On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 00:11 +0100, Andrew West wrote: > On 26 October 2011 22:37, Brian McNeil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm glad to see others chime in regarding the potential for certain > > memorials being non-notable, or having insufficient reliable sources to > > get beyond stub status. The point here is not to drive traffic to > > Wikipedia, but to allow people to quickly access very personal > > documents. > > To my mind, "List of war memorials in Scotland" etc. would be the best > way to proceed wrt Wikipedia, with each entry linking to another > wikimedia project or projects for whatever detailed information is > available such as scans, transcriptions and lists of names. There is > quite a nice list-article for Canadian war memorials at > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_war_memorials>.
I might upset a few people here, but,... Why does this even have to in any way link to Wikipedia? Just because we've a pet 800lb gorilla is no reason to point people at it repeatedly. List of monuments->Monument Foo->Individual should be the obscure route to content. Link/Reference (eg QR code)->List of individuals->Content related to an individual can easily be done without ever touching Wikipedia. For many GLAM partners, Wikipedia is not going to be the 'ideal' first port of call. So, why try and make it such? Brian McNeil. -- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil - Accredited Reporter. Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
