User:Donald Trung/Retirement list

This is a list 📃 of stuff that is preventing me from retiring. I’ve had this to-do list 📃 for quite some time ⌚ but prefer to put it online so I can have a good overview of it, related tasks are not listed.

List 📃 of things to do before I can finally retire

Thing to do	Status
Import all images from Scott Semans World Coins (CoinCoin.com).
Import all banknotes 💴 from Banknote.ws that are in the public domain.
Finish importing all eligible banknotes from Sema's Art-Hanoi website.	Done.
Import all images from Bob Reis’ Anything Anywhere that he has given OTRS permission for.	Invalid permission.
Import all books 📚 from the FORVM Library of Ancient Coinage.	Done.
Launch WikiProject Books.	Done.
Import all images from Bert Lijnema.
Import all images of Hansatsu from the Zeno Oriental Coins Database (Zeno.ru).
Import all images of Hansatsu from the British Museum.	Outsourced.

Background

General remarks and what I hope that these imports will do long-term. Ever since I created the article w:en:Ryukyuan mon all I wanted to do was retire, I prefer being a reader over being a contributor and as I’ve always had a very low regard of most who call themselves “the community” here would be happy to leave, but as one thing is quite clear that if you don’t import something then no-one will and the petty “community” concerns themselves more with deletion then with inclusion it has fallen upon me to do these imports myself before I can finally retire. A lot of the items on this list 📃 are actually things that have been on the internet for decades with a very high educational value but for some reason they haven’t been imported yet. It is not uncommon for an educational website to be online for years with lots of images and information to disappear overnight from the internet and unfortunately the Internet Archive isn’t always reliable so… well, as I also hope 🤞🏻 to see a lot of images either be integrated in Wikipedia articles in the future 🔮 or even have whole new Wikipedia articles written around them I want to simply import them all here before those websites “go dark”. Another reason for importing is to catalogue 📇 as much numismatic and other cultural and historical objects for future 🔮 uses, in fact many images User:Baomi imported to Wikimedia Commons years ago were unused until I started writing ✍🏻 about them recently and the usefulness of a medium should not be underestimated as it’s not uncommon for me to find unused images that were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 12 (twelve) years ago to be useful for another Wikimedia project today as new content related to it is added, or even better for people on other websites to find these images for the simple reason that they’re useful. As I’ve seen many websites “go dark” over the years I decided to import as much information ℹ from them about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese cash coins to Wikipedia as possible, as my “mission” there has recently been completed I can now focus more on importing historically significant images to Wikimedia Commons. Although I’ve imported a fairly significant number of images of Chinese numismatic charms I’ve managed to make that number represent around 10% of all varieties and variations (as David Hartill claimed there to be over 5000), meanwhile I wanted to add more images of the Korean Sangpyeong Tongbo cash coins to Wikimedia Commons whose variants also number over the 5000 but very few websites actually cover Korean cash coins, let alone have images of them. For this reason I’m planning on focusing more on Chinese banknotes produced between 1912 and 1949 as these also have over 5000 variants and I can probably manage to get a 50% (fifty percent) coverage of them while finishing this list 📃. Currently there are very few articles on the Mandarin Chinese Wikipedia that cover these banks, as I don’t think 🤔 there will actually be a Wikipedia list 📃 article of every Chinese banknote 💴 produced between 1912 and 1949 these images will most likely (in the long-term) be added to individual articles about the banks that printed them. My reason for importing images of Qing Dynasty machine-struck coins are very much the same, on the Mandarin Chinese Wikipedia there are currently several articles about the mints of China, however most of the mints in w:zh:模板:清代貨幣 are still redlinks but there is no reason why Wikimedia Commons can’t be “ahead of Wikipedia” in this respect as it’s not uncommon for content on Wikimedia Commons to inspire others to write ✍🏻 more on other Wikimedia projects, plus people can always just simply use Wikimedia Commons as “a reference catalogue 📇” for more variants. A beautiful example of one of these lists on the Mandarin Chinese Wikipedia would be w:zh:阿克蘇鑄錢局#錢幣版別 (current version / mobile 📱). For a similar reason I wish 🌠 to import all images of Hansatsu (locally produced Edo Period banknotes or scrip) that I can find as today the information on them might be scarce but tomorrow a lot could be written about them and then there will be plenty of images to aid with not only the illustration but also the research.

Original publication 📤

Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:28, 18 August 2018 (UTC)