Hi Yaroslav,
Op 5-3-2012 9:57, Yaroslav M. Blanter schreef:
Dear WLM list, we are preparing the db for the list of monuments, and we'd like to know how you faced the issue of generating an unique identifier when you had to do that (because the official list didn't have it).
- is it useful (for some reason) to generate a "meaningful",
"well-constructed" identifier (which can be resolved by a particular algorythm?)
For Russia, it is an unsolved problem, since we have the federal database with unique IDs, but there are also local bases without IDs which in almost all the cases are more complete and contain the monuments which are not in the federal database (and the federal database is broken and for several regions does not work properly).
Do these monuments have the same status? For example in the Netherlands we have Rijksmonumenten for the state monuments, but also Gemeentelijke monumenten which are designated by the municipalities. So how is the progress going with the federal database? What are the plans? Are you going to put the lists in the main namespace on Wikipedia? A broken and incomplete database is always better than no database at all.
<...> I did not discuss it with the organizers (and for Russia, there are currently no organizing team anyway).
No team in Russia? Russia pulled of such a nice competition last year in so little time. This year has so much potential. Would be a waste if Russia wouldn't be joining in. What happened with the people who organized it last year?
Maarten