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>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Cadw_listed_building_header>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Cadw_listed_building_row>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/HS_listed_building_header>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:HS_listed_building_row>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:NIEA_listed_building_header>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:NIEA_listed_building_row>gt;.
[2]: <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the…
[3]:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_the_United_Kingdom
[4]: <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Isle_of_Wight>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Bridgend>gt;, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_A_listed_buildings_in_East_R…gt;,
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grade_A_listed_buildings_in_County_Fe…
[5]:<
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYO…gt;,
<
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYO…gt;,
<
http://data.gov.uk/data-requests/list-of-grade-i-and-ii-listed-buildings-in…
[6]: <
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3ePnspksYOiV2YzSTlpNXFvc28/edit?usp=sharin…gt;,
<
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3ePnspksYOiN2VMbzFHcTk1SWM/edit?usp=sharin…gt;,
<https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/listed_buildings_in_wales
[7]: <
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYO…
[8]: <
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYO…gt;,
<
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnePnspksYO…
[9]:
<http://pastie.org/private/uoljp6fge3rgf24fju3xug
[10]: <http://pastie.org/private/tojd2r3a7w4emiag46n1lw
[11]:
<http://pastie.org/private/e32ndvonwgqofv9odduy4w
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Katie Chan
Volunteer Support Organiser
Wikimedia UK
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+44 (0) 7885 980 534
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