Botopedia

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

• ~ 6000000 mines, settlements, and other locales from GNIS (cebwiki & svwiki -- w:ceb:Espesyal:Estadistika/w:sv:Special:Statistik, d:Special:CentralAuth?target=Lsjbot)
• ~36000 French municipalities - at fr: , it: and pl: Wikipedia (in progress at NL)
  • compiled data (1999) - http://www.ausir.master.pl/francja/ , source: http://insee.fr/
• ~35000 U.S. towns and counties (en:User:rambot) - only at en: Wikipedia (example)
• ~20000 rivers in Russia - at ru:
• ~12800 German communes - at ru:
• ~8000 Italian municipalities - at it:, nl:, pt: and pl: Wikipedia
  • compiled data (2004) - http://www.ausir.master.pl/ISTAT.xls , source - http://www.istat.it/
  • source Dump of data
• ~8000 Spanish municipalities - at nl:, pt: and it:
• ~7000 NGC objects - originally at sk:, copied into ru: and eo:
• ~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)
  • ~2000 Switzerland communes - at pt: and it: Wikipedia
• ~2000 Polish communes and towns - at pl: Wikipedia
• ~887 Polish cities (miasto) & ~315 districts (powiats) - at nl:Wikipedia w:nl:Categorie:Stad in Polen & w:nl:Categorie:district van Polen
• ~430 Norwegian communes - at nl:, pl: and pt: Wikipedia
  • data from http://www.ssb.no and http://www.kommunenokkelen.no
• ~430 municipalities in Finland - w:nl:Categorie:Gemeente in Finland
• ~300 municipalities in Portugal - at nl.Wikipedia w:nl:Categorie:Gemeente in Portugal and pl:
• ~290 Swedish communes - at nl:, 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
• ~118 municipalities in Luxemburg - at nl.Wikipedia (w:nl:Categorie:Gemeente in Groothertogdom Luxemburg)
• ~110 Italian provinces - at it:, pt: and pl: Wikipedia
• ~100 French departements - at it:
• ~80 Czech districts - at pl: and Czech Wikipedia
• ~? English counties, districts and unitary authorithies - at nl.Wikipedia (e.g. w:nl:Categorie:District van Engeland)

Possible projects

• Fish from fishbase
• asteroids: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html

Participants

• Guttorm Flatabø
• Ausir
• tsca
• waerth
• Ram-Man
• Gac
• Wegge
• Twid
• Yann
• Dallan
• Micru
• Nuno Tavares
• Michiel1972
• Pietras1988
• Minh Nguyễn – very interested in using census data etc. to generate some non-stubby articles for the Vietnamese Wikipedia – 06:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Eukesh (has created around 3000 Nepalese places and 2000 Indian cities articles in Nepal Bhasa wikipedia)
• AchedDamiman

Dump

Experimental dump of Italian municipalities. Splitted by regions. Cvs format. - Gac

Links

• Chatlog 11 September 2005
• nl:Gebruiker:Waerth/Handigelinksvooriedereen

See also

• Mass content adding
• d:Q8340948
• ru:Проект:Количество