Happy Presidents Day.
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@openfactbook @sunflowerinrain The United Kingdom has more than just English as a language. Official languages include Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Scots Gaelic. English is the defacto language.
@cyberspice
You're right - we were only showing "English" without the recognized regional languages (it was in the notes of our data). Just pushed a fix: the Languages section now displays the full note from our source data, including Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish, and Cornish with their speaker estimates. (Will be shown in the Language below Quick Facts) -
@cyberspice
You're right - we were only showing "English" without the recognized regional languages (it was in the notes of our data). Just pushed a fix: the Languages section now displays the full note from our source data, including Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish, and Cornish with their speaker estimates. (Will be shown in the Language below Quick Facts)@openfactbook @cyberspice
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Happy Presidents Day.
Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons
Public data should stay public.
#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue@openfactbook some of the people who taught me about the CIA World Factbook also taught me about the strategic importance of the United States’ soft power, project through this and other outwardly altruistic endeavors such as USAID.
One would wish the people now in charge would have learned those lessons, if not the humanist ones.
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Happy Presidents Day.
Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons
Public data should stay public.
#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue@openfactbook @jcdvore I just hope that someone is overseeing any edits. It would be tragic if it were filled with inaccurate information by people with an agenda to mislead.
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@cyberspice
You're right - we were only showing "English" without the recognized regional languages (it was in the notes of our data). Just pushed a fix: the Languages section now displays the full note from our source data, including Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish, and Cornish with their speaker estimates. (Will be shown in the Language below Quick Facts)@openfactbook Diolch yn fawr!
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