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An active contributor to Wikipedia since 2004, he is one of the administrators of the Italian edition of the free encyclopedia since 2005. As a Wikipedian in residence he collaborated on many OpenGLAM projects for sharing the contents of cultural institutions, including the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan and the Central Institute for Archives (ICAR) of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC). Having joined the Wikimedia Italia staff as a trainer and GLAM specialist, he has been a Wikimedian in residence at the BEIC Foundation, the Academy of Sciences of Turin, the Ricordi Historical Archive of Milan, the Polo del '900. He collaborates with various universities, including the Politecnico and the Statale of Milan. Since 2021 he has been among the first two Wikipedians in residence at an Italian university, the University of Padua. With Unipd he created 3 MOOCs for students, teachers and cultural institutions on EduOpen. In 2024-25 he’s migrating the Museo Egizio di Torino catalogues to Wikimedia projects.
Session
"Hunting for Lost Heritage": how to create thousands of new items on Wikidata about "lost heritage", using data mining on existing images on Wikimedia Commons.