We don't say that we'll not do lists on wikipedia. We talk about make them firstly on commons, and later move them to all the other projects. Are the lists the goal? I don't think so, I think the goal is to obtain photos to be used on articles when that could be possible.
Millars
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:47:50 +0100 From: andre@molens.org To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Working on Spain lists
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:03:10PM +0100, emijrp wrote:
WLM is only about making photos. Please, stop disturbing with useless tips and rules.
In my humble opinion WLM is not only about making photos, it is about making the public aware of the monuments in their country, and getting better documention of those monuments, by having pictures, but also by having good information on them. What is the use of the pictures if nobody is using them.
In the Netherlands we notices that photographers were motivated by seeing the pictures appear on the lists in Wikipedia while they only uploaded them. That was all done semi-automatic based on the monument-number and some volunteers.
I want to create lists of Commons and upload photos there.
If I can't do that, I leave. That's all.
Would be very sorry if you think about it that way, I see the lists themself as valuable encyclopedic information, and that way it would fit any wikipedia.
Regards,
Andre
2011/2/13 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl
Hi Emijrp,
Op 11-2-2011 16:55, emijrp schreef:
Hi all;
I'm emijrp, a Wikipedia user from Spain. I'm working on the lists of my country. You can see the structure here.[1] I'm not sure how other countries are going to create their lists, but, if my way is useful, it would be great.
Please don't build these lists at Commons, build them at the Spanish Wikipedia. The other languages (like Catalan) can do it too and we'll just integrate the data. That shouldn't be too hard (don't worry about fields having different names). I already made up how I wanted to do this for Switzerland (with English, German, French and Italian) just haven't published about it yet.
As for the fields, "coordinates" should be split into "lat" and "lon".
Maarten
Regards, emijrp
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