Hi, I asked this question at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help_talk:Lua
but I'm asking here again just in case.
In my own free time, I'm trying to reimplement w:Template:Flagicon on
Lua just for the fun of it - see the small announcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Flag_Template#Templ…
There is a table where images of flags in Commons are identified with
the article of their territory in the project where the module is hosted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/QuimGil/FlagTranslations
Could Wikidata help here?
For instance at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228 we have all the ISO
codes related to "Andorra", the flag image and the translations in all
Wikimedia projects. It would be amazing if this data could be leveraged.
Maybe not for each template query (that could be expensive) but at least
to populate and maintain those local tables automatically. The master
table would be the only one maintained manually and all it would do is
to state that "Andorra" = Q228, "Berlin" = Q64...
Even that master table could be highly automated one day because we do
have the ISO 3166 entries etc in Wikidata... but let's go step by step. :)
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil