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.
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.
Since there aren't many already existing articles, I will just merge these in with the previous text manually.
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.
The local government is the subject of the article, and there aren't any other divisions of local government. The article mentions the Interior Ministry's District or Region, which will tell you whether the city is a suburb of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, or Haifa, or otherwise whether it's in the North, South, or Center, or in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. If I could find geographic coordinates, I would add a lot more detailed information.
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