GLAM/Newsletter/April 2025/Contents/UK report
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Mapping Museums / Art in Arabic
Putting UK collections on the map
Between January and March, Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) was Wikimedian in Residence with the Museum Data Service, making improvements to coverage of accredited museums in Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, and linking Wikidata and OSM representations of museums to each other. He also helped the MDS find descriptions of museum collections in Wikipedia articles, which the MDS are reusing on their website, thanks to Wikipedia's open licence. You can read the MDS blog post about the project.
Khalili Foundation
There has been a bumper crop of volunteer translations of articles relating to the Khalili Collections.
- The Khalili Collections article translated into Arabic
- The Anis al-Hujjaj article translated into Arabic
- The Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents article translated into Arabic
- The Musa va 'Uj article translated into Arabic
- The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art article translated into Arabic
- A summary of the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World article translated into Arabic
- The Khalili Collection of Spanish Metalwork article translated into Arabic
- A summary of the Khalili Collection of Japanese Art article translated into French
- The Khalili Collections article translated into Urdu
These new articles bring the total number of articles created in this project to 77, covering a total of 17 languages. Arabic has become the third most-common language for articles related to the Khalili Collections, after English and Persian.
In addition, there are new articles this month that, while not translations of articles produced by this project, use images shared by the Khalili Collections:
- An Urdu article about the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus
- An Urdu article about the Blue Quran
- A Chinese article about Suba', the 34th chapter of the Qur'an
- An Arabic biography of the artist Mo'en Mosavver
This is not a complete list as it is hard to track new uses of images across all versions of Wikipedia.
There are no new image uploads or new Featured Images this month. The stats server gives 4,662,534 image views for April.
Most of the work this month has been on the UNESCO Memory of the World international register, which has a separate monthly report.
The winners of the Commonwealth Peace Prize (created by the Khalili Foundation) are now mentioned in Wikipedia's List of peace activists and their articles (James Wuye and Muhammad Ashafa) now mention the prize. Other edit requests related to the prize are in a queue awaiting approval.
For the Interfaith Explorers educational site, I have been reviewing the images that were uploaded by the Wiki Loves Folklore campaign and making notes on which images can be used to illustrate Dharmic religions.
