Ryan, I feel the same way, and I keep wondering what I can do to help populate Wikimedia Commons categories of artists. I feel quite proud of the list I produced, and I uploaded a bunch of images to get it this long. I have been fascinated by the stories of the women on the list and made two entries for them: [[Dorothea Berck]] and her daughter [[Isabela Coymans]]. Work on the first one led me to add a picture to the [[Mary Frick Jacobs]] page.
Ideally, we could build some easy upload link on commons to populate such lists. Many art lovers have the ability to work on the lists, but are complete newbies on Commons. We have seen this with the Wiki Loves Monuments project. I just updated the Wikipedia page on that to help explain how the lists work, as a way of helping newcomers to `WLM, but also as a prompt to do the same thing for " Lists of artworks". My list of Frans Hals paintings is much longer, and only the ones with pictures on Commons are in there right now. I think it would be useful to put the lost & stolen ones on the list with an " easy upload link" so people can contribute black&white scans from old art books. Jane On May 20, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Wow, that's an amazing list! I wish all artists had lists like that. > > Ryan Kaldari > > On 5/18/13 9:35 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: >> Good luck with the AfC backlog Sarah - it depresses me to just think >> about that. >> >> Here in Haarlem we are celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the >> Frans Hals Museum. There are copies of Frans Hals paintings placed >> strategically around town to show what the museum has to offer. One of >> the men who is featured in 3 paintings in the museum was plastered all >> over town in the bus stops on a poster. His portrait as an individual >> is not here though, it's in Cincinnati. Haarlem basically only has the >> group portraits left, the rest have all left town. There are still >> over 70 people featured in those group portraits though, and I thought >> it would be cool to reunite them on wiki with their individual >> portraits. >> >> After talking about it for 2 years, I have finally created the list of >> Frans Hals paintings, and though I promised myself I would be done by >> the museum's "birthday" of May 14th, of course people keep reminding >> me now about other paintings to include. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Frans_Hals >> >> 2013/5/18, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com>: >>> I figure it's high time to start a positive (or call to action oriented) >>> focus thread again that is focused on empowering women on this list to >>> share. >>> >>> Women - and those who identify as - what have you been editing lately? >>> >>> --- >>> >>> I've been working hard at building my "to do" lists for the crowdsourcing >>> aspect of my World Digital Library project. I miss having time to edit and >>> write larger articles, but, that isn't in the cards yet. >>> >>> On the flipside, I've been helping out at Articles for Creation again. We >>> have a backlog of over 1000!!! >>> :) >>> >>> Sarah >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> *Sarah Stierch* >>> *Museumist, open culture advocate, and Wikimedian* >>> *www.sarahstierch.com* >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
