Le 2013-07-08 15:48, Denny Vrandečić a écrit :
I guess it's at least 1,185,642, if Wikidata is to be trusted.
That's a funy question, which rise many questions in me. For example, in our current guideline, we are not interested in "anonymous" people who didn't reached some notability. But wouldn't you find interesting if wikidata could help us making statistics on wide population ?
With the current set of people, I may for example compute the evolution over time of the copyright median duration in a specific region. For example, in France the duration was something like 20 years after the first publication of the work. Then it jumped to 50 years after the authors death (Berne Covention), then 70 years after authors death. So, having a large set of authors may help to compute the authors median lifetime, and so copyright duration. A more useful idea would be to automaticaly generate a list of public domain works by region and to turn it into a todo list of "works that should be provided on wikisource/commons".
On the other hand, our data being restricted to famous people, we wouldn't be able to compute the evolution of median lifetime in a specific region, regardless of notability. I mean, our notability policy prevent us to provide "the sum of all knowledge". Now, I don't say we should change that and begin to collect personnal information on every one (although I heard that NSA could help us to fill our database in this way ;P ), it's just some thought I wanted to share.
2013/7/8 jinhang du dujinhang@gmail.com
hi all,
I want to know the number of pages which describe human beings included in wikipedia. I only find the living people number in "pages in category: living people". Thanks.
-- dujinhang
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