Commons Categories

Note: To keep all SVG sewing patterns categorised together, you should include at least this category: Category:SVG sewing patterns.
Disclaimer: This is how MoMu has organised their categories, using Commons:Categories for help — we are open to suggestions for improvement.

Minimum recommended category structure:

1. Institution Category e.g. Category:MoMu - Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp
2. Institution Pattern-a-thon Category e.g. Category:MoMu Pattern-a-thon
3. Institution Pattern-a-thon Patterns svg file Category e.g. Category:MoMu Pattern-a-thon patterns svg

Additional Pattern-a-thon-related categories in MoMu's category tree include:

• Category:Collections of MoMu
• Category:MoMu Study Collection

The Study Collection is one of the collections under MoMu, separate from the main museum collection. As this is the collection used exclusively in the Pattern-a-thon events, these two categories were necessary as super-categories of Category:MoMu Pattern-a-thon.

Additional super-categories:
To support the hierarchical structure of Wikimedia Commons, you should find existing categories to add as super-categories to your institution's category. It is recommended to use Commons:Categories for help and other institutions for inspiration. The super-categories used in MoMu's category tree include:

Above Category:MoMu - Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp:

• Category:Museums in Belgium by name
• Category:Museums in Antwerp
• Category:Fashion museums

Above Category:Collections of MoMu:

• Category:Collections in Belgium by museum

Above Category:MoMu Pattern-a-thon patterns svg:

• Category:SVG sewing patterns

Institution Page

It is recommended for institutions to use the Template:Institution to create an Infobox containing your data. You can find examples in Category:Institution templates.

Wikidata Items

To make information as accessible as possible, to as wide of a community as possible, make use of structured data. Wikidata is the structured data repository in the Wikimedia ecosystem, so before beginning to upload media files, it is useful to create Wikidata items for your institution:

• Institution Item e.g. MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp - the creation of this item was based on other museums' Wikidata items, so you might use it as inspiration to create or edit your own institution item. Note that the MoMu Wikidata item links to the museum's Commons category and Wikipedia pages.
• Institution Pattern-a-thon Event Item e.g. MoMu Pattern-A-Thon - it is recommended that you base your own item on this example. The most important statements (key-value pairs) to include are:

For more information, see Commons:Structured data.

Metadata

The recommended data you need to collect or create for each pattern file is:

1. Filename: A descriptive name for the file e.g. Pattern of a 1950s formal blouse - Institution Name - inventory number .svg/.pdf/.etc.
2. Captions: A descriptive caption for the file e.g. A sewing pattern of a formal blouse, dated to the 1950s, from the [your institution name] collection, created during a pattern-a-thon event. N.B. If you can provide multilingual captions, include them all!
3. Depicts: The type of object the pattern was made from e.g. blouse.*
4. Collection: The collection the depicted object comes from.
5. Object Type: This will always be pattern.*
6. Creator: The name of the creator of the digital file.
7. Date of creation: The date the digital file was made (YYYY-MM-DD).
8. Contributor: The name(s) of the person(s) who made the original paper pattern, if consent has been given for this to be shared.
9. Date of pattern-a-thon: The date of the pattern-a-thon during which the pattern was made (YYYY-MM-DD).
10. Part of: Your institution's pattern-a-thon event Wikidata item.*
11. PURL: The persistent URL where the pattern can be found.
12. Copyright status*
13. Copyright licence*

* This information can/will be reconciled with Wikidata during the upload. This will be explained below.

File Summary: Wikitext Template

Wikitext is the mark-up language used by the MediaWiki software to format pages, including summary boxes, ascribing categories to images, and creating copyright banners. Each file on Wikimedia Commons has a summary box. For example, see the Summary Box under the image below:

DescriptionGLAM/MOMU/Pattern-a-thon upload instructions	English: Pattern made during a MoMu Pattern-a-thon
Date	18 November 2024
Source	http://data.momu.be/ark:34546/mc86mx
Author	Stijn Van den Bulck
Other versions	Schort (ST2241 - RS113849) - Kostuum - MoMu Antwerp.jpg

If you upload files individually, each file page will be formatted automatically based on the information given in the upload process. However, if you choose to edit this, or if you use OpenRefine for the upload, here is the markdown template used in the MoMu pattern-a-thon patterns:

=={{int:filedesc}}==

{{Information
 |other fields =
 {{Information field
  |name  = Contributors
  |value = "name(s) of pattern maker(s), separated by commas"
 }}
 {{Information field
  |name  = Collection
  |value = {{Institution:"your institution page"}}
 }}
 |other versions={{G|1="Wikimedia filename of the object the pattern depicts.svg"}}
}}

=={{int:license-header}}==
{{License from structured data}}


[[Category:"your pattern-a-thon category"]]

The information to be filled in by you is between speech marks. The rest is automatically retrieved from the structured data.

OpenRefine Upload Advice

We again recommend you follow the useful step-by-step OpenRefine upload guide. You can use the information below to supplement the guide.