On Saturday 17 November 2007 10:56:20 Stefan Kühn wrote:
In the last years we use the dump from Wikimedia Foundation. We download this dump for the main languages and unpack this big files at the toolserver and scan this file with a perl-script for geocoordinates and templates.
What about scanning the externallinks table [1] to find every link to http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?language=de&... ? If all the information you need is in the link, this could be an alternative method.
Jelte a.k.a. WebBoy