Grants talk:IdeaLab/Global Economic Map

This is monumental and world changing

This is a really big idea and would have an impact on politics and society.

There is a lack of transparency in reporting economic data. In a lot of cases, this data is public, published, and intended for the public and researchers, but difficult to access. Putting fundamental economic data into Wikipedia articles of every language would greatly increase everyone's access to this data. Easy public access to this data is necessary for people to be good citizens, as having access to this data is a prerequisite to understanding fiscal policy and would guide policy making, community participation in political discourse, and help sharpen the demands that people made of their government representatives.

It would not be unreasonable to set up some kind of economic infobox, translate it into every language, then take databases of economic figures stored in Wikidata and propagate these values into every Wikipedia article for a given country in every language. An example of simple calculations that voters with no training might be able to do because of this is look at the change in a country's reported debt over a period of time - this is something which politicians often do not discuss, but which people need to know.

I would like to see solid planning for rolling out datasets from Wikidata into Wikipedia's article mainspace and because figures from the World Bank and United Nations are already put through international diplomatic scrutiny, getting such data which already has passed multiculturally sensitive review would make this proposal an ideal test for a pilot big Wikidata expansion project.

And actually - even thought the impact of this project would be big - its implementation and setup need not be. It could start with even a single value rolled out, like just the GDP for every country. If that works, then the process could be replicated for any values the community wanted displayed.

This project seems big to me - I can imagine a future in which everyone everywhere uses this as part of their participation in citizen government by voting, writing representatives, and thinking about their place in the economy. Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:48, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Data browser

I see that you guys thought about starting a new sister project at some point around this. If the goal of another project outside of Wikidata (to house the stats) and Wikipedia (to show the stats within articles) was simply to have a better way to side-by-side comparison browse this type of data, you might check out Miga. It is a MediaWiki data browser project that we funded with an Individual Engagement Grant this year, and it has some cool capabilities for creating apps and such to display structured data. Cheers! Siko (WMF) (talk) 03:05, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Maps - Data biding

Currently, the best example is : http://gunnmap.herokuapp.com

Soon, some interesting stuff may come from wikimaps project : Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas , which plan to generate well coded SVG for all the world.

Note: I'am in Paris, if you happen to come over, and *may* travel to London, Bruxel, Amsterdam, Berlin once a year. Yug (talk) 17:29, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

D3js & NYTimes' Mike Bostock

Mike Bostock is a data visualisation scientist working at the NYTimes loves to design interesting maps from reliable data. It's actually its job. It may be interesting that you gather all the resources, and to just notice him the data is available. Entities such the NYT may be interested to get the map making job done, and may do it in an very elegant way. See: https://twitter.com/mbostock Yug (talk) 18:39, 19 October 2013 (UTC)