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 several layers deep. So nested categories
will show up. Try entering "Novelists" under "categories" and
"3"
under "depth".
The new CatScan is (IMHO) very unfriendly, you may find the old one more
usable. Main page for all versions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CatScan
Either is a nice tool to get a list of content creators who died in a
given year.
I wonder if there would be a way to set up a ping that would let you
know whenever a biography has the year of death added or is written. For
new articles, you could consider some form of new article report. This
is currently done by TedderBot
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TedderBot/NewPageSearch/Poland/archive>,
see how it works in practice for our
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POLAND#New_articles_announcements
I am not very familiar with the semantic side of things, it would be
nice, and perhaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Persondata could
be of use.
--
Piotr Konieczny
PhD Candidate
Dept of Sociology
Uni of Pittsburgh
http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus