GLAM/Newsletter/February 2023/Contents/UK report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue II, February 2023

UK report

In Memoriam Jo Pugh / Cultural Diversity

Jo Pugh

We mourn the passing, on 11 February, of Jo Pugh, User:Mr_impossible, a great Wikimedian, a fantastic ally to those in the GLAM-Wiki movement, and an occasional contributor to this newsletter.

Khalili Foundation

This month I have:

Expanded the Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam article and submitted it for Featured Article review. I have initiated discussions about stylistic ways to write about Hajj (Is it capitalised? Does it take an article?) to establish a standard. English Wikipedia is currently very inconsistent on this.
Worked with Signpost editors to publish a summary of the Waqas and Poulter visual arts paper which prompted a lot of discussion.
Written a new draft about an Iranian painting.
Put an article through DYK review (which was rejected).
Done other follow-up from last month's editathons, mainly tidying up articles created by trainees. The University of Oxford's Khalili Research Centre posted a write-up of the Oxford editathon by a doctoral student.
Written text for the Khalili Foundation site about the Wikimedia partnership.
Reviewed international GLAM institutions to approach as part of the World Festival of Cultural Diversity.
Met online with Arabic Wikipedia contributors, in which we discussed about partnerships with GLAMs and the use of Khalili Collections images.