WIKI UNSEEN

Wiki Unseen is more than a project — it is a promise.

A promise to show the world the people who have shaped the world, but were systematically erased from knowledge spaces. People whose images were taken out of the picture.

With Wiki Unseen, our goal is to redraw those within the global majority — including Black people, people of color, and Indigenous peoples — back into history, one image at a time.

Redrawing history, one image at a time.

In collaboration with Behance and AfroCrowd, we are inviting artists from diverse backgrounds to illustrate scientists, activists, poets, and pioneers who are not visually represented on Wikipedia. Their images are either missing from history entirely, or they are locked behind restrictive paywalls and licenses. We will release each new artwork here, on the Wiki Unseen gallery, all throughout Black History Month and beyond.

With the support of our volunteers, we aim to share these new images on Wikipedia, making them available for everyone, everywhere. Because that is what free knowledge is about. Learn how you can become part of this initiative.

Unseen facts:

Only 35.4% of biographies on English Wikipedia have images.
Wikipedia articles with images receive more traffic compared to those without images.