On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:50:50 +0100, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Romaine, I feel somewhat guilty because I stopped creating the lists on the
English
Wikipedia. I just sort of forgot about them. As I recall, there was a problem with naming the actual monuments. I guess it's all "Belgium National Heritage Site" or something like that.
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. My question is, can there be more than one list? And what if a user adds a photo to Wikipedia, rather than Wikimedia Commons? I think these need to
be
caught and transferred by hand, but is that right?
Jane
Hi Jane
I can definitely help with the lists on en.wp, I actually planned to start translating them.
Pictures which were not on Commons were not part of the WLM. If there are any pictures around which are eligible for Commons I think they should be transferred manually. If they can not be there (for instance, because of the Freedom of Panorama issues), they are also no eligible for the lists. In practice, I think, only users who are aware of WLM, Commons, and databases, like you and me, will add pictures.
Cheers Yaroslav