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
- 35,000 U.S. towns and counties (en:User:rambot) - only at en: Wikipedia (example)
- ~8,000 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
- ~8,000 Spanish municipalities - at nl:, pt: and it:
- ~300 municipalities in Portugal - at nl.Wikipedia w:nl:Categorie:Gemeente in Portugal and pl:
- ~430 municipalities in Finland - w:nl:Categorie:Gemeente in Finland
- ~110 Italian provinces - at it:, pt: and pl: Wikipedia
- ~100 French departements - at it:
- ~36,000 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/
- ~2,000 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
- ~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/
- ~80 Czech districts - at pl: and Czech Wikipedia
- ~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
- English counties, districts and unitary authorithies - at nl.Wikipedia (e.g. w:nl:Categorie:District van Engeland)
- ~118 municipalities in Luxemburg - at nl.Wikipedia (w:nl:Categorie:Gemeente in Groothertogdom Luxemburg)
- ~7000 NGC objects - originally at sk:, copied into ru: and eo:
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