Hi Jora, did you consider creating Wikidata items for the buildings? That would give you * a list of buildings to work on * a map of these (see [1]) * the ability to store, and query on, metadata (e.g. year build)
I have no idea if you have any of this metadata, or how easy it would be to get it. Cheers, Magnus [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=41.33&lng=19.82&zoom=15 (green=Wikidata with image, red=Wikidata without image, blue=photo on Commons,yellow=Wikipedia article) On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:38 AM Jora Kasapi via Commons-l < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > > I am a freelance architect and quite a new Wikimedia Contributor. For the > last months I'm working on a project, together with some other friends, > that document all the forgoten, neglected buildings in the city of Tirana > (Albania) through making the community contribute to the further > development of it. You can learn more about the project by visiting > https://preservingtirana.city/, which is build based on open source tools > and hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/JoraKasapi/PreservingTirana. An > important element of the documentation process of these old historical > buildings are also the photos taken by myself and other contributors of the > project. > > We thought to use Wikimedia Commons to add all the photos of these old > buildings of Tirana wich have a certain architectural and historic > importance. > > I have already added some of the photos in different subcategories, which > you can find here: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_historical_buildings_of_Tirana > > I have used 'Old historical buildings of Tirana' as the main category > where the photos are at the moment and different subcategories for each > building. Each subcategory would have different photos of that certain > building where everybody can add even more photos for this subcategory. The > name of the buildings are not the official ones (simply because most of > them don't have official names) .This is more or less the way we thought > the categorisation and subcategorisation in Wikimedia Commons, would work > for the project. > > > > At this point we would really want your opinion if this is the right way > to do it, or if it's alowed according to the way you generally proceed. I > have this project particularly at heart so I would really appreciate your > reply as soon as you read this email, without bothering to much of course. > > Thank you in advance and kind regards! > > > > Best, > > Jora > > > > > > ====================================== > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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