On 22 May 2015 at 22:08, Sylvia Ventura sventura@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm looking for technical help to work with our contacts at the World Bank. For instance, what is the best way to:
*compare the World Bank's indicators with Wikidata's properties, and see what are we missing today that would be interesting to collect, either in Wikidata or directly through templates in Wikipedia
**pull/connect that content from the World Bank into our servers
It seems to me that the biggest single useful thing the WB (and any other open data publisher) could do would be to include Wikidata IDs (as URIs) in its linked data. For instance, if it refers to "Qatar", it should do so with the URI "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q846"; if it refers to "cotton", it should use "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11457".
It should always use the most precise URI available, and it should provide a feedback mechanism for errors to be reported.
If it publishes tables or lists of its own identifiers, it should include Wikidata equivalences; and we should work with them to map them in Wikdiata and to fill any gaps. If it uses third-parties' identifiers, it should encourage those third parties to do likewise.