On 17/12/2010 04:05, geni wrote: 
On 15 December 2010 20:03, Michael Peel <email@mikepeel.net> wrote:

Forwarding with permission of the sender. I'm very eager to see the UK and
Ireland participate in this if possible, but from my experience of running
Britain Loves Wikipedia I'm very aware that this needs a team of people
running it rather than just one person. So: is anyone interested in
leading/helping with this project?


I assume the UK equiv would be listed buildings. Perhaps we could
interest geograph and piggy back on that?
Geograph would be a good place to start. As would English Heritage, which absorbed the old (1908) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: I have their stonking volumes surveying Cambridge. Geograph goes by grid square, which is a sensible enough system.

We know this would take collaboration. Also the UK is very rich in the basic material. Wishlists sorted by grid square looks like the first structure to set up. Browsing what is already on Geograph is a good idea, to prevent duplication of effort. (Geograph images are already being uploaded to Commons; progress report on that would help. But searching Geograph is probably easier than searching Commons categories?)

Starting with lists: obviously it would not be that hard for the UK wiki to host tables logging what had been done. This kind of progress check is likely the key to getting large-scale collaboration.

So I'd suggest pages on the UK wiki set up in parallel with the subcategories of [[Category:Wikipedians in England]], [[Category:Wikipedians in Scotland]] etc. on WP. E.g. circulate [[Category:Wikipedians in Tyne and Wear]] (26 of them) with details of a page set up for Tyne and Wear. The messages on User talk pages can be done by AWB, I believe.

Anyway, enough to think about.

Charles