Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities

2015-08-28 Thread Gordon Joly
On 27/08/15 21:53, Andy Mabbett wrote: This is already attracting new editors to Wikipedia. Show me the initiative which is bringing them into Wikidata similarly. An interesting question. My personal point of view is that Wikidata is attractive since it clears up the mess of data in Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities

2015-08-28 Thread Charles Matthews
On 28 August 2015 at 08:38, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Is there a Wikidata for Dummies? A question I have raised a number of times, in fact, in terms of getting something written. No dice, so far. Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities

2015-08-28 Thread leu...@fabiant.eu
Good point, Gordon I think this needs to be looked at in terms of finding new contributors (a better phrase, I feel when talking about wikidata) amongst the second order dataheads, i.e. those people who are more interested in the management of data than simply its accumulation. This would mean

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities

2015-08-28 Thread Sara Thomas
+1 for wish this existed... Sara Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:55:58 +0100 From: charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lists of public art in UK counties and cities On 28 August 2015 at 08:38, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Is