[Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Andy Mabbett, 26/07/2015 18:28:
>> 1) the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to
>> satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness,
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> Wikidata does not require unique names.

If so, please fix the docs. "Uniqueness for a combination of a label and 
a description is a hard constraint that must be satisfied before a 
change can be saved." https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary

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>> 3) it must be fine to create items that contain no information other than
>> the name;
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> No, this is not OK (and they may be deleted); but nor is it necessary.

How so? We often don't know more than the name-

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>> 4) it must be as easy to add coordinates to multiple items as it is with an
>> on-wiki table;
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> Why?

Because that's the process used to add coordinates.

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>> 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;
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> It is.

Needs to be verified with those who maintain the list (i.e. Cristian 
Cenci and WMIT secretariat).

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> This is, I believe, possible. For example:
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>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Wikidata_lists/Items_with_ORCIDs
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> is built by a bot.

That's a very trivial query, on WDQ just claim[496]. The query I 
described is way more complex.

Nemo