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Reconnecting Balinese Manuscripts with Local Voices: WikiSami University Workshops in Bali

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WikiSami Workshop at Universitas Hindu Indonesia, Bali (Kasu Wardana CC BY 4.0) **WikiSami (Sum of All Manuscripts Bali)** is a Wikimedia-supported initiative that aims to identify and reconnect Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts (*lontar*) preserved across international collections. Beyond documentation, WikiSami seeks to bring these manuscripts back into conversation with Balinese communities, especially younger generations, by creating spaces where manuscript heritage can be engaged with, discussed, and reinterpreted in locally meaningful ways. This series of university workshops grew out of an earlier journey at Leiden University Library. While working with the Balinese manuscript collection there, the WikiSami team spent time identifying and mapping hundreds of lontar manuscripts belonging to the *geguritan* genre. When returning to Bali, it became clear that this work should not remain confined to archival lists or research notes.…

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