koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com writes:

the [[/Government]] pages are the only ones that obsolesce quickly. The rest (People, Communications, Military, Transportation, Economy, History)--barring catastrophes or other newsworthy events that people would really think of adding anyway--are fairly static.

Indeed.

Maybe we could just come up with a script to update the Government each year? (I can think of a few that are past due right now) ;-)

Failing that, Wikipedians just need to train their habits: If you read about a election in the papers (in your country, or anywhere), that should immediately beg the question: has Wikipedia been updated yet?

On Friday 09 November 2001 08:03, you wrote:

the [[/Government]] pages are the only ones that obsolesce quickly. The rest (People, Communications, Military, Transportation, Economy, History)--barring catastrophes or other newsworthy events that people would really think of adding anyway--are fairly static. Maybe we could just come up with a script to update the Government each year?

But I spent quite some time wikifying [[South Africa/Government]] and if some damn script comes and wipes that out, I'll start an edit war with it! <g>

Perhaps each country could have two sections - one for the latest raw CIA data and another properly mantained by wikipedians. Of course, then we might as well use an external link straight to the CIA site for the first one.