Hi Jean-Frédéric,
Thanks for the links! I experimented with WLM-Monumental for a bit, and it
seems that it does indeed display natural heritage sites and natural
reserves as well (which is the concern that I mentioned in my previous
email). For instance, searching around my area, I get
in addition to other actual
monuments.
If this is intended behaviour, we are more than happy to go with P1435.
Best regards,
Josephine
On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 01:51, Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Rebecca,
Just to say I strongly disagree on your characterisation of the use of
this ID as a "hack" and that it should
be actively discouraged. Not all
countries are as fortunate as others, and having comprehensive coverage of
all the relevant sites on Wikipedia with unique identifiers from state
bodies is a massive hurdle to overcome for many of us. Assuming that the
whole world can meet you at the standard you are accustomed to is
incredibly unfair, and dismisses the difficulties many countries face in
this regard.
In the Irish context we have found the P2186 a very neat solution to a
systemic issue we face regarding data on Irish monuments and other listed
buildings, and in the 4 years since we started using those IDs with
Monumental, it has not only facilitated a huge amount of participation, but
the Irish system has not been updated to a point that we have
another system of unique IDs to fall back on. And this is an EU country
with supposedly all the benefits that that entails. An alternative
"scalable solution" has yet to otherwise manifest.
Fair enough if you don't like a particular system of IDs, but I don't
think completely writing it off is fair on those for whom it has been
incredibly useful.
I think that what Maarten meant to say is that, in the pre-Wikidata era,
the requirement to have a unique ID for monuments (in the Wikipedia lists,
in the UploadWizard and in all the rest of the tooling) led to the creation
of the "WLM ID" for such countries that indeed did not have an ID system.
But now, any monument with a Wikidata item, whether or not it is part of a
national ID system, will have an identifier: the Q-ID itself − hence why
(at first glance at least) there is no need anymore for the legacy custom
ID. As I understand it, P2186 was only ever meant as a transitional
measure, so that whatever was relying on the previously assigned WLM-ID
could have a path to get to the Qids.
I would also like to point out that just using "heritage designation" is
potentially quite problematic. For example, here
in Ireland a huge number
of national monuments and listed structures are private property (in the
case of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, private homes,
hospitals, care homes) which may have Wikidata items, but for the purposes
of Wiki Loves Monuments we cannot be seen to encourage people to trespass
or infringe on people's property or privacy by including them on a map or
other upload platform. Having the WLM ID allows for greater control over
what structures are within the remit of the competition, and protects not
only us as the organisers, but our participants as well.
Ah, I see! You are effectively using P2186 as a way to curate a subset of
P1435. That’s a neat trick ; before deprecating P2186 we should indeed find
a suitable way to achieve the same result.
@Josephine: Rebecca mentioned Monumental − indeed Monumental already had
to solve the same problem (querying Wikidata for monuments, displaying them
on a map, allowing upload with the right templates/etc.). Was there ever an
issue with the way monumental does it? If not, I’d suggest using that
methodology as starting point.
I believe the relevant source code for it is:
* For WLM-Monumental (ie
https://maps.wikilovesmonuments.org/) :
https://github.com/hatnote/monumental-wlm/blob/master/src/services/campaign…
* For classic Monumental (ie
https://monumental.toolforge.org/ ):
https://github.com/hatnote/monumental/blob/HEAD/src/components/main/dashboa…
--
Jean-Frédéric
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