Hi Akanji,

it would be great if Japan would participate! Maarten just set up the infrastructure for Japan based on the English wikipedia lists (thanks!), see http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/api/api.php?action=search&format=html&.... However, the lists still have to be transformed into templated tables further.

For the lists in Japanese, I note that such lists already exist on the Japanese Wikipedia ( http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E5%8F%B2%E8%B7%A1%E...) but they are in raw Wikitext. I also see that you already worked out pretty nice templated tables on Wikimedia Commons (i.e. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Japa... ) but I would suggest that you transfer these lists to the Japanese Wikipedia. We maintain in all countries the lists as much as possible on the Wikipedias - because these lists are also relevant encyclopedic information. When the lists are being improved (for example, descriptions being edited, or coordinates added), that immediately improves Wikipedia too!

It is still a lot of work, and I hope you get some help too.

Good luck, and please ask questions when there's anything others here can help you with.

Best, Lodewijk

2013/8/25 Akaniji akaniji@gmail.com

Hi,

Now there are 2 people only willing to organize in Japan. I made a list on commons, but no templates. I'm making lists with template from the source and APIs you showed.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Japa...

akaniji

Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:45:24 +0200

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From: Lodewijk

Hi,

is there currently a local team in Japan which likes to organize WLM there? Because it seems to me there is quite a lot of work to be done (the lists don't seem to be complete, and ideally the database of the government contains much more info, so it would be good to check whether that could be used somehow) and that doesn't make a lot of sense if there is no local team to carry it forward.

Also, the lists on jawiki makes much more sense to me (especially because the original is in Japanese).

In any case, the complete and much more rich database is on http://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/bsys/searchlist.asp if you're interested. If there's a local team that is willing to help, I'd be happy to help them set up the templates.

Lodewijk

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