At Wikimenia (the Wikipedia Conference) the Canadian weather service presented a nice project where they put their weather station data on the #wikicommons as tables (not used much) and station meta data into #WikiData.
With this information a template for Wikipedia then automatically generates up to date information on the climate at a certain station, which can be added to the Wikipedia page of nearly cities.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxUvXl7R9g
Short description:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Submissions/100_years_of_Weather_Observations_from_the_Meteorological_Service_of_Canada_in_Wikimedia_Commons
They are looking for other weather services to join them. I just wrote the German Weather Service. #DWD
The weather station information in #WikiData has IDs from the World Meteorological Organization. So it should be possible to add a link in WikiData to the official WMO metadata database OSCAR. https://community.wmo.int/oscar
Next step would the be #WMO including data from WikiData into OSCAR. Then volunteers could help make the data more complete, for example, add coordinates and photos.
Environment Canada is adding their weather station data to the #WikiCommons and calls on other weather services to do the same.
They have a #Wikipedia Template that then automatically generates up-to-date climate tables to Wikipedia.
A remaining problem is that these "templates" have to be coded new for every language. The rest of the Wikipedia User Interface can do internationalization and be translated by TranslateWiki, but somehow the templates not yet. https://translatewiki.net
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