Botopedia
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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.
To do
- 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?
Existing projects
- 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/
- ~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)
Possible projects
- Fish from fishbase
- asteroids: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html
Participants
Links
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