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- 1 Review expertise needed at Draft:Calligraffiti
- 2 Draft:Christian Hohmann
- 3 Women artists → Women in art
- 4 Europeana Art Challenge
- 5 Re: Talos No. 2
- 6 New photos available of Italian artists
- 7 Women in photography
- 8 Suspected hoax article: Pierre Dupont (painter)
- 9 Another suspected hoax article: Ricardo N. Degrossi
- 10 Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikidata art terms
- 11 Page to watch
Review expertise needed at Draft:Calligraffiti
This looks to be a pretty valid subject, but it could be more encyclopedic, and I'm not sure how valid a good chunk of the references are, though this term does appear in various books and news articles so seems legit. Anyone able to drop in and help advise the original editor on getting this AFC draft ready for publication? MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:54, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Draft:Christian Hohmann
Hello visual arts experts. Here is a draft about an art gallery owner. There are many references, but I am not familiar with the media in this area and can't tell if they are appropriately independent and relevant. Any opinions? Should the draft be moved to mainspace?—Anne Delong (talk) 08:50, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
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- It's in mainspace now, but with issues.—Anne Delong (talk) 22:08, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Women artists → Women in art
See talk:Women artists for the discussion requesting that the article be renamed -- 70.51.45.100 (talk) 07:27, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
Europeana Art Challenge
The Europeana Art Challenge has kicked off and runs until 30th May.
The aim is to make sure that there are Wikidata entries and Wikipedia articles for each of the 300 artworks chosen from across Europe.
Details of the competition and how to sign up are here.
As of writing only 58 out of 300 artworks have an article in English (some examples below for ideas).
There's a points based system and prizes for the most points for each country.
Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 16:17, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix
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Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco de Goya
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Sistine Madonna by Raphael
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- Johnbod, Europeana did not choose the artworks and neither did Wikimedians. The artworks were reported to be top pieces from the various country cultural coordinators that normally work with Europeana. These works form a virtual exhibition on the Europeana website. As top works, it follows that Wikipedia would already have some top quality content on them. Sadly, we are missing many many more. I for one have been quite surprised by some of the works and find it sad to realize we don't even have information about some of these the artists on English Wikipedia, let alone other more Europe-based projects. Some of the gaps are predictable (copyrighted content is never popular on Wikipedia projects) but others are shameful (low-quality or black-and white images of works that have high quality images available, and so on). Jane (talk)
- @Johnbod: As of writing, 79% of the 300 artworks selected for the challenge don't have articles in English. The missing ones are listed at Wikidata:Wikidata:Europeana Art History Challenge/Data#Translations Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 11:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
The best way to see how far the progress is going on the English Wikipedia specifically is at this table.
You can sort by the 'country' column to see how the 10 artworks that were selected by each country appear on en.wp. Some countries' selections are already have a bunch of articles, but none have all 10 (although several are close)! Of all the 40 languages being tracked as part of the project, English has unsurprisingly the largest number - having grown from 50 before the competition started to 130 now. There is also already a full compliment of Wikidata labels English which is great. Anyone who is interested in being involved in the challenge - and potentially winning some of the prizes on offer - is very welcome! Full details at the project page Wikidata:Europeana Art History Challenge. Wittylama 15:51, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
- At the moment, 155 of the artworks have articles in English, up from 49 at the start of the competition. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 14:42, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Re: Talos No. 2
If anyone has time to spare, I could use a little help with this article, which I hope to promote to Good status. I think the sculpture was completed between 1959 and 1968, but source sources give 1977 as the date. Some sources say the sculpture was first installed in 1968, others say it has been on the Transit Mall since 1977. I am confused as to which dates I should use for the sculpture's completion and installation. If someone has the time, interest, and patience to review this article and poke around some of the sources, I'd appreciate another pair of eyes. It is not a long article, and there are not too many sources to scan. The article should be close to meeting GA criteria once this issue is resolved. ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:04, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
New photos available of Italian artists
I'm happy to inform you that now we have thousands of new photos of art in Italy, also contemporary art, thanks to the donation of the Paolo Monti digitalized archive by the BEIC Foundation (who acquired the full archive in 2008 and has the full rights). Paolo Monti was a famous photographer from Milan and shoot the photos with permission by artists and galleries, for catalogues and magazines. All those beautiful images now need only to be used in Wikipedia articles (examples in Marino Marini (sculptor), Lucio Fontana, and it:Gianni Dova). Do you like to help us? See the category on Commons of artworks, Artists' studios, Portraits of artists and a selected gallery. Thank you! --Marco Chemello (BEIC) (talk) 09:51, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Women in photography
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Suspected hoax article: Pierre Dupont (painter)
(Apologies if this post is not in the best place.) I have tagged Pierre Dupont (painter) as a likely WP:HOAX, and made observations at Talk:Pierre Dupont (painter). I haven't initiated the WP:AFD procedure, because (a) I've never yet used it, and (b) I suppose I just might be wrong (though the original new-page reviewer agrees with my assessment). If I'm correct: this well-constructed joke has gone on long enough (I only found it because it had unluckily collected a {{disambiguation needed}} tag), so could someone activate the AfD routine please? Narky Blert (talk) 21:31, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Another suspected hoax article: Ricardo N. Degrossi
I've flagged this article as a possible WP:HOAX, and posted my observations on the relevant talk page. If I'm wrong, feel free to slap me down; but until you do, I'm calling BS on it. (Even if it's genuine, which I doubt, I would invoke WP:GNG against the article.) Narky Blert (talk) 01:25, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikidata art terms
I setup a new page that has a sister component on Wikidata for the people working on it from that end. We are trying to get a way of systematically defining artist occupations to improve existing biographies, and also defining artworks. Theoretically, this addresses the hatmaker/hat problem, and while I am at, I am calling out the hatmaking aspect as a potential link between the two. Wikidata page is here: d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure#Types_of_visual_artworks. Jane (talk) 20:58, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Page to watch
Media Art Histories was created in late 2015. I'd never noticed it but I recently saw a posting on facebook announcing its creation. Full disclosure, I'm part of that facebook group and this is an area of research I'm engaged in (in real life). If you can't follow the link, it says: "Welcome to the new MEDIA ART HISTORIES Wikipedia page, your reference portal for exploring the interdisciplinary research into NEW MEDIA ART!"
I'm going to guess that it's mostly harmless, but the page itself has many problems (WP:OR, tone, etc). Others may want to stop by and help out. I don't believe it warrants deletion, although a name change to Media art history (singular, lowercase) may be best. I think it's a valid topic but the page needs more work than I can devote at this time. My main worry is that it may devolve into POV issues and more original research by well-meaning editors who may not understand how Wikipedia works and it currently is probably not on too many watchlists. freshacconci talk to me 17:55, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
I'd be happy to help out, but the situation is confusing. Cubitt and Thomas (Relive: Media Art Histories) and Grau (MediaArtHistories) both use the term "Media Art Histories" and not "Media art history", in their book titles, but are signatory to the manifesto that refers to the field as "Media art history". So, which is it, and why is one more authoritative than the other? Mduvekot (talk) 18:29, 25 May 2016 (UTC)