Dear Alek, dear list,
exactly for this use case DBpedia (http://dbpedia.org ) was created, so
you can query Wikipedia like a database. DBpedia already does the
rollout to a "semantic engine", which you can query.
Below I drafted some queries. These will give you all the Persons in
Wikipedia that
On 23 December 2011 19:59, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:02:37PM +, FT2 wrote:
>> Categories are done by hand, at most one could write a bot that looked for
>> infobox or introduction text containing date of birth/death and
>> automatically add the category if it didn't exist
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:02:37PM +, FT2 wrote:
> Categories are done by hand, at most one could write a bot that looked for
> infobox or introduction text containing date of birth/death and
> automatically add the category if it didn't exist, but as a rule it seems
> that if someone's died th
Categorisation is done manually, completeness varies from project to
project and by topic area in the project. On the English language wikipedia
we probably do have most of our novelists categorised as such. Deaths are a
very different matter as many of our articles never pick up on the
subject's d
Very interesting that Open Access papers, I will add them for sure.
2011/12/22 Dan Bolser
> Awesome!
>
> The January edition of the NAR [1] database issue [2] will have a
> focus on wikis, so you might want to look out for that too.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dan.
>
> [1] http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/
> [
Categories are done by hand, at most one could write a bot that looked for
infobox or introduction text containing date of birth/death and
automatically add the category if it didn't exist, but as a rule it seems
that if someone's died then a date of death is usually there and usually so
are the ca
Jeremie, FT2,
thank you very much for your advice.
Do you have any idea how complete these lists are? Are they done by
hand, or is there a bot compiling these lists? And in any case, is there
any way to estimate how completely they cover a given category?
All the best,
Alek
--
dyrektor, Centr
I think he's after writers and artists, and wants to identify people whose
copyrights may have passed into public domain because they died that year.
"Known" authors and artists will be more relevant which should work well.
It won't give a complete list of all deaths of anyone who created anything
Hi Alek,
Not every language version of Wikipedia has such categories, but at least
80 do. You can find a list at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Death_anomalies_table of the eighty or so
dead people categories - died in 1941 will be a subcategory of that.
Someone with toolserver access could probab
Hi Alek,
2011/12/23 Alek Tarkowski :
> I'm looking for a good way to determine, who died in 1941 - and thought
> that Wikipedia will be a good place to find this out. I know there are
> lists of people who died in a given year, but they are not complete. Is
> there any way to automatically query W
There's a category for that sort of thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths
Other wikis might have similar categories.
FT2
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Alek Tarkowski <
atarkow...@centrumcyfrowe.pl> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been until now a lurker on this list, l
Hello everyone,
I've been until now a lurker on this list, let me introduce myself - I'm
a sociologist studying digital technologies, an activist (I run Creative
Commons Poland) and I run a digital think tank / NGO in Poland.
I'm hoping someone on this list might be able to help me: I'm involved
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