Hi Jane, On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > If the monuments database only gets updated with pictures on Wikimedia > Commons that have been added manually to the beschermd erfgoed lists on the > Netherlands Wikipedia, well, then I guess I don't feel a need to create a > list on the English Wikipedia until those lists get pictures added to them. > The English Wikipedia still has lots of users adding photos to Wikipedia > instead of Wikimedia Commons, and there are lots of monument fotos on > Wikipedia already. People are free to add pictures to lists at any time > (it's not even part of the competition to do this). I can imagine that > someone may go and take pictures on their own to fill up a list on say the > German Wikipedia that is there for one of the German towns in Belgium, while > the Dutch Wikipedia has a list that is already filled with pictures. As far > as I know, there is no real method for photo selection, so any picture with > the proper identifier can be used in a list. > > Rereading the responses of Kilian and Platonides, I guess basically we need > a " reverse bot" that can generate a list of suggested pictures (or maybe > just a running total of files per list as an update indication?). If people > add pictures from Wikipedia rather than from Wiki Commons, then it's clear: > either transfer the file or replace it in the list with another suitable one > from Commons.
The erfgoed bot can serve as a "reverse bot": When set up that way it will generate a list of unused images. That means it will go through all the lists on a given Wikipedia, check which monument on the list has no picture, checks if there is a picture for that very monument on Commons (works only if the image on Commons has a template with the identifier, of course, but at least for WLM submissions that's almost always a given) and then lists this picture with a link to the list it should be put in. One example is https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Denkmalpflege/Deutschland/Hessen/Ungenutzte_Bilder This has to be done individually on every Wikipedia, though. Is that what you mean? Kilian _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
