Hi Jane,
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
If the monuments database only gets updated with pictures on Wikimedia Commons that have been added manually to the beschermd erfgoed lists on the Netherlands Wikipedia, well, then I guess I don't feel a need to create a list on the English Wikipedia until those lists get pictures added to them. The English Wikipedia still has lots of users adding photos to Wikipedia instead of Wikimedia Commons, and there are lots of monument fotos on Wikipedia already. People are free to add pictures to lists at any time (it's not even part of the competition to do this). I can imagine that someone may go and take pictures on their own to fill up a list on say the German Wikipedia that is there for one of the German towns in Belgium, while the Dutch Wikipedia has a list that is already filled with pictures. As far as I know, there is no real method for photo selection, so any picture with the proper identifier can be used in a list.
Rereading the responses of Kilian and Platonides, I guess basically we need a " reverse bot" that can generate a list of suggested pictures (or maybe just a running total of files per list as an update indication?). If people add pictures from Wikipedia rather than from Wiki Commons, then it's clear: either transfer the file or replace it in the list with another suitable one from Commons.
The erfgoed bot can serve as a "reverse bot": When set up that way it will generate a list of unused images. That means it will go through all the lists on a given Wikipedia, check which monument on the list has no picture, checks if there is a picture for that very monument on Commons (works only if the image on Commons has a template with the identifier, of course, but at least for WLM submissions that's almost always a given) and then lists this picture with a link to the list it should be put in. One example is https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Denkmalpflege/Deutschlan...
This has to be done individually on every Wikipedia, though.
Is that what you mean?
Kilian