Wikipedia:GLAM/Your paintings



WikiProject GLAM/Your paintings will serve as the hub for all Wikipedia community events, content work, and community collaboration on articles related to the BBC's Your paintings collection website, a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation (a registered charity) and participating collections and museums from across the UK.

Plans

 * to create a valid link address for the BBC Your paintings website to link to for artist biographical information.
 * to review or write Wikipedia articles on specific artists documented in BBC Your paintings partner museums, using theirs and other sources.
 * to link, in limited circumstances, articles on an artist to the BBC Your paintings page on the artworks by that artist. See the list of painters with links out to the PCF website using a link template.
 * Usage:
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 * Sample results:
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 * to create all the proper user boxes, project tags, etc. in order to keep track of project statistics.
 * to create matching entries on Wikidata
 * to add to those P1367, "BBC Your Paintings", identifiers

Participants

 * Jane (talk) 13:19, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Victuallers (talk) 17:17, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * PKM (talk) 22:26, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:41, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Jheald (talk) 01:00, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Stats
All statistics are taken from the dataset provided here:
 * User:Magnus Manske/Your Paintings


 * Artists with works in the Public Domain since January 1st, 2013

Checked links
This is an ongoing effort based on various checks. To see the checks that have been done by the "BBC Your paintings" website themselves, search for their links back to Wikipedia with this search term: "site:bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings Elsewhere on the web Wikipedia"

Artists by birth period

 * Painters born 1200-1399
 * Painters born 1400-1499
 * Painters born 1500-1599
 * Painters born 1600-1699
 * Painters born 1700-1749
 * Painters born 1750-1799
 * Painters born 1800-1824
 * Painters born 1825-1849
 * Painters born 1850-1874
 * Painters born 1875-1899
 * Painters born 1900-1919
 * Painters born 1920-1939
 * Painters born 1940-1959
 * Painters born 1960-1979
 * Painters born after 1979
 * Painters active after 1900
 * Popular painters (no red links)

Artists by genre

 * Caravaggisti