On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
c) [[Category:Living people]] - dead people have the cat removed
As far as I know there is no easy way to track category removal. Special:Relatedchanges/Category:Living_people will not show edits which remove the category, and any edits previously visible on this list (prior to category removal) will disappear from it.
Matters of propriety may have discouraged this in the past but now that we have the __HIDDENCAT__ feature, we might consider adding dead people directly to [[Category:Dead people]].
No way to track category removal, but there is already vaguely the function you are looking for in the API.
http://toolserver.org/~samkorn/scripts/recentdeaths.php tracks the latest 50 additions to [[Category:2009 deaths]].
A bot could quite easily go through, say, 50 years worth of categories and collate a list of people added to the category in the last day and post it on-wiki. If it would be helpful, I'll do that tomorrow.
Sam