GLAM/Newsletter/April 2016/Contents/UK report
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GLAMwiki work in Yorkshire; Mitchell Arts Centre
Curators continue with GLAMwiki work in Yorkshire
The curator of numismatics at York Museums Trust - Dr Andy Woods - has instigated the upload of a number of high-resolution images of Roman coins from the collection. This is a fantastic example of GLAMwiki work continuing more than nine months since the last official Wikipedia project in the organisation and more than three months since Pat Hadley (former WiR) was working for the organisation. A museum volunteer was trained to edit Commons and Wikipedia and this led to the placement of these images on a range of biography articles for Emperors. The images are in the Commons Category Numismatic collections of York Museums Trust
- A selection of the coins
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Denarius of Commodus (obverse) -
Denarius of Commodus (reverse) -
Radiate of Gordian III (obverse) -
Radiate of Gordian III (reverse) -
Solidus of Valentinian II (obverse) -
Solidus of Valentinian II (reverse)
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Mitchell Arts Centre
A small edit-a-thon was held at the Mitchell Arts Centre in Stoke-on-Trent. Andy Mabbett trained five new editors, who wrote articles about the centre itself, as well as Lancers in Italy During the Second World War, The Black Dog of Newgate and Fun Palaces; and improvements to Supermarine and List of surviving Supermarine Spitfires (the centre is named after R. J. Mitchell, er the inventor of the Spitfire.
Other news
Andy led a session on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedians-in-Residence, for health and science librarians, at #HASLibCamp, an unconference event in London, which he also facilitated.
