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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue XI, November 2024

UK report

Middle-Eastern history and interfaith education

Khalili Foundation

The Interfaith Explorers educational website, expanded with content adapted from Simple English Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, was formally launched at an online event on the 15th November, getting some very positive comments from attendees. I reviewed and updated the For Teachers section of the site, adding links to every page to make it easier to find the teacher resources. Wikimedia UK put us in touch with the School Library Association, who are keen to host another webinar next year and publish an article in their newsletter. I have also been in touch with RE-hubs.uk who are going to feature the site in their newsletter.

My work this month has been on Interfaith Explorers and on the new UNESCO Memory of the World project, which has a separate monthly report. A volunteer on German Wikipedia has created an article about the Mahmal. It is not a translation of my English-language article, but uses some of the same images, including four from the Khalili Collections. All four of these images are being used in German Wikipedia for the first time. The article is very detailed and thoroughly researched and some of its content could be used to improve the English article. There are now articles about the Mahmal in six Wikipedia languages.

GLAMorgan reports 6,026,255 image views this month. Part of the reason for this big number is a high level of interest in the article History of Palestine (nearly half a million views), which uses an image of a 10th century Palestine dinar.

On volunteer time, I wrote a case study for Georgina Brooke's forthcoming book "Digital Content in Museums", mentioning my work with the Khalili Foundation and the Bodleian Libraries. I argued that these partnerships are models for how museums can work with the Wikimedia platforms.

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