Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts

WikiProject Visual arts, a sub-project of WikiProject Arts, is a place for Wikipedians to discuss issues and organize information about the visual arts. Like any page on Wikipedia, all are welcome to edit and contribute to this WikiProject.

Rather than try to force information to appear in a uniform way, this WikiProject presents guidelines to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. These recommendations for creating visual arts content are based on various Wikipedia style guides and common practices for writing good articles. Use your own judgment in applying these guidelines, along with other Wikipedia guidelines, to compose articles and be bold.

If you would like to help, see the How to help section below and ask questions on the talk page.

Feel free to add your name to the participants list and/or add the project userbox {{User WikiProject Visual arts}} to your user page.

Scope edit

The project seeks to improve the quality of articles related to the visual arts. The main category that represents articles that fall within the scope of this project is Category:Visual arts (Category:Art has merged into this).

A proposed schema for the various subcategories that would also fall within the scope of this project can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Art_categories.

Sub-projects edit

Goals edit

  1. To provide a place to discuss common issues on visual arts related pages.
  2. To thoroughly explore the visual arts globally and historically.
  3. To ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
  4. To manage editing of the Visual Arts portal.
  5. To discuss and categorize project pages.

How to help edit

How you can help depends on your time, resources, and interest. Here are a variety of ideas for contributions ranging from simple to complex. Take a look at the Open Tasks section of this page for more article-specific tasks.

If you'd like to help with any of the below and want assistance, post a query on the talk page. Project members will be glad to help.

Develop articles edit

Writing and editing edit

Open Tasks edit

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Here are some Open Tasks :


Article alerts edit

Did you know

Articles for deletion

Proposed deletions

Categories for discussion

(72 more...)

Redirects for discussion

Featured article candidates

Good article nominees

Peer reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

(7 more...)

Biographies edit

Work in tandem with Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment

Cleanup edit

An automatically updated list of articles that have been tagged for cleanup is linked here.

Visual arts portal edit

Maintain articles edit

Articles for deletion edit

It is important to have an input into Articles for deletion. There is now a special page for visual art articles, which needs to be maintained, updated and monitored. It can be found here: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts. Articles need to be added manually: please add any AfD you want to draw attention to, and also put it on your watchlist.

Images edit

Larger tasks edit

  • Move art images to Wikicommons. Suggestion only. Move eligible (world-wide public domain) art images to Wikicommons
  • Categories.See Portal:Visual_arts/Categories. Categorization ideas Art categories
  • Increasing the representation of visual art outside the Western canon: a task force page lists target articles for improvement or creation, as well as related resources
  • Development. Can we try and get Arts and Crafts Movement at least up to B-Class? The article on this important and influential movement, which dominated the decorative arts in Britain from 1890–1915, should be a lot better than it is. I have added to it but I'd appreciate some collaborators.

Visual arts project edit

  • Add the project template {{Visual arts}} to the talk pages of relevant articles that don't already have one.
  • Join the discussions on the project talk page.
  • Publicize – Inform editors who have displayed interest in visual arts about the project via their talk page.
  • Take a look at the project to-do list and help with listed project-related tasks.

Other edit

Useful information edit

Online resources: artworks/art books edit

  • Guggenheim modern art books for free [1]
  • Paris Musees released digital artworks [2]
  • Art Institute of Chicago released digital images [3]
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art: art works in public domain [4], 600+ art books to download or view online for free [5]
  • Getty Museum artworks: virtual library to download [6]
  • New York Public Library: released artworks, images, books. [7]
  • Smithsonian Open Access: Artworks, images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. 3 million images and resources available for open source use as of late 2020 [1] [8]

Other edit

Statistics edit


Most popular pages edit

Similar WikiProjects edit

See also

Participants edit

New names at top. It's not necessary to list your name here to edit this page or edit related articles. Feel free to display the project userbox on your userpage: {{User WikiProject Visual arts}}.

Recognized content edit

Featured article candidates edit

Total pages in content type is 2

Featured articles edit

Total pages in content type is 199

Featured lists edit

Total pages in content type is 17

Good article nominees edit

Total pages in content type is 8

Good articles edit

Total pages in content type is 458

Featured portals edit

Total pages in content type is 1

Featured pictures edit

Total pages in content type is 426

Did you know? articles edit

Total pages in content type is 3241

Main page featured articles edit

Total pages in content type is 209

Main page featured lists edit

Total pages in content type is 14

In the News articles edit

Total pages in content type is 121

Picture of the day pictures edit

Total pages in content type is 396

Former featured articles edit

Total pages in content type is 24

Former featured lists edit

Total pages in content type is 2

Former good articles edit

Total pages in content type is 31

Former featured pictures edit

Total pages in content type is 3


Templates edit

Please add them as you find them, using caution, especially with the larger ones, which may disrupt carefully designed pages.

Info boxes edit

Artists edit

Art works edit

Image pages edit

Navigation aids edit

See also Category:Arts and culture templates

Cultural periods edit

Not specific to art

Art periods edit

Art nationality edit

Art groups edit

Artists edit

Project and stubs edit

What to type What it makes What it's for

{{Visual arts}}

See below.

The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that fits within the scope of this project.

WikiProject iconVisual arts NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Visual arts, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of visual arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

{{WPVA}}

See below.

The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of a user who edits relevant articles.



WikiProject Visual arts

You are welcome to join WikiProject Visual arts, a collaboration between like-minded Wikipedians in order to improve visual arts coverage.


{{User WikiProject Visual arts}}

This can be placed on your user page to show that you are a part of this Wikiproject.

{{User:UBX/artlover}}

This user is an art lover.

Just for fun.

{{User Art}}

ARTThis user's favourite subject is Art.

Just for fun.

{{portal|Visual arts}}

To add a link to the Visual Arts portal.

Stubs

{{Art-stub}}

To mark art articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category:Visual arts stubs. Use more specific stubs whenever possible.

{{Artist-stub}}

To mark artist articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category: Artist stubs. Use more specific stubs whenever possible.

{{art-org-stub}}

To mark art or artist organization articles in need of expansion. Adds article to Category:Art_organization_stubs.

Sister projects edit