Hi Jane,
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
What I really would like to know however, is
whether the pictures that
someone adds to an English list (so not Dutch, French or German) will make
it into the monuments database on Commons? I assume there is some checks
done on the leading language lists in order to update the database.
The answer is yes and no ;-) The monument database has different
tables for each language, so there can be multiple tables for a single
country, each containing the monuments listed in the specific
Wikipedia (e.g. ch-de, ch-fr, ch-it each contain all Swiss monuments
but in different languages).
I'm not sure if all of those are included in the monuments_all-table, though.
There's only one ch table, monuments_ch_(en) and it is included in
monuments_all.
There are for instance monuments_fr_(fr) and monuments_fr_(ca)
(monuments in France in French and Catalonian), and both are included
into monuments_all.
I think the monuments_all entries from ca will get overwritten by the fr
ones, though.