We have quite a few UK public sculptures on commons, especially as a result of the geograph import. Would it be possible to use a program to start such lists on Wikipedia based on categories on commons?
You could exclude anything in subcategories under museum or church if you want to narrow this down to stuff in the open air.
And once the lists are built you might have something that could be auto loaded into wikidata.
Side note to the copyright/FOP experts; does permanent public display mean it has to stay in the same place and can't be moved even a few yards?
Regards
Jonathan
On 27 Aug 2015, at 16:21, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
This is already attracting new editors to Wikipedia. Show me the initiative which is bringing them into Wikidata similarly.
On 27 August 2015 at 15:10, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Andy,
if each of these artworks had a Wikidata item, lists could be generated as a "by-product", in addition to all the possible queries etc.
Putting data into templates to show on Wikipedia pages is neither vegetable, animal, or mineral. The worst solution to store this data, IMHO, in 2015.
Cheers, Magnus
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:23 PM Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
We need more articles listing public art in United Kingdom counties, cities or towns.
I've written a blog post about how to compile them:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/public-art-wikipedia/
and would be grateful if you would all assist, and ask others to do so.
Once a page is created, adding a row should be something a novice an easily do. More experienced Wikipedians can help with tidying up formatting, adding references, and so on. As well as adding artworks known to you, of course!
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