Wikidata:Wiki Loves Open Data/World Bank
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The World Bank (Q7164) provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. World Bank Open Data is a free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
Yair rand has started to investigate the possibility of importing data from the World Bank and has a proof of concept. More recently, the Strategic Parternships team at the Wikimedia Foundation has established contact with the World Bank.
Data[edit]
See http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/all for a list of all indicators available in the World Bank database.
Intent[edit]
The World Bank maintains a large data set of indicators on countries and is considering a pilot program with Wikimedia/Wikidata where select individuals from the World Bank Data team would be trained and helped to import some data sets into Wikidata, and curate that information over time.
These are the topics identified as "of high interest" by Wikipedia editors
Agriculture
- Agriculture: Lifestock
- Agriculture: Crops
- Agriculture: Fisheries
- Agriculture: Economy-based
Water
- Water: Sanitation
- Water: Agriculture
- Water: Access
Projects[edit]
- Importing "Population, total" numbers. Partly done by Yair rand (talk),
On hold, due to licensing issues and other content issues. - Importing Land Area data. Awaiting unit support.
Known issues[edit]
Licensing[edit]
World Bank data is licensed under a license similar to CC-BY, which is incompatible with Wikidata licensing, which is under CC-0.
- Unfortunately, after trying for the past two months to solve the Licensing issue with the WorldBank's team, we have not been able to get the CC0 status. All the Data on the the WB site is available under CC BY SA, including their latest World Bank Indicators which are updated quarterly. SVentura (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Other unresolved issues[edit]
- What should the references look like?
- The margins of error are not clearly indicated in the World Bank data, but some of the numbers are clearly rounded to the nearest hundred or thousand. How should we determine which data points have which error margins?
- Certain figures in the data (for example, population) use countries' current borders for historical statistics. For example, all populations statistics for {{Q|1049}} are of the populations within its current borders, including statistics for years when it still included all of {{Q|958}}. These statements could be considered factually incorrect as a result. (Furthermore, some countries have statistics listed since far earlier than the states were established.) How should these points be handled?
Notes[edit]
- Items in the databank labelled "Denmark" and "Netherlands" refer to Denmark (Q35) and the Netherlands (Q55), respectively, and not Kingdom of Denmark (Q756617) and Kingdom of the Netherlands (Q29999) despite what their metadata might indicate.
- It is important to take note of extra qualifiers indicated in the metadata. For example, all statements about People's Republic of China (Q148) are specifically excluding (P1011) Hong Kong (Q8646), Macau (Q14773), and Taiwan (Q57251), which must be added as qualifiers to the statements.
Name - Qid dictionary[edit]
Commented here:
Contacts[edit]
- Tariq Khokhar, World Bank Data Scientist