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@ Pharos: or others - is there a plan for image import? I've occasionally played with William the Faience Hippopotamus, and it would be fun to replace that image with this one, but I don't want to upload to Commons willy-nilly if there is going to be a structured import, template, etc. Any pointers on how best to handle this would be welcome. Thanks! — Luis ( talk) 22:28, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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I have an article in draft about a former Met president. Is there anyone that I can reach at the Met about getting digital/scanned access to sources? Would save the trekking to & from the Watson Library, at least. czar 07:18, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
The Met has selected three highlight artworks they'd like to see as first major articles developed: Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Benin Pendant Mask, Mérode Altarpiece.
I've just started Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, which didn't exist at all before. I would love to collaborate on the armor topic with folks (maybe as a DYK?), as well as on the other works. Benin Pendant Mask might also be an excellent choice to work on this month as part of Wikipedia:Black WikiHistory Month.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:35, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Pharos: Congrats on the collaboration / image release! As a special request, would it be possible to get some pictures released of the Tapestry Room from Croome Court, which was moved to the Met in 1958? The room at the Court now looks rather bare, and it might be quite nice to have a before/after image in the Croome Court article. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 21:40, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. For the last year or so, I have been wanting to bring the Cloisters article to FAC status. It will prob take me, on my own, about another year to work it up. I have always been impressed with the Met's involvement and engagement with wiki, and have done a Met FAC article before, largely because they have been so generous in sharing sources. I was wondering if members of this project would be willing to set up a collab, or drive, to help get the Cloisters over the line. Not necessarily direct editing even, but access to sources. Ceoil ( talk) 17:27, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
The OA policy doesn't cover the descriptions on the file pages, right? It appears to cover the image metadata ("basic information") but doesn't mention the descriptions. If the Met wants to add the descriptions to the release, I think they would be useful if uploaded alongside their respective Commons images. czar 20:44, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
I have been (quite literally) hoping since 2005 to be able to use the images of the Met's mantuas ( this one and this one). If I get disentangled from my current project before the images are uploaded, I'll probably grab a few shots of them. - PKM ( talk) 01:28, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Cross-posting from Commons talk:Met.
Hi, I just realized that the Met collection also contains a whole bunch of musical instruments, which I would like to use as part of the German Wikipedia project Wiki Loves Music to illustrate the history of musical instruments in the respective articles, e.g. this 1830 bassoon. Can you tell me where I can stay up to date regarding the planned mass upload? Looking at the commons:Category:Musical instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I understand that so far only one image of a musical instrument, the grand piano on the right, has been uploaded, which has since been reverted. Thank you, -- Gnom ( talk) 00:16, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
If you're looking for some small cleanup tasks (e.g., citation and link fixes), you can now find an automated listing compiled here czar 16:21, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
I may have identified some missing Wikipedia articles based on my last trip to the museum:
I may have the names wrong, or articles may be hiding here somewhere. Just thought I'd point these out in case folks want to help identify these works and create articles. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:53, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Looking for sources on the Cloisters Library, of any editors know of where to find. Ceoil ( talk) 17:21, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
@ Pharos: and team - I'd like to select a metadata-rich extant garment from a museum collection to be one of the best-practices 'showcase items' for the new Wikidata Project on fashion and clothing. One of most iconic garments I can think of is Dior's Bar suit, and I'd really like to develop an item for it on Wikidata.
If you have not created a metadata map for costume items, I'd be interested in working on that with the project team. The whole area of clothing is very underdeveloped on Wikidata so far. I've been playing with possibilities - here's my first cut at deep metadata for a jacket in the V&A. - PKM ( talk) 00:31, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to encourage folks to shift some of their energies to these "WikiThree" articles, so that we can get them up to a higher quality before March 16, when we will start sharing more widely:
Hopefully one of these is of interest to you! I'm going to put some of my energy going forward into the Ferdinard armour article. Also, note that each of the Met website pages (for example, Merode Altarpiece) has a specially-expanded References section, added with the help of Met staff as part of this project.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:35, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
We'd like t invite folks to participate in the Met Open Access Artworks Challenge, which starts its soft launch today! All edits related to the collection and using the CC0 images are most welcomed - you can sign up at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants :)-- Pharos ( talk) 18:59, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
@ Pharos: I would like to see the following images on Common for concrete use in German wikis. All these files are sadly (up to now) not marked CC-0. But I hope that the Metropolitan Museum of Art can provide permission or free images of these objects.
