Wikidata:WikiProject Museum of Babel

The Tower of Babel (Q15293656) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563).

Jorge Luis Borges (Q909), author of The Library of Babel (Q473) and honorary curator.

WikiProject Museum of Babel is the "museum of all possible artworks" for Wikidata.

It aims to extend the ambition of Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings into the third dimension, and embraces artistic genres from all cultures.

Museum of Babel article-generator tool

The {{Mbabel}} template, when used in combination with a Wikidata table, enables a basic Wikipedia article-generator for drafts on artworks in a collection, using information drawn from Wikidata.

See the tool in action at the Museum of Babel prototype-table for WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art on English Wikipedia.

Basic types in collections

We aim to expand the scope of Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structure and the "basic types" of item of collection or exhibition (Q18593264), enabling multiple layers of interacting with and enhancing the collection data.

New properties started

• wears (P3828)

New items started

• ensemble of works of art (Q28870066)
• furniture component (Q28803767)
• work with multiple executions (Q28886448)
• group of casts (Q28890616)
• historical costume (Q29003745)
• official image (Q28946213)
• collection highlight (Q29188408)

Participants

1. Pharos (talk) 13:48, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
2. PKM (talk) 17:56, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
3. Following and will support any way I can. Shani Evenstein (talk) 14:32, 8 May 2017 (UTC)