Hi Jean-Frédéric, Thanks for the information, nice to hear from the maintainer! That is indeed a huge concern, and we should go with Wikidata in that case.
Best regards, Josephine On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 19:35, Jean-Frédéric <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josephine and all, > > On 23-07-2020 11:25, Josephine Lim wrote: >> > Wikidata would be the easiest for us as we already have Wikidata >> > integration, however we are definitely open to using the monuments >> > database if the community reaches a consensus that that is the best >> > choice of data source. >> >> I consider the monuments database legacy. I wouldn't build new things on >> top of it. If countries want their monuments to be visible in the >> Commons app (and other places), they should invest time into migrating >> to Wikidata. >> > > I would like to strongly +1 what Maarten said, as current/ex co-maintainer > of the monuments database. > > We have tried our best so that the tools already built on top of the > monuments database keep running ; but new things should not be built on it. > > (While there is some support for harvesting Wikidata datasets into the > monuments database, that was only ever meant to ease transition to Wikidata > for folks highly dependent on legacy tooling (such as ErfgoedBot)). > > Finally, there have been reports of the monuments DB harvesting behaving > weirdly ; and neither André nor I have the capacity to look into it. In > short, at the moment, I can offer little guarantee that the monuments DB > would actually be up to date. > > Cheers, > -- > Jean-Fred > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
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