Well ... we talk about 1.5 million datasets in Europe alone, maybe more. I'm not totally convinced that these information can be maintained on a more or less current level without automatical support. Could you please send a concept, how your ideas of generating and maintaining the lists in all Wikiepdia are. Lars -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone

Hi Hermann or Lars, Op 13-2-2011 20:21, Hermann Rosemann schreef: I would say one or maybe a couple of datasets per country. The lists of monuments tend to be quite static. So you have the initial import, every once in a while a couple of monuments are added and maybe sometimes a monument is removed. The Wikipedia communities are probably quite capable of maintaining these lists. For the initial import of the rijksmonumenten we converted the dataset we got into a long wikitext formatted list. The items in this list we're added to Wikipedia. That approach worked. Maarten

Well, that would be an specific case. In this case, I think the best option would be to contact the Polish Heritage Institute and update as they update, and it would be great if they could provide the new data in a raw format. In all the other cases it is kept stable, and I think many institutions don't even remeber they have this information. Anyway, how would you do it to keep it constantly updated? Joan. 2011/2/13 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com>

I don't see the lists of monuments not static at all. 1) The number of monuments is changing continously. Even there is no exact data I would see the number of monuments added or removed in my country alone at around 1.000 per year. For the US National Register of Historic Places we can see the annual changes in weekly reports http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/nrlist.htm 2) The information we fetch about the monuments (new descriptions, new geodata, new images) is changing continously and fast. 3) All information about administrative units the monuments are in, is also changing continously. Municipalities get merged, streets get renamed. If we talk about an ideal scenario, that all monument lists are available in all Wikipedias on a more or less current level, the communities could get to edge of their capacity. In an ideal synergetic scenario the local Wikipedias take care for the monuments of their country, take pictures, add geodata and the updated information (at least the basic global information) is updated in all other Wikipedias without causing too much work. Lars -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone