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.
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.
Since there aren't many already existing articles, I will just merge
these in with the previous text manually.
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.
The local government is the subject of the article, and there aren't any
other divisions of local government. The article mentions the Interior
Ministry's District or Region, which will tell you whether the city is a
suburb of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, or Haifa, or otherwise whether it's in
the North, South, or Center, or in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. If I
could find geographic coordinates, I would add a lot more detailed
information.
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