Wikidata talk:WikiProject Weather observations/en

Hi, I would like to bring your attention to a proposal for a WikiProject Weather, to organize all weather articles under a single project umbrella. There are many areas that Wikipedia has missed, maybe because it was a long time ago, or it is in a country that doesn't speak English. Also, given climate denialism, we believe it is important to establish a Worldwide Weather Database. Google already uses Wikipedia's infoboxes for their search results, and Alexa often uses Wikipedia (partly because it's more accurate, partly because of how comprehensive it is). I'm not exactly sure the best way to implement it, but we believe that WikiData, and the proposed Abstract Wikipedia, could be a part of this endeavor.

As part of uniting all weather articles, each event would be tagged with categories such as location, date, fatalities, injuries, damage total, and weather event - all the basic stuff we usually include in infoboxes. The international disasters database - [1] - already kinda does this, but not everyone knows to look there. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is known as an institution at this point.

Thanks for your time reading this. Any thoughts and feedback would be appreciated. If this proposal is in the wrong place, please feel free to direct me to the correct location. Thanks a lot.Jason Rees (talk) 20:59, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my comment in project chat related to this topic. Dirac (talk) 02:40, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A bit late the this conversation. I think there is a need for a centralized database for climate data in the WMF environment (a good example being that each language Wikipedia has to manually input the data to generate visualization for its climate infobox, likewise for each Wikivoyage languages). This is rather redundant effort that these infoboxes should be generated from a single source hosted on either Commons or Wikidata. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 21:07, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]