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This page is for coordinating and planning an international project for generating Wikipedia articles from statistical data and databases such as towns of the world.

• Get data
• Work out standard format (cvs or xml)
• How can WikiData be used when it is finished, and how should we prepare for it?

• 35,000 American towns and counties (en:User:rambot) - only at en: Wikipedia (example)
• ~8,000 Italian municipalities - at it:, pt: and pl: Wikipedia
  • compiled data (2004) - http://www.ausir.master.pl/ISTAT.xls , source - http://www.istat.it/
  • source Dump of data
• ~8,000 Spanish municipalities - at pt: and it:
• ~110 Italian provinces - at it:, pt: and pl: Wikipedia
• ~100 French departements - at it:
• ~36,000 French municipalities - at fr: and it: Wikipedia (in progress at PL)
  • compiled data (1999) - http://www.ausir.master.pl/francja/ , source: http://insee.fr/
• ~2,000 Polish communes and towns - at pl: Wikipedia
• ~430 Norwegian communes - at pl: and pt: Wikipedia
  • data from http://www.ssb.no and http://www.kommunenokkelen.no
• ~290 Swedish communes - at pl: Wikipedia
  • data from http://www.scb.se
• ~270 Danish communes - at pl:, pt: and it: Wikipedia
  • data from http://statistikbanken.dk and http://myndigheder.danmark.dk/
• ~80 Czech districts - at pl: and Czech Wikipedia
• ~3000 articles about danish parishes. (By da:User:TwidRobot)
  • data from http://www.dis-danmark.dk/amt-herred-sogn/data/sogne_id.csv and http://levende.kms.dk/su/sunavn.htm (25.000 place names in denmark)

• Fish from fishbase
• asteroids: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html

• Guttorm Flatabø
• Ausir
• tsca
• waerth
• Ram-Man
• Gac
• Wegge
• Twid
• Yann
• Dallan
• Micru
• Nuno Tavares

• Chatlog 11 September 2005
• http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Waerth/Handigelinksvooriedereen

• Bot
• Multilingualism