Hi Alek,
2011/12/23 Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl>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
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Jérémie