Hi Vlasdislav,

thanks for sharing this your good news.

@1 Project pages from other GLAM projects can be found in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Commons_partnerships_by_country and its subcategories. Creating something similar to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:National_Archives_and_Records_Administration or https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv could help to provide some basic information about the project in English. More importantly it enables you to gather discussions, questions or user feedback such as error reports for descriptions, etc. in a centralised place.

@2 Specific numismatic information are helpful to re-users and future numismatic projects. Given that this information is already available, it would make sense to add it to the images' descriptions. I'm not aware of a information template targeted at numismatics on Wikimedia Commons. Several GLAMs use modified information templates based on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork An overview can be found in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates

English Wikipedia has this template for coins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_coin So eventually a combination of the artwork template and the infobox coin template could be a solution.

@3 Depending on where and when you plan to release this announcement, you might want to provide a link to the Commons category to which the files will be uploaded. I'm not sure if the link to the List of Roman Emperors intentionally refers to Bulgarian Wikipedia, given that you target an English speaking audience you might want to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_emperors The rest looks fine to me. Please make sure you announce the project on the GLAM newsletter at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter

Regards, Christoph

2015-03-04 23:47 GMT+01:00 vladislav Nedelev <nedelev@gmail.com>:

Dear all,

My name is Vladislav Nedelev, from Bulgaria, and some of you probably remember me from the Wikimedia CEE Meeting in Kiev in December 2014.

After few weeks of communication between me and Vassia Atanassova (Spiritia) as representatives of the user group of ’ Wikimedians of Bulgaria’ and the Numismatic Society – ‘Philippopolis’, we have their permission to upload a collection of 236 pictures of 118 ancient Roman coins, minted in Philippopolis, now Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The collection comprises some well preserved bronze coins, minted during the reign of eleven Roman Emperors from 81 to 222 year AD, among whom Antoninus Pius, Caracalla, Commodus, Elagabalus, Geta, Marcus Aurelius and Septimius Severus. The collection is very exhaustively described, with data about the diameter, weight, emperor, the material and inscription on the coins.

Together with the people for the Society we prepared a short announcement about this GLAM collaboration project, which is published (in Bulgarian) on the Society’s website.

After this preparation, now we reach the point where we are supposed to start uploading pictures in Commons. But we have some questions:

Do you think that we have to create a new page in the “Commons” namespace about the collaboration in commons, given that we already have a page in the Bulgarian Wikipedia. Is there a model for pages for such collaborations?
Do you recommending us to use the default template “Information”, or shall we create a new special template for coins with different parameters like diameter, weight, emperor, etc., and information about the collaboration and about the source of the pictures. Can you suggest a more specific template for coins?
Are we missing some vitally important thing to do or announce in relation to this GLAM collaboration? I am attaching а translation of the news from the official web site of the society?

Any advise and help to make these first steps are more than welcome!

Yours sincerely,

Vladislav Nedelev

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