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

Current areas of interest are the following territories:

1. Algeria
2. Bahrain
3. Egypt
4. Iran
5. Iraq
6. Israel
7. Jordan
8. Kuwait
9. Lebanon
10. Libya
11. Morocco
12. Oman
13. Palestinian Territories
14. Qatar
15. Saudi Arabia
16. Syria
17. Tunisia
18. UAE
19. Yemen
20. Sudan
21. Western Sahara
22. South Sudan
23. Comoros
24. Burundi
25. Rwanda
26. Kenya
27. Tanzania
28. Uganda
29. Djibouti
30. Mauritania
31. Somalia
32. Eritrea
33. Ethiopia

Geoextract script

Extract script currently being completed, will be available from public sources.

• https://github.com/oxfordinternetinstitute/Wikiproject

Maps

Many maps will be created as a part of this project, and will be released under CC licenses. Typical examples include the following.

• File:Ar level1 total.png
• File:Ar level1 area.png

Source code

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