-- Reise Reise ( talk) 14:50, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Based on the articles recently created, I think it's worth noting that the general notability guideline requires that "significant coverage" from reliable sources "independent of the subject". It isn't enough to link to the Met's website and a Met journal/book/publication as proof of the object's independent notability when writing about it. Better is to look to other art history sources that write about the item. If the object is covered in depth even outside Met publications, then you're looking at a reason for creating a separate article about that specific item. Otherwise you're better off just covering the item within an existing parent topic (the artist or an article on the period/style) using the Met sources. In short, the Met sources aren't a good judge of whether a specific object is important because it they are too closely affiliated with the item (the Met pubs serve to promote the museum's collection), but the Met sources are fine for writing generally about an artist/period as they lose that conflict of interest. czar 16:00, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
I just wanted to compliment the Library staff for efficient, helpful, and professional interactions with visiting researchers. I was in NYC for 10 days back in July, and took some time over several days to visit the MMA and its library. The library website was very helpful in describing what was available, rules for access, and encouraging advance online requests for research materials. Being a new researcher, I also applied online for an ID card.
Upon arrival following excellent directions, I identified myself, received my ID card, stored my backpack in a secure locker, and proceeded to the reserve shelves. On the way, I noticed an exhibit of materials by and about the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Ironically, this was the reason some of the materials I sought were listed as unavailable, due to this ongoing exhibit. Fortunately, I was still able to request a number of other useful books about Saint Phalle, as well as several other artists of interest. Compliments go to the curator who organized the mini-exhibit on Niki de Saint Phalle, which gives a nice overview of her work.
I edit a very eclectic and wide array of Wikipedia articles, including those on a number of women artists, such as Marisol Escobar, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Muriel Cooper, and Jacqueline Casey. I have also done work on male artists such as Jean-Robert Ipousteguy, Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Eakins, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Ed Kienholz, Richard Estes, Duane Hanson, Ron Mueck, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Charles Eames, Edward R. Tufte, James Turrell, Jamie Wyeth, and Wen-Ying Tsai.
I have done work on Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the less-known but far more effective pioneering electrical engineer, as well as his flashier contemporary Nikola Tesla. Other interesting engineers include Bob Pease, Jim Williams, Bob Widlar, Richard Stallman, Chuck Hoberman, and Charles Babbage. I have worked on scientists and educators, such as George Gamow, Richard Feynman, Mary Roach, and Frank Oppenheimer.
I am interested in connections between technology and art, including Neon art, Kinetic art, Light art, Surrealism, and Op Art. I am interested in scientific phenomena and devices such as Dust explosions, Fire pistons, Stirling engines, Tippe tops, Rattlebacks, and Plasma globes. I have worked on Anamorphosis and Mathematics and art.
I have worked on articles about various specialized exhibitions, such as Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond, both New York World's Fairs, the Empire State Plaza architecture and Art Collection, and numerous museums and science/technology centers. I also work on architectural articles, such as the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and architects, such as Harry Weese. I expanded the Thomas J. Watson Library article, adding mention of the Nolen Library as well.
I connect many articles via Wikilinks, which I consider to be an important feature of Wikipedia. For example, I overhauled the article on Infinity mirrors, including adding a new "Cultural references" section referring Yayoi Kusama, Josiah McElheny, Ivan Navarro, and Taylor Davis as visual artists who have made use of the phenomenon. I crosslinked the articles on Gustave Courbet and Karst springs. I have connected the article on Salvador Dalí to the article on the Willis Tower in Chicago, via the article on Glass floors. I have corrected a serious technical error in the article Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles, Wikilinking it to relevant articles on Mechanical impedance and Transformers.
I have added new "Cultural references" sections to articles about mathematical phenomena and artists, connecting mathematics, science, technology, and art. For example, I added a brief section to the article Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage, linking to a new monumental sculpture in the Netherlands which incorporates the linkage.
In the future, I hope to work on the articles about Jean Tinguely, Paul Delvaux, Anish Kapoor, Otto Piene, George Rickey, Claes Oldenburg, Isamu Noguchi, Philip Morrison, James Burke (science historian), some overlooked women photographers, and some pioneering audio engineers. The Watson Library and the MMA are invaluable resources for information on art and artists, from prehistoric times to visions of the future.
While at the MMA, I noticed a small but interesting exhibition on synthetic textiles and art conservation ( http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/secret-life-of-textiles-synthetic), near the entrance to the Antonio Ratti Textile Center. The individual costumes and art objects in the exhibit are documented online, but the educational explanatory text concerning materials degradation and preservation is not otherwise available, as far as I can tell. I took a number of photos to document it, and hope to use the material to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of synthetic fabrics as well as art conservation. Reify-tech ( talk) 22:16, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair has been chosen as the first-ever Met Weekly Challenge for the coming week. There are a lot of resources at the artwork's Met Collection record (see 'Catalogue Entry'), and also lists of other references. We could also benefit from the French Wikipedia version and Commons:Category:The Horse Fair — see the section for Week 1: The Horse Fair (Sept 25 - Oct 1) for more on how to participate, or just get started editing!
I also very much encourage folks to share and vote for their ideas on future collaborations at Met Weekly Challenge - Proposals!-- Pharos ( talk) 20:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Ingres' The Princesse de Broglie has been chosen as the Week 2 focus of the Met Weekly Challenge. There are a lot of resources at the artwork's Met Collection record (see 'Catalogue Entry'), and also lists of other references. See the section for Week 2: The Princesse de Broglie (Oct 1 - Oct 8) for more on how to participate, or just get started editing!
I also very much encourage folks to share and vote for your ideas on future collaborations!-- Pharos ( talk) 16:04, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Velázquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja has been chosen as the Metropolitan Museum of Art Weekly Challenge for the coming week. There are a lot of resources at the artwork's Met Collection record (see 'Catalogue Entry'), and also lists of other references. See the section for Week 3: Portrait of Juan de Pareja (Oct 9 - Oct 15) for more on how to participate, or just get started editing!
Simultaneously, we are also encouraging collaboration on the biographical article for Juan de Pareja, the artist depicted.
I also very much encourage folks to share and vote for your ideas on future collaborations!
As we give a break to the weekkly collaborations, I'd like to invite the folks here to join the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30. As part of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Asian Month, there will be Met postcards for all who participate, and books as prizes. Let me know if you have questions, or need help finding a good topic and matching images.-- Pharos ( talk) 17:38, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to invite folks to see Asian art article recommendations and see some of the articles written so far (in multiple languages!). Help improve some of the new articles, or write your own. Anyone who writes one article will be sent a commemorative Met postcard, and grand prize winners will get the Met guidebook or Asian art publications. Our in-person edit-a-thon is on Sunday, and you're welcome to participate in parallel remotely for that too. And I remain available to assist anyone who'd like help getting library sources or appropriate images from the collection.-- Pharos ( talk) 18:51, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
If you'd like to start a new short article for Wikipedia Asian Art Month, you have 3 days left to join in the fun. I'll be glad to collaborate with you on whatever topic you like, and we'll send you a Met postcard lovingly signed by me. Expanding an article by a significant amount works as well.-- Pharos ( talk) 18:23, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The Horse Fair is appearing as Picture of the day on the Main Page on December 15 UTC, which is in about five hours! Might be a good chance if anyone would like to collaborate on it today or tomorrow.-- Pharos ( talk) 19:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
This is now at PR, with the aim to take to FAC in a month or two. Page has been significantly improved by the Met's image release, and the work of people here to make those available. Any further input from project members more than welcome. Ceoil ( talk) 11:15, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to use this image. It has been deleted before – is it not freely licensed? Thanks, -- Gnom ( talk) 13:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey all! I thought I'd acknowledge publicly to you that this GLAM has been a true inspiration! In Brazil, we've just set up a page in the context of our work with Museu Paulista, and the way the work at the MET was organized was definitely our main influence: WP:MUSEUPAULISTA. I hope you like it! :) -- Joalpe ( talk) 23:26, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a collaboration for the Wiki Loves Pride 2018 campaign covering LGBT artists, their major artworks, and other themed works in the Met collection. I've done a Wikidata/category analysis to make a preliminary list of LGBT artists in the collection, but I'd also like to think of ways to encourage all works that are tied to this theme.-- Pharos ( talk) 19:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
This is now at FAC. Constructive feedback would be gratefully received. Ceoil ( talk) 01:16, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
I'd like to invite WikiProject participants to sign up at Wikipedia Asian Art Month 2018 and find some Asian art topics they would like to write about with Met images. Grand prizes will be offered as well.-- Pharos ( talk) 07:40, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
I'd like to invite you to join Wikipedia Asian Art Month in the December extension of the sub-contest; if you write or translate just one article and include one of our images, you'll get a special Met postcard. And if you're one of the grand prize winners, you'll get a Met guidebook or Asian art publication. One place to look for inspiration might be Open Access "Highlights" from Asia (PD artworks marked as Asian, but be careful of border cases)-- Pharos ( talk) 16:15, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
At d:Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings there is the goal to use the wiki platform to catalog all paintings.
