Hi, I don't have an opinion on what it should be, but if I remember correctly the Monumental's method was to include all items with P625 and P1435 values. P1435 however doesn't work least in Sweden.
Br, -- Kimmo Virtanen On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:37 PM Jernej Polajnar <jpolajnar.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > "Wiki Loves Monuments ID" is self-referential, I don't think it would be a > good replacement for IDs in national monument databases - for example, > those can be linked to external database entries, while P2186 can't be. If > anything, P2186 could be used an additional ID, with own set of values or > mirroring the national IDs. Although, own set of values would probably be a > better idea to avoid conflicts between countries. > > Jernej > > > > On 29. 04. 2021 11:27, Josephine Lim wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hope you are all safe and well. After having finalized our plans for WLM > integration into the Commons app based on community feedback ( > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_app/WLM , which was > posted to this mailing list a couple of months ago), we have started work > on implementation. > > We have run into a bit of an issue, however, that we are hoping to get > help with. The initial plan (based on the discussion at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2020-July/009263.html > and at the abovementioned wiki page) was to use Wikidata as our data > source, displaying all Wikidata items with the identifier property of P2186 > (Wiki Loves Monuments ID) on our map. > > However we have now found out that some countries don't use P2186 at all. > Someone kindly linked > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM/Status#Table to > me, and based on that it seems that there is a rather large variety of > identifiers that different countries use. > > Realistically speaking, it would be really difficult for us to account for > every possible identifier that every country uses, and it would also make > stability and maintenance much more tricky. We can try, but it would be > risky and tedious. > > On the other hand, it was suggested to me that if there is WLM community > consensus that P2186 should be used as a universal identifier, countries > might be willing to adopt P2186 for the sake of harmonization. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? > > Many thanks. > > > Best regards, > Josephine / User:misaochan, Commons app project lead > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing > listWikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonumentshttp://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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