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