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This cross-country use case is one where the registry can be used to update several country entries on wikidata at once and auto-generate specific parts of wikipedia pages and a list of entries page.
Title: Wikipedia reader/editor of a "Water and sanitation in country X" is able to access and edit information about the lead ministry / institution of each country.
Story: PART 1: The user visits the page and clicks through to read about the individual entities/stakeholders/groups in country X to find more information. PART 2: Changes to the initial page on "Country X" or in the lead institution webpage will trigger a moderation of public WASH Web data sources.
Primary actor: Wikipedia reader/editor interested / from the country X. The moderator/owner of secondary public WASH data sources.
Goal in context: To find quality public information about WASH stakeholders in Country X in line with Wikipedia guidelines.
Scope: Wikipedia, wikidata
Level:
Stakeholders and Interests: The key stakeholders are the wikipedia reader/editor, the template developer, the WASH Web registry or other public WASH data sources and wikidata community to manage the list of entities. GLAAS may be interested.
Pre-conditions: Data on stakeholders (entities) in the WASH Web registry and reflected in the Wikidata; template on wikipedia pulling information from wikidata; some initial wikipedia content should have been written already or be written in preparation.
Minimal guarantees: The web page is visited by readers.
Success guarantees: The web page is visited. There are updates by other wikipedia users to the web page. There is a working flow between edits on the page and updated entries in wikidata/WASH Web so that changes to information can be moderated and the database kept up to date.
Preconditions: Support of the wikidata community and an organization from country X to write and validate content on wikipedia and in the WASH Web registry. A way to track users and statistics to validate the success of the test country.
Triggers: Visiting WASH in country X page
Basic flow:
- Mapping public GLAAS data to wikidata (names of institutions/ministries responsible for water and sanitation
- Mapping those entities to wikipedia pages that exist
- User visits country page
- Template on country page generates information for the user stored in wikidata with country statistics / data from GLAAS data and or updates by users on wikidata
- Link generated in template to entity page (even if it does not exist, then suggest it to be added)
Further explanation
This cross-country use case is one where the registry can be used to update several country entries on wikidata at once and auto-generate specific parts of wikipedia pages and a list of entries page.
Alternative: The same information can be data that can be used on individual Water and Sanitation for a country page in the English info boxes with an update to the info box template.
The idea will be to see how we can add information for the Ministry responsible for Water Supply and ensure that we have it linked to the correct existing wiki pages and wikidata entries if they exist. If they do not, we will add the relevant information derived from GLAAS and contained in the WASH Web organization registry. There is GLAAS data for several years so we will also have information to link prior ministries to new ones and be able to show that in a country wiki page.
The first page may be a list of water ministries modeled after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_health_departments_and_ministries
Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_minister
Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Water_Resources
See search results: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&ns0=1&search=intitle%3Awater+intitle%3Aminister&advancedSearch-current={%22fields%22:{%22plain%22:[%22intitle:water%22,%22intitle:minister%22]}}
Learn more at https://github.com/WASHNote/WASHWeb.