Dear All,
I need some help and I think this list would be the easiest way to get it. I will spend the whole month of May in Italy. I will be based in Pisa and probably will have time to travel around as well. I will take my camera and, in principle, I could easily take photos of some cultural heritage monuments. However, I have difficulties locating lists of monuments and understanding which pictures are already available. The only list of lists for Italy I was able to find is http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/monumenti/lista-monumenti/ , and for instance for Toscana I get http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/monumenti/lista-monumenti/Toscana/ . This list is short (for instance, it does not include a single monument from Florence, Pisa, Siena, Lucca or San Gimignano), not illustrated and not editable. I remember there were some problems with Italian lists (like the government objected to their publication or smth). Could someone pls update me on the situation and advise where I could find a more complete monument list (say for Toscana), and, ideally, whether there is an easy way to compile a list which only shows monuments without a single image on Commons.
Thanks in advance Cheers Yaroslav
Yaroslav M. Blanter, 25/04/2013 13:17:
Dear All,
I need some help and I think this list would be the easiest way to get it. I will spend the whole month of May in Italy. I will be based in Pisa and probably will have time to travel around as well. I will take my camera and, in principle, I could easily take photos of some cultural heritage monuments.
Wonderful, what a luck to have you in Italy!
However, I have difficulties locating lists of monuments and understanding which pictures are already available. The only list of lists for Italy I was able to find is http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/monumenti/lista-monumenti/ , and for instance for Toscana I get http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/monumenti/lista-monumenti/Toscana/ .
Lists are also copied on wiki at https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Monumenti (and, I believe, also on another wiki).
This list is short (for instance, it does not include a single monument from Florence, Pisa, Siena, Lucca or San Gimignano), not illustrated and not editable. I remember there were some problems with Italian lists (like the government objected to their publication or smth). Could someone pls update me on the situation and advise where I could find a more complete monument list (say for Toscana),
No, there is no way. Only the authorised monuments are and can be listed, so adding more requires contacting the municipalities and getting a resolution from the municipality council, for each of the 8000 municipalities. This is the work WMIT has to do in the coming months, hopefully with some help because Emma can't do everything alone.
and, ideally, whether there is an easy way to compile a list which only shows monuments without a single image on Commons.
I think the only way so far is to use one of the Toolserver tools. Half of the monuments have no photos. There isn't much work on the lists, because they have no encyclopedic value (that's why they're in Progetto:/WikiProject namespace): the selection depends on what's authorised or not, that's it.
Nemo
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