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The
WikiProject sum of all paintings
is a WikiProject to have a Wikidata item for every notable painting.
Background
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On Wikipedia we have a lot of experience breaking down large amounts of work into smaller chunks that can be completed. Examples of this are the windmill project on the Dutch Wikipedia and the many lists of historic buildings that were created for
Wiki Loves Monuments
(Q1353202)
. For paintings we can use the same strategy: We break it down into smaller parts that can be handled and then we can utilize Wikidata to celebrate the sum of all paintings through linked open data!
Scope
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We have lots of work to do, please join us!
All or everything is too broad and has no limit. This limit is to be able to handle the processing of the data – let's not overwhelm ourselves (yet). The scope can always be expanded – in the future we will have the sum of all sculptures, drawings, you get the picture! The scope of this project is
notable
paintings. A painting is considered notable if one of these options is true:
The painting is in a notable collection of a museum, library, archive (e.g. a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The painting is made by a notable artist (e.g. Van Gogh painting in a private collection)
Tips
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Paintings in scope meet notability guidelines in Wikipedia, as they are notable for being in a notable
GLAM
(Q1030034)
collection, are painted by notable painters, and/or generally have secondary reliable source documentation written about them.
GLAM is an acronym and means
alleries,
ibraries,
rchives and
useums, but in a broader sense includes also public buildings like castles, town halls, administrative buildings or religious buildings like churches, cloisters, temples etc. that can hold paintings or wallpaintings and other pieces of art.
Use the guidelines of
item structure
when adding data to each painting entry. Think of it like a collections management database of information.
If you come across an item (i.e. a painter, medium, collector) that does not exist, please
create a new item
on Wikidata!
Current overview
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To keep an overview of
quite a few paintings
we created many lists.
Creator overview
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Lists created for a creator (a painter) are placed in
Category:WikiProject sum of all paintings creators
. We created several
top creators lists
. A selection:
Top creators by number of paintings
- Number of paintings by the creator (the most productive painters).
Top creators by number of Wikipedia articles
- Number of Wikipedia articles about the creator (the most notable painters).
Top creators by number of Wikipedia painting articles
- Number of Wikipedia articles about paintings by the creator (productive and notable).
See the
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator
for more information.
Collection overview
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Lists created for a collection (usually a museum) are placed in a category per country. We created several
top collections lists
. A selection:
Top collections by number of paintings
- Number of paintings in the collection (the biggest collections, also in
huge collections category
Top collections by number of Wikipedia articles
- Number of Wikipedia articles about the collection (the most notable collectons).
Top collections by number of Wikipedia painting articles
- Number of Wikipedia articles about paintings in the collection (big collection of notable paintings).
Collections by number of illustrated paintings
- Number of painting items in the collection with an image.
See the
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection
for more information.
Genre overview
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Lists created for a genre are placed in
Category:WikiProject sum of all paintings genres
Top genres
- The most used genres
Portraits
- How to handle portrait paintings
Christian religious art
- How to handle Christian religious paintings
See the
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Genre
for more information.
Main subject overview
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Lists created for a main subject are placed in
Category:WikiProject sum of all paintings main subjects
Top main subjects
- The overall most used main subjects
Top religious art main subjects
- The religious art most used main subjects
Top portrait main subjects
- The portrait most used main subjects
See the
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Main subject
for more information.
Work
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Getting the data for all paintings and importing this data and curating the items is a lot of work. To make this manageable we subdivide all paintings in smaller sections by
collection
(P195)
. This way people can focus on one collection, get it to a certain standard and then move on to another collection. For this to work every painting needs to have
collection
(P195)
Here are a few ways you can get started in helping out!
Help bring these lists down to zero
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Wikidata already has
quite a few paintings
. You can help by adding missing information to these paintings.
Here are some other lists you can help with:
Paintings missing creator
Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P170
Paintings missing inventory number
Paintings missing collection
Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P195
All paintings without date
All paintings without material
Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P186
All paintings without depicts
Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P180
All paintings without genre
All paintings without image
Notes: On Wikidata,
private collection
(Q768717)
is a valid
collection
(P195)
and those paintings in private collections should be labelled as such. These will occasionaly have no inventory numbers. You can give it
inventory number
(P217)
with "no value" snak if you are absolutely sure the collection does not use any inventory numbers. Wikimedia commons recognizes "oil on canvas" and "oil on panel" in the artwork "medium" field. On Wikidata, the
made from material
(P186)
should be filled with two items;
oil paint
(Q296955)
and also to
canvas
(Q12321255)
or to "panel". The
depicts
(P180)
can refer to specific buildings if a cityscape, or to people, if a portrait, but it can also be something less specific, such as "forest" or "abstract art". Typical genres are
landscape painting
(Q191163)
or
portrait
(Q134307)
Items without claims
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Add collections that need to be worked on by country
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you can browse some collections here
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection
We also work on things based by country, which is then broken down into institutions within that country. Please add your institutional data here. Just copy and paste from another page if your page is a red link and modify the markup as needed.
See
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Location
for the list per country where notes are kept per individual collection.
For more information about collections, see:
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection
Item structure to describe paintings on Wikidata
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Paintings should be properly described. See
Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structure
to find a full list of properties. We'll highlight some important ones for paintings here. The two statements every painting here should have:
instance of
(P31)
painting
(Q3305213)
(or one of its subclasses) so we can find the painting
collection
(P195)
so we can subdivide the work in smaller parts
And to make it a good start painting item add the following statements:
Property
Data type
description
Required
creator
(P170)
Item
maker of this creative work or other object (where no more specific property exists)
Yes
inception
(P571)
Point in time
time when an entity begins to exist; for date of official opening use P1619
Yes
inventory number
(P217)
String
identifier for a physical object or a set of physical objects in a collection
Yes
made from material
(P186)
Item
material the subject or the object is made of or derived from (do not confuse with P10672 which is used for processes)
Yes
location
(P276)
Item
location of the object, structure or event; use P131 to indicate the containing administrative entity, P8138 for statistical entities, or P706 for geographic entities; use P7153 for locations associated with the object
Yes
Questions, issues? Just ask on the talk page (click "Discussion") or send out a tweet with the hashtag #glamwiki.
Add painters (aka creators)
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you can browse some creators here
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator
All the painters
To link paintings to their creators, we need to have items about these painters. You can help create missing painters. Good sources for finding painters to create are:
Getty Union List of Artist Names (
Union List of Artist Names ID
(P245)
) -
RKDartists (
RKDartists ID
(P650)
You can also use
Mix'n'Match
to match existing items to these authority control databases.
These sources usually contain enough information to build a new item:
Add the name as the label, add variants as aliases.
Set the label with country and occupation
instance of
(P31)
human
(Q5)
sex or gender
(P21)
male
(Q6581097)
female
(Q6581072)
/ ...
occupation
(P106)
painter
(Q1028181)
/ ...
country of citizenship
(P27)
date of birth
(P569)
place of birth
(P19)
date of death
(P570)
place of death
(P20)
Add catalogs
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How to work on catalogs is described at
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Catalog
Improve all metadata for the oeuvre of one painter
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After importing thousands of paintings, we notice that our data here is not always as clean as it can be. Sometimes creation dates of paintings are missing, attributions are not entirely correct, etc.
One way to help cleaning this up, is by focusing on one single painter's work, checking and improving the correctness and completeness of all their paintings that we already have here on Wikidata.
Here's
a list of the 100 painters with the most Wikipedia sitelinks and at least 10 paintings on Wikidata
. Pick one and indicate you're working on their oeuvre!
Creators
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We want to link every painter with its creator (painter) and improve the quality of the creator items. We create
galleries per creator
to keep track of them and have an
overview of missing creators
. The
top creators page
gives an overview of most important creators based on several different criteria.
To find what items need improvements we have several reports:
Recent incomplete creator
: Recently created items that should be expanded
Creator no authority control
Creator no proper authority control
Creator missing collection authority control
Metadata!
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All institutions have metadata of some sort – this data is super important to making the most out of this project.
Our dream is that all GLAMs open their collections metadata under a
Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
. This allows us to easily upload data to Wikidata using automated processes and saves us time and people power to focus on other parts of the project. It also means that those GLAMs who have released that data, like the
Rijksmuseum
(Q190804)
, already have their data on Wikidata. You can learn more about why you should open your data CC0
here
. Right now, only a small group of institutions have done that.
But my data is published under a
CC-BY-SA license
! We can't use it through auto mass import because it is incompatible with the license of Wikidata. It's a restrictive license for data and goes against our mission of providing free, reusable data.
For data in databases in the USA we have a similar copyright situation as
reproductions of 2D artworks
: It's (probably) in the public domain. See the
Wikimedia Foundation’s preliminary perspective on the legal issue of database rights
. So from a legal standpoint we're probably safe to copy data from a museum in the US, just like we can copy the reproductions of old paintings. Just like with copying reproductions, we'd rather do it together with the
GLAM
than without their knowledge and consent. See also
this overview of cases studies
of working together with GLAMs.
We haven't released our metadata, but we do have some of our collections online
- Great! Then we can slowly work on manually putting your artwork on Wikidata. Please list it below by country and help us by adding your data manually on Wikidata. It's a long process, but better than not having your work represented.
Participants
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The (more than 70) participants of this project are listed at
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Participants
[+] Add yourself to the list
The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{
Ping project
|sum of all paintings}}
Multichill
talk
) 11:28, 8 August 2014 (UTC), focus on the Netherlands
Husky
talk
) 11:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC) - Cool, i'd like to focus on building tools to visualise progress.
Spinster
talk
) 07:00, 9 August 2014 (UTC) Happy to help with manual finetuning that can't be done by bots, and anything else on the 'soft/wet' side of this project. I'm dreaming of complete artists' oeuvres on Wikidata!
Rich Farmbrough
talk
) Time to learn2Wikidata
Jheald
talk
) 12:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Kippelboy
talk
) 07:01, 21 August 2014 (UTC) (Focus on Catalan paintings (subdivision of Spain)
Mushroom
talk
) 12:27, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Jane023
talk
) 09:11, 3 October 2014 (UTC) work on Dutch 17th-century paintings and landscapes of Haarlem; Most recently, the sum of all "attributed" paintings by Frans Hals, which is nearly
done
Missvain
talk
) 18:51, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Fæ
talk
) 13:27, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Zolo
talk
) 14:57, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Beat Estermann
talk
) 10:33, 3 December 2014 (UTC) (Focus on Swiss heritage institutions)
Vladimir Alexiev
talk
) 15:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
KRLS
talk
) 11:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC) (Focus on Catalan area museums)
DivadH
talk
) 11:35, 1 March 2015 (UTC) ,happy to help out with any questions in regards to the Europeana API, how to best query it, and/or our metadata
Xcia0069
talk
) 11:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC), Work on data related to
Gianlorenzo Bernini
and
Artemisia Gentileschi
. Work at Europeana too !
Susannaanas
talk
) 07:29, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Wittylama
talk
) 17:29, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Fabrice Florin
talk
) 02:35, 26 June 2015 (UTC) I can help in California later this year.
Vaughn88
talk
) 15:58, 15 July 2015 (UTC) I can help!
Raymond Ellis
talk
) 19:31, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Hsarrazin
talk
) 14:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC) - will give a hand with Creators and AC :)
louis-garden
talk
) 14:21, 31 August 2015 (UTC) for italian paintings (XIIe-XVIIe)
Olivier
talk
) 21:46, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Kopiersperre
talk
) 11:33, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
ProtoplasmaKid
talk
) 03:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Stuart Prior (WMUK)
talk
) 11:04, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hannolans
talk
) 23:14, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
Geraki
talk
) 09:52, 24 October 2016 (UTC) (Focus on Greece)
PatHadley
talk
) 12:16, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
MartinPoulter
talk
) 14:54, 11 January 2017 (UTC) Working to get data from the
University of Oxford
(Q34433)
and its component institutions shared on Wikidata.
Pablísima
talk
) 18:07, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Carl Ha
talk
) 22:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC) current focus is Russian Museum and the Museum of Artistic Culture Petrograd that was dissolved and integrated into this.
Marsupium
talk
) 19:44, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Mauricio V. Genta
talk
) 16:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Shani Evenstein
talk
) 10:26, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Nasty nas
talk
) 07:45, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Bodhisattwa
talk
) 14:28, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
Joalpe
talk
) 18:39, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Fuzheado
talk
) 18:33, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Sarasays
talk
) 20:00, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Thierry Caro
talk
) 07:30, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
John Samuel
18:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Jklamo
talk
) 12:06, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Reosarevok
talk
) 10:28, 15 February 2018 (UTC), focus on Estonia
Ambrosia10
talk
) 19:48, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Subsublibrary
talk
) 03:17, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Martingggg
talk
) 07:00, 22 February 2018 (UTC), focus on Argentine and Hispanic America
Kruusamägi
talk
) 16:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC), focus on Estonia
SIryn
talk
) 10:36, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Jarekt
talk
) 13:49, 7 September 2018 (UTC), focus on moving metadata from Commons to Wikidata
Walkuraxx
talk
) 10:00, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
Omotecho
talk
) 22:11, 21 January 2019 (UTC), focus on Japan
GualdimG
talk
) 16:19, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Léna
talk
) 08:57, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Yann
talk
) 09:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Paul Cézanne
(Q35548)
for a start...
Abbe98
talk
) 19:25, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Daniel Mietchen
talk
) 15:36, 23 July 2019 (UTC) Have been doing small things here and there — especially improving items around what is depicted on paintings — so might as well sign up.
Jbandrews
talk
) 02:14, 16 October 2019 (UTC) Product Manager at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Amadalvarez
talk
) 06:19, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Meresquared
talk
) 14:51, 22 October 2019 (UTC) I'm interested in adding depiction descriptions to paintings, and improving data around women and POC.
Clifford Anderson
talk
) 01:47, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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Villy Fink Isaksen
talk
) 21:14, 17 March 2020 (UTC) focus on danish paintings.
TemboUngwe
talk
) 15:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Joan E Beaudoin
talk
) 16:36, 31 July 2020 (UTC) Frolicking in metadata about art = heaven on Earth! Currently working on the Uffizi artworks ID file in the Mix'n'Match tool.
Subodh
talk
) 10:26, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
Marajozkee
talk
) 12:16, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
Bhuvana Meenakshi
talk
) 11:06, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Ham II
talk
) 06:03, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Unapeça
talk
) 10:47, 15 January 2021 (UTC) Focus on catalan paintings
Edelseider
talk
) 12:55, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
Wuselig
talk
) 10:39, 19 January 2021 (UTC) active in
German GLAM-activities
Tylwyth Eldar
talk
) 06:50, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Hippokrene
talk
) 09:49, 28 August 2021 (UTC)Trying to add property iconclass P1257, general interest in art history
2le2im-bdc
talk
) 20:34, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
VisbyStar
talk
) 11:07, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Kamila Neuman (WMPL)
talk
) 10:11, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Kim Bach
talk
) 20:44, 7 July 2022 (UTC) Focus on paintings from the
National Gallery of Denmark
(Statens Museum for Kunst)
JordanTimothyJames
talk
) 05:08, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
Jvillafruela
talk
) 18:49, 1 October 2022 (UTC) Focus on paintings from the
Musée de Grenoble
María Sacristán
talk
) 19:58, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
Oursana
talk
) 21:40, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
StoppedTime
talk
) 16:00, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Athayahisyam
HA
talk
) 04:04, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Jcmoissinac
HA
talk
) 04:04, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
VIGNERON
talk
RealityBites
talk
) 15:52, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
Erfurth
talk
) 06:28, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
Suraj rajiv
talk
) 06:16, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Albert Gleizes
(Q711903)
Juan Gris
(Q151152)
and others
Elya
talk
) 08:50, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
Artworklist
talk
) 20:00, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
BeatrixBelibaste
talk
) 15:25, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
How this data is being used
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Having all this data about paintings available opens up all sorts of creative reuse. Some examples:
- Crotos, a tool to browse works of art on Wikidata
Wikidata Skim
- A (very) limited replacement for
Wikidata Query
, with images
For example,
here are all paintings by Frans Hals
openArtBrowser
uses Wikidata to display many works of art
iART
is an advanced tool to search images, which uses metadata from Wikidata
To-do list
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The todo list of things still to add to this page, feel free to expand!
tools to visualize this progress - I'm working on this
Husky
talk
11:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
reply
art finder, I'm in a city, where should I go
release letter
Europeana already CC0
Support / references / endorsements (Rijksmuseum?) and more
tedious by hand -> bots (
some source
CC0 case study
Make intro for
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Find paintings on Wikipedia
on this page and link to it
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Provenance
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Automated image uploads
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Link rot
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Made from material
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Movement
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Possible paintings
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Wiki monitor
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/External identifiers
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Needs disambiguation
Reports
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Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Catalog
- All catalogs
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator
- All creators
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/RKD to match
- RKDimages to match with Wikidata
Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Top collections overview
- Top collections by different criteria
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Cultural Heritage on Wikidata
Cultural Institutions and Events
Institutions, collections, infrastructures, and events
heritage institutions
museums
libraries
, archives, monuments protection services and archaeological services)
heritage collections
cultural venues / theatres
cultural events / festivals
networks of cultural organizations
Manifestations of Cultural Heritage
Text-based resources
books (including manuscripts)
newspapers and periodicals
journal articles
autographs
Archival resources
archival description
(official documents, archival records)
Two-dimensional
visual resources
visual arts
(drawings,
paintings
, engravings, prints, photographs, posters,
heraldic designs
, maps,
anime, manga
Three-dimensional
man-made movable objects
visual arts
(three-dimensional works of art;
sculptures
see also:
public art
coins and medals
objects of daily use (furnishings and equipment, craft artefacts,
fashion
, toys)
Natural resources
natural inert specimens
natural living specimens
Geography-based resources
built heritage
(historical buildings including larger ships;
see also:
lighthouses
fountains
historical markers (commememorative plaques)
landscapes
archaeological sites
Time-based resources
film
music
art songs
broadcasting
Digital interactive resources
video games
software
websites
born-digital art (see:
visual arts
digital 3D designs or reconstructions of objects or buildings
databases and digital research files
GIS files
Cultural performances
performing arts
theatre
, danse, cabaret, music performances)
performance art
living traditions
Living traditions
intangible cultural heritage
Basic Ontologies and Vocabularies for the Description of Cultural Heritage
General documentation
overview of GLAM metadata standards in relation to Wikimedia projects
People
authority control
ancient Greek people and mythological characters
ancient Roman people and mythological characters
names
genealogy
occupations and professions
Places
geographical WikiProjects
(category to be expanded)
historical places
filming locations
Other
species (taxonomy)
languages
references (source metadata)
datasets (data sources for data ingestion)
fictional universes
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