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50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg
By50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights
OlafJanssen
In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
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New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco from the 1980s and 1990s by Angeline van Achterberg, African Studies Centre Leiden
Hans Muller, ASCL Wikimedian in residence

The African Studies Centre Leiden has recently released another installment of hundreds of photographs of Africa to Wikimedia Commons. They mainly hail from a large image donation by the late Dutch social anthropologist Angeline A. van Achterberg. Some locations in Morocco still want identification. Therefore your help in specifying Moroccan landscapes, towns and villages would be highly appreciated, thank you! A sample:
- Algeria: Melika, Djelfa, Atakor, Ahaggar, Tamanrasset, Terhaouhaout and Youka Hafit in 1981, 1984 and 1987
- Mali: Timbuktu, Djenné, Teli, Ségoukoro in 1993
A man at the grave of Bitòn Coulibaly, Ségoukoro
- Morocco: Fez, Meknes?, unknown locations in the 1990s