- Catalog
- Data
On May 9 the atlas gained a second axis: about 200 country pages, each divided into the peoples who live there, from cited census and genetics sources. Each country page carries its flag and a globe showing where it sits.
Group pages now point the other way. Each links its homeland to the matching country page and carries a diaspora table of every country whose breakdown includes that people, ordered by its share of the population.
On May 13 the catalog took on Wikidata IDs for 482 groups. Each group page now states what it is about in the same identifiers Wikipedia and Wikidata use, and the catalog reads as a set of connected entities.
Under the hood
- Countries are identified by ISO 3166-1 two-letter code. Each holds a versioned composition: weighted links to its peoples, where every weight names its source.
- Content is authored as one structured file per country, validated against a schema on load, and a country's composition is replaced in a single transaction so it is never half-updated.
- The diaspora table is the same composition data read in reverse: a single lookup by people returns every country that lists it.
- Homeland text resolves to country pages in stages: a direct match, an alias table (Swaziland to Eswatini, Burma to Myanmar), then a qualifier strip so that Northern Mali resolves to Mali. A link appears when the country page exists.
- Each group page types itself as an instance of Wikidata's ethnic-group concept, carries its Wikipedia and Wikidata identifiers, and names its diaspora countries and same-region sibling groups as linked entities.
- country pages
- ~200
- groups with Wikidata IDs
- 482
Peoples in this entry
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Sources and open data
Related build notes
- May 5, 2026The phenotype catalog goes open on Hugging FaceAll 484 groups, each with an original profile of 300 to 450 words, published as an open CC BY 4.0 dataset one load_dataset() call away.
- Jul 26, 2026A new way through the catalog: browse by language familyEleven language-family hubs plus Bantu, Nilotic and Polynesian branch pages, and the open phenotype dataset rebuilt from 484 to 1,779 groups.
- Aug 7, 2026The catalog's notable people grow from 13,094 to 23,034A Wikipedia backfill adds 9,792 notable people and lifts covered groups from 292 to 453. Three days later, 15,228 rows carry a photo link.