Hoi,

The Dutch indicated their willingness to add the dead to Wikidata ... I add quite a few dead from other countries and because of Jura1 Brazilians who died in 2015 have an added significance.

Given that we CAN produce lists like this, it makes sense to reconsider the offer by the fine people from DBpedia and have the information they harvest from Wikipedia added automatically to Wikidata.. One reason I pointed out on my recent blogpost..

Thanks,

GerardM

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/06/wikidata-jurandyr-noronha-died-in-2015.html

On 3 June 2015 at 07:16, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi,
Jura1 created a wonderful list of people who died in Brazil in 2015 [1]. It is a page that may update regularly from Wikidata thanks to the ListeriaBot. Obviously, there may be a few more because I am falling ever more behind with my quest for registering deaths in 2015.

I have copied his work and created a page for people who died in the Netherlands in 2015 [2]. It is trivially easy to do this and, the result is great. The result looks great, it can be used for any country in any Wikipedia

The Dutch Wikipedia indicated that they nowadays maintain important metadata at Wikidata. I am really happy that we can showcase their work. It is important work because as someone reminded me at some stage, this is part of what amounts to the policy of living people...

Thanks,
GerardM

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_the_Netherlands