Wikidata:WikiProject Public art

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.