Allow dependent countries / show country status

[tmfrnz]

This is to allow expressing country dependencies, eg

• The Marshall Islands: Sovereign state in free association with the United States
• Wallis & Futuna: Semi-autonomous collectivity of France
• The Cook Islands: Associated state of New Zealand
• Tokelau: Dependent territory of New Zealand

[tmfrnz]

@annemariebrook I have set up the new country file (v3) with 2 new columns as discussed:

• country_status: one of the country statuses (yet to be determined, leave blank for sovereign state)
• related_country_code the related sovereign country

Alternatively, for a more simple solution we could simply include the sovereign country in brackets, as we are actually already doing elsewhere (eg VIR (es), HKG (es), the latter being changed to use brackets as per #101).

To keep it short and allow using those names in titles and in the narrative this would mean we would lose the exact status though, ie

• The Marshall Islands (US)
• Wallis & Futuna (FR)
• The Cook Islands (NZ)
• Tokelau (NZ)

By the way I noticed that 'China' as the sovereign country for Hong Kong and Macao has only been specified for the translations (ES, FR, PT) but not for the English language

[tmfrnz]

@annemariebrook if you do want to go with the original option (full status and sovereign), it would be great if you could provide me with a list of statuses - thanks!

[annemariebrook]

Hi @tmfrnz. For now we would like to list "Status" as a field ONLY for non-independent countries. e.g. the territories that we are adding in the Pacific. We are just double-checking that we have the list of statuses correct for those territories and will pass it on when the checking is complete, and send it to translation at the same time. For now we do not want to show the status field for regular countries, nor list the dependent territories on e.g. the NZ or US page. (this is just to keep things simple as there is such a range of degrees of independence we don't want to get caught up in the complications of it). Does that sound OK?

[annemariebrook]

I could send you the draft list of statuses sooner, if that would be helpful for setting it up. Hopefully there won't be any changes, but we wanted to double check we have it right, with people in each country/territory.

[tmfrnz]

@annemariebrook sounds good (listing status only for non-independent countries)

And yes, please feel free to send the draft list of statuses sooner (or include here), if you can, just so I can check if and how well it aligns with my current understanding.

While at it, it might be good to review any other non-independent countries that we already have in the database, eg Hong Kong, Macau, Virgin Islands, New Caledonia, St Martin, etc, and make naming consistent across languages.

Thanks!

[tmfrnz]

@annemariebrook just to confirm that this is the list of preferred country statuses https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k35Jvtmh3mwS5ndIX2Otl2kqPsetrEvR8EUl3okKKOI/edit?usp=sharing Thanks

[annemariebrook]

yes - thank you.

[annemariebrook]

@tmfrnz i just checked this, and noticed that there is a mistake for Palau, which stems from the list of country statuses in the google sheet. It says: "Associated state of New Zealand". It should say "Associated state of the United States".

Can you please fix this? I tried to edit the google doc, but don't have edit access. Do you? Thanks!

In the meantime, I will send the google doc to Sarah so these terms can be translated.

[tmfrnz]

@annemariebrook I just fixed this in our data repository

countries table: https://github.com/HumanRightsMeasurementInitiative/hrmi-dataportal-data/blob/master/data/countries_v3.csv#L154

commit: https://github.com/HumanRightsMeasurementInitiative/hrmi-dataportal-data/commit/b510334a40d62c96ceafeb59b342ee159d2b2b8a

[annemariebrook]

Thank you!

[annemariebrook]

@tmfrnz, I received the email copied below from @sarahbichan. Can you please advise if she has entered the translations for the country statuses correctly, or if they should be entered somewhere else? Also, can you please re-provide the link to the development site where the statuses were available. I'm hoping we can launch this feature ASAP thanks very much both, A-M

For the country statuses with territories in the Pacific, the translations are now back. The fields in v3.1 in EN are: "hrmi.status.unincorporated": "Unincorporated territory", "hrmi.status.associated": "Associated state", "hrmi.status.collectivity_overseas": "Overseas collectivity", "hrmi.status.collectivity_special": "Special collectivity", "hrmi.status.selfgoverning": "Self-governing in free association", "hrmi.status.nonselfgoverning": "Non-self-governing territory", "hrmi.status.commonwealth_politicalunion": "Commonwealth in political union",

I have entered the translations in 3.1. I assume that these fields combine with others to create the actual phrases you sent me. E.g. "Unincorporated territory of the United States" or "Special collectivity of France" as there weren't any fields which had these combinations, only the terms above. The translations will need articles etc, as in "État rattaché à la Nouvelle-Zélande" and "Etat du Commonwealth en union politique avec les États-Unis".

Sarah

[tmfrnz]

@annemariebrook @sarahbichan unfortunately I am not able to see these "country status" translations on the v3.1 branch (or any other branch) @sarahbichan could you check again?

And yes, they should be combined with the related (souvereign) country as stored in our countries table (data repository)

[sarahbichan]

I can see them here (Git Desktop) and in Atom (see screenshots), but they're not showing up on github.com. I don't understand why... I'll redo them on github.com and hopefully they will come through then.

[tmfrnz]

@sarahbichan thanks!

Also see #175 for related tasks