Hello Lars, I found in my database 59.153 swedish articles[1] that could get coordinates from other wikipedias by interwikilinks. Compared with your number I see a potential of nearly 100%. In german Wikipedia we have 200.000 coordinates at 1.2 mio articles, this are nearly 20%. So there is a potential! (Also if such statistics are not 100% correct.)
For a success story you can ask user Otourly from fr.wp [2]. We had a talk[3] and it seems he use a bot[4] to copy coordinates from other wikis to french. They should have the know-how to tell you how to transfer the coordinates.
Greetings Tim Alder alias Kolossos
[1] Select count(*) from (Select distinct "T_sv" from "pub_C_geo_id" where "T_sv" is not NULL) as T
[2]http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Otourly [3]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Kolossos#Wikipedia:WikiProj... [4]http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Geobot
Am 30.07.2011 09:29, schrieb Lars Aronsson:
What different projects and success stories do we have for adding geographic coordinates to existing articles in various languages of Wikipedia? In some languages there are WikiProjects, but I think they were more active some years ago.
I tried to count now, and I think the Swedish language Wikipedia has 32,600 geographic coordinates for its 404,000 articles or one coordinate per 12.4 articles. Is that reasonable or is it far below the average?
I need a success story to learn from.