@ Pharos: You had a "Museum of Babylon" concept for cataloging all artwork. Did you publish documentation for that anywhere?
I am trying to build out d:Wikidata:WikiProject Limits of Wikidata and we want to collect counts of numbers to estimate the storage and computation needs of Wikidata for certain projects.
Suppose everything in the Met were in Wikidata - how do you describe that amount of data? Do you have guesses for the entire museum world? Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:46, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride Art & Artists 2019, supported by WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has now been extended to July 31. Eligible articles for this sub-contest should use be at least in part about a work in the Met's collection that is by an LGBT artist or has an LGBT theme. You can use the article-draft tool for LGBT artists in the collection, start a new article in the normal way, improve an existing article, or translate something. Winners will be shipped a Met art publication of their choice!-- Pharos ( talk) 18:28, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
We invite all fashion-minded editors to join the virtual event for Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetFashion 2020 on Saturday September 26. Please RSVP.-- Pharos ( talk) 16:39, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Here's an attempt to try creating some exhibition articles using AI and ChatGPT. Treat with caution! But seems promising.
Feel free to edit and improve! - Fuzheado | Talk 16:35, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
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@ Pharos: or others - is there a plan for image import? I've occasionally played with William the Faience Hippopotamus, and it would be fun to replace that image with this one, but I don't want to upload to Commons willy-nilly if there is going to be a structured import, template, etc. Any pointers on how best to handle this would be welcome. Thanks! — Luis ( talk) 22:28, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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I have an article in draft about a former Met president. Is there anyone that I can reach at the Met about getting digital/scanned access to sources? Would save the trekking to & from the Watson Library, at least. czar 07:18, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
The Met has selected three highlight artworks they'd like to see as first major articles developed: Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Benin Pendant Mask, Mérode Altarpiece.
I've just started Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, which didn't exist at all before. I would love to collaborate on the armor topic with folks (maybe as a DYK?), as well as on the other works. Benin Pendant Mask might also be an excellent choice to work on this month as part of Wikipedia:Black WikiHistory Month.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:35, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Pharos: Congrats on the collaboration / image release! As a special request, would it be possible to get some pictures released of the Tapestry Room from Croome Court, which was moved to the Met in 1958? The room at the Court now looks rather bare, and it might be quite nice to have a before/after image in the Croome Court article. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 21:40, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. For the last year or so, I have been wanting to bring the Cloisters article to FAC status. It will prob take me, on my own, about another year to work it up. I have always been impressed with the Met's involvement and engagement with wiki, and have done a Met FAC article before, largely because they have been so generous in sharing sources. I was wondering if members of this project would be willing to set up a collab, or drive, to help get the Cloisters over the line. Not necessarily direct editing even, but access to sources. Ceoil ( talk) 17:27, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
The OA policy doesn't cover the descriptions on the file pages, right? It appears to cover the image metadata ("basic information") but doesn't mention the descriptions. If the Met wants to add the descriptions to the release, I think they would be useful if uploaded alongside their respective Commons images. czar 20:44, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
I have been (quite literally) hoping since 2005 to be able to use the images of the Met's mantuas ( this one and this one). If I get disentangled from my current project before the images are uploaded, I'll probably grab a few shots of them. - PKM ( talk) 01:28, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Cross-posting from Commons talk:Met.
