Hello Lars, I found in my database 59.153 swedish articles[1] that could get coordinates from other wikipedias by interwikilinks. Compared with your number I see a potential of nearly 100%. In german Wikipedia we have 200.000 coordinates at 1.2 mio articles, this are nearly 20%. So there is a potential! (Also if such statistics are not 100% correct.)
For a success story you can ask user Otourly from fr.wp [2]. We had a talk[3] and it seems he use a bot[4] to copy coordinates from other wikis to french. They should have the know-how to tell you how to transfer the coordinates. Greetings Tim Alder alias Kolossos [1] Select count(*) from (Select distinct "T_sv" from "pub_C_geo_id" where "T_sv" is not NULL) as T [2]http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Otourly [3]http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Kolossos#Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung.2FWikipedia-World.2Fnews_2 [4]http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Geobot Am 30.07.2011 09:29, schrieb Lars Aronsson: > What different projects and success stories do we have for > adding geographic coordinates to existing articles in > various languages of Wikipedia? In some languages there > are WikiProjects, but I think they were more active some > years ago. > > I tried to count now, and I think the Swedish language > Wikipedia has 32,600 geographic coordinates for its 404,000 > articles or one coordinate per 12.4 articles. Is that > reasonable or is it far below the average? > > I need a success story to learn from. > > _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
