Commons:Monuments database/Unused images

This page contains an overview of Unused images of monuments. It's nice to have a lot of images of monuments here on Commons, but it's even nicer to also have these images in use on Wikipedia. You can help by adding these unused images to the lists on Wikipedia. To help you with this task, the 'unused images' pages have been developed. They display per country-language combination which monuments do have photos available, but do not have a photo yet in the monument lists. All the pages and the statistics are updated on a regular basis by a bot based on the data in the monuments database.

Every night a ErfgoedBot updates the Monuments database with all the lists we have on Wikipedia. After that is done the bot loops over all the categories of cultural heritage monuments with known IDs. If it finds an image of a monument for which the corresponding Wikipedia list entry doesn't have an image, it will be reported on the unused images page. For the bot to process a country the unusedImagesPage configuration variable must be set.

Go to the unused images page (linked below). You'll see multiple images in a gallery. In the caption of the image is the monument identifier which links to the relevant list or Wikidata item.

There might be multiple images for the same identifier (they are grouped together), chose the most appropriate one and, if it's a good image to describe the monument, add it to the list or Wikidata item as described below. After you added the image, the next time Erfgoedbot runs over that list/item (probably tonight), it will remove that monument from the unused images page (but you can also remove them yourself to keep a clear overview) and add new ones. There is a maximum of 1000 images for this page, for performance reasons. You probably want to add the unused images page to your watchlist so you can add new images every day. You can try to keep the unused images page, or just do a few every day. If many people do a few, the work is done quickly!

Open the linked list and use the identifier to find which row the image should be used in. Edit the list and add the image to the corresponding template parameter. If you are unsure which parameter corresponds to "image" look at the template documentation for the row template. You can find the row template which corresponds to a list using the table below.

Open the linked item, and check that an image hasn't been added since the unused images page was last updated. Add your selected image by clicking "add statement", entering P18 as the property and the image file name as the value. By convention you should only add one image to an item.

Since the lists are overwritten by Erfgoedbot each time the list is updated you cannot add instructions (or categories) directly to the page. To solve this the /header sub-page is automatically included at the top of the page, if it exists. Thus to add instructions for volunteers in your own language simply create the /header sub-page with the required information.

To localise the message used when there are no more unused images, simply create a /done sub-page with the desired message.