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- 1 The Signpost: 06 January 2016
- 2 Help decide the future of Wikimania
- 3 The Signpost: 13 January 2016
- 4 The Signpost: 20 January 2016
- 5 The Signpost: 27 January 2016
- 6 Disambiguation link notification for February 2
- 7 Towards a New Wikimania results
- 8 The Signpost: 03 February 2016
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- 10 List of protected heritage sites in Fernelmont
- 11 The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- 12 Help with a missing link related to the missing articles for women writers
- 13 The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- 14 Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon
- 15 The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- 16 This Month in Education: [March 2016]
- 17 Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
- 18 Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
- 19 The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
- 20 Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
- 21 Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
- 22 Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
- 23 Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
- 24 Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
- 25 This Month in Education: [March 2016]
- 26 A barnstar for you!
- 27 Disambiguation link notification for March 5
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The Signpost: 06 January 2016
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Help decide the future of Wikimania
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).
After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.
In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.
With thanks,
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The Signpost: 13 January 2016
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The Signpost: 20 January 2016
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The Signpost: 27 January 2016
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Towards a New Wikimania results
Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 February 2016
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List of protected heritage sites in Fernelmont
Hi Jane023. I've modified that page to remove the duplication of sites [1]. If there's a good reason for the two separate codes, please let me know. ~~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~~ 07:28, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- News and notes: Another WMF departure
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The page lists Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite / Eliza Cobbe (1764-1850) was an Irish-born poet.But I can only find her name as being Lady Tuite, Lady Eliza Tuite - so I'm not sure why these links list her as Cobbe. Is it ok to add the name as Tuite? Am I missing something about her being peerage that makes her Cobbe? 🍺 Antiqueight chat 19:16, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
- Not sure what page you are looking at, but there is some info about her here. Jane (talk) 19:25, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
- Never mind me - I was looking at the wrong woman!! 🍺 Antiqueight chat 19:26, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
I'm back!! Another question..on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_writers/Missing_articles#Ireland there is the list Catherine, Lady Manners / Catherina Rebecca Manners / Catherine Manners / Lady Catherine Manners / Catherine Rebecca Grey(1766?-1852), Irish poet. But on searching for details I found she is already on the wiki as Catherine Grey, Lady Manners. Should redirect pages be created using the previous red links to her or simply removed from the page of missing links as not actually missing? 🍺 Antiqueight chat 22:55, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
- I would make the redirects, as they were probably redlinked from some source that otherwise is notable. Ideally these would also be aliases on Wikidata, but if you are uncomfortable with that, just make the redirects. Thanks for doing this! Jane (talk) 02:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks - those are done - with 1 variation, Catherine Manners actually IS someone else - but there are redirects and hatnotes to explain for now. It's 3am so I should stop editing and sleep...Then someone can take a look and tell me if the articles are ok...ps -I know nothing about wikidata... 🍺 Antiqueight chat 03:15, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: [March 2016]
Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.
WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.
Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).
Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus
On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge"--ref--Link to the course page at the TAU website (in Hebrew) - http://www2.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=1880180101&year=2015--ref-- has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.
The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.
The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.
This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.
The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.
The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina
Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.
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Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.
Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.
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With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.
The result
More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.
Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:
The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]
We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)
Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.
Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.
In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš (Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first "Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference (more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias (more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.
Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called "Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol (Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech "Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.
The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.
Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)
Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!
For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!
Wiki expeditions
The 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects "Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.
Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.
In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.
Some student photos:
Some video clips of the event:
Animation clips with the Museo de Arte Popular
Wikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.
Classes and Wikimetrics
Fifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.
Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.
Wikimetrics for the semester are:
According to Wikimetrics tool....
- 9,589,918 bytes to Spanish Wikipedia
- 3,098 edits to the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia
- 367 pages created in the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia
Manual count
- 302 student and teacher participants
- 281 Spanish Wikipedia articles created or expanded
- 6,057 photographs
- 10 videos
- 9 articles in English Wikipedia
- 2 articles in French Wikipedia
- 1 article in Swedish Wikipedia
- 1 article in Danish Wikipedia
First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.
Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)
Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.
The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.
Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.
To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.
Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.
Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.
Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.
Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al-Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.
The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.
This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.
Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.
See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)
Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.
Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.
