Maybe a solution would be a new tool acting as an interface? Use P2186 but
also the other "national" properties/combinations.
Upsides:
- we can define the API
- we can adapt to any variation in tracking items, now or later
- we can remove individual solutions as the community migrates to P2186
Downsides:
- work
- slower service than wikidata proper
- no direct SPARQL
- likely needs to maintain its own database (for performance reasons),
which needs to be kept in sync with Wikidata

Cheers,
Magnus

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:08 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Correction: We are only using the PT prefix for IDs attributed for WMPT.
> When it's the monument ID, we give a prefix related to the ID used: SIPA,
> DGPC, etc.
> To descomplicate things, we are now simply using PT- QXXX (example:
> PT-Q99463700) for listed monuments not having a specific or clear monument
> ID.
>
> Best,
> Paulo
>
> Paulo Santos Perneta <[email protected]> escreveu no dia quinta,
> 29/04/2021 à(s) 12:56:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For the Portuguese monuments we are using P2186 with a value prefixed by
>> PT (to avoid ID conflicts) and followed by:
>> * A monument ID, when there is one
>> * An unique ID given by ourselves, when it's not practical to use the
>> monument ID, or when there is no monument ID at all
>> in addition to that, we have a number of specific monument IDs, but we
>> don't use them directly for WLM or WLE (and it was a mistake to even
>> attempt to use them initially, it only brought a lot of confusion)
>>
>> Personally, I support uniformization in P2186,  using country prefixes
>> or some other strategy, in addition to any specific monument that may exist.
>>
>> Best,
>> Paulo
>>
>> Josephine Lim <[email protected]> escreveu no dia quinta,
>> 29/04/2021 à(s) 10:28:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Hope you are all safe and well. After having finalized our plans for WLM
>>> integration into the Commons app based on community feedback (
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_app/WLM , which was
>>> posted to this mailing list a couple of months ago), we have started work
>>> on implementation.
>>>
>>> We have run into a bit of an issue, however, that we are hoping to get
>>> help with. The initial plan (based on the discussion at
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2020-July/009263.html
>>> and at the abovementioned wiki page) was to use Wikidata as our data
>>> source, displaying all Wikidata items with the identifier property of P2186
>>> (Wiki Loves Monuments ID) on our map.
>>>
>>> However we have now found out that some countries don't use P2186 at
>>> all. Someone kindly linked
>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM/Status#Table to
>>> me, and based on that it seems that there is a rather large variety of
>>> identifiers that different countries use.
>>>
>>> Realistically speaking, it would be really difficult for us to account
>>> for every possible identifier that every country uses, and it would also
>>> make stability and maintenance much more tricky. We can try, but it would
>>> be risky and tedious.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, it was suggested to me that if there is WLM community
>>> consensus that P2186 should be used as a universal identifier, countries
>>> might be willing to adopt P2186 for the sake of harmonization.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Josephine / User:misaochan, Commons app project lead
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