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Visual artists and Wikipedia

About the project

Our goal is to encourage professionals in the visual arts to contribute their work to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Commons is an online library of images, graphics and videos, many of which illustrate the articles featured in Wikipedia. High-quality photos, videos, drawings, maps, and artworks enhance the readers' understanding of the subject matter. All the multimedia in the Commons were made available by individual users all over the world, as well as by many institutions, such as museums, archives and galleries.

Wikimedia Commons enables people all over the world to access – and reuse – millions of multimedia files, freely licensed and in the public domain. Besides Wikipedia, all files kept in the Commons are also free to legally reuse elsewhere, outside of Wikipedia. Media marked as the public domain and those under a CC BY or CC BY-SA license can be used by scientists and researchers, journalists, teachers, bloggers, application developers and artists. They may be lawfully used in Internet publications, books and research papers, for the creation of lesson plans, collages, t-shirt designs or gadgets with graphic prints, and other creative or educational purposes.

Images make a significant difference in the learning experience of users – an image can clarify a complex concept or provide visual context to an abstract idea. Illustrations are particularly valuable for visual learners, who prefer to process information through images rather than text alone. Multimedia content can help to engage people and provide a more immersive educational experience.

Visual communication In October 2023, English Wikipedia alone contained over 6,735,165 articles on all branches of subjects, and the number of articles on Wikipedia increases by approximately 17,000 a month. Whereas many popular articles have already been well illustrated by images uploaded by volunteers, cultural and scientific institutions, there are many thematic areas and branches of knowledge where more, or better-quality, multimedia are needed to illustrate the text itself. A few examples of these areas include: art of the 20th and 21st century, performative arts (theatre, music, performance and ephemeral art forms), documentation of contemporary events, photographs of notable people living in the 20th and 21st centuries, regional customs and traditions; intangible cultural heritage, folklore and ritual; activism and many others. The work of visual artists can improve a wide range of articles in need of illustration and visual information.

Participants of the project learn how to upload images to Wikimedia Commons, categorize them, how to find out about needed images, licensing, media types and quality, and other good practices. Each participating creative professional is invited to contribute a set of images, which are their own work (by uploading them directly, or via a VTR permission). Most images on this page have been made available by the participating artists.

At the project's conclusion we will create a concise handbook aimed at creative professionals, answering the questions that creators may have about Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the ways they can contribute, and how to use existing resources. We're also collecting comments and feedback from each participating artist, which may help in further work to enhance Wikimedia projects in the future.


 * Upload images and videos suited to Wikipedia
 * Help edit articles that require specialist knowledge
 * Offer your feedback and comments
 * See images contributed so far in Wikimedia Commons

Let your art be seen
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Document the world
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Report on important events
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Show your part of the world
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Illustrate literature
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The project is open and we invite anyone interested to participate! We are particularly keen to hear from visual artists, graphic artists, videographers, other creative professionals, as well as art scholars and critics who would like to know more about Wikipedia.
 * Please add your name to the list of active participants.

We will also be happy to have some editors and members of the Wikimedia community on the team!

Art scholars and critics Scholars and writers specializing in modern and contemporary art can greatly help to fill the gaps in the contents of Wikipedia's articles in this field, as well as help provide descriptions of artworks already present in Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia. Art scholars can use their expertise to provide well-researched information that is still missing from Wikipedia, and as such often reserved to a narrow group of specialists. We believe that knowledge about modern and contemporary art is as important as the knowledge about classical art, and should be available in the global encyclopaedia!
 * Please add your name to the list of active participants.

For this project, all participants can identify subjects that have not yet been covered in Wikipedia, or articles in need of expanding or updating. We will mostly be working on subjects related to art and culture.
 * Edit the list of missing or incomplete articles in your language

How you can participate

Jan Skarbek - born June 15, 1885 in Paszczyna near Dębica, was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, chronicler. Honorary citizen of Oświęcim - he received this title from the city authorities in 1934. Father Skarbek was known, among others on cultivating interfaith relations in Oświęcim and maintaining friendly relations with the last rabbi of Oświęcim, Eliasz Bombach.

Biography
Education

In 1909 he was ordained a priest and a diploma in theology at the Jagiellonian University. He was also a law graduate of the same university in Krakow. He was ordained a priest in Krakow in 1909. His first pastoral institution was the parish of St. Adalbert and St. Catherine in Jaworzno. In 1914. it ended up in nearby Szczakowa, and a year later in Pleszów, near Krakow. In January 1926, Fr. Skarbek became the parish priest of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish in Oświęcim and held this position until his death.

Interwar period
He came to Oświęcim in 1926. He was a town councilor for many years. In 1934, he was awarded the title of an honorary citizen of Oświęcim. He was active in a number of charity, social and educational organizations, and was also involved in maintaining proper interfaith relations in Oświęcim. In 1929, he became chairman of the building committee of the Oświęcim gymnasium (nowadays: Stanisław Konarski Secondary School in Oświęcim).

World War II

During the war, Father Skarbek collaborated with the resistance movement at the Auschwitz camp. He was involved in helping escapees from the KL Auschwitz camp, including by issuing false baptism records.

On the night of July 1-2, 1942, German policemen arrested the parish priest, Fr. Treasurer and one of the vicars. The priests were beaten and the presbytery was plundered. The parish priest's housekeeper was also arrested. Father Skarbek was imprisoned in Oświęcim, Katowice, Mysłowice and Bielsko. After his release, the Germans did not allow him to return to Oświęcim and he did not return there until 1945; then he continued to act as a parish priest.

He died on February 2, 1951 in Oświęcim and was buried in the parish cemetery in Oświęcim.

Activities for interfaith relations Father Jan Skarbek tried to build relations with the Jews of Oświęcim based on mutual respect. He maintained good relations with the local rabbi Eliasz Bombach. According to the memoirs of Henryk Flaumen, Fr. Skarbek met the rabbi of Oświęcim in the park, where they talked together in Hebrew.