Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-30 Thread Neville Borg
Dear all, Thank you so much for your suggestions and advice, I really appreciate it. I've been trying to use OpenRefine by following the tutorial that was posted, but I seem to be having some difficulties and I'm not entirely sure where I'm going wrong. Nicolas - perhaps I can write to you off-li

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-28 Thread Sara Thomas
side point, but a QS vs OR guideline would be AMAZING. S On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 14:53, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: > Hi, > > Good point Sara ! I really need to write a QuickStatements vs. OpenRefine > guideline someday... > > In a nutshell: both tools are similar and used to import data into > Wiki

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-28 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
Hi, Good point Sara ! I really need to write a QuickStatements vs. OpenRefine guideline someday... In a nutshell: both tools are similar and used to import data into Wikidata. QuickStatements is (arguably) a bit easier and quicker to use but less powerful (it doesn't spot duplicates, don't do rec

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-28 Thread Sara Thomas
Hi there, You could also use Quickstatements - works best in Firefox: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements Best, Sara On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 09:57, Philip Kopetzky wrote: > You can then also build a list with the ListeriaBot, one example with an > embedded upload link with a camp

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
You can then also build a list with the ListeriaBot, one example with an embedded upload link with a campaign would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Braveheart/List_of_provincial_parks_of_British_Columbia BR, Philip On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 10:30, Mārtiņš Bruņenieks wrote: > Hi! > > Take a l

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-22 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
Hi Neville, It would help to see the original spreadsheet to see exactly what we are dealing with. For the Wikipedia part, I'm not entirely sure (I'm not a specialist of the templates on en.wp ). For Wikidata, OpenRefine[1] is probably the best tool. Here I know this tool and I can probably help

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-22 Thread Mārtiņš Bruņenieks
Hi! Take a look at OpenRefine, it can map spreadsheet data to Wikidata items/properties I think this is a very good demo: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/OpenRefine+Beginners+Tutorial/0_y5bxsswq As of properties to use, look at similar items like this https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3744576 Mārtiņš

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Help transferring list of monuments

2020-07-22 Thread Neville Borg
Hi everyone, We're looking for some advice/help/guidance - we would like to update our list of monuments that are eligible for this year's edition of WLM to include a list of properties scheduled by Malta's Planning Authority. We currently