Commons:WikiProject Arts

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Commons WikiProject (Visual) Arts "Turn Arts at Wikimedia Commons to a premier digital resource in the internet."

Est. 2009

under construction

Everyone is invited to contribute!

Image selection of the month (12/2009): Simon Vouet, The Muses Urania and Calliope, oil on panel, c. 1634, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art.

Leading pages of this project. ( This is an imagemap, just choose your button.)

[edit] Mission

Our mission is to ...

improve visual art related topics at Wikimedia Commons (QC, missing media lists, category scheme, etc.)
propose, discuss and coordinate such activities
create such sub-projects and task forces
develop and provide overviews and inventories
propose visual art media for community promotion (valued images^{status quo}, quality images^{status quo}, featured pictures^{status quo} etc.)
prepare and perform a Wikimedia outreach
recruit members

[edit] Contents

by alphabet and following hierarchies of a parent page

Category

List of all pages within Commons:WikiProject Arts brought to you by the server

[edit] News

Art related news associated with Wikimedia (do not include exhibitions, auctions, commercials, new books, etc.) ^{(pl. sign you MSG)}:

2009-09 Template:Creator -- Creator templates should not use Homecat parameters anymore (add an appropriate homecat to the files: such as category:Religious paintings by Rubens, then remove the homecat by wrapping it with "noinlude" tags). --Mattes (talk) 20:06, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
2009-06-01 to 2009-09-01 Wiki loves art/NL was an initiative of Wikimedia Netherlands and other institutions to retrieve free-licensed photographs of artefacts until the end of the month. The photographs were uploaded to a flickr pool and transferred to Commons servers on 2009-09-01 → www.wikilovesart.nl (Dutch) -- User:Mattes 2009-06-09 Collection: Category:Images from Wiki Loves Art Netherlands -- Mattes (talk) 15:27, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Project news → Project development

New files → toolserver.org Latest files on commons.wikimedia.org, set "category:art" or other parameters individually.

[edit] Barnstar

Currently, there is only one barnstar:

[edit] The Barnstar of Fine Arts (ADuran)

		The Barnstar of Fine Arts
		Text (<Receiver> <reason>) Signature

Source code:

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|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | [[Image:Fine_Arts_Star.png|100px]]
|rowspan="2" |
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Barnstar of Fine Arts'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Text (<Receiver> <reason>) --~~~~ 
|}

[edit] Members

...you?!
--Mattes^founder (talk) 13:14, 19 May 2009 (UTC) de en-4 — specialty: paintings
Marcus Cyron (talk) 09:21, 9 June 2009 (UTC) - Ancient Art and Archeology and sister sciences from Prehistory, Ancient Egypt, near and middle East, mediteran world to the Middle Ages
+sj + 15:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC) - contemporary art.