Usor:Riccardov/diocese

Ave vicipaediani (I am lat-1 ;) ),

Massimo Macconi asked me if I can repeat for latin wikipedia the upload of catholic diocese, and I am glad to help; so I ask you if it is ok for you to upload 3000~ catholic diocese stubs

I can generate the diocese articles processing data from

• data source: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/

the data that I can obtain from that site resemble this

• partially processed data example: here

I am writing a Java program to parse that data and obtain a latin wikipedia article (this will take some time from myself... obviously any Java + XML help (and an SVN to share code...) will be very much appreciated, every error corrected before upload is an error less to fix after.

In the italian wikipedia, as part of it:Progetto:Diocesi, every diocese was uploaded to wikipedia

• not-revised-by-human pages can be found in it:Categoria:Diocesi_da_controllare
• a diocese sample is it:Diocesi di León en Nicaragua
• in every page we put a table using the template it:Template:Diocesi della chiesa cattolica, similar to the table that can be found here

for every currently existing diocese (in the optimal case, some information can be missing) I can obtain:

1. the full latin diocese name
2. the city or cities of the see
3. the diocese category (diocese, archdiocese, eparchy, territorial prelature ...)
4. the diocese ierarchical category (suffragan, immediatly subject to Holy see, metropolitan)
   1. if suffragan, the name of the metropolitan diocese
   2. if metropolitan, the name of suffragans diocese
5. the personal name and title (bishop, prelate, archbishop, ...) of the current ordinary; or if diocese is vacant
6. personal names and titles of every emeritus or auxiliary bishop
7. the State (Italy, France, ...)
8. the ecclesiastical region
9. the rite (roman, armenian, ...)
10. Square Kilometers, Mailing Address, Telephone, Fax, website
11. a link to the originating site www.catholic-hierarchy.org
12. the list of every available past ordinary, with:
    1. personal name
    2. whether if venerable, blessed, saint
    3. the religious order (if applicable)
    4. the date in which he was appointed bishop
    5. the date in which he left the diocese, and why (died, resigned appointed in an other diocese <diocese name>, elected pope, ...)
13. a summary of diocese historical events:
    1. date of erection and original name
    2. any name change, with previous and new name
    3. territory split
    4. join with other dioceses
14. statistical information for a number of years after 1950:
    1. number of baptized catholic
    2. total population
    3. number of diocesan and religious priests
    4. number of male and female religious
    5. number of deacons
    6. number of parishes
    7. statistical data source (mainly the pontificial annuary)
15. of course every information that can be easily derived from these, like for example the name of the corresponding diocese in it.wiki, the years of vacancy if vacant, the catholics/population proportion, ...

a template table (like the one here) can be easily created and populated with available data, and many links can be automatically generated (links to the State page), while others can require manual intervention (the city link, to be translated into latin); a basic categorization (by state, ...) can be generated.

A basic text content can be generated from this data (look at italian diocese in this category)), I will need some help with latin of course...

Obviously a number of to_be_manually_fixed problems will surely arise after the upload (even if some would be fixable with bots); it is the hardest part of the upload work that, luckily, can be done by everyone.

I can provide you an article preview (to be discussed) in a pair of weeks, in the meantime... is it ok for you and do you have any question? --Riccardov 21:38, 28 Augusti 2007 (UTC)