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 to automatically query Wikipedia for such information? I > know that it's to some extent structured, as this information is > provided in templates for biographical articles, but I don't know > whether there is any mechanism for querying?
It's likely that most of those people are in a category¹ . Since no category is ever complete, mixing the content of the category with the equivalent of the biggest Wikipedia (German, French…²) could help. Finding the equivalent categories is easy: start at ¹, then use the interwiki links under “languages” in the left column. Also, don't forget commons³. Best regards, ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths ² https://www.wikipedia.org/ ³ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1941_deaths -- Jérémie _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
