[Wikipedia-l] CIA World Factbook

[Michel Clasquin]

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.

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