Hi all,
It sounds like an interesting opportunity to be able to use the app next year. Thank you for working on it Josephine and team!
Our team at Wikimedia Sverige would be able to support some of the local teams with the technical part of moving data to Wikidata until WLM 2021 (we could start working on it from early 2021).
As some of you know, our team worked on transferring a number of datasets to Wikidata in 2016–2017 as part of the Connected Open Heritage project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage.[1] But many datasets obviously still remain (and new data and datasets have been added!) and we would need to work with people that know the datasets (and languages) to be able to continue the work.
If you are interested to work with us please drop my colleague Alicia Fagerving, in cc, an email (alicia.fagerving@wikimedia.se).
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage
John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Den mån 27 juli 2020 12:28Josephine Lim josephinelim86@gmail.com skrev:
Hi Jean-Frédéric,
Thanks for the information, nice to hear from the maintainer! That is indeed a huge concern, and we should go with Wikidata in that case.
Best regards, Josephine
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 19:35, Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Josephine and all,
On 23-07-2020 11:25, Josephine Lim wrote:
Wikidata would be the easiest for us as we already have Wikidata integration, however we are definitely open to using the monuments database if the community reaches a consensus that that is the best choice of data source.
I consider the monuments database legacy. I wouldn't build new things on top of it. If countries want their monuments to be visible in the Commons app (and other places), they should invest time into migrating to Wikidata.
I would like to strongly +1 what Maarten said, as current/ex co-maintainer of the monuments database.
We have tried our best so that the tools already built on top of the monuments database keep running ; but new things should not be built on it.
(While there is some support for harvesting Wikidata datasets into the monuments database, that was only ever meant to ease transition to Wikidata for folks highly dependent on legacy tooling (such as ErfgoedBot)).
Finally, there have been reports of the monuments DB harvesting behaving weirdly ; and neither André nor I have the capacity to look into it. In short, at the moment, I can offer little guarantee that the monuments DB would actually be up to date.
Cheers,
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