Thanks for your help Maarten, and I've noted your preference for discussions to go via the list.
Michael On 20 May 2013, at 16:06, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Op 20-5-2013 16:02, Michael Maggs schreef: >> Hi Maarten >> Many thanks, that is a fantastic start! > You're welcome. I prefer to keep the discussions on the mailing list. That > way other people can learn from it or help out. >> Having discussed this with others on the (so far informal) UK team, and also >> with WMUK staff, one of the main problems we are going to have is that none >> of us have the real technical expertise to accomplish the sort of thing you >> have been doing. We can get hold of that raw data, but importing that into >> the main WLM database, and providing user tools and so on may be beyond what >> we can achieve without outside help (or, at least, no-one in the UK with >> that expertise has yet volunteered to help out). > You should focus on getting the data and putting it on Wikipedia as lists. > Usually getting the data is the difficult part. > For the next steps see > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Monuments_database/Structured_lists > . Many countries managed to get this done so I'm sure someone is willing to > assist you with this. >> Your reputation has preceded you, and I know that you are extremely busy, >> but you couldn’t give us a hand, could you - or perhaps suggest someone else >> who might have the skills to do that? > I hope someone on this list well respond to this :-) > > Maarten
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