Wikipedia:GLAM/African Studies Centre Leiden

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History: the former library entrance of the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), Pieter de la Court-building of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, with an African sculpture (left) as its janitor. Summer 2024 ASCL moved to the Herta Mohr building, Leiden.

The African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) of Leiden University is an academic institute for research and education on Africa. The activities of the ASCL library include collecting and distributing free images and supplying textual information on African studies and Africa via Wikimedia websites.[1] By 2024, ASCL had uploaded some 6500 of its own and donors' images to Wikimedia Commons.[2] Wikidata, the Wikimedia knowledge base, is used to illustrate the Web dossiers of the ASCL,[3] for example the web dossier on Southern African women writers.[4] For further overviews of the ASCL photo collections please refer to Commons:Collections of the African Studies Centre (Leiden). ASCL contributed 100+ new articles about Africa on various language Wikipedias.

  1. ^ Original 2013 motivation, "Wikipedians in Residence at the African Studies Centre?". ascleiden.nl. African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  2. ^ Images stored on Wikimedia Commons at w:c:Category:Images from the African Studies Centre (Leiden).
  3. ^ "Web dossiers". African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University. 4 July 2019. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  4. ^ "Southern African women writers". African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University. 19 February 2024. Retrieved May 15, 2024.