Hi,
Op 13-2-2011 1:33, emijrp schreef:
The old idea of wikidata. This is not only necessary
for monuments but
also for municipalities, biographies (personendaten in de:), etc.
I doubt this is going to be done now for Wiki Loves Monuments, but it
is a great idea.
2011/2/12 <wp-denkmalpflege(a)gmx.de <mailto:wp-denkmalpflege@gmx.de>>
Building up a global Monuments Database with datasets of any
country available.
Some information like geodata, location, year of construction,
picture, official key, source information might be universal and
are needed only once for every monument. Other information like
the description of the monument should be kept in different languages.
For any Wikipedia language a template with placeholders is
created. A script can fill the templates with information from the
Monuments Database.
As the number of monuments is not static and we continously find
out better information or take new photos, a web interface allows
to change the datasets with new information. A bot can update
regularly (once a week) the monument lists in all Wikipedias.
The current approach is that we get some data, add it to some Wikipedia
and harvest the information to put it in a database. So we already have
our global Monuments Database, it's called Wikipedia :-)
I'm not sure if I'm totally at ease with automatically adding datasets
to Wikipedia.
Maarten
Lars