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A new, monthly Global GLAM Community Call! 24th February 2026 - 8:00 UTC.

All welcome! Topics include:

1. Wikimedia Enterprise & WMF Technical Partnerships
2. Helpdesk - Content Partnerships Hub
3. WikiSami - Sum of All Manuscripts Bali

+ open floor session for discussions, updates, questions & ideas

You can register on the event page on Meta. Hope to see you on the call - https://w.wiki/HoH6

Use this link to check the time in your region - https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1771920000

Sandra F.Jan 1

Happy #PublicDomainDay ! I am keeping a close eye on this page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikidataGalleries/WikiFlix/1930 as it will automatically fill with "new" (American) public domain films in the upcoming days and weeks, as #wikicommons and @wikidata editors will add more materials over time. Yesterday's score was 36, right now it's already 71.

WikidataGalleries/WikiFlix/1930 - Wikimedia Commons

Sandra F.Oct 20

Who recognizes that distinctive "huh?" moment when you are notified of a link to a Wikipedia article that you can't remember you ever created? 🤣

Sandra F.May 12, 2025

Notice a small improvement in one of our classics - the cool @wikidata powered gallery of self-portraits of women on #wikicommons ? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Self-portraits_of_women

I have used AI (oh yes) to improve the template that creates a gallery of the works. Now, rather than seeing an ugly {{{P18}}} when the Wikidata item has no image, and a simultaneously embarrassing {{{P195}}} when there's no mention of a collection in the Wikidata item, one now sees much more friendly placeholders. 😎

Self-portraits of women - Wikimedia Commons

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Sandra F.Apr 19, 2025

They worked under their own names but also as the "Centrum voor Cubische Constructies" (CCC). Also worked as designers for the Dutch State Mines, did decorations of Dutch trains (non-free image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/135487472@N07/51723019827), participated in the 1970 Venice Biennale,... some more info here https://www.stedelijk.nl/nl/nieuws/memoriam-william-pars-graatsma-1925-2017 and https://www.macguffinmagazine.com/stories/story3. Admire the photo which I discovered on Commons where they are nerdily gloating about their Sikkens Prize together with Peter Struycken and Johannes Itten.

SGM-1 interior artwork

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Sandra F.Apr 19, 2025

As usual, there are few to no images of their work on Wikimedia Commons, because of copyright. That said, besides the image I posted above (a public artwork based on a grid, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, I also found various Wikipedia articles that math fans have written about a packing problem / puzzle they worked on: the Slothouber-Graatsma puzzle/cube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slothouber%E2%80%93Graatsma_puzzle

Slothouber–Graatsma puzzle - Wikipedia

Sandra F.Apr 19, 2025

I'm working on one of the coolest projects ever. I am Wikidata specialist / Wikimedian in Residence for the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture, a network of museums, collections, archives, specialists and fans of Dutch design and new media art/culture. I encounter so much fabulous stuff, it's impossible to showcase it all. Just one discovery today: the work of Jan Slothouber and William Graatsma, two Dutch designers and artists who did Everything With Cubes.

Sandra F.Apr 2, 2025

This is how I feel about life in general these days... @magnusmanske https://cradle.toolforge.org/?#/shex/E471

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Sandra F.Mar 8, 2025

While researching for this event, I am noticing that we are actually getting great coverage of such people on @wikipedia and @wikidata (less on #wikicommons because copyright). We are getting stuck to make much more progress because: reliable secondary sources are missing. We need more well-researched biographies, newspaper articles, scientific papers, books, monographs, so that we will be able to cite them on Wikimedia projects. The original research is where it all starts.