, 2011.
That same day the
Edmonton Journal
published a piece in which it called the bid 'a long-shot bet' inferring the platform was not a culturally defining artefact.
Wikipedia was also argued to be 'lacking the effect or maturity for listing' as World Heritage.
The bid is considered to be the first for a digital entity and is expected to be controversial with the list's maintainers who are notably conservative.
Jimbo Wales
has stated that "the basic idea is to recognize that Wikipedia is this amazing global cultural phenomena that has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
If Wikipedia does not get listed as a World Heritage Site, and UNESCO has denied its application as it does not meet most criteria, it has been suggested that they apply for
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
References
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"Wikimedia Conference 2011/Documentation/Common Project I: 10 years Wikipedia"
. Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
. Retrieved
27 May
2011
O'Brien, Kevin J. (23 May 2011).
"Worthy Online Resource, but Global Cultural Treasure?"
The New York Times
. Retrieved
27 May
2011
Williams, Christopher (May 26, 2011).
"Wikipedia seeks World Heritage Site status"
The Daily Telegraph
. Retrieved
27 May
2011
O'Brien, Kevin (23 May 2011).
"Wikipedia seeks UNESCO recognition as world treasure"
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