BC Students Improve Art History on Wikipedia

This fall, students in Professor Oliver Wunsch's Nineteenth-Century Art course used their research to improve art history on Wikipedia. For the semester-long project, each student adopted a Wikipedia article related to the course that needed significant revision and expansion. Their topics included major paintings by artists such as Monet, Degas, Goya, and van Gogh. Students also addressed lesser-known subjects, such as the influential art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. Most of their articles were no longer than a few sentences when the semester began. The twenty-five students collectively added 59,000 words and 637 citations to their articles, which have already been viewed over 37,000 times. You can find links to their finished articles here.