Project HomepageTo Do ListsContributorsQuestions and CommentsTraining Videos and Resources


Architect’s House (designed by Ernst May). Photograph by Tim Benton. CON_B04373_F002_028. The Courtauld Institute of Art. CC-BY-4.0. This is typical of a Conway Library item: a photographic print is pasted onto a manilla cardboard mount, with some additional information written or stamped on the mount.

This page is a work in progress to support volunteers on the Courtauld Institute of Art Courtauld Connects Digitisation Project. However, all Wikipedians are of course welcome (this goes without saying, but for the benefit of newcomers!)! Please feel free to make changes and additions in format and content, and use the Talk page to leave questions and comments.

This project was established to support especially Courtauld Digitisation Project volunteers to create and edit Wikipedia pages related to the Conway Library. The Conway Library is a collection of over 1.6 million photographs. These photographs are of architecture, design, manuscripts, and fine art objects. These photographs have historically only been accessible in person, at the Courtauld Institute of Art (first at Portland Square, now in the North East Wing of Somerset House).

Photographs in the collection are usually pasted to a cardboard mount. The mounts frequently include a written name, or a stamp, that indicates who took the photograph.

Since 2017, volunteers have been transcribing the names written on mounts. So we now have a list of names. However: quite often the name is all we have. Since the start of COVID19 shutdown, volunteers have been researching these names to build profiles for them, so that we can create brand new, or edit existing, Wikipedia pages for people who contributed to the photographic collection. We will be adding photographs taken by the photographers to Wikimedia as appropriate.

Volunteers and Wikipedians are encouraged to use and add to the resources on this project page to help bring the Conway Library to Wikipedia.

Getting Started[edit]

If you are new to Wikipedia

  1. Create a Wikipedia login (a user name) if you do not have one already.
  2. Create a sandbox within your user namespace. When you are logged in, you should see 'Sandbox' as a link in the menu at the very top of the page.
  3. Ask one of the team to send you instructions for training tasks.

If you are a confident Wikipedian

  1. Be in touch with the team either via email, Slack, or on the project Talk page to be assigned a photographer, or to update us of any progress.

Outcomes[edit]

Record your contributions to the project below, and create a new month sub-section if necessary. Use an asterisk to create a bullet point if you are not using a visual editor. Older contributions are archived here.

January 2021 Outcomes

February 2021 Outcomes

March 2021 Outcomes

April 2021 Outcomes

May 2021 Outcomes

June 2021 Outcomes

July 2021 Outcomes

August 2021 Outcomes

September 2021 Outcomes

November 2021 Outcomes

December 2021 Outcomes

January 2022 Outcomes

February 2022 Outcomes

March 2022 Outcomes

April 2022 Outcomes

May 2022 Outcomes

June 2022 Outcomes

July 2022 Outcomes

August 2022 Outcomes

September 2022 Outcomes

October 2022 Outcomes

More