Thursday, April 05, 2007
The other day I started writing a new article on Wikipedia about reserve heads, those enigmatic sculptures from the time of the Pyramid builders. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, had several of them on display, and I managed to take pictures of all that they had, which I then uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
Turns out that the "Did You Know?" section on Wikipedia is aimed at new articles created within the past five days, and someone spotted my article in the list and nominated it for inclusion. I got a notice today that it had been accepted, and appears as the top-most article reference (along with a picture of one of the heads) in today's DYK section.
Was rather chuffed to find in one of the articles I referenced from my personal library that very few published views exist of the heads other than face-on views -- I took at least a couple of shots of each head, (primarily in order to defeat glare from overhead lighting), and am happy if they end up proving useful to somebody.
It's not a Feature article, but it's still nice to get some sort of recognition.
Labels: Boston, Did You Know, Museum of Fine Arts, reserve heads, Wikipedia
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