Hi, Thanks a lot for your suggestion. your idea sounds great, I ll definetly check how to do it.
All the best Jora On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:54 AM Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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