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Sweden report

Craft and collections

Craft, collections and Syrian monument images

Happy audience.

As a result of comparing the number of tanks and looms on Wikipedia in an interview, Axel Pettersson was invited to The National Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies to give a presentation on how Wikipedia works, the gender gap and how to contribute with both knowledge and material to make craft more visible on the Wikimedia projects. Some of the participants in the audience were interested in attending or organizing future craft themed edit-a-thons, and also in opening up collections with images showing different works, materials, tools and skills.

Batchupload for Gruppo Archeologico Romano (GAR) is live

In cooperation with Paolo Brambilla from Wikimedia Italia we've helped the archeological institution Gruppo Archeologico Romano with the technical aspects of batchupload more than 400 images from cultural heritage in Syria. The scripts we used can be found on Github. There's still work to do, like translating the descriptions from Italian to English and adding more information about the batch.

A few notable examples of the sites that Gruppo Archeologico Romano has helped preserve digitally:

  • Church of Saint Simeon Stylites, Qalʿat Simʿān in 2006
    Church of Saint Simeon Stylites, Qalʿat Simʿān in 2006
  • Tower Tomb, Palmyra in 2006
    Tower Tomb, Palmyra in 2006
  • Citadel of Aleppo in 2006
    Citadel of Aleppo in 2006

The full batch of images can be found on the batch-specific category.


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