In french the success story is a combination of different process: *a very active french heritage project, with the creation of all the articles about historical monuments in france *the developpment of the tools on toolserver for the visualization of geolocated articles on maps like google maps *some peoples fall in love of this tools and start to add kml template on each categories of articles that could be visualized this way *categorization of the articles laking geolocalization in hidden cats "articles lacking geolocalisation", very efficient ! Obviously there is more parametrer like the creation of the list of all the heritage site per canton in switzerland, it makes a strong example for other wikipedian. Cheers Charles Le 30 juil. 2011 à 09:29, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> a écrit :

In Germany we're running a side-project to WLM in a small town where the local organizers ask a geo-caching group to provide the coordinates. Also, a cooperation with OpenStreetMap might be helpful to obtain the data. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>wrote;wrote:

They were part of the database we got from them - it combined many fields of which we could use a few in Wikipedia at that time including address, identifier, coordinates and architect (if available). A part of this was available already online, and a part only after further contacts. Lodewijk 2011/7/30 Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se>

We had found a database on the web with coordinates, object descriptions (type of object. whether its a church or a house etc.), city name. We also had a link to all good object descriptions in the list (from 1 line to 200 lines of text per object). In the beginning we mainly focused on manualy translating these descriptions into short one or few word descriptions. In this process we also added links to the allready existing articles, and we added the allready existing pictures. There are 60.000 objects in the Netherlands 5.000-7.000 allready had a picture or article. A huge part (30.000+) are just regular "grachtenpanden" (homes), not all that special, and not much information about those. In the past 2 years, since I project started we've made over 20.000 pictures of monuments, currently 47% has a picture, description is there for 90%. Articles only for 10-20% I believe, but not all objects are suitable for an own article, so this will just go slowly with the list and take pretty much years. Currently most of the special buildings: churches, stations, castles, bridges are getting an article, must of the regular houses don't have an article yet. The addresses from all monuments we got 1 year ago from the RCE before the WLM 2010. We have statistics about all our list (see bottem of this e-mail) this has proven very usefull, this way people got motivated to make parts of the monumentslist 100% complete. Statistics have proven a good motivator. Another important thing I would like to point out here for the WLM-competition in your country is the use of Flickr (or comparable sites), last year we've used Flickr as an allternative place to upload pictures. This was mainly for 2 reasons: 1: in 2009 we had Wiki loves art which was 100% on Flickr, 2. Many people have allready a big set of pictures on Flickr, allowing upload on flickr means they only have to add an identifier (monumentnumber) and switch the license. We've got over 2000 from the pictures througt Flickr. This means 10-15% of the pictures (from which we would've missed a big part if we hadn't allowed the use of Flickr. We had a little bot which took all pictures from Flickr to commons, and we hand approved them before they could end up in the Flickr Pool (checking own work, license and identifier). Mvg, Bas About the statistics: On http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Erfgoed/Nederlandse_Erfg… (look at the bottem) you can find statistics about all our list, and the overview is at the bottem. Provincie=departmentRecords=number of monumentsobjectnaam=object namebouwjaar=building yearadres=adressgps=coordinatesfoto=picturearchitect=architect (most of the buildings dont have an architect)