User:Myaling/Heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

My contribution
Hello eveyrone, this is Myaling and here I will describe my contribution within this Wikipedia project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/UNIBG/Heritage_studies_and_ICT and https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Coordinamento/Universit%C3%A0/UNIBG/Heritage_studies_and_ICT

I firstly introduced myself on my personal page both on en.wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Myaling and on it.wikipedia https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Myaling

Then, I decided to contribute to two articles: Nuvolento and the Monumental Cemetery of Brescia.

Here is the link to the Wikimedia article about Nuvolento https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvolento

Here is the link to the Wikipedia article about the Monumental cemetery of Brescia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_cemetery_of_Brescia

As far as the article about Nuvolento is concerned, I wrote the section "History" and added sub-sections, too (Ancient times, Middle Age history, Modern history, Contemporary history) on it.wikipedia. I also created new sections and added text to them: Physical Geography (Territory), Toponymy and Monuments and places of interest (with Pieve, Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta, Chiesa di Sant’Andrea and Villa romana as sub-sections). I used the feature article about Avezzano https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avezzano and about San Giorgio su Legnano https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio_su_Legnano  as models for my article.

I added a comment to the discussion page because I erased and re-wrote a sentence that was not very precise and I changed the paragraph by modifying both the syntax and the words plus adding some data about its location within the Province. Since the article was previously a stub and I added sections and paragraphs, I wrote another comment on the discussion page because I erased the template defining the article as a ‘draft’ in need do be improved and the template which suggested to write about History. Here is the link to the Discussion page of the article https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Nuvolento

Regarding citations and use of sources, I mainly used books, publications and websites. I inserted the books which I think are the most significant to be read about this municipality in the Bibliography section. Here are the references: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvolento#Note

Since I wanted the article to be more complete, I asked the Town Council for the authorization to publish the photographs of two monuments in Nuvolento (the palace of the Municipality and the ancient Roman villa) on it.Wikipedia. The major signed the document and sent it by mail to Wikpedia in the frame of wikilovemonuments project, and then I uploaded both the signed document (on https://autorizzazioni.wikilovesmonuments.it/the-end) and the images (on Wikipedia Commons).

Here are the links to the pictures: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comune_di_Nuvolento.jpg  and    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Villa_Romana.jpg

I released the images with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 International license and, after the upload, I embedded the two pictures in the article about Nuvolento.

I chose to broaden this article because it was a stub before I started modifying it and I thought that Nuvolento deserved to be known because of its historical and artistic relevance in the eastern part of the Brescian province. For this reason, I thought that contributing to this article would have been helpful.

Concerning the article about the Monumental Cemetery of Brescia, I translated the Italian one into English, adding the section ‘Notable burials’ according to the English essay of Wikipedia: Cemeteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cemeteries. I used the same images as the Italian article, which can be found in the Wikimedia Commons repository. In the ‘See Also’ section, I added the links to the Wikipedia articles which can be correlated to the Monumental Cemetery of Brescia. After creating the page, I added the wikilink of the Cemetery article on the article about Brescia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brescia#Other_sights.

In the discussion page, I introduced myself within this Heritage and ICT project and I briefly explained what I did. Here is the discussion page of the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Monumental_cemetery_of_Brescia

Regarding citation and use of sources, I firstly checked the bibliographic resources of the original Italian article and added some references where they were missing, too; moreover I used and added another book : Valerio Terraroli, Il Vantiniano. Guida ai monumenti, a cura di Comune di Brescia, Brescia, Grafo, 2015, ISBN 979-12-200-0627-9

Link to the References I added in the Italian version:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimitero_monumentale_di_Brescia#Descrizione

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimitero_monumentale_di_Brescia#Bibliografia

Concerning the English article I created, I used the same bibliographic sources and then translated the texts into English. Link to the references of the English version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_cemetery_of_Brescia#References

I decided to create a new article for this heritage site in order to allow the international Wikipedia community to know more about the Brescian History of art. Furthermore, within our Tourism Think Tank project, the ‘Brescia group’ and me decided to include the Monumental Cemetery in the Cultural itinerary we designed as a possible solution for tourism in a covid-19 perspective. In fact, the Cemetery can be conceived as an open-air museum: the tourist can easily visit it as it’s not an enclosed space, avoiding the carrying capacity issue (overcrowding, social distances) due to the pandemic; I thought that it could have been useful for a potential international visitor to know more about this cultural resource thanks to Wikipedia.

Myaling (talk) 17:36, 4 January 2021 (UTC)