Oh yes, I definitely see advantages. I think the main thing is that if you have decent lists, you can use properties to assign a status with an identifier. If you don't then you should go ahead and create the item with whatever criteria you are using for the handmade lists (former residence of someone famous, former castle, former city gate, large natural rock formation used for some obsolete purpose - whatever!). The identifier in such cases should not be some random number, but the Q number itself.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli@gmail.com> wrote:

Personally I see several challenges but also opportunities for WLM.

Technically this is a "change" to be managed. If it is managed in a right manner, it could open a new season for WLM.

As I know the data of monuments are not homogeneous and this is a risk for migrating data to a dedicated repository to Wikidata.

It has been a problem for the first WLM contests too.

IMHO the time is short, and I see as a dream the possibility to run an international contest AND to manage the import in WIkidata.

On 26.07.2015 08:42, Jane Darnell wrote:
Hi all,
I guess everyoe knows by now that the erfgoedbot will no longer work. Meanwhile, we should be migrating the entire infrastructure to Wikidata to enable the next generation of tooling. So for example, if your country has legislation regarding the protection of industrial monuments, then I expect that all large industrial complexes (such as the first airport, or the first steam-powered mill complex, or something like that) should reflect this infrastructure. So such wikipedia articles should be labelled " instance of" <the name of your identifier used in WLM>. This identifier of the form " German industrial heritage site", aka "Industriedenkmal" should be a subclass of Industrial Heritage Site, because it is not equivalent to industrial heritage sites anywhere else in the world. I see that this is not reflected yet in Q1569871

I didn't see this discussion anywhere and I tried to get this infrastructure started before the birth of Wikidata, but we really should finish the job now.

Jane
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