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This Month in Education: [March 2016]
- Argentina: Educational hackathon about digital sources, big data, and Wikipedia
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- OK thanks. I guess I will just re-use the one from the other article. Oddly, that article reads as if it is the only photo taken, but in fact there were many (e.g. the Ai Wei Wei art performance on the beach used the sideways one). Jane (talk) 07:45, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
- It would be great if someone could write to her and ask to transfer just one photo (obviously, not this one) into public domain to illustrate the article. This would solve all the problems. But I am not this type of person.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:50, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
- Well yes, because there were of course tons of pictures taken that day. What I think is fascinating is that she has kept silent and the documentary made about the photo does not include a fresh interview with her because "she was ill" (as if a documentary is made in one day or one week...). I suspect there is more going on and we will never know the whole story. I just re-read the whole deletion discussion and the "cow on the highway" in that discussion is also really strange. Jane (talk) 07:55, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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hope you do not mind my messing around with the infobox (artwork does not have an embed function, who knew?) feel free to revert if you do not like it. cheers. Sudowoodoo (talk) 19:48, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
- Nice work! Great you found a free photo - I looked but couldn't find one. Jane (talk) 20:15, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank for the kitten, but I really am curious which of my articles you find non-notable and why. Jane (talk) 05:40, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
- In addition to Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in The Netherlands 1500-1700, the following recent articles of your fail WP:GNG as written: Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1989, Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1974, Still-life paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720, Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac, Paraphrase E, Studio with Gloves, An Overshot Mill in Aberdulais, Wales, Lithuanian Girl with Palm Sunday Fronds. I just looked at the first few dozens of your newer articles, but I hope you see the trend.
- A painting has to show it is important by being discussed by others, mere inclusion in some exhibitions is not enough. You can write such sections, for example the Interpretation section of The Abduction of Ganymede makes it clearly notable. Eye in the Egg is borderline, the story in the middle paragraph might be sufficient, but really, did nobody ever write a short article analyzing this piece we could cite? Same for Young Gardeners, the one sentence of analysis is really begging the question - is there more? Because one sentence is not really enough, if this is all the outside sources have on that.
- See also recent comment by User:Fram at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaberbocchus some of the old favourites. Also, I'd like to note that I am advising you on this not as someone who disregards or does not comprehend time and effort that go into content creation; in fact I have myself created a number of art-related articles such as Coffin portrait or Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God, to name just a few. Finally, look at History of Civilization in Poland - I just spend 30 minutes with a small expansion justifying the notability of this cycle ([2]). This kind of stuff is necessary to make articles on art pieces (or books, series, collections, etc.) fit in an encyclopedia. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:16, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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- thanks! The name shouldn't matter. Anyone can click the update button. Did you try it? Jane (talk) 05:49, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
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Notability of Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in The Netherlands 1500-1700
Jane, pretty please, consider WP:N. Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in The Netherlands 1500-1700 is one of several articles of yours which seems to fail at that. It pains me to see so much good effort on your part wasted on articles which are, well, not encyclopedic. I sincerely appreciate your efforts to improve the coverage of art-related topics, but not all artists, paintings or catalogues are notable. I usually focus on nominating company/vanity spam for deletion, but when I stumble upon content such as that, well, the rules should be applied to all articles. Pretty please, try to understand the GNG policies, improve your articles if you can (I can help by listing those which are in danger of deletion), and when you are choosing topics for your future contributions, please try to chose ones which won't be in danger of deletion. Once again, I (and I am sure many others) appreciate your efforts but Wikipedia is not a directory of all paintings, exhibits or their catalogues, only the important ones. And importance is not defined as "some museum/ministry liked it", but with the logic of GNG, which primarily requires that you show that a given painting/etc. has received in-depth coverage in reliable sources. Your catalogue, which seems to be sourced only to its own page, very much fails at that (and again, it pains me to say that, because it is a pretty table that likely took you hours to create...). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:32, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
- Piotrus, I am very surprised and sorry you find this article to be non-notable. The exhibition has been cited again and again for its breakthrough articles on depictions of family life in 17th-century Dutch portraiture. I see absolutely no evidence of it failing our notability guidelines for the visual arts. It seems you place a lot of weight on external links to museums as spam, but to me, museums are not spam, but institutions that help us further our mission in spreading the sum of all knowledge. Jane (talk) 09:46, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
- "The exhibition has been cited again and again". That's wonderful. Would you mind adding those cites to the article? I recommend the format "John Smith has praised this exhibition for...[ref]. Jane Smith has noted that this exhibition... [ref]. Director of Museum of Foo, Mr. X, has described it ia... [ref]. Etc." --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:51, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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