GLAM/Newsletter/August 2025/Contents/UK report
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Working towards more image sharing
Khalili Foundation
Most of the work this month has been on the Memory of the World International Register, which has its own report.
A volunteer has translated a short summary of the Khalili Foundation article into Persian.
The image The Giant 'Uj and the Prophets Moses, Jesus and Muhammad was nominated for Featured Picture status on Commons. It was described as "interesting" and "featurable" because of its subject matter, but did not pass the review because of technical quality (image resolution).
We have taken the decision to explore further sharing on Wikimedia of images from the Khalili Collections, given the great reception the existing 1,500 images have achieved. I have been given access to the archive of files so I can see which images are technically suitable and thematically useful, then make a proper request.
The Museums+Tech Conference rejected my proposal for a talk about using cultural collections to diversify Wikipedia, using the Khalili Collections as an example, but said the proposal scored highly and that I should submit to the next conference.
The GLAMOrgan tool reports 4,088,248 image views for August. The more reliable Commons API stats tool has not calculated a figure yet, and I've raised this problem with the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation.
