Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

Hi folks, This has been particularly disappointing - particularly since I've been at the meetings in the archaeology/heritage sector waving the Wikipedia/OpenData flag! Oh well Good on you Andy! Who's your contact? You might want to try and track down Keith May (author of this:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

Perhaps if more people did use a public mailing list to point it out, the offenders might be less likely to repeat the behaviour. Just guessing, of course. -- Rexx > On 08 June 2016 at 13:51 Charles Matthews > wrote: > > > > > > > On 08 June 2016 at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

It would make sense to build on the work already done in standardizing NRHP related photographs. The 300,000 archive images of historic American buildings I uploaded were mapped to Commons categories and NRHP numbers. It's a while back, but you can see an example of semi-automated mapping at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

On 8 June 2016 at 11:03, Charles Matthews wrote: > Perhaps some thought should be given to how to structure metadata on > buildings (and suchlike) on Commons. Indeed. For those unfamiliar with them, there are some pages on this, at:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

On 7 June 2016 at 14:29, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'm in contact with them, and am hoping to have a phone chat with the > project manager later today. Despite saying he'd call me, he didn't. Nor have I received any explanation or apology for this. -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

Perhaps some thought should be given to how to structure metadata on buildings (and suchlike) on Commons. Some of us are aware that the advent of Wikidata has led to a reconsideration of Commons from the "structured data" point of view; which is somewhat stalled right now, though the Creator

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] #ListEngland: Heritage England, crowd-sourcing, a missed opportunity

Thanks for this Andy - what a shame! I hope you manage to speak to them and see if there is any scope for coordination. Cheers, Lucy On 7 Jun 2016 14:30, "Andy Mabbett" wrote: > As you may have seen in the media, or on social media, today, Heritage > England, who