Learning patterns/Local places names

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neighborhood names

problemLocal contribution to several projects

solutionA workflow to start a journey in the projects

creator• Noé

created on17:45, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

status:DRAFT

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Local toponymy

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The names of neighbourhoods, hamlets, cultural regions, mountain plateaus are not all on the map yet. Administrative cuts are often already well identified and described, but other spaces can be documented, which are popular in the sense that they do not have very specific boundaries but yet have a social function, history and associated values.

This forms an interesting topic to contribute to, which may be of interest to people who discover wiki projects. And of course, this knowledge makes it possible to organize the information within projects better, especially for the categorization of photos on Wikimedia Commons.

Contribution Flow

So, to document a neighborhood name, here's the contribution flow I'm proposing:

1. Discover a new name: newspaper article, street sign, oral history, real estate agency, tourist guide, public administration, local archives
2. Add the name with a short definition in Wiktionary + add example sentences attesting to the existence of the place
3. (optional) Search Wikisource to see if this name exists in open sources and reread a few pages
4. Add an illustration using Wikimedia Commons, or take a photograph in the place in question (sometimes difficult if you live in a neighborhood with little elevation change: climb a tower, use a drone)
5. Add an audio pronunciation using Lingua Libre
6. Add the entity to Wikidata, with other information such as administrative inclusion and geographic coordinates (a central point)
7. Add information on Wikipedia, on a new page or in the A page for a larger location that incorporates it (for a hamlet, the commune)
8. Add the name to OpenStreetMap (place = quarter, hamlet)
9. Return to each step to add new information and links to other content (etymology, neighboring locations, translations)
10. Present the process publicly to demonstrate a form of visible and local contribution (possibility of holding a contribution workshop or a presentation at a local meeting)

Bonus Steps

1. Explore current events about this area to write an article for Wikinews
2. Search for famous quotes that mention the neighborhood's name to add to Wikiquote

Further thoughts

• Use historical maps
• Describe the names of a place that has changed names several times or moved

See also

• Presentation given on this topic at the Wikiconvention francophone 2022
• The WikiKwatt Project

External links

--A bulleted list of off-wiki resources related to this pattern (books, websites etc)