Dear all,
My name is Vladislav Nedelev, from Bulgaria, and some of you probably
remember me from the Wikimedia CEE Meeting in Kiev in December 2014.
After few weeks of communication between me and Vassia Atanassova
(Spiritia) as representatives of the user group of ’ Wikimedians of
Bulgaria’ and the Numismatic Society – ‘Philippopolis’, we have their
permission to upload a collection of 236 pictures of 118 ancient Roman
coins, minted in Philippopolis, now Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The collection
comprises some well preserved bronze coins, minted during the reign of
eleven Roman Emperors from 81 to 222 year AD, among whom Antoninus Pius,
Caracalla, Commodus, Elagabalus, Geta, Marcus Aurelius and Septimius
Severus. The collection is very exhaustively described, with data about
the diameter, weight, emperor, the material and inscription on the coins.
Together with the people for the Society we prepared a short announcement
about this GLAM collaboration project, which is published (in Bulgarian) on
the Society’s website
<http://nd-philippopol.com/%D1%81%D1%8A%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D1%81-%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F/>.
After this preparation, now we reach the point where we are supposed to
start uploading pictures in Commons. But we have some questions:
- Do you think that we have to create a new page in the “Commons”
namespace about the collaboration in commons, given that we already have a
page
<https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A1%D1%8A%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE/%D0%9D%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%E2%80%9E%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%E2%80%9D>
in the Bulgarian Wikipedia. Is there a model for pages for such
collaborations?
- Do you recommending us to use the default template
“Information”, or shall we create a new special template for coins with
different parameters like diameter, weight, emperor, etc., and information
about the collaboration and about the source of the pictures. Can you
suggest a more specific template for coins?
- Are we missing some vitally important thing to do or announce in
relation to this GLAM collaboration? I am attaching а translation of the
news
<http://nd-philippopol.com/%D1%81%D1%8A%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D1%81-%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F/>
from the official web site of the society?
Any advise and help to make these first steps are more than welcome!
Yours sincerely,
Vladislav Nedelev
Numismatic Society "Philipopolis" and the Bulgarian Wikipedia editor
Vladislav Nedelev, start a project for collaboration on March 1, 2015. The
Numismatic Society provides for upload under free license and in high quality
its collection of 236 photos of 118 ancient coins, minted in the time when
Plovdiv used to be Philipopolis. In this way, Numismatic Society "Philipopolis"
hopes to make in this way its original contribution to the illustration and
raising the quality of the information in Wikipedia.
<strong>About the collection</strong>
The collection comprises some well preserved bronze and silver coints, minted
during the reign of eleven Roman Emperors from 81 to 222 year AD, among whom
Antoninus Pius, Caracalla, Commodus, Elagabalus, Geta, Marcus Aurelius and
Septimius Severus.
For each coin from the collection, the Society provides two photos - averse and
reverse, which were taken by a professional photographer in resolution of about
950×950 pixels. The pictures are accompanied with the inscriptions on the
coins, recognized by expert numismatists, as well with additional data like the
name of the emperor, who minted the coin, the period of his reign, as well as
the coins weigth.
<strong>About Wikipedia</strong>
The Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia is the most popular electronic encyclopedia.
Its Bulgarian version was established in 2003 and currently comprises about 200
thousand articles, while the English version dates back to 2001, and contains
about 4,7 million articles. For the Bulgarian web space, Wikipedia is among the
most used sites for reference and information, which made us in the Society
think of the possible ways to contribute with illustrations and articles in the
area of numismatics and history of coins.
A curious fact which we learn from the <a
href="http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Списък_на_римските_императори";>List of Roman
Emperors</a> in Wikipedia, is that we can judge for the faces of quite a few
Roman Emperors from their portraits on the coins, which they minted during
their reign. Hence, as a first step of our collaboration with the Wikipedia
editor Vladislav Nedelev, we offer this collection of 236 photos of 118 Roman
coins.
<strong>About Creative Commons</strong>
With the present collaboration project, the Numismatic Society "Philipopolis"
provides the images of the coins under <a
href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/";>the free license Creative
Commons Attribution, version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)</a>, which allows copying and
redistributiong of the licensed material in any medium or format, as well as
remixing, transformation, and building upon the material for any purpose, even
commercially. The only condition for the usage of this content when copying
and redistributing it, is the attribution to the source: Numismatic Society
"Philipopolis".
The Society declares that the photographer and the expert numismatists who
performed the coins recognition, have transfered their rights over the images
to the Numismatic Society "Philipopolis".
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