Just a question since this was raised a couple of days ago on the discussion page for WLM: If this method is used, is it necessary that the monuments list the database table was imported from is the very same list that's actually on Wikipedia? Or is it possible to have a complete list for one state somewhere else and use a couple of table-based lists in the article namespace? As far as I understand, that's not possible, right?

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl> wrote:

Op 15 aug 2011 om 17:37 heeft Raul Kern <raunator@gmail.com> het
volgende geschreven:\

> what logic will this auto-categorization bot use? (where does it get
> category info)
> What preparation work needs do be done in local wikipedia do make
> auto-categorization work effortlessly in September?

Good question! The assumption is that each monument has an unique id.
I'll take the Rijksmonumenten as example again:
* Get an image
* find the id ({{rijksmonument|<id>}}
* look in the database what list the id is in
* look for a commonscat template in the list and use that
Commonscategory to categorize the image
* if the list article doesn't contain a commons link, look in the
categories in which the list is categorized for links to Commons

How can you help? Have lots of Commonscat links to help the bot.