Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] From Perú, first WLM 2016

2016-07-19 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Hi RomaineThanks for this question. Though, I may be wrong. The information I submitted it's the best you can get from the National Monuments in Nigeria at the moment. The link I shared below was gotten from a

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] From Perú, first WLM 2016

2016-07-19 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi Olaniyan, Welcome in Wiki Loves Monuments! In Wiki Loves Monuments, we prefer to tag monuments with the ID (mostly) the government institution who indicated what is a monument, has assigned to the monument. Do you have a list of monuments available in a spreadsheet perhaps? like with

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Lodewijk
Hey Olanian, maybe it would help if you could share what definition of 'monument' you're planning to use? That could give us some insight, and make answering easier. Best, Lodewijk 2016-07-19 19:27 GMT+02:00 Lily : > + André > > Hi all, > > Below you can find

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Lily
+ André Hi all, Below you can find my comments: *Brazil* Juliana, it is okay for your monuments to belong to multiple lists. In your case, you can create three top level entry points for lists by the National Institute of Cultural Heritage Preservation, the States and the Municipalities. This

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Vicenç
It deppends on your source. If it is published you can use something useful for your reference, like "source identifier"-"page number"-"monument order within the page". If it is hard the construct an unique identifier, you can add a preffix with subdivisions codes like

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Vicenç
Best approach is to use ID from higuest level. You can have internally several IDs in the template, for your control or for linking to different dababases if they are available online, but show only an unique ID. Vicenç De: WikiLovesMonuments

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Juliana Monteiro
Hi Olanian, Maybe you could ask if the monuments and objects have a record number, used to identy them in a paper based documentation system. Or try to establish numbers for them by your own. Best, Juliana 2016-07-19 11:19 GMT-03:00 Mārtiņš Bruņenieks : > Hi! > > You

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
That's cool! It's there a standard way of numbering?I will appreciate if anyone on the platform can help me with it. Thanks.

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Mārtiņš Bruņenieks
Hi! You should invent an identifyer yourself so that later you can match these with official lists when they are published. Mārtiņš On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Olushola Olaniyan < olaniyanshol...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Nigeria, majority of the museums are not computerised. Hence, they do

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
In Nigeria, majority of the museums are not computerised. Hence, they do not have a unique identifier for the monument. What can we do in this case?

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Juliana Monteiro
Thanks. Vira. It is my first time in WLM Brazil and I hope that me and my volunteer colleagues can find a good solution. As you said, maybe it is going to be easier to follow the lists with the highest rank. And about the Wikidata, I hope we can have time to work on there too. If it happens, we

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Vira Motorko
Hi, I can put here a little about WLM in Ukrainian. Just as in Brazil, our monuments appear in lists of different levels with different IDs. Moreover, official IDs are not unique through the state and may repeat in different regions. We created our own system of giving IDs to monuments. We would

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Juliana Monteiro
Hello all! Nice to see other fellows form South America and around here. As we are started talking about the unique identifier for the monuments, I would like to ask the group about the following situation: in Brazil we have monuments listed by the National Institute of Cultural Heritage

[Wiki Loves Monuments] unique identifier for the monument

2016-07-19 Thread Lodewijk
(starting a new thread, that way it's easier to find) the identifier of a monument usually originates from the 'authority' (the government, usually). There are some good examples here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016/Lists_of_monuments If that doesn't answer

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] From Perú, first WLM 2016

2016-07-19 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Great!!!One of the questions that I need this platform to answer for us is in the area of ID for monument.Where does the ID comes from, is it the  WLM or from the originating country of the monuments. Best

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] From Perú, first WLM 2016

2016-07-19 Thread Lodewijk
Glad to see participation from both Nigeria and Peru! I hope you'll feel welcome to ask any questions you have on this mailing list - we have a bunch of experienced organisers from a wide range of countries here, so many may have dealt with similar issues. Best, Lodewijk (former member &

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] From Perú, first WLM 2016

2016-07-19 Thread attolippip
Wow :) Welcome! Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv 2016-07-19 9:03 GMT+03:00 Olushola Olaniyan : > ‎Hi Everyone > > This is to thank WLM team especially Leila for contacting us and also > provide needed information for our participation. > > > This is our first

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] From Perú, first WLM 2016

2016-07-19 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
‎Hi Everyone This is to thank WLM team especially Leila  for contacting us and also provide needed information for our participation.  This is our first time of participation and we wish to make it count with marvelous works. We are here to learn. Best Regards. Olaniyan Olushola