I do not intend that this become a new sister project. I am simply using Wikipedia as a platform to consolidate the data. This project is oriented for public administration. Wikidata serves a different goal. On 17 June 2013 12:00, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)wikimedia.hk> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Alex Peek <alexpeek1(a)gmail.com> wrote: Could you elaborate on this please? I'm not sure I understand the difference in goal. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

On 18 June 2013 18:38, Alex Peek <alexpeek1(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well you've got British and German Given the current size of nuclear stockpiles I'd suggest it has. Been tried. Didn't end well. Would you like us to direct you to the nearest mountain? You might want to study the issue a bit more closely before talking about it. For example people tend to be dying of malnutrition more than starvation per se I'm not seeing what it adds to wikipedia or how it addresses the complex socio-political issues around modern food distribution. For example while the western world probably has the ability to end large scale malnutrition in north korea the deaths of 10 million or so people in Seoul during the opening stages of removing the kimn family from power make such actions undesirable. -- geni

Hi Alex, I sense some frustration here. I think what you are doing is brave and needed, and you could probably use some help. The pages on economics and economics policy are some of the most neglected on Wikipedia (that and plastics and ..., but let's not go into a whole list of neglected topics, please folks) . I think your chances of finding like-minded economics-oriented Wikipedians quite small, but sending random cries for help periodically to this list will propably not help you find those people. Your main obstacle to success is your lack of knowledge about how Wikipedia works. As Lydia politely pointed out, you have not even tried to find out how your data could be included in WikiData, where it could potentially be used by all projects in all languages. As I see it, you have through your research located the data for several countries. This is all good. Each source of data needs to be defined on Wikipedia somewhere as an authority on that country's economic data. So first you need a list of economic data holders per country. Next these need to go on WikiData as list holders, and next, the data can be filled in property fields per country municipality (or whatever granularity of the data you are looking for). The data can be aggregated or you can just use the list holder data at each level. You cannot, however, just type in values of data without naming the sources. That would qualify as original research, which is a no-no on Wikipedia. Hope it helps, Jane 2013/6/19, Alex Peek <alexpeek1(a)gmail.com>om>:

Thanks Jane for the response. I'll contact Wikidata and see how my data can be incorporated. The thing about Wikidata is that its goal to be a very expansive semantic database to support all other Wikipedia projects. I do support Wikidata. But the whole point of my project is create a short, simple model to display economic statistics. This is to support the economic community. I will make a list of articles using the [[outline]] feature. That seems like the best idea. Geni, i see what you mean. I'm not correct to call it the periodic table of economics (no periods involved in my model). I have somebody from the World Bank helping me out on this project also. He said he would do the article for the Bahamas, Haiti and Bolivia. Another student said he would work on Greece. I am have this project listed for volunteers at the London School of Economics. I also contacted the newly created Volcker Alliance. They have not gotten back to me. Once I finish the top ten economies I'm going to print them all out and send it in the mail to the Economist. I will do this project alone, but it would be nice to have some volunteers. On 19 June 2013 01:29, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: