Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/British Museum Waddesdon Bequest 2015

DRAFT - date not yet confirmed

a past Wikimedia UK editathon

About the event

This is a joint event between Wikimedia UK and the British Museum. The event will focus on editing Wikipedia articles about the objects in the Waddesdon Bequest, to coincide with the opening of the new room for the Bequest, and the publication of a new book by the curator, Dora Thornton. Some people will remember meeting Dora for coffee in 2012 after she facilitated a group visit to the British Museum exhibition Shakespeare: Staging the World which she had curated.

There will be a tour of the new display, before it opens to the public, and a chance to talk to British Museum experts about the collection

There will/will not be opportunities for photography on the tour. The BM will be releasing some of its images, for new and existing articles. Good sources will be available.

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  Some of the metalwork
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  Some of the enamels

Lunch; We are grateful to our hosts the British Museum for providing lunch, there will be both vegetarian and non vegetarian food.

After the event most of us will move o to the GLobe in ? street for a beer or two.

How do I prepare?

• [tbc Sign up for the event]
• Create a Wikipedia account - Special:UserLogin/signup
• Bring a laptop (wi-fi will be provided), if you don't have a laptop then email glamwikimedia.org.uk as Wikimedia UK has some loan PCs for such events
• Learn about editing if you like: Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

Attendees

When you have arrived and logged on please sign below with * ~~~~

Trainers

1. Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk)
2. Johnbod (talk) 13:59, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Target List

Detail of underside of Dish with the Woman of the Apocalypse, Limoges, mid-16th century, attributed to Jean de Court WB.33

Attendees and others are welcome to suggest Wikipedia articles that could be improved during this session.

If the query on a talkpage has been resolved you can strike it out and mark it resolved with the code:

<s>[[talk:Nevil Maskelyne]]</s> resolved giving talk:Nevil Maskelyne resolved

• Existing articles:
• Waddesdon Bequest - being taken to FAC
• Holy Thorn Reliquary - FA

Objects that could have articles:

• Palmer Cup (Islamic glass) (early Islamic glass, not the golf tournament!) -
• Reliquary casket of St Valerie
• Ghisi parade shield -
• Enamelled casket with Sibyls
• Enamel portrait of Anne d'Este
• Dish with the Woman of the Apocalypse
• Nereid Pendant
• Deblín Cup (Renaissance glass)
• Lyte Jewel by Nicolas Hilliard for James I to present
• Grenville Jewel

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  St Valerie as cephalophore, carrying her own head to her bishop, Saint Martial
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  Seated prince on the Palmer Cup
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  Detail from the Ghisi shield; a grotesque head in the larger scale above a battle over a bridge in the smaller
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  Back of the Lyte Jewel

-and many others. Several of the articles on types of objects that are strongly represented in the Waddesdon Bequest are poor or non-existent.

Disability

This event is wheelchair accessible. If you need a disabled parking space please contact us.

Our hosts have hearing loops in the rooms we are using.

Bespoke welcome

We have a tailored welcome for this event, just post:

{{subst:User:Jonathan Cardy (WMUK)/Waddesdon}} ~~~~ to the talkpage of any new accounts created for the event