Hoi,
I have added the minimal I have to do for Mozambique [1]. They are three
Listeria lists and consequently they will update. I do work on the data but
my objective is not to complete them all. I add the relation to the higher
level "administrative and territorial entity". To do this I often add new
ones and change items that are a combination of two levels (eg a town and
an entity). These are different, require different statements.
What I also do is copy these queries to Wikipedias. I do that when I do
that. Now I am working on the Zulu Wikipedia so the Yoruba and other
Wikipedias have to wait.
My wish is for people to notice this work, contribute to it and use the
result in templates. In the Celtic Knot conference, at the recent
Wikimania, presentations were made how information can be provided from
Wikidata using infoboxes that require little expertise and work. When a
small Wikipedia does not have basic information like the places where
people were born or died, that information has to be available from
something different from articles. When it is not possible to link, the
article will quickly become rather empty.
There is an ongoing discussion to update the Incubator project by providing
them with wikis. Supporting them with data is something I have advocated
for years. Particularly Africa has not been treated equally, the
information / data gap is huge. Have a look at this as well when you care
for Mozambique [2].
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
On 27 July 2018 at 00:25, Paulo Santos Perneta <paulosperneta(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi
Yaroslav ,
I'm working with Mozambique as well. I've been thinking about adding all
those divisions to Wikidata, and then generating the Wikipédia articles
from that info (not "live", though, just copying the information). I
believe it would be much quicker, and would fill and correct Wikidata
entries on the way.
If you are interested in using something like that, please drop me a note.
All the best,
Paulo
2018-07-26 17:25 GMT+01:00 Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi Gerard,
when you come to Mozambique, pls let me know, there are reliable sources
down to the third level administrative divisions. For example, the two
sources present in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzi_District
are available for every district (though I so far only added about half
of
them to the English Wikipedia articles).
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
I do blog and tweet using #AfricaGap.. At this time I am adding
countries
> and their "administrative and territorial entities" in Wikidata. In
many
a
Wikipedia, they want to have "human
settlements" linked to the lowest
level
> and these to every time a higher level.
>
> What I do is add more and more countries. The information is
incomplete.
It
> takes a lot of people and a lot of time to get this done. To gain
> participation, I add Listeria list to a set of Wikipedias. I work on
> cleaning up the data but there is much to be done. One of the benefits
of
the
Listeria lists for me is that I notice any and all activity. After
Wikimania there was a spike, thanks to some bot work.
What I have noticed is that information on Wikipedias did not keep up
with
changes that rearanged these
"territories". Consequently start and end
dates are missing on many items. For me, the current situation is most
relevant and historic "territories" are not really considered by me.
You find what I am working on here [1]. You will find much of the same
data
> on several (African language) Wikipedias.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> [1]
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM/Africa#African_
> geographical_subdivisions
>
> On 26 July 2018 at 12:33, KuboF Hromoslav <kubof.hromoslav(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Great idea Romaine!
> >
> > I am now working on Esperanto Wikivoyage (in Incubator), mostly to
make
> it
> > fully working. Now I am finishing Europe and immediately after that I
> will
> > focus on Africa (not only for the Africagap and to help our
colleagues
but
> also to support tourism and facilitate meetings in Africa).
>
> See you online!
> KuboF Hromoslav
>
>
> po 23. 7. 2018 o 20:25 Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>
napísal(a):
>
> > The official part of Wikimania is over, this does not prevent
ourselves
> > > from celebrating Africa's first Wikimania online, in more
particular:
> > > writing Wikipedia articles.
> > >
> > > Africa is under represented in Wikipedia, by writing about it we
both
> > > celebrate our great conference as
well as we work on solving the
> > Africagap
> > >
> > > With some Dutchies we started the idea of having a list of like
10-20
> >
articles of subjects from Cape Town and surrounding area. For
example:
> > >
> > >
> > > Well-known park in Cape Town:
> > >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%27s_Garden
> > >
> > > The often referred to Dassie:
> > >
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323847
> > >
> > > Input needed!
> > >
> > > Romaine
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