The "German focus" is no doubt partly down to better metadata in
Wikidata, but also ties into something I spotted years ago -
proportionally more notable people in dewiki died in 1945 than in
enwiki. http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2010/demographics-in-wikipedia/
Making the reasonable assumption that demographic skews in dewiki
represent a German bias, it's easy to see why - the entire country was
variously in a state of war, occupation, starvation and/or general
upheaval that year, so you'd expect a higher mortality rate compared
to most other places, even leaving aside the effect of "war deaths"
per se.
I haven't rerun this with Wikidata data (where we can use nationality
rather than language-of-article) but suspect you'd see a similar
thing. Next year (2017, for 1946 deaths) should be somewhat more
balanced.
Andrew.
On 31 December 2015 at 11:17, Charles Matthews
wrote:
>
> On 31 December 2015 at 08:12 geni wrote:
>
>
> Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight
> can be found at:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain
>
> That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to issues
> with US copyright laws.
>
> Thanks. The impact on Commons and Wikisource is typically more noticeable.
>
> Some thoughts.
>
> I was looking around on Wikidata: generating lists of creators of works with
> death dates in a given year, and associated with a given country, is a
> natural task for it. From a Wikisource point of view, authors who write in a
> given language is relevant, and there was a game created a couple of months
> ago to fill in the corresponding data - seems not to be online right now,
> though.
>
> My first pass at authors dying in 1945 yielded 103, as opposed to the 72 or
> so in the enWP page you give. (Those are mostly writing in German, which is
> probably more to do with attention paid to the "occupation" field than
> anything else.)
>
> This business was discussed earlier in the year: the old thread at
>
> http://wikimediauk-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/4nyiV2zt/wikidata-training-session
>
> contains contributions from Andrew Gray, in particular a query using
> subclasses of "author" which is certainly a good idea. But artists are also
> relevant.
>
> A heavyweight SPARQL query that factored in the various copyright
> jurisdictions would be a project I'd like to see done, of course. [1] is a
> bare bones "humans who died in 1945" query, which should bring up about
> 10,000 hits.
>
> Charles
>
> [1]
> https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flast_time%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%09%09%09SELECT%20%3Fitem%20(MAX(%3Ftime0)%20AS%20%3Flast_time)%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%09%09%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%09%09%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20%20%09%09%09FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%20(%3Flast_time)
>
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