Hi, I just realized that the Met collection also contains a whole bunch of musical instruments, which I would like to use as part of the German Wikipedia project Wiki Loves Music to illustrate the history of musical instruments in the respective articles, e.g. this 1830 bassoon. Can you tell me where I can stay up to date regarding the planned mass upload? Looking at the commons:Category:Musical instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I understand that so far only one image of a musical instrument, the grand piano on the right, has been uploaded, which has since been reverted. Thank you, -- Gnom ( talk) 00:16, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
If you're looking for some small cleanup tasks (e.g., citation and link fixes), you can now find an automated listing compiled here czar 16:21, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
I may have identified some missing Wikipedia articles based on my last trip to the museum:
I may have the names wrong, or articles may be hiding here somewhere. Just thought I'd point these out in case folks want to help identify these works and create articles. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:53, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Looking for sources on the Cloisters Library, of any editors know of where to find. Ceoil ( talk) 17:21, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
@ Pharos: and team - I'd like to select a metadata-rich extant garment from a museum collection to be one of the best-practices 'showcase items' for the new Wikidata Project on fashion and clothing. One of most iconic garments I can think of is Dior's Bar suit, and I'd really like to develop an item for it on Wikidata.
If you have not created a metadata map for costume items, I'd be interested in working on that with the project team. The whole area of clothing is very underdeveloped on Wikidata so far. I've been playing with possibilities - here's my first cut at deep metadata for a jacket in the V&A. - PKM ( talk) 00:31, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to encourage folks to shift some of their energies to these "WikiThree" articles, so that we can get them up to a higher quality before March 16, when we will start sharing more widely:
Hopefully one of these is of interest to you! I'm going to put some of my energy going forward into the Ferdinard armour article. Also, note that each of the Met website pages (for example, Merode Altarpiece) has a specially-expanded References section, added with the help of Met staff as part of this project.-- Pharos ( talk) 21:35, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
We'd like t invite folks to participate in the Met Open Access Artworks Challenge, which starts its soft launch today! All edits related to the collection and using the CC0 images are most welcomed - you can sign up at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants :)-- Pharos ( talk) 18:59, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
@ Pharos: I would like to see the following images on Common for concrete use in German wikis. All these files are sadly (up to now) not marked CC-0. But I hope that the Metropolitan Museum of Art can provide permission or free images of these objects.
-- Reise Reise ( talk) 14:50, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Based on the articles recently created, I think it's worth noting that the general notability guideline requires that "significant coverage" from reliable sources "independent of the subject". It isn't enough to link to the Met's website and a Met journal/book/publication as proof of the object's independent notability when writing about it. Better is to look to other art history sources that write about the item. If the object is covered in depth even outside Met publications, then you're looking at a reason for creating a separate article about that specific item. Otherwise you're better off just covering the item within an existing parent topic (the artist or an article on the period/style) using the Met sources. In short, the Met sources aren't a good judge of whether a specific object is important because it they are too closely affiliated with the item (the Met pubs serve to promote the museum's collection), but the Met sources are fine for writing generally about an artist/period as they lose that conflict of interest. czar 16:00, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
I just wanted to compliment the Library staff for efficient, helpful, and professional interactions with visiting researchers. I was in NYC for 10 days back in July, and took some time over several days to visit the MMA and its library. The library website was very helpful in describing what was available, rules for access, and encouraging advance online requests for research materials. Being a new researcher, I also applied online for an ID card.
Upon arrival following excellent directions, I identified myself, received my ID card, stored my backpack in a secure locker, and proceeded to the reserve shelves. On the way, I noticed an exhibit of materials by and about the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Ironically, this was the reason some of the materials I sought were listed as unavailable, due to this ongoing exhibit. Fortunately, I was still able to request a number of other useful books about Saint Phalle, as well as several other artists of interest. Compliments go to the curator who organized the mini-exhibit on Niki de Saint Phalle, which gives a nice overview of her work.
I edit a very eclectic and wide array of Wikipedia articles, including those on a number of women artists, such as Marisol Escobar, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Muriel Cooper, and Jacqueline Casey. I have also done work on male artists such as Jean-Robert Ipousteguy, Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Eakins, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Ed Kienholz, Richard Estes, Duane Hanson, Ron Mueck, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Charles Eames, Edward R. Tufte, James Turrell, Jamie Wyeth, and Wen-Ying Tsai.
I have done work on Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the less-known but far more effective pioneering electrical engineer, as well as his flashier contemporary Nikola Tesla. Other interesting engineers include Bob Pease, Jim Williams, Bob Widlar, Richard Stallman, Chuck Hoberman, and Charles Babbage. I have worked on scientists and educators, such as George Gamow, Richard Feynman, Mary Roach, and Frank Oppenheimer.
I am interested in connections between technology and art, including Neon art, Kinetic art, Light art, Surrealism, and Op Art. I am interested in scientific phenomena and devices such as Dust explosions, Fire pistons, Stirling engines, Tippe tops, Rattlebacks, and Plasma globes. I have worked on Anamorphosis and Mathematics and art.
I have worked on articles about various specialized exhibitions, such as Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond, both New York World's Fairs, the Empire State Plaza architecture and Art Collection, and numerous museums and science/technology centers. I also work on architectural articles, such as the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and architects, such as Harry Weese. I expanded the Thomas J. Watson Library article, adding mention of the Nolen Library as well.
I connect many articles via Wikilinks, which I consider to be an important feature of Wikipedia. For example, I overhauled the article on Infinity mirrors, including adding a new "Cultural references" section referring Yayoi Kusama, Josiah McElheny, Ivan Navarro, and Taylor Davis as visual artists who have made use of the phenomenon. I crosslinked the articles on Gustave Courbet and Karst springs. I have connected the article on Salvador Dalí to the article on the Willis Tower in Chicago, via the article on Glass floors. I have corrected a serious technical error in the article Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles, Wikilinking it to relevant articles on Mechanical impedance and Transformers.
I have added new "Cultural references" sections to articles about mathematical phenomena and artists, connecting mathematics, science, technology, and art. For example, I added a brief section to the article Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage, linking to a new monumental sculpture in the Netherlands which incorporates the linkage.
In the future, I hope to work on the articles about Jean Tinguely, Paul Delvaux, Anish Kapoor, Otto Piene, George Rickey, Claes Oldenburg, Isamu Noguchi, Philip Morrison, James Burke (science historian), some overlooked women photographers, and some pioneering audio engineers. The Watson Library and the MMA are invaluable resources for information on art and artists, from prehistoric times to visions of the future.
While at the MMA, I noticed a small but interesting exhibition on synthetic textiles and art conservation ( http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/secret-life-of-textiles-synthetic), near the entrance to the Antonio Ratti Textile Center. The individual costumes and art objects in the exhibit are documented online, but the educational explanatory text concerning materials degradation and preservation is not otherwise available, as far as I can tell. I took a number of photos to document it, and hope to use the material to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of synthetic fabrics as well as art conservation. Reify-tech ( talk) 22:16, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair has been chosen as the first-ever Met Weekly Challenge for the coming week. There are a lot of resources at the artwork's Met Collection record (see 'Catalogue Entry'), and also lists of other references. We could also benefit from the French Wikipedia version and Commons:Category:The Horse Fair — see the section for Week 1: The Horse Fair (Sept 25 - Oct 1) for more on how to participate, or just get started editing!
I also very much encourage folks to share and vote for their ideas on future collaborations at Met Weekly Challenge - Proposals!-- Pharos ( talk) 20:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Ingres' The Princesse de Broglie has been chosen as the Week 2 focus of the Met Weekly Challenge. There are a lot of resources at the artwork's Met Collection record (see 'Catalogue Entry'), and also lists of other references. See the section for Week 2: The Princesse de Broglie (Oct 1 - Oct 8) for more on how to participate, or just get started editing!
I also very much encourage folks to share and vote for your ideas on future collaborations!-- Pharos ( talk) 16:04, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Velázquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja has been chosen as the Metropolitan Museum of Art Weekly Challenge for the coming week. There are a lot of resources at the artwork's Met Collection record (see 'Catalogue Entry'), and also lists of other references. See the section for Week 3: Portrait of Juan de Pareja (Oct 9 - Oct 15) for more on how to participate, or just get started editing!
Simultaneously, we are also encouraging collaboration on the biographical article for Juan de Pareja, the artist depicted.
