Why not wait until Wikidata has a number type, then generate these for
all countries with a bot?
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote:
I am working on a project to duplicate a standardized economic report for
all 196 countries.
Here is the United States:
In my opinion, Wikidata and the Global Economic Map would complimentary
sister projects. The Global Economic Map provides a standardized format to
present economic information. Wikidata will help collect the data, but the
Global Economic Map is the best way to present economic data. It's similar
If all it does (and that would still be a lot!) is to aggregate and format
data from machine-readable sources like Wikidata, I don't see the point for
a project - some code can do that on its own just fine.
Now, the output needs to be designed, and the numbers need to be kept
up-to-date; at least
Hopefully coding will help the project retrieve for more data. Humans will
be important to retrieve data from hard to find places (government
publications, Google, etc.). I imagine that both humans and bots will help
edit the project.
The point of the project is to present economic information in
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you mean by the 'output' needs to be designed?
I think he means something like
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=Q1339 which gets its
data from http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339. Something similar can be
Thank you Lydia, the tool server is interesting. My main objection to the
Global Economic Map being included in Wikidata is because Wikidata is
designed to support other Wikimedia projects. The Global Economic Map has a
simple and easy to understand format that I believe would be lost if it
were
I am working on a project to duplicate a standardized economic report for
all 196 countries.
Here is the United States:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States.
Here is China:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_China
Here is Japan:
