New subject: New GLAM collaboration in BG Wikipedia, photos of ancient Roman coins

4 Mar 2015

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
<http://nd-philippopol.com/%D1%81%D1%8A%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D1%81-%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F/>.

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

<https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A1%D1%8A%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE/%D0%9D%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%E2%80%9E%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%E2%80%9D>
   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

<http://nd-philippopol.com/%D1%81%D1%8A%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D1%81-%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F/>
   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