Trouble retrieving English names for South African provinces

[respencer]

For some reason I have yet to figure out, the English names for South African provinces aren't being consistently retrieved:

iso-3166/2.js

Lines 25208 to 25252 in 7aacab6

	{
	code: 'ZA-EC',
	name: 'Kapa-Vuxa',
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-FS',
	name: 'Free State',
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-GP',
	name: 'Gauteng',
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-KZN',
	name: 'Kwazulu-Natal',
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-LP',
	name: 'Limpopo',
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-MP',
	name: 'Mpumalanga',
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-NC',
	name: "Kapa-N'walungu",
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-NW',
	name: "N'walungu-Vupeladyambu",
	parent: 'ZA'
	},
	{
	code: 'ZA-WC',
	name: 'Kapa-Vupeladyambu',
	parent: 'ZA'
	},

For reference it should be:

  {
    code: 'ZA-EC',
    name: 'Eastern Cape',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-FS',
    name: 'Free State',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-GP',
    name: 'Gauteng',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-KZN',
    name: 'Kwazulu-Natal',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-LP',
    name: 'Limpopo',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-MP',
    name: 'Mpumalanga',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-NC',
    name: 'Northern Cape',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-NW',
    name: 'North-West',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },
  {
    code: 'ZA-WC',
    name: 'Western Cape',
    parent: 'ZA'
  },

[wooorm]

Very possible. Wikipedia is contributor based. The data there probably looks different from other countries

[mchen10]

Hey we're also seeing this. The data actually differs from what's shown in Wikipedia. Any ideas on why/can we get it corrected?

[wooorm]

Then presumably either Wikipedia changed, or there is a bug in the code here. Crawling tons of user based data from Wikipedia is error prone. Solving things not trivial. But it is possible: you could do a PR to solve things here (try running the scripts and if they do not work, fix them). Or on Wikipedia. Or, raise an issue with ISO to get them to open source data. It’s ridiculous that this isn’t open. I am on holiday so don’t have time.