王文岳 Allen Wang
Wikidata Taiwan
Mapping Temples, Mapping Memory
A street-level Wikidata & Wikimedia Commons Expedition in Taiwan
Workshop before 2024
Temples Workshop in 2024-2025
Conclusion
王文岳 Allen
- Wikidata Taiwan co-initiator
- Committee of the 1st Open Parliament Multistakeholder Forum, Legislative Yuan, ROC.
- Former Secretary General of Wikimedia Taiwan
- Convener of the Li Mei-shu Memorial Gallery Information Team
- IT consultant for Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank Community Management Research
WikiExpedition @ zh-wikipedia 2006~
In 2006, Taiwan Wikipedians worked together with the National Taiwan University Tour Club to co-host the first WikiExpedition.
In the morning we were guided around the campus and in the afternoon we contribut our work into Wikis to imporove its content.
In earlier expeditions, we focused on improving the image content.
The event is mostly conducted on foot, and combined with guides to local history and cultures.
維基漫步 Wikimanbo
Wikimanbo in 2014 - 2015 @ zh Wikipedia
Host by Wikimedia Taiwan
維基漫步是目前在中文維基百科上面
可以找到的在台灣早期類似於踏察團的活動
早在 2014 年就已經結合地方文史踏查的概念
並與 OpenStreetMap Taiwan 合作
推動拍攝街道照片上傳 Wikimedia Commons
GPS 與街道資料更新 OpenStreetMap
WikiMambo is the earlier example of the WikiExpedition style event. As early as 2014, WikiMambo already incorporated the concept of cultural expedition and worked with OpenStreetMap Taiwan to promote uploading streetview photos to Wikimedia Commons and OpenStreetMaps to assist the update of GPS information
悠閒漫步
Take Take Wiki
Take Take Wiki 2018~
Host by Mowiki
仍然以步行或是搭乘大眾交通工具為主
開始聚焦在街景拍攝、地景拍攝
以拍攝照片貢獻在 Wikimedia Commons
並以 GPS 資料增補 Wikidata 內容
同時串聯 Mapillary 等街景平台
Mainly conducted on foot or through public transportation, starting to focus on taking photos of landmarks and streetview.
Contributions were dedicated to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata through GPS information and connection to Mapillary or other platforms.
街景踏察團
OpenStreetMap Streatview Survey
OpenStreetMap Streatview Survey 2022~
Host by OpenStreetMap Taiwan and
Wikidata Taiwan
由 OpenStreetMap Taiwan 社群申請補助
開始改由汽車搭配 360 度攝影機拍攝街景
增補臺灣缺乏資料的各個鄉鎮
同步更新 OpenStreetMap 、Wikidata、Wikimedia Commons 、Wikipedia 等平台
OpenStreetMap Taiwan community applies for grants to conduct the event, switches from mainly on foot to driving, equipped with 360-degree camera to record the streetview, to improve the gaps in Taiwan local data. The contribution is then later uploaded to OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, etc.
雖然當時沒有特別
以廟宇為拍攝主題
但臺灣鄉間馬路上
常見小型廟宇
除了是地標紀錄
也是地方信仰文化的紀錄
Though not emphasised at the time, in Taiwan there are many small temples dotted along the rural streets.
Though small, they are the embodiment of many local cultures and history, and should be recognized as important landmarks.
In 2024, Wikidata Taiwan cooperated with community partners to hold the first Taiwan Temple workshop to improve the content on Wikidata and OpenStreetMap with updated or new photos of temples.
- Image: Wikimedia Commons
- GPS and Basic Info: Wikidata
- Literature or Descriptive Info: Wikipedia
- Travel Info: Wikivoyage
- Stele Related Info: WikiSource
維基媒體怎麼收？ How to Contribute
Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata infobox
The event starts with participants rallying at Car rental or Train/High-Speed Rail Station to setup equipment and double-check the routes.
Work with the temple and local cultural workers to understand the history around the area and take pictures to improve articles in Wikipedia.
The event not only records the buildings, religions, art, and cultural records, the Steles in the temples are also rich in cultural and historical importance that could serve future research and should be recorded as well.
Conclusion
The images are the area covered in the two events held in August and July 2025; The data is not only uploaded to Mapillary, but we also sync it to Panoramax
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The best practice of the expedition still needs improvement.
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Too much guided tours will inevitably compress the points of interest we could cover.
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The event is too much for a single-day operation, yet it is also too cumbersome to expand it into a multiday event.
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Travel limitations restricted our latitude to plan out the event.
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Data Reuse needs more exploration
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Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons are easy to work with.
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However, we need to promote the usage of such data in other sister projects, and
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Explore new possibilities to reuse the data we've collected.
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