.tab files are starting to be added to Commons and used in graphs and in other ways in Wikipedia e.g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/OurWorld
However this work does not show up in metrics tools like BaGLAMa 2 and others because currently .tab files cannot be added to categories. This inability to provide metrics on use of content is restricting people's ability to work with potential partners who hold data to convince them to make it available under an open license
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T242596 Allow .tab and .map files to be added to categories | |||
| Open | None | T155290 Add a data-page-only wiki markup header to datasets | |||
| Open | None | T154012 Disable or customize "HotCats" category picker in Data namespace | |||
| Resolved | John_Cummings | T215872 Create documentation for using map data on Wikimedia projects | |||
| Open | None | T235332 Add SDC data slot to pages in the Commons data: namespace |
Thanks John. Agree this will be important down the road. We have more than 3,000 data sets at OWID. So the impact they are having will be a good metric for us gaining further tech support to improve our visualizations.
As an example of how this feature would be useful on Wikimedia wikis, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tabular_data_of_COVID-19_cases is populated entirely by pages in the Data talk: namespace because it isn’t possible to add the data tables directly to the category.