By Nassima Chahboun

Until December 31st, you can join us and contribute to safeguarding endangered UNESCO World Heritage sites in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, through participating in the campaigns of our project: WHindanger!

I am Nassima from Morocco, and in 2020, I co-founded Wiki World Heritage, an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation, for the creation of online open content about World Heritage worldwide.

This year, we launched one of our most important projects: WHindanger, through which we aim to collaboratively create open content around World Heritage sites in danger, using powerful open platforms, such as Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia in the world.

Through a series of writing workshops and photography campaigns we are organizing, everyone is invited to write and translate Wikipedia articles about these endangered sites, and donate photographs to illustrate the articles and build online photo-repositories under free licenses.

So if you have photos of Bamiyan, Jam, Ashur, Hatra, Samarra, Sanaa, Shibam or Zabid, join us to tell the stories of these sites to the whole world, and also get the chance to win a prize!

To participate in the photography campaigns, you can upload your photos on :
www.whindanger-afghanistan.wiki
www.whindanger-iraq.wiki
www.whindanger-yemen.wiki

To participate in the writing workshops, don’t hesitate to contact us at contact@wikiworldheritage.org

Photo credit: Old Sanaa, Yemen – By AdelHaimi – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Uploaded within WHindanger campaign in Yemen)