An Australian sport wiki
I’m currently toying around with the idea of creating a large Australian sport wiki. I’ve had a lot of data for a while to allow me to do this. Some of the data I have includes:
- A list of Australian sport teams. List is about 3,000 teams long. It often contains some other information like when teams were founded, team colors, etc. This can be combined with a list of Australian sport teams on Twitter and Facebook.
- A list of Australian sport venues. This can be merged with a list of Australian sport venues on Gowalla and Foursquare.
- A list of Australian athletes on Twitter and Facebook. This is probably about 100 large.
- A list of Australian sport organizations on Twitter and Facebook. This is probably about 50 large.
- A list of Australian sport fans on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and its clones, bebo, orkut, Wikipedia. This list is probably close to about 20,000 long.
This data could easily be supplemented with the following information that would be easily mineable:
- A list of AFL, NRL and other Australian professional athletes sorted by team.
- A list of other Australian athletes.
- A list of Australian sport organizations.
- A list of Australian sport journalists and broadcasters.
- A list of Australian sport websites.
This list could be further supplemented by:
- Importing Australian sport pictures from Flickr.
- Importing Australian sport videos from YouTube.
The quality of the wiki wouldn’t necessarily be all that high. Most of the initial content would be stub. Still, if I had a bot programmer and I was willing to devote a month to the project, it would be reasonably comprehensive in terms of initial content for others to use to build from. It would possibly help in terms of developing a large idea of the scope of sport in Australia by giving an idea as to the size of the fan community, the depth of the interest in various sports, the number of teams, when those teams were created and folded, where sports are more popular than others. (Though that all depends on the data mining that goes into the initial content.) What keeps me from doing this is the fact that I feel like it might be a time sink of a month to create this content and I’m not sure if the time sink is worth the effort. Basically, I need external motivation.