The Central Indiana Wikipedia Partnership is a group of organizations collaborating to improve the representation of Indiana’s heritage on Wikipedia. The Central Indiana Community Foundation’s (CICF) Library Fund has generously funded the partnership, whose main aim is to increase the capacity of central Indiana institutions to engage with Wikipedia by working together on programs such as staff training, contributing digital collection images by Wikimedia Commons, holding public editing events, and more.
How to join:
We invite interested institutions that serve central Indiana to join or to participate.
Please get in touch with us to:
- Learn more about the benefits of Wikipedia
- Collaborate in facilitating an editing event
- Integrating Wikipedia in the classroom
- Support for events or outreach
Contact us at: digschol@iu.edu
More information
Wikipedia and its sister projects like Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons have become essential tools for those wanting to learn more about places, people, and history. Many galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAMs), and other cultural heritage organizations have been exploring Wikipedia as an additional platform for outreach and public engagement strategies. Through the work of the partnership, University Library hopes to foster a community of practice to support Central Indiana GLAM professionals with an interest in utilizing and updating Wikipedia.
Recent Highlights
Since 2020, our efforts have resulted in 331,108 images from 16 Indiana institutions uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. These collections constitute over 250 gigabytes of digitized Indiana heritage. These collection now receive over 11 million page views annually across Wikimedia projects!
- View media contributed to Commons from Indiana Memory
- Wikimedians of Indiana User group (established March 2023!)
Recent Events
- I Love IU Indy Photo Contest, Fall 2025
- Crown Hill Cemetery Edit-a-thon, August 7, 2025
- Civics Summer 2025 Edit-a-thon, July 2, 2025
- Wiki Loves Pride 2025, June 26, 2025
- Earth Day Edit-a-thon, April 22, 2025
- Indiana Women in the Arts Edit-a-thon, March 2025
Want to join us for our next event? Keep an eye on our Meetup page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis