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  equestrian statue of Gang Gam-Chan (Q99293565) – Seoul (Q8684)
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  Joseph-Francis Sumégné (Q3184249) – La Nouvelle Liberté (Q3211132) – Douala (Q132830)
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  Banksy (Q133600) – Shop Till You Drop (Q27949192) – City of Westminster (Q179351)
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  Jimmie Durham (Q445487) – Still Life with Stone and Car (Q28893166) – City of Sydney (Q1094194)
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  Mihran Hakobjan (Q18201680) – Wikipedia Monument (Q18201640) – Słubice (Q200709)

Welcome to WikiProject Public art!

Be bold, help improve this WikiProject, become a member, and feel free to post your ideas and suggestions on the talk page.

And above all: enjoy public art, document it on Wikimedia projects, take photos, upload them to Wikimedia Commons (if that's OK - do check if the country has Freedom of Panorama!) and create and edit Wikidata items for your favorite works!

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On Wikidata, public artworks—works of art that are placed (somewhat permanently) in public space—are described with the statement genre (P136)public art (Q557141).

Overview of this WikiProject

Things to do

✍️ Do you want to do some public art editing, or help in any other way? The Things to do page lists many suggestions of open tasks.

Data model

📝 How should public artworks be described on Wikidata? The Data model page collects best practices.

Sources

📚 The Sources page lists databases, websites and other sources of information about public art around the world. Add your favorite database as well!

Reports

📈 What's the status of public art on Wikidata? The Reports page collects overviews of statistics and other insights in our data about public art.

Queries and visualizations

Add your favorite examples too!

Queries via the Wikidata Query Service

• Query: number of public artworks on Wikidata (counting all artworks that have the genre (P136)public art (Q557141) statement).
• Query: all public artworks in Armenia on Wikidata (if they have the genre (P136)public art (Q557141) statement). You can replace Armenia (Q399) with another country in the Query helper on the left (ⓘ button).
  • Does your country only have very few results via this query? Then you probably need to add more public artworks to Wikidata, or add genre (P136)public art (Q557141) to existing works that don't have that statement yet.
• Query: map of the public artworks with most Wikimedia sitelinks (counting all artworks that have the genre (P136)public art (Q557141) statement).
• Query: timeline of public artworks in São Paulo, Brazil (if they have the genre (P136)public art (Q557141) statement). You can replace São Paulo (Q174) with another city in the Query helper on the left (ⓘ button).
  • Does your city only have very few results via this query, and/or are missing famous and notable examples? Then you probably need to add more public artworks to Wikidata, or add genre (P136)public art (Q557141) to existing works that don't have that statement yet.

Public art visualized in Wikidata tools

• See public artworks on a map, and take photos of them, via WikiShootMe, a tool by User:Magnus Manske.
• Visually browse through public art in Crotos, a tool by User:Shonagon.
• Visually browse through public art in the Open Art Browser, a website based on Wikidata.
• Artworks on the world map, including many public artworks, in Crotos/Callisto, a tool by User:Shonagon. (Please be patient, it takes a while to load.)
• Browse and filter through public art on Wikidata in GraFa, a faceted search tool for Wikidata.
• A pretty timeline of public artworks in São Paulo in Histropedia, a timeline tool based on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Members

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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
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• Spinster 💬
• Mx Lucy
• Husky (talk) 15:26, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
• Wittylama (talk)
• Walkuraxx (talk) 11:38, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
• Missvain (talk) 17:05, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
• Oravrattas (talk) 15:26, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
• Ham II (talk) 16:16, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
• Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits
• Garrettn (talk) 14:41, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
• Jane023 (talk) 12:37, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
• AmandaRR123 (talk) 16:09, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
• Bello Na'im (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
• Idieh3 (talk) 16:39, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Showcase and reading list

This list collects blog posts, articles, websites, and other online initiatives that mention, or use, public art on Wikidata. Feel free to add more!

• Exploring public art data on Wikidata, a blog post covering public art in Herefordshire (Q23129) (December 2019)
• Web dossier: Public art in Africa, by African Studies Centre Leiden (Q2174585) (July 2019)
  • See also: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa/Public art in Africa
• The French website Publicartmuseum.net (Atlasmuseum) shows public artworks sourced from Wikidata, and also allows to create new Wikidata items. (However, please double-check and make sure you are not creating duplicate items when you do so!)

Subpages

In this Wikidataspace:

Wikidata:

WikiProject Public art

• WikiProject Public art/Data model
• WikiProject Public art/Members
• WikiProject Public art/Participants
• WikiProject Public art/Reports
• WikiProject Public art/Reports/Belgium/Brussels
• WikiProject Public art/Reports/Most popular creators
• WikiProject Public art/Reports/Most popular depicted
• WikiProject Public art/Reports/Netherlands/Rotterdam
• WikiProject Public art/Reports/Public art per country
• WikiProject Public art/Reports/Suriname
• WikiProject Public art/Sources
• WikiProject Public art/Tabs
• WikiProject Public art/Tasks
• WikiProject Public art/Tasks/Depicts

Wikidata talk:

WikiProject Public art

• WikiProject Public art/Data model