On 7/11/06, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Are we prefering {{Persondata}} or {{Infobox biography}}?
Should they be merged, somehow?
I'm asking this because I'm writing a tool to generate Persondata from article text as a copy&paste text. Can scan whole categories at once.
One ({{Persondata}}) is raw metadata, but is applicable to _all_ biographies; the other ({{Infobox biography}}) is designed for display to users, but has been replaced in certain types of biographies (politicians, royalty, military leaders) with more specialized templates.
Ideally, we could have a tool that would be able to parse at least the major infobox types and fill out the persondata fields; but I'm not sure how much work it would be, considering that there is a certain variation in how different infoboxes deal with particular data.