Dear Jane,

When it comes to monuments as in many things the UK is a federation. Michael 
was referring to the four different national bodies that the  "English, 
Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish" lists will have come from.

Regards

Jonathan 


> On 30 Jul 2015, at 11:19, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> I guess I don't quite follow you. When you say "English, Scottish, Welsh and 
> NI" are you referring to different languages? Are all items available for WLM 
> participation through a mobile "nearby" feature during the month of september 
> to english and welsh speakers?
> 
> To be clear, I am just a WLM participant and will not update any other lists 
> - I just made those edits to illustrate my argument for using the Wikidata 
> list items (which don't seem to serve any purpose right now).
> Jane
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Michael Maggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Jane
>> 
>> I've not been following closely what you're doing here, but I assume it is 
>> the updating of the existing Wikidata items for UK listed buildings rather 
>> than the creation of new ones?
>> 
>> As part of WLM last year, we obtained updated copies of the definitive lists 
>> from the English, Scottish, Welsh and NI listing bodies, as well as the 
>> scheduled ancient monuments records.  Magnus uploaded all of the ancient 
>> monument and the grade I and II* listed buildings direct to Wikidata - 
>> around 80,000 records if I remember rightly. 
>> 
>> We ran the WLM contest in the UK directly from these Wikidata records 
>> without going via Wikipedia at all. The old UK monuments database dates from 
>> before all that work. It is no longer useful and can be deleted.
>> 
>> If there are inconsistencies between Wikidata and Wikipedia regarding these 
>> lists, Wikipedia needs to be corrected/updated. 
>> 
>> Happy to discuss in more detail if you'd like to contact me off list. 
>> 
>> Michael 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> Michael 
>> 
>>> On 30 Jul 2015, at 10:59, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well I think your reasoning is what has kept us from doing this, and last 
>>> year I would have agreed with you. However, let me begin by telling a 
>>> story: one of the problems we have with filling the WLM lists in general is 
>>> that we have very few wiki(p/m)edians who take pictures in remote rural 
>>> areas near their home, but oddly, we have lots and lots of wiki(p/m)edians 
>>> who take pictures in remote rural areas while on vacation (near or not to 
>>> the homes of other wiki(p/m)edians apparently).
>>> 
>>> Today we have no unified WLM interface for wiki(p/m)edians to join WLM in 
>>> any other language-pedia than their own, and I feel this is an unnecessary 
>>> barrier to entry of potential WLM contributions.
>>> 
>>> The advantage of using the Wikidata list items for this purpose is that you 
>>> have some control in presentation, whereas live queries have a haphazard 
>>> list order based on date-of-creation-of-the-Wikidata-item
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Magnus Manske 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Ah, do we really want to duplicate information like this? The individual 
>>>> items already have "heritage status: Grade I listed structure" or 
>>>> somesuch. Manually curating a list on Q6646074 seems pointless when we can 
>>>> auto-generate it.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:00 AM Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> So now, for the Birmingham list (first link in the mail below), I added 
>>>>> the first few monuments to the Wikidata item for this list here:
>>>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6646074
>>>>> 
>>>>> I used "has part"  but maybe there should be a property "list item"  or 
>>>>> somesuch thing?
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: Jane Darnell <[email protected]>
>>>>> Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:03 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata
>>>>> To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition 
>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> OK I am now looking at your Q number Q5642705 and I see that it is a 
>>>>> hall, so I expect it to be an instance of hall, but it's not and it's an 
>>>>> instance of architectural structure. This item has an enwiki Wikipedia 
>>>>> article and when I click what links here I see the WLM list here:
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Birmingham
>>>>> Here I see only 4 columns - name, grade, date and architect
>>>>> 
>>>>> An item that is also a hall in NL is a water board building called a 
>>>>> gemeenlandshuis. Here is an example item
>>>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2847105
>>>>> This is an instance of gemeenlandshuis which in turn is a subclass of 
>>>>> hall.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On the Dutch Wikipedia when I click what links here I see the link to the 
>>>>> WLM list here:
>>>>> https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_rijksmonumenten_in_Haarlemmerliede_en_Spaarnwoude
>>>>> This list has eight columns - name, original function, date, architect, 
>>>>> location, coordinates, WLM ID, photo
>>>>> 
>>>>> The column headings should be coming from the monuments database, and the 
>>>>> original function should be the reason the object made it into the WLM 
>>>>> list.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think both of these items should be part of a corresponding list on 
>>>>> Wikidata. When I click what links here on Wikidata I see nothing that 
>>>>> takes me to WLM. The only clue is the property P1435 for the British Q 
>>>>> and property P359 for the Dutch Q. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maybe we should augment the corresponding list items with their members 
>>>>> so that when you click what links here you are taken to the Q number of 
>>>>> of the list item? This effectively migrates the lists to Wikidata
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Andy Mabbett 
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On 26 July 2015 at 07:42, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> > So such wikipedia articles should be labelled " instance of"  <the 
>>>>>> > name of
>>>>>> > your identifier used in WLM>.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I believe that method has been deprecated, and it is preferred to use
>>>>>> a property P1435 ("heritage status" in English):
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>     https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1435
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> as done, for example, on:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5642705
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Andy Mabbett
>>>>>> @pigsonthewing
>>>>>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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