Thank you Strainu and Bartosz, this was very useful.

As far as I can tell, idwiki editors simply don't use the GeoData
geotagging conventions. Instead, people specify article location as
infobox latd/longd properties, which on enwiki (and likely others) is
being deprecated in favour of GeoData tags. While this older method
allows a map to be displayed on the page, the coordinates are not
imported by the GeoData extension, and as a result none of these
geotagged pages show up in API geo lookups, or in the data dumps.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coordinates_in_infoboxes

I'm now pondering if there's a quick way to asses for which wikis this
is the case... I may report back if I find a simple approach, beyond
simply manually checking every wiki.

Thanks again!

m.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:31 PM Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The coordinates template/module needs to use the {{#coordinates:…}}
> parser function for the page to be geotagged.
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