This subject is one of the reasons that Semantic MediaWiki was designed.
For example, in the article for [[Marilyn Monroe]] there is an infobox
and it contains a template parameter with this code:
deathdate = {{death-date and age|August 5, 1962|June 1, 1926}}
In order to give the article [[Marilyn Monroe]] the semantic property
deathdate you would write the exact same thing as above in the
article. The difference is that in template {{death-date and age}} you
would also write [[Died on::{{{1}}}]] which means [[Died on::August 5,
1962]].
The alternate method is to insert this semantic property inline with
the article text. For example, "Marilyn Monroe died on [[Died
on::August 5, 1962]]." This renders as "Marilyn Monroe died on August
5, 1962".
The great benefit to this is that you can now ask semantic queries to
output this information. For example, to print out the date that
Marilyn Monroe died, you would write an ask parser function: {{#ask:
[[Marilyn Monroe]] | ?Died on}}. This prints "August 5, 1962".
In order to print a list of all actors who recently died in table
format, you might write: {{#ask: [[Category:Actors]] | ?Died on |
sort=ascending }}.
Of course you can also manually maintain a list of recent deaths,
which I think is done.
You can ask these sorts of questions using DBpedia as well:
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:27 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
It's not automatic but if the person's talk
page has the WP Biography
banner on it, it has a switch called "living" which will put them in
one of the following three categories (not word for word naming):
1. Living People
2. Dead People
3. People missing Living statement
That combined with the death categories that different infoboxes put
them into should give you a pretty good coverage.
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