On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
--- Adam Raizen <araizen(a)newmail.net> wrote:
I would like to use a bot to upload articles on
cities in Israel based
on information from Israel's Central Bureau of
Statistics
(
http://www.cbs.gov.il), a la Rambot. You can see an
example article at
[[User:AdamRaizen/Ramla]]. Any objections or
comments?
I wouldn't object, but the following part is a bit
unclear:
The ethnic makeup of the city is 80.5% Jewish and
other, and 20.0% Arab (15.4% Muslim and 4.0%
Christian). There are 450 new immigrants.
Are these catagories legally defined in Israeli law? (Or
at least, the same terms from the Israeli census materials?)
If so, I would like to see those terms hyperlinked to
an article explaining the legal definitions, much as
was done for the U.S. cities.
Also, I would like to know how this bot handles it
when articles are already there but it wants to put
this data there.
LDan
Good point. I would also add some kind of referent that
helps a user to locate where in Israel these municipalities
are. Both the US & France listings include the name of
the local government, which offer useful information
for locating the habitation in question.
I believe adding collections of habitations of more
countries -- especially non-English speaking ones --
will tremendously the usefulness of Wikipedia exponentially.
Anyone willing to do the same for, say, Egypt, Iraq, or
Thailand?
Geoff