Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Personally I see several challenges but also opportunities for WLM. Technically this is a change to be managed. If it is managed in a right manner, it could open a new season for WLM. As I know the data of monuments are not homogeneous and this is a risk for migrating data to a dedicated

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
But wherever you are in the tree of properties, from any item in the tree you should be able to navigate up and down from Heritage objects of Germany going from status type to substatus type. Is this spelled out anywhere? All of the commons categories need to be associated with the proper wikidata

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
Hi, In Ukraine, we have two problems Wikidata is not able to deal so far: 1) Our monument IDs are the ones we invent ourselves. We have 4 types of monuments times 27 regions (+1 nationwide list), some of these lists have identifiers, some not. Identifiers are not unique even within the same

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
Oh yes, I definitely see advantages. I think the main thing is that if you have decent lists, you can use properties to assign a status with an identifier. If you don't then you should go ahead and create the item with whatever criteria you are using for the handmade lists (former residence of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 July 2015 at 07:42, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: So such wikipedia articles should be labelled instance of the name of your identifier used in WLM. I believe that method has been deprecated, and it is preferred to use a property P1435 (heritage status in English):

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
Hi all, I guess everyoe knows by now that the erfgoedbot will no longer work. Meanwhile, we should be migrating the entire infrastructure to Wikidata to enable the next generation of tooling. So for example, if your country has legislation regarding the protection of industrial monuments, then I

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jane Darnell, 26/07/2015 08:42: Meanwhile, we should be migrating the entire infrastructure to Wikidata to enable the next generation of tooling. As is well known, Italy has no official list of cultural heritage items and in general no functioning way to discover, document or use cultural

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 18:28 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: On 26 July 2015 at 16:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: A way can be found, but there are multiple issues to solve: 1) the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to satisfy Wikidata

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
Well it is odd but true that when you have a name+label conflict you can adjust the label (add a bit more info) or just forget the label! We have lots and lots of items that are just Portrait of a man in some language with blank label On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 July 2015 at 18:12, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 19:09: More explicitely, can you give two items where you are have to have the exact same label *and* description? We don't have descriptions, so we're left only with label. Again, this can

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
No worries about Winckelman, you can use the perfectly decent German Baedeker guides from before 1912 for Italy - most of the older visitor attractions are in there. Basically as long as you can source the item to any published list of note you're good to go. Rome was not built in a day. Wikidata

[Wiki Loves Monuments] A clear example

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
I looked into http://wlm.wikimedia.it/w/images/9/94/San_Michele.pdf Mio italiano non è molto bene...but I think it's an authorization about https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Michele_Arcangelo_%28Busto_Arsizio%29

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 20:21 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: On 26 July 2015 at 17:41, Nicolas VIGNERON vigneron.nico...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-07-26 18:28 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: On 26 July 2015 at 16:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Andre Koopal
Hi, I see a lot of discussion about how to get the data into wikidata. That is good and needs to be done, but erfgoedbot did a lot more. Beside the harvesting (getting the list into the database), there were scripts using the data. At least for the dutch competition, people who uploaded a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
Many portrait painters have created portraits that are unattributed. So name= Portrait of a man and label= painting by Frans Hals is perfectly valid to have multiple times. In WLM terms, any large municipality is bound to have names like House multiple times per street and so on On Sun, Jul 26,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
The official policy is get started and see where your ship strands (to use a Dutch term) On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 19:09: More explicitely, can you give two items where you are have to have the exact same

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 July 2015 at 16:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: A way can be found, but there are multiple issues to solve: 1) the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness, Wikidata does not require

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 18:41: Label are indeed unique but you can add as many alias as you want (see french label on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3533061 ). You just need to choose a primary one, is it a problem ? Yes it is a potential problem, think of name/label Municipio or Duomo.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 21:34 GMT+02:00 Andre Koopal an...@molens.org: The database it not down, and will be there until somebody does cleanup. The database is not down no but it's going to be. As erfgoedbot isn't running anymore, all the changes on the wikipédias are not harvested into the database

