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The 18th language
Khalili Foundation
Volunteers have created five new articles this month, including our first in South Azerbaijani! The first translation into that language is a short summary about the Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents. This means the project has now created articles in 18 different languages. The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art article is right now being translated into French, and the Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage likewise, bringing us to five new articles in French from this project. The article about the Gulshan-i 'Ishq has been translated into Arabic. In addition, there is a new biography in Russian of Sir David Khalili. This does not translate text that I've written, but illustrates the Khalili Collections with 37 images that I uploaded as part of this project.
My current work related to the Khalili Collections is using the four volumes of "Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands" by Michael Spink alongside other textbooks. Spink has a set of essays describing the characteristics of metalwork from different eras and places. By summarising each essay and combining them into an article, I am developing a dedicated article about Islamic metalwork, about which Wikipedia currently has one paragraph within a larger article.
There were four new images uploaded this month, plus a cropped version of a previously-uploaded Japanese textile image. I created Wikidata representations of the three depicted objects: Case bottle, Flask, and Rosewater Sprinkler.
The image of a lacquer instrument case in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art has been nominated for Featured Picture status on Wikimedia Commons. The community will decide by the 12th of June whether to promote it.
Prof. Ben Outhwaite at the Cambridge University Library has got in touch to help with adding some data about the Cairo Genizah manuscripts to Wikidata.
Most work this month has gone into the Memory of the World project, for which there is a separate report.
The stats server reports 4,415,782 image views in May.
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