2015-07-26 13:39 GMT+02:00 Mykola Kozlenko <mycola-k(a)ukr.net>et>:
Hi,
In Ukraine, we have two problems Wikidata is not able to deal so far:
1) Our monument IDs are the ones we invent ourselves. We have 4 types of
monuments times 27 regions (+1 nationwide list), some of these lists have
identifiers, some not. Identifiers are not unique even within the same
list, e.g. one list has a few monuments with identifier "1", and in total
we have several dozens monuments with identifier "1". Thus our governmental
IDs are pretty useless, but does Wikidata accept original IDs created by
Wikimedians?
Oo.
That's gonna be complex. Not sure how to deal with that. You can ask on
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal for a property «
Wiki monument ID » for creation but not sure if it will be accepted (in
fact, pretty sure it won't but I think it's worth the try).
2) Many of our monuments do not have precise addresses like "city, street,
house number", but something like descriptions,
e.g. "1.2 km north of the
railway station, 500 m east of the road to (some village), 300 m west of
the cemetery" or "in the centre of the village, in the park behind the
shop". Is there a way to describe this on Wikidata?
It is a bit exotic but there will be no problem to use P969 for that :
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P969 (it's a string type so you can
put whatever you want).
In addition, we would be glad to know if there are any tools to migrate
70,000+ items to Wikidata, as doing this manually would be probably
impossible... If not, we would be still interested in old good erfgoedbot
who did its job pretty well in our case.
Same question for France.
We have already a lot of monuments in Wikidata but not all of them
(generally, all monuments with an article on fr.wp have an item on
wikidata).
We have a project on Wikidata :
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_France/Monuments_histori…
but nobody there has a high wikidata-fu / technic skills.
Cdlt, ~nicolas