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Jane Darnell
A similar problem exists for large parts of Germany (mostly former East Germany municipalities). The answer is simple. Think of these objects as members of a collection owned by living history municipal museums. So the city hall is the list owner and you go back in time to the latest usable list

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jane Darnell, 26/07/2015 13:36: Think of these objects as members of a collection owned by living history municipal museums. So the city hall is the list owner and you go back in time to the latest usable list A way can be found, but there are multiple issues to solve: 1) the name of the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andy Mabbett, 26/07/2015 18:28: 1) the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness, Wikidata does not require unique names. If so, please fix the docs. Uniqueness for a combination of a label and a description

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 18:52 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 18:41: Label are indeed unique but you can add as many alias as you want (see french label on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3533061 ). You just need to choose a primary one, is it a problem ?

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 19:12 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 19:09: More explicitely, can you give two items where you are have to have the exact same label *and* description? We don't have descriptions, so we're left only with label. Oh, ok... But how

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 19:00: I'm a bit lost, are you not making a confusion about the meaning of « Unique » in English? I'm certain I'm not, but maybe the author of the glossary did (it was written by a German IIRC). Nemo ___ Wiki Loves

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Mykola Kozlenko
(Answering to two simultaneous emails immediately, sorry if someone is confused). Ok, those are great ideas but they are not quite feasible for 70,000 items. 1) Our IDs. It is not quite easy to publish somewhere in a reliable source a database of 70,000 items. Especially given that this is

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 July 2015 at 17:41, Nicolas VIGNERON vigneron.nico...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-07-26 18:28 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: On 26 July 2015 at 16:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: A way can be found, but there are multiple issues to solve: 1) the name

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 21:04 GMT+02:00 Andre Koopal an...@molens.org: Hi, I see a lot of discussion about how to get the data into wikidata. That is good and needs to be done, but erfgoedbot did a lot more. Beside the harvesting (getting the list into the database), there were scripts using the data.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] A clear example

2015-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 19:28: I looked into http://wlm.wikimedia.it/w/images/9/94/San_Michele.pdf Mio italiano non è molto bene...but I think it's an authorization about https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Michele_Arcangelo_%28Busto_Arsizio%29 But the point is all info needs to

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 July 2015 at 12:39, Mykola Kozlenko mycol...@ukr.net wrote: 1) Our monument IDs are the ones we invent ourselves. We have 4 types of monuments times 27 regions (+1 nationwide list), some of these lists have identifiers, some not. Identifiers are not unique even within the same list,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 13:39 GMT+02:00 Mykola Kozlenko mycol...@ukr.net: Hi, In Ukraine, we have two problems Wikidata is not able to deal so far: 1) Our monument IDs are the ones we invent ourselves. We have 4 types of monuments times 27 regions (+1 nationwide list), some of these lists have

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 18:38 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Andy Mabbett, 26/07/2015 18:28: 1) the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness, Wikidata does not require unique names. If so, please

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 18:44: Did you have an example? See an example list http://wlm.wikimedia.it/w/images/9/94/San_Michele.pdf I find it hard to believe, can't you at least you can say where it is (at the minimum the country and idealy the city, the coordinates, etc.). Coordinates

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 19:03 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 19:00: I'm a bit lost, are you not making a confusion about the meaning of « Unique » in English? I'm certain I'm not, but maybe the author of the glossary did (it was written by a German

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2015-07-26 19:05 GMT+02:00 Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com: Well it is odd but true that when you have a name+label conflict you can adjust the label (add a bit more info) or just forget the label! We have lots and lots of items that are just Portrait of a man in some language with blank label

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

2015-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 July 2015 at 17:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Andy Mabbett, 26/07/2015 18:28: 1) the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness, Wikidata does not require unique names. If so,