Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence/KITLV

Institute

 * Organisation: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies research institute for the study of Southeast Asia (Indonesia) and the (former) Dutch Caribbean. KITLV is one of the institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
 * Address: Reuvensplaats 2, 2311 BE Leiden.

2013–2014

 * KITLV supervisor: Reinder Storm, Head Collections. Wikipedian in special residence: Arie Sonneveld.
 * Period: December 1, 2013 – January 31, 2014.
 * January 8, 2014: Dutch local newspaper interview Leidsch Dagblad.
 * January 14, 2014: Introductory Wikipedia course with nine participants, who corrected several KITLV-related Wikipedia articles
 * January 21, 2014: Follow up Edit-a-thon: ten personnel create five new Wikipedia articles and update others, assisted by Arie Sonneveld and Hans Muller
 * Assessment of the extensive KITLV image collection on Asia, more than 2700 postcard images of historical Indonesia were reviewed for possible upload to Wikimedia Commons.

2015 Project extension

 * 2,400 images donation - At this point the KITLV book and images collections had been transferred to Leiden University Library, which kindly joined this Wikimedia project by donating some 2,400 high resolution photograph scans. This subset consisted predominantly of nineteenth century images of Indonesia, British India including some pictures of historical Bangkok and was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in April and May 2015 with captions in Bahasa Indonesia, English and Dutch languages. Please refer to Wikimedia Commons:KITLV donation 2015.
 * In a follow-up to this project, Leiden University Library in later years donated further thousands of KITLV images to Wikimedia Commons, such as its w:c:Commons:KITLV donation 2016. Leiden University Library's total contribution of 140.411 files as of October 2023 is available in this category on Wikimedia Commons: Category:Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV), Leiden University Library.
 * Edited articles on Bahasa Indonesia, English and Dutch language Wikipedia's include Gubeng, Gubeng, Surabaya, Gubeng (plaats), List of colonial buildings and structures in Jakarta, Sluis (waterbouwkunde), Soerabaja, Surabaya, Kassian Cephas, Klingalese (new article).

Gallery
A random selection from the 2015 donation:

Wikimedia activities

 * Link to project Dutch version Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden. Translation to be done.