Hi Katie,
This looks as if you have done a tremendous amount of work.
However I have some questions..
When I created http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Somerset and its 7 sub lists I was asked “How many listed buildings are there” as part of various review processes - & even having studied all the source I can find for year I can mot answer that. In Bath whole streets (of 30-50 buildings) can be under one listing and yet in other examples the house may be one listing, the walls several more and the fountain a listing on its own. Therefore what figure should be put in the first “number” column on the tracking table?
If a list created some years ago (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_South_Somerset) has references for each one which use Images of England, and was completed before the National heritage list was available are you asking for an extra column to be added with the NHLE Unique ID number?
Do we need to include columns for architect and date list?
Rod
From: wlm2013-l-bounces@wikimedia.org.uk [mailto:wlm2013-l-bounces@wikimedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Katie Chan
Sent: 19 June 2013 15:11
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Subject: [Wlm2013-l] Lists of UK listed buildings
Hi all,
One of the task that needs to be completed for WLM to happen is to have exhaustive lists of all eligible listed buildings on Wikipedia, using appropriately formed templates instead of wiki tables directly. To get everyone going, I have created the templates[1], which everyone is of course encouraged to improve.
In terms of the actual lists themselves, I have created a tracking table[2] so that everyone can see where we are and where work needs to be done. All the columns should be fairly self explanatory, aside from the one on images which is intended to track when someone has searched through Commons & Wikipedia for existing images and added them to the respective list.
Except for Wales, where lists didn't exist before, you can navigate to the existing lists from [3]. As you can see, I have made a start on at least one counties per countries so that everyone can see what I envisage them looking like[4]. You can find a copy of the source data for England[5], Wales[6], Scotland[7] and Northern Ireland[8] at the respective links provided. There's also PHP scripts for manipulation of geo-coordinates (latitude/longitude) to[9] and from[10] OS grid references, and also one for conversion between WGS-84 datum (as used by GPS) and OSGB-36 datum (as used by the Ordnance Survey)[11]. They may come in useful for manipulation of the source data when creating the lists.
I should say here that the English list is brand new courtesy of English Heritage who have recently completed a review of their licensing and released the information where they previously declined to!
Aside from making WLM happen, completing these lists would improve a lot of the existing lists on Wikipedia or create new ones where they didn't exist before. This is something that can be done by everyone as time permits, whether that is mass converting the source data into templated lists, a few minutes spent looking for existing images and adding them to a list, or copyediting the generated list.
Plese contribute when and where you can!
Katie
[1]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:EH_listed_building_header>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:EH_listed_building_row>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Cadw_listed_building_header>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Cadw_listed_building_row>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/HS_listed_building_header>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:HS_listed_building_row>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:NIEA_listed_building_header>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:NIEA_listed_building_row>.
[4]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Isle_of_Wight>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Bridgend>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_A_listed_buildings_in_East_Renfrewshire>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grade_A_listed_buildings_in_County_Fermanagh>
[5]:<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYOidG1DXzhscDFFSHFZOTNSd0NGakJNNlE#gid=0>, <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYOidG5MMU1lM0RwemZ1bmVVUnRyT3g0MGc#gid=0>, <http://data.gov.uk/data-requests/list-of-grade-i-and-ii-listed-buildings-in-england>
[6]: <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3ePnspksYOiV2YzSTlpNXFvc28/edit?usp=sharing>, <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3ePnspksYOiN2VMbzFHcTk1SWM/edit?usp=sharing>, <https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/listed_buildings_in_wales>
[8]: <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYOidHRORGNLaHR6WVJsZ2QxUEYxVVJBRkE#gid=0>, <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYOidF8tdjFBeER4QXRaa3I4bU5ZeW12eVE#gid=0>
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