Hi Hermann or Lars,
Op 13-2-2011 20:21, Hermann Rosemann schreef:
I'm
not sure if I'm totally at ease with automatically adding datasets
to Wikipedia.
Well ... we talk about 1.5 million datasets in Europe alone, maybe
more.
I would say one or maybe a couple of datasets per country.
I'm not totally convinced that these
information can be maintained on a more or less current level without automatical
support.
Could you please send a concept, how your ideas of generating and maintaining the lists
in all Wikiepdia are.
The lists of monuments tend to be quite static. So you have
the initial
import, every once in a while a couple of monuments are added and maybe
sometimes a monument is removed. The Wikipedia communities are probably
quite capable of maintaining these lists. For the initial import of the
rijksmonumenten we converted the dataset we got into a long wikitext
formatted list. The items in this list we're added to Wikipedia. That
approach worked.
Well.. not so stable - at least in some countries. For example Polish
Heritage Insititute is constantly changing their list. This is just
because quite substantial number of new objects are added every year,
and also some of them are removed. This is mainly because during
communist era many objects were not considered to have a heritage
value (old factories, XIX century houses of noblemans etc.) and
actually they are, and some objects are allowed to be destroyed (if
they have minor importance and are immposible to be moved) or moved to
other places due to current construction works (epecially builiding
new highways). So, in 2009 Polish list increased from 61000 to
65000... and around 500 objects were allowed to be destroyed or
destroyed illegaly.
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Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz