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Connecting Cultures is a non-profit research agency based in Milan, founded in 2001 by Anna Detheridge, critic and theorist of visual arts and it is working on projects, events, training , publications, research and archives in the fields of art, territory usage, society, human rights and cultural policies. History of collaboration A sculpture in North Yorkshire on the topic of "cultural connections" The collaboration of Connecting Cultures with Wikipedia began in June 2011, following its participation in the project "Share Your Knowledge". Connecting Cultures released the texts of its site under a BY-SA license. Main activities it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Maratona 2011 - 2011 edit-a-thon about Africa. Upload of contents on Wikipedia, reactions, analysis Patrizia Cancelli, a researcher at the institution, worked on Wikipedia. Patrizia has thus personally experienced what it takes to create a page on Wikipedia, and how much work it takes to adapt existing texts (not originally designed for an encyclopedia), make them neutral, providing them with a complete bibliography. Untangling oneself can sometimes be difficult, and sometimes it looks impossible, when one is confronted with the current policies regarding notability, a concept that might look obscure, but instead it makes much sense to more experienced Wikipedians, although it can be extremely different from one language community to another. It can therefore happen that after debating, some articles are deleted for these or for other reasons, but it must be said that for each person who dispenses alerts or warnings, there is always at least another one more generous with advices and guidance to build a happy working environment. Since April 2012 therefore about twenty articles about artists, collectives and associations were written, which have recorded some thirteen thousand visits through December 2012; among these entries, we should certainly report those regarding two men of international caliber such as the Albanian it:Adrian Paci, who also has a page on Wikipedia in German, Polish and Albanian, and Polish it:Krzysztof Wodiczko, whose biography can also be read on the encyclopedias in English, Spanish, French, Polish and Serbo-croatian. Articles in Italian it:Adrian Paci it:Arte, Patrimonio e Diritti Umani it:Artway of thinking it:Cittadellarte it:Emilio Fantin it:FuoriLuogo it:Gruppo A12 it:Krzysztof Wodiczko it:Laura Morelli it:Liliana Moro it:Maria Thereza Alves it:Marjetica Potrč it:Massimo Bartolini it:Progetto Zingonia it:Riccardo Benassi it:Sarat Maharaj it:Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade it:Stefano Arienti it:Categoria:WikiAfrica/Connecting Cultures,18 entries, over 13,000 visits April trough December 2012 References Italian version (in Italian) it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/Istituzioni/Connecting Cultures Related pages Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge Hints about articles to be created from Connecting Cultures contents Links Connecting Cultures website Connecting Cultures joins “Share Your Knowledge”