GLAM/Newsletter/January 2024/Contents/Finland report
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Photographing at the second half of 2023
Photographing at the second half of 2023
In the latter part of 2023, our work was related to photography. Finland participated in the Wiki Loves Living Heritage campaign, which culminated in celebrating the theme year of Living Heritage in Oodi, where the winning photo of the national campaign was awarded. We also continued our Helsinki island documentation trips by photographing Kuivasaari, Suomenlinna, Hylkysaari, Parliament House and Vallisaari. At the end of the year, Finnish Wikipedia participated in a science article writing and photography campaign coordinated by Wikimedia Eesti.
Improving Wikimedia Commons Finna photos
Another heavily aspected focus was to start improving the photographs uploaded from the National Museums Finna.fi service to the Wikimedia Commons. The first main target was reliably identifying and connecting Wikimedia Commons images to corresponding images in Finna. As the image information written on the Wikimedia Commons image page could have been non-machine readable, incorrect, or expired, the first task was to calculate perceptual hashes for images and match images using these. After this, we updated up-to-date source information to Commons images wikipage and SDC. We also systematically started adding SDC information about photographers, licenses, and dates. We also reuploaded the older low-resolution photos with improved quality, as museums have substantially increased image quality in the last five years. We continued this by writing a Finna-to-Wikimedia Commons metadata parser, which was then used to upload images from the JOKA Journalistic photo archive to Wikimedia Commons.
In 2023, we indexed approximately 15M Wikimedia Commons images using Python’s image hash library. We also updated information to 39000 photos and uploaded 3900 photos.
- Links
- Celebrating the theme year of living heritage in Oodi (Youtube, in Finnish)
- Wikimedia Eesti & Wikimedia Suomi expedition to Suomenlinna
Finnish Wiki Loves Living heritage finalists
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Traditional Finnish sauna whisking by a professional sauna healer Kaisu Mokkila. 3rd place in international competition /Ville Kurki -
Sailing with a talonpoikaisvene (traditional peasant boat) / Juha Karikoski -
workshop at the Finnish Museum of Games in Vapriikki, Tampere. / Saarni Säilynoja -
Helsinga - Helsinki middle age festival 2023 / Kari3562 -
