--- Adam Raizen araizen@newmail.net wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
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.
Kind of. For Jews, the Interior Ministry (whose data is the source of the data used here) basically accepts as Jewish whoever the Rabbinate says is Jewish (with some complications), and this is a hotly debated political issue. I'm not sure of the situation for Muslims and Christians, but I assume it's similar (i.e. whatever the local religious authority says). There probably should be an article explaining all this somewhere anyway.
Are you refering to the fact that Judiasm, according to the laws therof, is transfered from mother to child (as written at [[Judaism#Who_is_a_Jew]])? If so, I'd suggest that you chage
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.
to
Tje ethnic makeup of the city is 80.5% Jewish by ethnicity and 20.0% Arab, consisting of 15.4% Muslim, and 4.0% Christian. There are 450 new immigrants since the last time the census was taken.
A user on he.wikipedia suggested that tables are easier to read than paragraphs. Am I correct that this has already been debated with regards to Rambot's articles and settled that short paragraphs are okay, at least for the English wikipedia?
--Adam Raizen
Yes, I do think a table would be easier to read, but there should also be some content in paragraph form. I'll try to find content to put in the articles that is automated. So far, I've found http://www.iula.org.il/cities/citind.htm, a list of links to the websites of all of the big cities in Israel, but that's it, and it probably would go into the table. LDan
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