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UK report

Heaven on Earth at last?

Khalili Foundation

The Mughal emerald-set box that has been submitted for the English Wikipedia's home page

The latest article from this partnership, Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands has gone live, has passed DYK review and has been submitted to Good Article review (which will likely take a few months). At the time of writing it has not yet been scheduled for the front page.

The Featured Article review for Empire of the Sultans is still ongoing. This month there was a source review, which involved scanning pages of the catalogue to send privately to a reviewer to be checked. It passed the source review, with a couple of statements re-worded. Another reviewer recommended small changes to the Reception section of the article, which I did to their satisfaction.

I had a meeting with Zehra Jumabhoy, a lecturer at the University of Bristol specialising in South Asian art. We talked about the Khalili Foundation's promotion of cultural diversity — in particular with Wikipedia edit-a-thon events — and how I want to do such an event with Bristol students. Dr Jumabhoy is one of a group of academics creating new courses that bring a global perspective to cultural topics, and we decided the next step is for me to give a presentation to her colleagues.

Internally for the Khalili Foundation, I have been working on a project plan for work to improve the Interfaith Explorers resource bank as well as a briefing about potential work with UNESCO.

The case study "Reaching millions of readers through Wikipedia" was published by the Cultural Content newsletter and, according to the editor, was shared widely on social media, including in this round-up of three articles worth reading for the cultural sector.

Along with volunteer editors, I took part in improvements to the Mohammad Zaman article, describing one of his paintings that is in the Khalili Collections.

Three images from the Commonwealth Faith Festival launch event were uploaded, as well as a couple of cropped versions of existing images. There were no new translated articles this month. GLAMorgan reports 5,499,021 image views on 94 wikis.


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