On 12/23/2011 7:02 PM, FT2 wrote:
(3) A third option which will pick up names of articles (but no
further details) is this category search tool:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php
http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/catscan_rewrite.php which lets you
enter a category and search
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
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, let
Hi Alek,
2011/12/23 Alek Tarkowski atarkow...@centrumcyfrowe.pl:
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
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
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
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
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 then
On 23 December 2011 19:59, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl 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
