Great, this is a nice improvement. The parameter is usefull in lists for a link to "see more photos of this monument" and it facilitates a more precise categorization of new photos.

Vicenç

> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:52:29 +0100
> From: maarten@mdammers.nl
> To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Commons categories now in the database

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I noticed quite a few Wikipedia's included a Commons link in their
> monument lists (almost 40.000 entries at
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Statistics).
> I went ahead and included a new field "commonscat" for each entry in the
> main table. For existing entries I mapped it, for all the other lists I
> added commonscat as a field. It's now being used by the categorization bot.
> For example with
> https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lijst_van_rijksmonumenten_aan_de_Nieuwezijds_Voorburgwal&diff=prev&oldid=34353749
> I told the bot that all images with id "5940" should be put in
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nieuwe_Kerk_%28Amsterdam%29
> . I haven't actually changed the template at the Dutch Wikipedia yet,
> that's something for later.
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Categorization#How_does_the_categorization_bot_work.3F
> has been updated.
>
> Maarten
>
>
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