"Ian" rsvr4cqdon001@sneakemail.com writes:
The idea of giving Wikipedia some database capablities is a good (if not high priority) one, but the CIA does not need another mirror.
The idea is not to mirror them, but use them as a start for our own pages. Some of the "facts" (land area, highest elevation) would be missing in any serious encyclopedic article about a country, but typing them in from a book would be quite boring.
On the other hand, the factbook offers only a sketch. Expanding on that is the real goal, and a worthy one at that (in contrast to copying the dry numbers).