Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] News From China

I personally don't think that the lack of "official" IDs should exclude a country from participation, but I'm not part of the international organizing team and can't speak for them. Some suggestions for creating an ID system yourself. I studied a bit of Chinese myself (我的汉语太不好, 我学习汉语了一年半了.) (I really hope that's correct) so I know better than to suggest "alphabetical order" However: If all of the items you want to include have known geographic coordinates, you can go from northwest to southeast by province and assign each spot a number (Yunnan 1, Yunnan 2, Yunnan 3, etc) If all of the items you want to include have Wikipedia articles (in any language), you don't even have to make up the numbers yourself, you could use the (essentially random) numbers that Wikidata uses (i.e. Yuanmingyuan is on Wikidata as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q907894 so you could use 907894). Finally, you could try to do it based on age, but since many of the cites you're going to photograph are going to be from the Dynastic period, and dates can get a little fuzzy if you go back too far, that might not be a viable option. The downside to the first one is that if you add new items next year or the year after, things are going to be out of geographical order. The downside to the second one is the numbers are random and there are going to be large gaps in between most of them. These are just ideas though, you might have a better system in mind. Sven On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM, AddisWang <addiswang94(a)gmail.com> wrote: