Research:Mapping Wikipedia in the Middle East and North Africa/Geography
The primary geography of the project is at three levels, regional, national (broadly construed) and sub-national. Additional geographic entities for study include demographics of language, age and technology. The areas of interest will in certain cases be compared with control data from other areas and regions, and the geo-tagged dataset as a whole.
Areas of interest
[edit]Current areas of interest are the following territories:
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Morocco
- Oman
- Palestinian Territories
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- Tunisia
- UAE
- Yemen
- Sudan
- Western Sahara
- South Sudan
- Comoros
- Burundi
- Rwanda
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Djibouti
- Mauritania
- Somalia
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
Geoextract script
[edit]Extract script currently being completed, will be available from public sources.
Maps
[edit]Many maps will be created as a part of this project, and will be released under CC licenses. Typical examples include the following.
Statistics
[edit]Source code
[edit]Additional assets, where it is reasonable to do so, will be made publicly available under suitable free licenses. These will probably include:
- Database schema
- SQL queries
- Ancillary data
- Source code to transfer data between database and GIS