--- Adam Raizen <araizen(a)newmail.net> wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
> 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.
Kind of. For Jews, the Interior Ministry (whose
data
is the source of
the data used here) basically accepts as Jewish
whoever the Rabbinate
says is Jewish (with some complications), and this
is a hotly debated
political issue. I'm not sure of the situation for
Muslims and
Christians, but I assume it's similar (i.e.
whatever
the local religious
authority says). There probably should be an
article
explaining all this
somewhere anyway.
Are you refering to the fact that Judiasm, according
to the laws therof, is transfered from mother to
child
(as written at [[Judaism#Who_is_a_Jew]])? If so, I'd
suggest that you chage
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.
to
Tje ethnic makeup of the city is 80.5% Jewish by
ethnicity and 20.0% Arab, consisting of 15.4%
Muslim,
and 4.0% Christian. There are 450 new immigrants
since
the last time the census was taken.
A user on he.wikipedia suggested that tables are
easier to read than
paragraphs. Am I correct that this has already
been
debated with regards
to Rambot's articles and settled that short
paragraphs are okay, at
least for the English wikipedia?
--Adam Raizen
Yes, I do think a table would be easier to read, but
there should also be some content in paragraph form.
I'll try to find content to put in the articles that
is automated. So far, I've found
http://www.iula.org.il/cities/citind.htm, a list of
links to the websites of all of the big cities in
Israel, but that's it, and it probably would go into
the table.
LDan
Oh, yeah, and if you make a table, you should wait
until the new table markup is put up (or it is decided
that we don't want it).
LDan
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