Talk:Joseph Wright of Derby

Question
Does anyone know where Wright is buried? - Astrochemist (talk) 01:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia he was re-buried in St Alkmund's Church, which in turn was demolished in 1968 to make way for a major new road, under which Wright presumably now lies. Not very nice! I remember the church from my Derby School days. --Memestream (talk) 19:12, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, a simple web search gives [ and says his grave was moved to Notttingham Road Cemetery in 1997/2002. Bob aka [[User:Linuxlad|Linuxlad]] (talk) 21:44, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I've updated my text with the link you gave. --Memestream 15:23, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the above clarification. I've not been to Derby in about 20 years, but the one time I was there I made a point to see both the cathedral and Wright's paintings. I'll check my photos to see if I have anything that is relevant to this article. -- Astrochemist 01:28, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Method
In order to achieve photographic naturalism, did he use lenses or concave mirrors?Lestrade (talk) 03:27, 28 August 2010 (UTC)Lestrade

Languages
The Wright Challenge project in 2011 arranged for 1200 translations of articles in Derby Museum. We were very short of languages from India including Gujarati. We have a Gujarati speaker who would like to add work replating to Wright and his paintings but she does not currently edit Wikipedia. Having some stubs in Gujarati on Wright, Derby, The museum would help her to get started. As all of Wrights paintings in Derby have QRpedia stickers then your (and her) work may be seen by Gujarati visitors.

Other languages are obviously still welcome. Victuallers (talk) 08:20, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Finery_forge
Opinions welcomed, especially if anyone is familiar with the original setting of this painting. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:51, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

e volunteer for Derby Museum aka Museum dan Galeri Seni Derby
I was very sad to hear that Sanko had died in July after a long illness. He created probably the only museum in the UK that you can wander around and understand everything even if you cannot speak a word of English but you only speak Bahasa Indonesian.

Sanko not only translated articles into Indonesian but he went back and told the original authors of their mistakes and he wrote articles about objects in the museum in Indonesian that had not been described elsewhere on wikipedia. I certainly enjoyed translating an article that Sanko had written about a tribal mask from Indonesian into English.

Sanko came from Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia -0.502°N, 117.153°W and he worked hard competing with Anastasis Lvova and Tappinen. He eventually gained joint third with Conte di sarro from Italy. He wrote 100 diffeent articles, mostly in Bahasa Indonesian but also two in Java. The competion was named after "Joseph Wright" and he wrote an article in Indonesian that was a "Good Article". This showed that he could edit with quality (as well as productively.)

In September 2011 the Mayor of Derby awarded prizes to Sanko via a web cast and these paintings and books signed by the Wikimedia UK board and the mayor were mailed to him by Derby Museum. (The Mayor had never seen a web cast before!) Sanko was invited to rejoin the editors from Derby when the recent GibraltarpediA contest was launched and although we saw most return we should have wondered where Sanko was.

If you speak Indonesian and you want to find out about England then click on Wikipedia and read about the articles in Museum dan Galeri Seni Derby that he brought alive.

Thank you Sanko

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Any relation to Miss Wright of Witheby Cottage…Sidmouth?
Any information? 2A00:23C5:3810:2301:59D:87F2:AD7B:160F (talk) 15:34, 9 December 2022 (UTC)