Thank you Strainu and Bartosz, this was very useful.
As far as I can tell, idwiki editors simply don't use the GeoData geotagging conventions. Instead, people specify article location as infobox latd/longd properties, which on enwiki (and likely others) is being deprecated in favour of GeoData tags. While this older method allows a map to be displayed on the page, the coordinates are not imported by the GeoData extension, and as a result none of these geotagged pages show up in API geo lookups, or in the data dumps.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coordinates_in_infoboxes
I'm now pondering if there's a quick way to asses for which wikis this is the case... I may report back if I find a simple approach, beyond simply manually checking every wiki.
Thanks again!
m. On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:31 PM Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
The coordinates template/module needs to use the {{#coordinates:…}} parser function for the page to be geotagged.
-- Bartosz Dziewoński
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