On 26 July 2015 at 16:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A way can be found, but there are multiple issues to solve: > 1) the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to > satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness, Wikidata does not require unique names. > 3) it must be fine to create items that contain no information other than > the name; No, this is not OK (and they may be deleted); but nor is it necessary. > 4) it must be as easy to add coordinates to multiple items as it is with an > on-wiki table; Why? > 6) it must be easy to publish new groups of items on the go, because the > list is built gradually (and very slowly) as we get new authorisations; It is. > 7) there must be a way to automatically make an on-wiki table of items by > region (currently I'm not even sure we can make an on-wiki table of > "municipalities of Emilia-Romagna" with Wikidata? let alone listing items > which have some connection to them through N levels of P31, P1435, P279 or > whatever); This is, I believe, possible. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Wikidata_lists/Items_with_ORCIDs is built by a bot. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org