Hi Jane!
I don’t have firsthand experience with this, but it looks like the Commons has templates
to translate country names from English into whatever language the user has set — for
example,
There’s also a template for displaying a country’s flag, but that doesn’t appear to
convert among languages:
On 30 Jan 2017, at 3:16 AM, Jane Darnell
<jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for reviving an old thread, but yesterday I was working on adding the World Bank
numbers for maternal mortality and was wondering if I could add the data to the new
tabular data on Commons. I am not sure if it's possible to make the data points
multi-lingual (the way the list of countries in Wikidata are multi-lingual). The page with
the numbers is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_Mortality_Ratio
I do think we should have these lists on Wikipedia, if only for the Millenium Development
Goals:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MDGs.svg
If the tabular data resides on Commons then the chance of it getting updated promptly
each year is much more likely, I think.
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From: Yair Rand <yyairrand(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Help needed: a project to pull data from the World Bank
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."
<wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Just skimming through the list of World Bank data, it looks like most of this would
require unit support for quantity properties, which is not yet available. (See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77977 . Unit support is currently listed in the
development plan right after access for remaining sister projects and arbitrary access, so
I would assume it's not that far off.) Until this is ready, we can't add any data
that is measured in square kilometers, dollars, kilowatt hours, metric tons, hectares,
kilograms, years, etc.
Of the rest of the data, much of it seems to be too specific for how data is normally
entered, and some might be difficult to reasonably add simply due to the limited number of
statements the software appears to be able to handle atm.
That leaves things like total population, urban/rural populations, mortality rates,
battle-related deaths (though we might want to first find out how a negative number of
people died in Syria two years ago... (?)), migration, trademark applications, and many
others.
(None of this actually answers your request, but I just wanted to point out the current
limitations.)
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Sylvia Ventura <sventura(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi,
I work in the Strategic Partnerships team at the Wikimedia Foundation, and I'm in
initial conversations with the World Bank and several other large NGOs about using their
open data sets in our projects.
The World Bank maintains a large data set of statistics on countries, and is ready to
start a pilot test with us. They suggested us to look for a sample of specific indicators
that are missing in Wikidata/Wikipedia that could either be linked to or imported into
Wikidata. Examples could go from basic indicators like population to more specific data
like “% of country's population with access to water”.
I'm looking for technical help to work with our contacts at the World Bank. For
instance, what is the best way to:
*compare the World Bank's indicators with Wikidata's properties, and see what are
we missing today that would be interesting to collect, either in Wikidata or directly
through templates in Wikipedia
**pull/connect that content from the World Bank into our servers
This is what is available today:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/all
I also welcome your advice starting this project following community processes and
standards. Could
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Economics serve as a
starting point?
Thank you and happy Hackathon for those in Lyon!
Sylvia
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Strategic Partnerships
Wikimedia Foundation
sventura(a)wikimedia.org
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