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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue III, March 2019

Armenia report

Art+Feminism+GLAM, Collaboration with Hovhannes Toumanian museum

Art+Feminism+GLAM

During the first week of March the world celebrates the international day of women. I got a suggestion from Art + Feminism group to organize an Edit-a-thon on this event. I write about women every day (#OneWomanADay). So this time I decided to mix Art+Feminism with GLAM under the influence of panel-discussion at Tel Aviv GLAM conference entitled "Closing the gender gap and increasing diversity through GLAM collaborations". In Armenian Wikipedia Art+Feminism Collaboration runs from March 10till April 14. It includes editing in Wikipedia (covering Women in Red links), Wikidata (writing data of the artworks from the database of National Gallery of Armenia, Eduard Isabekyan Gallery), wikicommons (uploading images of women, statues depicting women, motherhood) and Wikiquite (quotes of women writers and poets).

Together with Eduard Isabekyan Gallery we had an edit-a-thon during which the editors created articles on the topics Isabekyan Gallery provided: that is the artworks of the Soviet-Armenian painter Arpenik Nalbandyan mainly depicting women or women's labor. Some editors covered Wikidata items thus making the work of the other editors much easier as there was no need to fill the Infobox because of the power of Wikidata. I do hope that this collaboration will go deeper and this institution will also provide the photos of the paintings the editors wrote about.

On their official web page Eduard Isabekyan Gallery put a wiki logo under the images which have a Wikipedia article. When the reader pushes it, it will take him/her strait to the Wikipedia article created during the Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon.

Edit-a-thon at Isabekyan Gallery
Edit-a-thon at Isabekyan Gallery
Edit-a-thon at Isabekyan Gallery

Inspiration

During Art+Feminism Collaboration Armenian artist Mariam Galstyan who is also taking part in Art+Feminism collaboration and translating articles about prominent artists, decided to open licence some of her works which also include images of women, and uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons.

Autumn portrait by Mariam Galstyan
Nude model by Mariam Galstyan
From the art serie "Thoughts in blue vacuum" by Mariam Galstyan

The collaboration runs till April 14, and there might be more insiration and we get more nice works with the group of active editors.

Collaboration with Hovhannes Toumanian museum

By Mher Bekaryan (User:Beko)

In 2019 Armenia celebrates Hovhannes Toumanian’s 150th anniversary. Hovhannes Toumanian is a famous Armenian writer, poet, translator, national and public figure. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the great Armenian poet Wikimedia Armenia and Hovhannes Toumanian Museum in Yerevan started GLAM collaboration. The main activities of collaboration were scanning of Toumanian's documents, taking photos of Toumanian's personal items and uploading them, using collected materials, data and photos in Wikipedia, Wikidata and in Sister Projects' pages; creating of Wikidata items concerning these objects.

Wikimedia Armenia volunteers took photos of Toumanian's personal items, artifacts from his collections during a visit to the museum. They scanned Toumanian's personal documents, manuscripts, signature copies, the board games created by the writer, prepared the photos from Hovhannes Toumanian's archive for uploading to Wikimedia Commons.

In March we uploaded for about 300 photos, in Wikisours Armenian Wikiclubs members proofreads works of Hovhannes Toumanian and this is going to be a continuous collaboration. All the photos from this collaboration provided by Hovhannes Toumanian Museum can be found in the special category of Wikicommons.

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