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Sharing more of the Enamels of the World
Khalili Foundation
I have been exploring the possibility of another bulk image upload. The Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World has 118 images already uploaded, covering about 90 art works. This is only a minority of the full collection, and there are many more high-quality images that I have access to, with catalogue descriptions (thanks to Dror, the curator!). The next stages are for me to create a spreadsheet of the collection, import it into Wikidata to describe the artworks, select the images to upload, then upload them as a batch to Wikimedia Commons. After the enamels, there are a lot more scientific instruments in the Islamic Art collection for which good images could be uploaded.
New articles with images from the Khalili Collections include Uzbek Wikipedia's article about Ahmad al-Buni and an article in Azerbaijani about the Masnavi, a poem by Rumi.
I attended the Wikimedians In Residence Away Day at the University of Leeds. I presented about how I use Wikidata to track activity across the wikis relevant to the Khalili Collections and Memory of the World work, and learned about the new tool for organising event registrations. We won't have to use Eventbrite for edit-a-thons again, and Wikimedia's own event registration tool makes it easier to follow up on the participants' activity.
Most of the work this month has been on the Memory of the World project, about which there is a separate report.
There are no new translations or featured images this month.
The stats tool reports 4,131,650 image views this month.
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