Just skimming through the list of World Bank data, it looks like most of
this would require unit support for quantity properties, which is not yet
available. (See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77977 . Unit support is
currently listed in the development plan right after access for remaining
sister projects and arbitrary access, so I would assume it's not that far
off.) Until this is ready, we can't add any data that is measured in square
kilometers, dollars, kilowatt hours, metric tons, hectares, kilograms,
years, etc.
Of the rest of the data, much of it seems to be too specific for how data
is normally entered, and some might be difficult to reasonably add simply
due to the limited number of statements the software appears to be able to
handle atm.
That leaves things like total population, urban/rural populations,
mortality rates, battle-related deaths (though we might want to first find
out how a negative number of people died in Syria two years ago... (?)),
migration, trademark applications, and many others.
(None of this actually answers your request, but I just wanted to point out
the current limitations.)
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Sylvia Ventura <sventura(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi,
I work in the Strategic Partnerships team at the Wikimedia Foundation, and
I'm in initial conversations with the World Bank and several other large
NGOs about using their open data sets in our projects.
The World Bank maintains a large data set of statistics on countries, and
is ready to start a pilot test with us. They suggested us to look for a
sample of specific indicators that are missing in Wikidata/Wikipedia that
could either be linked to or imported into Wikidata. Examples could go from
basic indicators like population to more specific data like “% of country's
population with access to water”.
I'm looking for technical help to work with our contacts at the World
Bank. For instance, what is the best way to:
*compare the World Bank's indicators with Wikidata's properties, and see
what are we missing today that would be interesting to collect, either in
Wikidata or directly through templates in Wikipedia
**pull/connect that content from the World Bank into our servers
This is what is available today:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/all
I also welcome your advice starting this project following community
processes and standards. Could
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Economics serve as a
starting point?
Thank you and happy Hackathon for those in Lyon!
Sylvia
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Strategic Partnerships
Wikimedia Foundation
sventura(a)wikimedia.org
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