Thanks for your help Maarten, and I've noted your preference for discussions to go via
the list.
Michael
On 20 May 2013, at 16:06, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Hi Michael,
Op 20-5-2013 16:02, Michael Maggs schreef:
Hi Maarten
Many thanks, that is a fantastic start!
You're welcome. I prefer to keep the
discussions on the mailing list. That way other people can learn from it or help out.
Having discussed this with others on the (so far
informal) UK team, and also with WMUK staff, one of the main problems we are going to have
is that none of us have the real technical expertise to accomplish the sort of thing you
have been doing. We can get hold of that raw data, but importing that into the main WLM
database, and providing user tools and so on may be beyond what we can achieve without
outside help (or, at least, no-one in the UK with that expertise has yet volunteered to
help out).
You should focus on getting the data and putting it on Wikipedia as
lists. Usually getting the data is the difficult part.
For the next steps see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Monuments_database/…
. Many countries managed to get this done so I'm sure someone is willing to assist you
with this.
Your reputation has preceded you, and I know that
you are extremely busy, but you couldn’t give us a hand, could you - or perhaps suggest
someone else who might have the skills to do that?
I hope someone on this list well
respond to this :-)
Maarten