I also very much encourage folks to share and vote for your ideas on future collaborations!
As we give a break to the weekkly collaborations, I'd like to invite the folks here to join the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30. As part of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Asian Month, there will be Met postcards for all who participate, and books as prizes. Let me know if you have questions, or need help finding a good topic and matching images.-- Pharos ( talk) 17:38, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to invite folks to see Asian art article recommendations and see some of the articles written so far (in multiple languages!). Help improve some of the new articles, or write your own. Anyone who writes one article will be sent a commemorative Met postcard, and grand prize winners will get the Met guidebook or Asian art publications. Our in-person edit-a-thon is on Sunday, and you're welcome to participate in parallel remotely for that too. And I remain available to assist anyone who'd like help getting library sources or appropriate images from the collection.-- Pharos ( talk) 18:51, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
If you'd like to start a new short article for Wikipedia Asian Art Month, you have 3 days left to join in the fun. I'll be glad to collaborate with you on whatever topic you like, and we'll send you a Met postcard lovingly signed by me. Expanding an article by a significant amount works as well.-- Pharos ( talk) 18:23, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The Horse Fair is appearing as Picture of the day on the Main Page on December 15 UTC, which is in about five hours! Might be a good chance if anyone would like to collaborate on it today or tomorrow.-- Pharos ( talk) 19:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
This is now at PR, with the aim to take to FAC in a month or two. Page has been significantly improved by the Met's image release, and the work of people here to make those available. Any further input from project members more than welcome. Ceoil ( talk) 11:15, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to use this image. It has been deleted before – is it not freely licensed? Thanks, -- Gnom ( talk) 13:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey all! I thought I'd acknowledge publicly to you that this GLAM has been a true inspiration! In Brazil, we've just set up a page in the context of our work with Museu Paulista, and the way the work at the MET was organized was definitely our main influence: WP:MUSEUPAULISTA. I hope you like it! :) -- Joalpe ( talk) 23:26, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a collaboration for the Wiki Loves Pride 2018 campaign covering LGBT artists, their major artworks, and other themed works in the Met collection. I've done a Wikidata/category analysis to make a preliminary list of LGBT artists in the collection, but I'd also like to think of ways to encourage all works that are tied to this theme.-- Pharos ( talk) 19:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
This is now at FAC. Constructive feedback would be gratefully received. Ceoil ( talk) 01:16, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
I'd like to invite WikiProject participants to sign up at Wikipedia Asian Art Month 2018 and find some Asian art topics they would like to write about with Met images. Grand prizes will be offered as well.-- Pharos ( talk) 07:40, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
I'd like to invite you to join Wikipedia Asian Art Month in the December extension of the sub-contest; if you write or translate just one article and include one of our images, you'll get a special Met postcard. And if you're one of the grand prize winners, you'll get a Met guidebook or Asian art publication. One place to look for inspiration might be Open Access "Highlights" from Asia (PD artworks marked as Asian, but be careful of border cases)-- Pharos ( talk) 16:15, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
At d:Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings there is the goal to use the wiki platform to catalog all paintings.
@ Pharos: You had a "Museum of Babylon" concept for cataloging all artwork. Did you publish documentation for that anywhere?
I am trying to build out d:Wikidata:WikiProject Limits of Wikidata and we want to collect counts of numbers to estimate the storage and computation needs of Wikidata for certain projects.
Suppose everything in the Met were in Wikidata - how do you describe that amount of data? Do you have guesses for the entire museum world? Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:46, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride Art & Artists 2019, supported by WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has now been extended to July 31. Eligible articles for this sub-contest should use be at least in part about a work in the Met's collection that is by an LGBT artist or has an LGBT theme. You can use the article-draft tool for LGBT artists in the collection, start a new article in the normal way, improve an existing article, or translate something. Winners will be shipped a Met art publication of their choice!-- Pharos ( talk) 18:28, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
We invite all fashion-minded editors to join the virtual event for Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetFashion 2020 on Saturday September 26. Please RSVP.-- Pharos ( talk) 16:39, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Here's an attempt to try creating some exhibition articles using AI and ChatGPT. Treat with caution! But seems promising.
Feel free to edit and improve! - Fuzheado | Talk 16:35, 22 December 2022 (UTC)