GLAM/Newsletter/September 2021/Contents/UK report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IX, September 2021

UK report

British Library and Khalili Collections

British Library

We coordinated a panel for National Libraries Now, presenting a panel on Wikimedian Residences throughout the four nations, featuring Jason Evans (National Library of Wales), Rebecca O'Neill (Wikimedia Ireland) and Ruth Small from the National Library of Scotland.

Khalili Collections

The Kaaba surrounded by calligraphy, extracted from a Chinese pilgrimage scroll

Images uploaded by this partnership are now getting more than two million views per month (2.3 million for September), excluding those from single-day events like Did You Know. The BaGLAMa2 stats tool is overstating the total for some months, so I am putting corrected numbers on the project page. The two images uploaded this month are just cropped versions of previous images. The main focus this month was on categorising images on Commons and including them in Wikipedia articles. There are now Khalili Collections images in more than 600 non-hidden categories on Commons. I have also been adding Wikidata statements about Khalili objects which, among other things, has enabled this Histropedia timeline of Quran manuscripts in the Khalili Collections.

The Muhammad Sadiq (photographer) article appeared on the English Wikipedia home page as the project's 19th Did You Know article. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage and Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents passed Good Article review, taking the number of GAs produced by this project to six. The 31st new article from this project was created by a volunteer who translated the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art article into Italian.

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