> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:40:29 +0100
> From: kilian@k-kluge.de
> To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Questions about lists and db
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Vicenç Riullop <vriullop@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Another approach has been used in Germany that other fellows can explain
> > better. I think they used different templates and campaigns for each state.
>
> In Germany, we have hundreds of different lists and databases, since
> in some states every municipality is in charge of their cultural
> heritage monuments, which means they will create an individual list.
> Most of them don't have identifiers, and for many regions we don't
> even have lists at all.
>
> So what we did is work with 16 campaigns, one for each state, where we
> asked the uploaders to enter the name of the municipality, but as you
> can imagine, this led to a lot of work that had to be done afterwards.
>
> What you see in the database are either the states where we have lists
> and identifiers (right now there are just two, de-he and de-by, but
> most likely two or three more will follow soon) or in the case of
> Cologne and Bergheim the specific databases for two cities we did
> projects in. As you can imagine, if we'd continue this way for all the
> other cities we have template based lists for by now, this would be a
> real mess. So we're trying to find a solution here, before we add more
> of the smaller lists.
>
> When you create an own ID, this is almost always a case of original
> research and I'm really not in favor of creating a "Wikipedia
> identifier" for objects, but maybe this is the only way to solve the
> problem?
>
> Kilian
>
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