This topic is meant as an umbrella for thoughts on how we manage and administer the Connections.
Please only comment here if you are a frequent contributor or user of the Connections. And stay on topic.

As a starter, I have 2 subjects to introduce:
1. There is a possibility for 1 or 2 persons to become a "Connection Editor". This means you can add and edit connections directly to our database. It is not meant to replace the Forum, but it would be helpful to keep things going when I am travelling. Also, there is a backlog of Connections without a description. Let me know here or via els@worldheritagesite.org if you are interested.
2. We are upgrading the usability of the individual pages (like has been done with the Profile page). When the Connections Index Page and the individual Connections Pages are up, we should have a list of user requirements ready. One request has already been sent to me (bringing back the list of number of connections per site, so we can sort and see which WHS can have some more). Other requests can be added below in this topic.

I see you have had no "Volunteers" for this role despite the passage of almost a week!!!!
As a frequent supplier of suggestions for new Connections (and additions to existing ones) i feel a bit guilty not "applying" for it. Could I suggest that you at least reduce the work involved for you in setting up new entries by "Requiring" suggestions to be appropriately and fully "populated" thus relieving you of a lot of the work. In my own experience setting them out as they will appear is itself a good exercise to ensure that they hold water.

If the work can be reduced to a "check" and a "copy/paste" it might even be possible later to semi automate it via a format display and a "holding" status before it is actually added?

One person has applied; he is the guinea pig. But he will not be able to add on a daily basis. That's almost like a job in itself, I understand, I am living it! Although I must say that what we experience with the geo editors and photo editors whom we introduced earlier, having this authorization also works as a catalyst. They have a free evening and just start doing stuff!


Yes that would indeed be very helpful. I will post a few examples below of good practice.


Generally we should go there in the future I think. Like having a function "Propose a connection" where one adds the details, and when we agree, I just click and "Accept". Like what we have now with the reviews.

Example of how to suggest additions to existing connections; it clearly shows the connection name, the whs name and a rationale is given (may include links).

And an example for a fully new connection; it shows the category, the title of the new connection, the definition of the new connection, and a first set of connected sites with rationales.

A request came in to bring back the list where the sites are ranked by the number of connections.
This provides focus as where to add some more.
I will put it on the wish list for the updated connections index page as a pop-up.

In the meantime, here are the results of the query (I cut it off at 10 or less):

count site_id short_name
4 1429 Maratha Military Landscapes
4 1348 Murujuga Cultural Landscape
7 1450 Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave
7 1442 Ancient Khuttal
7 528 Churches of Moldavia
7 26 Palmeral of Elche
8 570 Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
8 956 León Cathedral
8 1216 Memorial Sites of Genocide
8 509 Hospicio Cabañas
8 1366 Jodensavanne
8 1040 Par force hunting landscape
8 1396 Minoan Palatial Centres
9 914 Jantar Mantar
9 854 Kaiping Diaolou
9 1131 Caves and Ice Age Art
9 266 Ajanta Caves
9 382 Madara Rider
9 648 Tiya
9 927 São Francisco Square
9 336 Choirokoitia
9 980 Chengjiang Fossil Site
9 1425 Wixarika Route
9 912 Turaif Quarter
9 1323 Gedeo Cultural landscape
9 527 Monastery of Horezu
9 137 Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
9 741 Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
9 381 Boyana Church
9 162 Bom Jesus do Congonhas
9 1249 Kladruby nad Labem
9 1296 Sudanese style mosques
9 739 Trebic
9 1067 Stecci
9 506 Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
9 975 Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
9 548 Castel del Monte
9 1189 Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
10 297 Urnes Stave Church
10 554 Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
10 1304 The Flow Country
10 264 Pattadakal
10 841 Aflaj irrigation system
10 358 Dazu Rock Carvings
10 561 Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
10 751 Úbeda and Baeza
10 307 Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
10 1354 Ancient Jericho
10 72 Safranbolu
10 384 Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
10 1282 Eisinga Planetarium
10 679 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
10 1313 Tak'alik Ab'aj
10 1110 Pampulha
10 452 Mystras
10 862 Richtersveld
10 495 Medina of Tétouan
10 466 Vlkolinec
10 672 Holasovice
10 301 Bellinzone
10 1045 Tusi Sites
10 1243 Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture
10 1181 Zatec Landscape of Hops
10 6 The Four Lifts
10 788 Grimeton Radio Station
10 342 Peking Man Site
10 1024 Great Himalayan National Park
10 1371 Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
10 1339 Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
10 231 Völklingen Ironworks
10 704 Churches of Peace
10 1408 Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape
10 748 Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
10 438 Upper Svaneti