GLAM/Newsletter/September 2024/Contents/UK report
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Wiki content in interfaith education
Khalili Foundation
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I have spent most of this month on the update of the Interfaith Explorers site. This involved creating 128 pages of new content to the For Students section of the site, adding content to dozens of existing pages, and fixing broken links all across the site. We are adapting text from Simple English Wikipedia and English Wikipedia, as well as photographs from Wikimedia Commons, to create a mini-site suitable for learners in primary and secondary education, enabling self-directed learning about the Abrahamic religions and the links between them. In the longer term, we would like to expand this to other religious traditions to make a truly global resource. The improvements to the resource are currently being reviewed and are not yet on public view.
The Khalili Foundation/ UNESCO partnership focused on the Memory of the World database has officially begun. This project will improve the representation of MotW inscriptions in the Wikimedia projects, in parallel with UNESCO's database which is being re-developed. It is being fully funded by the Khalili Foundation. UNESCO is recruiting a staff member to join the Memory of the World team to work on this. At this initial stage, I am auditing what already exists on the Wikimedia projects and assessing a benchmark of content and interest.
There are no new image uploads this month, and no new article translations.
GLAMorgan reports 4,989,924 image views this month.
Returning to on-wiki work relating to the Khalili Collections, things I'd like to do in the coming months include: finishing and publishing the article on the Samurai Shokai company, improving the "Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands" article to Good Article status, starting a new article on Islamic metalwork (some work has already been done on a draft), and uploading some new images.
