Hi Jane! I don’t have firsthand experience with this, but it looks like the Commons has templates to translate country names from English into whatever language the user has set — for example, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:India
There’s also a template for displaying a country’s flag, but that doesn’t appear to convert among languages: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Flag Hope that helps! cheers, Gaurav > On 30 Jan 2017, at 3:16 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for reviving an old thread, but yesterday I was working on adding the > World Bank numbers for maternal mortality and was wondering if I could add > the data to the new tabular data on Commons. I am not sure if it's possible > to make the data points multi-lingual (the way the list of countries in > Wikidata are multi-lingual). The page with the numbers is here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_Mortality_Ratio > I do think we should have these lists on Wikipedia, if only for the Millenium > Development Goals: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MDGs.svg > > If the tabular data resides on Commons then the chance of it getting updated > promptly each year is much more likely, I think. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Yair Rand <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Help needed: a project to pull data from the World > Bank > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <[email protected]> > > > Just skimming through the list of World Bank data, it looks like most of this > would require unit support for quantity properties, which is not yet > available. (See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77977 . Unit support is > currently listed in the development plan right after access for remaining > sister projects and arbitrary access, so I would assume it's not that far > off.) Until this is ready, we can't add any data that is measured in square > kilometers, dollars, kilowatt hours, metric tons, hectares, kilograms, years, > etc. > > Of the rest of the data, much of it seems to be too specific for how data is > normally entered, and some might be difficult to reasonably add simply due to > the limited number of statements the software appears to be able to handle > atm. > > That leaves things like total population, urban/rural populations, mortality > rates, battle-related deaths (though we might want to first find out how a > negative number of people died in Syria two years ago... (?)), migration, > trademark applications, and many others. > > (None of this actually answers your request, but I just wanted to point out > the current limitations.) > > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Sylvia Ventura <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi, > > I work in the Strategic Partnerships team at the Wikimedia Foundation, and > I'm in initial conversations with the World Bank and several other large NGOs > about using their open data sets in our projects. > > The World Bank maintains a large data set of statistics on countries, and is > ready to start a pilot test with us. They suggested us to look for a sample > of specific indicators that are missing in Wikidata/Wikipedia that could > either be linked to or imported into Wikidata. Examples could go from basic > indicators like population to more specific data like “% of country's > population with access to water”. > > 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 > > This is what is available today: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/all > > I also welcome your advice starting this project following community > processes and standards. Could > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Economics serve as a > starting point? > > Thank you and happy Hackathon for those in Lyon! > Sylvia > > -- > Sylvia Ventura > Strategic Partnerships > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
