In a few hours, I'm giving a short intro to the Encyclopedia of World
Problems and Human Potential, a collection of world problems and
humanitarian initiatives. If you have worked with global census,
environmental, scientific or humanitarian datasets, or have synchronized
other historical encyclopedias with WP: your input is wanted!
http://uia.org/encyclopedia
This cool reference was the result of one of Paul Otlet's projects from the
20th century, the Union of International Associations. It has ~60,000
articles at many levels of abstraction, along with links to related data
sources and network information about which problems influence which other
ones.
The EWPHP has just been released under a BY-SA license, and a small team is
trying to wikify it, integrate its sources with wikidata, synchronize parts
w/ WP where appropriate, and set up a world-editable interface to it. I
will show you what the current digitized site looks like.
When: 1700
Where: Room 40 of the Primary School
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups/Encyclopedia_of_World_Prob…
The lead developer of the editable version, Tomáš Fülöpp, will also be
coming to Wikimania this weekend, to meet with interested people.
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Sj