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TASK DESCRIPTION
  Wikidata can be a great provider of lists of entities based on queries. Some 
lists are used again and again but it can be a bit hard to get them from 
Wikidata. We can regularly run queries and provide CSV downloads of generally 
useful lists of entities.
  
  The lists that could be useful:
  
  - countries and capitals
  - timezones
  - airports
  - languages
  - units
  - ...
  
  What would need to happen:
  
  - open a repository on the Wikidata github org <https://github.com/Wikidata>
  - define the SPARQL query for the required list in a file in the repository
  - run the query, generate a result CSV and upload it to the repository
  - automate the above to regularly update the result CSV
  - publicize that this is available
  
  Why would this be useful?
  
  - It'd encourage more streamlined modeling for the Items in these lists.
  - It'd further position Wikidata as a provider of standard sets of entities.
  - It'd make it easier to spot changes in the data similar to what happens 
with Listeria.
  - It'd encourage discussion around sharpening the definitions of concepts 
like "country"

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329368

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To: Lydia_Pintscher
Cc: Aklapper, Lydia_Pintscher, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, 
maantietaja, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, 
QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, 
Mbch331
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