On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
--- Adam Raizen araizen@newmail.net wrote:
I would like to use a bot to upload articles on cities in Israel based on information from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (http://www.cbs.gov.il), a la Rambot. You can see an example article at [[User:AdamRaizen/Ramla]]. Any objections or comments?
I wouldn't object, but the following part is a bit unclear:
The ethnic makeup of the city is 80.5% Jewish and other, and 20.0% Arab (15.4% Muslim and 4.0% Christian). There are 450 new immigrants.
Are these catagories legally defined in Israeli law? (Or at least, the same terms from the Israeli census materials?) If so, I would like to see those terms hyperlinked to an article explaining the legal definitions, much as was done for the U.S. cities.
Also, I would like to know how this bot handles it when articles are already there but it wants to put this data there. LDan
Good point. I would also add some kind of referent that helps a user to locate where in Israel these municipalities are. Both the US & France listings include the name of the local government, which offer useful information for locating the habitation in question.
I believe adding collections of habitations of more countries -- especially non-English speaking ones -- will tremendously the usefulness of Wikipedia exponentially. Anyone willing to do the same for, say, Egypt, Iraq, or Thailand?
Geoff